New forum member--Mike Geery

Hi everyone. I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Mike Geery. I live in New Port Richey, Florida, just outside of Tampa. I've been grappling for close to 15 years all total...the last 12 specifically training in BJJ. I'm a black belt in BJJ, Judo and Aikido. I've been involved in martial arts since I was about 8 years old and its been my passion pretty much my whole life. I'm 44 years old. I'm a single father of an awesome seven year old, Tristan. He's an amazing person--just so incredible to be around.

I've been a traditional bjj (Gracie Barra) guy for most of my bjj experience. In 2004/2004 We started seeing the Rubber Guard come into the dojo..but the guys playing it didn't really have the system so it seemed just like a holding position and of course with our Brazilian teacher it was all just ignored. Because I had previous martial arts training, I didn't completely drink the Koolaid, so I never discount anything, but because it was frowned upon and no one really understood the system (blue belts playing with stuff), it never took off so I didn't pursue it.

I've recently become the head instructor of a local MMA gym who have been working with the 10th Planet system (unofficially) for the last couple of years. I've been mostly a gi guy--literally having not done nogi (with the exception of the last 1 1/2 years) for probably at least five or six years. The last three years I've been specifically been working on my DHG game for the gi and feel really good about it. Now I'm at a school with about 15 amateur fighters and a couple pros....they want nogi! So we've come up with a Tues/Thurs mornings 10th Planet study group. We've been doing that for a couple of weeks and it's been great. I also had tremendous success rolling live using the lockdown and double underhooks. DHG is great--but it doesn't work nearly as well as 10th Planet half guard. Starting this week we will be doing evening nogi classes as well--implementing the 10th Planet system.

Anyway, I can probably keep talking for a while. I get even worse when writing. I just wanted to say hello to everyone and thanks. I am really excited about learning the system and to be here.

Thanks,
Mike

Welcome! I've been a bjj brown for approximately 5 years and have discovered that ALOT of times how good you actually are doesn't always transfer over very well in No Gi! I feel your pain! Since discovering Mastering The System I've started doing the exact opposite of most Brazilian school, who do 1 day of no gi, I do one day of gi! It has actually I improved my game significantly because I look for things that work well in both situations as opposed to going out in left field with open guard gi grip dependent games. It takes your gi compadres really out of their comfort zone and you can let the mma guys know what over ten years of grappling really means. :-) keep at it is the best advice I can give; coming from a very similar background- study the under hooks!!!!!! Eddy said its like making investments, choose things we get the most mileage out of!

Welcome to the forum Mike. Best thing you can do as an instructor with little NoGi experience, is sign up for a pro account and start watching all the MTS videos. You get personal instruction from Master Eddie for about 5 bucks a month.
The entire system is revealed there.

Very awesome and welcome to the forum! I travel to Tampa a few times a year to teach seminars and visit family. My plan is to eventually move there and open a school. Brandon and Tyler Woolsey run the hotbox in Ft. Lauderdale and soon to be running one in Tampa as well. I'm sure they'd love to get together and train, as would I when I'm in town. Awesome to see Florida getting some more 10th Planet love!

Thanks guys! Kurzy, thanks...I am a Pro member as of last week and will be watching the videos! Chris, that's great! Let me know when you are in town. Tampa is kind of a hotbed for bjj--Pe De Pano is here as well as Robson Moura. There are also several other great teachers here as well. Thanks Jesse. I appreciate another person having a similar perspective. I look forward to hopefully meeting you all.

Cool, I should be doing a seminar there again in december right around Xmas.

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Originally Posted by Chris Herzog

Very awesome and welcome to the forum! I travel to Tampa a few times a year to teach seminars and visit family. My plan is to eventually move there and open a school. Brandon and Tyler Woolsey run the hotbox in Ft. Lauderdale and soon to be running one in Tampa as well. I'm sure they'd love to get together and train, as would I when I'm in town. Awesome to see Florida getting some more 10th Planet love!

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Yea buddy. Come on down to the southeast zog. We're shutting this place down!

Welcome to the forum Mike! As Coach Herzog said, my father and I run the Fort Lauderdale Hotbox but will be moving up to Tampa next Summer. It's awesome to see more and more people around Florida become interested in 10th Planet! I look forward to training with you Mike.

welcome Mike

Welcome Mike to the 10th.P evolution! !!

Woooo Welcome sir always great to see new people on here.