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My 9 year son and I are planning a trip to California to check out EBI 4. We also wanted to check out a few gyms and maybe see if he can drop in on a class or two. 10th planet headquarters and San Diego are a must, he's a big fan of Eddie, Geo, and Boogeyman. I know there's a lot of other gyms around the area West LA, Van Nuys, Burbank etc... Any advise on which gyms to check out?
My Personal favorite is 10th Planet Corona. Great guys! Jeremy is very friendly and a great instructor....and you never know who you might see there.
Man there are a ton of options. You wont regret picking any of them. Is there a specific area of your game that you are wanting to expand on?Quote:
Originally Posted by xdrkmanx51
Thanks for the replies. I don't train at all, it's all for him. Between YouTube, MTS, and the few things his coach has taught him. He knows enough of the system to piss the other kids off while rolling. Just really looking for basics by someone who trains under the system. Started following 10th planet Corona on Facebook. I'll make sure to message them about dropping in while out there. Would this someone I might see there have skin like egyptian cinnamon?
Don't forget us folks in Northern California! We got SF, wine country, Lake Tahoe and 3 excellent schools (Walnut Creek, SF and San Mateo). I train in Walnut Creek and Alex Canders is great with kids. My son trained under Alex for several years and really enjoyed it.
Can't go wrong with Einsteins. I went by his place a few years ago while on a trip to hq
Of course your son can always come to HQ and train with Cora, Grace, and Derek. Not sure how big he is tho.
Would love to be able to make it that far north, but with our limited time I think the drive might be too far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayamilne
Son just turned 9yrs old last week, weights about 68 pounds. He would love to be able to get the chance to roll with them. I don't see a class schedule listed on HQ's site. Does anyone know it Couple other questions I had are....Quote:
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Would we have a better chance of running into Eddie, Geo, ect at the gyms before or after EBI? And can anyone recommend any good/cheap places to stay in L.A. or the surrounding areas?
Thanks again.
I've visited LA for all 3 EBIs so far, its the best day of jiu jitsu you can find. It is a good time to be at HQ it seems, when people begin to get in before the event. It will be a little different this time, I think I heard Eddie say it was on Sat as opposed to Sun. Any time at HQ is awesome, but Geo, Kevin Berbrich and the rest of Oceanside crew have been going up there Tuesday nights I believe. Also, you must go to The Darkside.
Does Eddie teach class every Tuesday night?
A training partner and I plan to fly down to CaLI the week of EBI (or at least I will shoot to be there by Tues/Wed). But yeah, seems like the folks before me have already named some great options
Doubt you can go wrong with any of the schools in LA, personally i'd love to visit West LA and spend some time at Costa Mesa as well.
I just returned from a two week stay in SoCal. I was able to train at 10P Oceanside, San Diego, and HQ. All equally as great and learned a ton of new stuff. My personal favorite was Oceanside. I stayed at The Motel 6 in Carlsbad Village which was really reasonable and had very nice rooms.
If you had downtime from training LEGOLAND is in Carlsbad for the little man too
Thanks for the tips. Looked into scheduling a private with Geo for him on our trip.
Hope he appreciates all this one day. :)
This is the way our itinerary looks so far.
Get into Lax early Saturday morning.
-Try to make the kids class at noon at Burbank 10th planet
-EBI 4 that night
Sunday
-9am Kids class at Art of Jiu Jitsu
-Private with Renato Laranja (still need to finalize time)
-Check out the beaches rest of the day, maybe swing by the Gracie Academy
Monday
- Go to Victory MMA in San Diego 10am Jeff Glover class
Try to schedule a private with Jeff Glover while at gym
-4:30pm Kids Class at San Diego Combat Academy on Convoy Street
-6pm Kids Class at San Diego Combat Academy on Mission Gorge
-Schedule private with Geo Martinez?
Does anyone know the schedule for Oceanside?
Tuesday
- Riverside at 6am
- Orange at 10:30 am to noon
- Catch the class at HQ that night.
Does anyone know the schedule for HQ?
Fly out Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
Is there anything I'm missing?
FYI - Marvin Castelle is the head kids instructor at HQ. If you can make it, try to bring your kid to the advanced kids class, its every Friday at 3:30pm. He's an amazing instructor and there are some beastly kids in his class.Quote:
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Here ya go man.....maybe run into you at EBI!Quote:
Does anyone know the schedule for HQ?
http://www.tapoutla.com/schedule.html
Thanks for the schedule. I'll talk to my son about trading Tuesday for Friday so he could make that advanced class. But I know he's looking for to seeing Geo and Eddie train together Tuesday night.
You could always swing by Atos HQ and meet Andre Galvao while you're out here as well! hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by xdrkmanx51
My friend and I plan to do that too!Quote:
You could always swing by Atos HQ and meet Andre Galvao while you're out here as well! haha
Nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by HerbChao
Flights booked.
Flying in Friday morning, so we should be able to make the advanced kids class at HQ. I see it's by invite only so hopefully I'll be able to get him in. I'll make sure to check out Atos HQ as well.
You can't go wrong in SoCal. See y'all at EBI4
Let me know when u go to Atos, I've got a friend who's going to be training there as well and I'm planning to visit the place once the week of EBI and the week after possibly.Quote:
Flights booked.
Flying in Friday morning, so we should be able to make the advanced kids class at HQ. I see it's by invite only so hopefully I'll be able to get him in. I'll make sure to check out Atos HQ as well.
I highly recommend (not biased I swear) to make it to Costa Mesa on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. :)
https://thewinway.wordpress.com/2014...way-champions/ Jesse Bells vidya
I emailed Atos and they said he's probably going to be in Brazil mid August getting ready for ADCC World's. They didn't give me an exact date, just a heads up for ya.Quote:
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Son had an amazing time on vacation. We had front row seats at EBI, he joined in on the advanced kids class at HQ, private with Renato, private with Geo, got to take the adult class at San Diego and roll with Boogeyman, rolled with Jeff Glover while at Victory, and got to meet Eddie and roll with Cora during Tuesdays class.
Thanks everybody. Hope I get the chance to do something like this again for him.
Nice! You are an awesome dad, man.Quote:
Originally Posted by xdrkmanx51
Thank you for the compliment and again for the picture of him and Renato.Quote:
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