Saint Petersburg FL Training

[Joey Johnson]

Hi all,

This is my first post. I new to the bjj world but have a wrestling background. I have been training at a local mma gym that grapples 2-3 times a week. I'm currently undecided between switching to st pete gracie, Clearwater gracie or staying where I am due to not wanting to train in the gi. Does anyone out there have suggestions as to were I will be able to progress the most?

Side note: I have no interest in actual mma fighting. At the most I would like to compete in local low level grappling tournaments for fun.

Any help would be amazing.
Thanks in advance.

[Tyler Woolsey]

Hi all,

This is my first post. I new to the bjj world but have a wrestling background. I have been training at a local mma gym that grapples 2-3 times a week. I'm currently undecided between switching to st pete gracie, Clearwater gracie or staying where I am due to not wanting to train in the gi. Does anyone out there have suggestions as to were I will be able to progress the most?

Side note: I have no interest in actual mma fighting. At the most I would like to compete in local low level grappling tournaments for fun.

Any help would be amazing.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Joey! I'm moving to USF from Boca in about 2 weeks for school. I have been researching the jits and mma scene in the area and what I have found is that it is dominated by Gracie Barra; however, many of these gracie schools do considerable amounts of nogi (what both of us are really interested in). Some of the schools I'm intested in checking out are: Evolution Martial Arts, Robson Maura's academy(for gi), Gracie Tampa, and a few smaller MMA schools. Evolution's head jits man is Ryan Cook and I've only seen good thing about him in videos plus his focus in nogi! Robson is obviously a legend. Gracie Tampa is also largely nogi and is led by Rob Khan, also a nogi guy. I hope this helps and I'd definitely like to train with you in the future.

If anyone has the DL on the jits scene or any instructors/gyms in the Tampa area please post!

[NelsonLucca]

Gracie Fighter Tampa is a Cesar Gracie affiliate. Plenty of nogi.
http://graciefightertampa.com

[Ross Davidson]

Be sure to train with Tyler. You can learn a fuck ton from him.

[kevinculp]

Gracie Barra Tampa has some good guys. The one good thing is Gracie Barra schools are very tournament or oriented. So if you like competition they will help. I do wish we had more NOGI classes but whatch gonna do? Need 10 to make it to Central Florida already. I'm sure we'll get one right after I move to SoCal lol