Alright, I'll share my story....
I started at a Rickson Gracie/Pedro Sauer academy. The jitz there was the best around, and I soon found that their jitz was amongst the best anywhere. I trained hard and received my Blue Belt in 7 months! This was quite an accomplishment at this academy, they were traditional, it usually took 1 1/2 to 2 yrs to get. The test, I paid for with pain and $$$, 4 hours and 90 techniques against two larger opponents, with about a year or more experience on me. If that wasn't enough, my instructor wanted to spar, and tried to throw me from a clinch, and folded my knee backwards (completely ripped the acl off) three months before the test!
Skip forward a little and at a seminar, Pedro told us that we needed to "cross train" with different styles. So I went to DC and trained with Ryan Hall, then caught a seminar with Eddie. Eddie and I hit it off and he showed me "the way" I remembered every single detail of what he taught me and used against higher belts with much more experience than me
I even used it the very first time against my Black Belt and he couldn't get out of my Lockdown, and just gave up. He said okay what are you gonna do now?
So that's when I started noticing he wasn't treating me like the prodigy he did before. I had been a "family member and key holder" to this academy for 5/6 years!!! I always shared my knawledge, didn't matter. I tried to ignore it, but when Rickson came into our academy and my instructor wouldn't allow me to come to the seminar, I knew it was time to go... Rickson was the whole reason I joined that academy! In the 12 hours I trained with Rickson I learned more than in 5 years of Jiu Jitsu!! No exaggerating, cereal! Super Cereal!!! That was my home....
So here I am, I can't open a 10th Planet here, because my instructor is a Police officer, and he would constantly harass me and my students. I have seen him do this before, to other students he had a prob with. I would not even put my students through that.
So I'm trying to get relocated, Eddie knows where and as soon as I get there, there's going to be another Moon on the board
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