Dealing with MC Dojos ...

[Lasse]

If they didn't call it BJJ what the f*ck was your problem? That sounds like a really dochebag move tbh. Also, you think because he refused that it means you could tool him, maybe he wanted to set an example to his students on how to treat assholes like you.

If they put big sign outside say "Gym" maybe is they fault? You mock with beast he come eat you

 

[Balto]

If they put big sign outside say "Gym" maybe is they fault? You mock with beast he come eat you

I get the feeling you definitely don't want to be invading Lasse's gym either.

 

[DrKimura]

If they put big sign outside say "Gym" maybe is they fault? You mock with beast he come eat you

lol wtf where are you from?

 

[KJGould]

I'm wondering if 'Lasse' is Rousimar Palhares' screen name on Sherdog now.

 

[Lasse]

I'm wondering if 'Lasse' is Rousimar Palhares' screen name on Sherdog now.

Me? :S noooo no no no no nooo not me noo

 

[lechien]

A "mcdojo" is an academy where commercialism is taken to the extreme, beyond what you would expect even for a franchise.

I had a look at their website and it is just a daycare after school for soccer mums to drop off their kids while they spend quality time at the shopping mall.

So what if they want to add a little of grappling into their pot pourri of MA.

They should go and pay a blue belt to teach but my guess it is too expensive for them.

I have known legits BJJ Academies that have compulsary contracts. You can only train if you signed up for at least one year. Once the year is completed, you are forced to signed another one year or else you are out.

Monthly internal competitions which you will have to pay for $20 or sometimes a t shirts at $50. Of course the internal competition is hosted during your club open mats hours.

Our local competition is about $50.

The qualifier for Abu Dabhi PRO is about $150.

You have to buy club Gis or else you get ridicule. or just look at the GB policy with GB Gi and GB rash guards.

Grading fees that keep increasing every year. Last I checked it is $200 for purple and my guess it is about $300 for Brown.

 

[ElKarlo]

here's what i would do:

nothing.

who the fuck cares what they do? you do what you do.

I disagree. Some people don't know anything about MA before they start. Potentially people can go there, and learn bad/poor tech, and if they change gyms, they will have to un CF their BJJ. Calling people out does everyone a favor. It's how rude or polite that matters.

 

[ElKarlo]

This is awesome because it's like 65% broken English.

he is not a Native speaker.

But I feel him. I think it is a shame that people sell people on a lot of bad training, and that they are locked into it for a year, if not more, assuming they realize pretty quickly.

I think most of us, when we first started training, couldn't tell the difference between Rickson and Ari training us. Prolly take 6 months, and most of us are into grappling here.

 

[platfox]

there was a TKD school around a couple of years ago, where I stopped in to check it out and the instructor told me he was teaching BJJ out of a book...I was kinda like WTF..?!?!?....but whatever....it was none of my business

This is kind of interesting actually. It's a TKD school not a bjj school. The instructor has taken it upon himself to learn some bjj moves because he probably sees how it might be useful to know or it might interest his students. He teaches some of the moves to his students. Most people would call him a fraud.

However at my school (a bjj school), we occasionally practice striking, especially when some of the guys have fights coming up. My instructor is pro mma fighter but not a muay thai fighter or anything but he does show us muay thai techniques that he's picked up over the years. Is he a fraud? I don't think so.

I think as long as people who aren't ranked aren't lying about their rank, giving out rank or advertising themselves as a bjj school, there isn't really a problem with people learning/practicing bjj techniques.

I guess to be safe though people should not refer to a specific martial art as what they are teaching if they aren't ranked. They should probably just call it a grappling class kind of like my instructor calls it a striking class.

 

[johnkreese]

your club should start offering sub par karate instruction from no instructor so you are then on par with this club.

lol!!!!

 

[Airdyne23]

What do you guys think of this school?

Pollet's Martial Arts Centre, ,