Friends or Strictly Business?

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I know this isn't 'grappling technique' but i want to know.....
are you good friends with your training partners or is it strictly business? the first couple of yearsi trained it was straight training. the odd coversataion about the last/next UFC/Pride and small talk and all training. Now I some of the guys i train with are very good firends of mineand we hang out a lot outside of the jiu-jitsu school.

what is it for you?

 

[Deleted member 3729]

I'm friends with a lot of people I train with. I think it would be difficult not to make some friends if you consistently train with the same group of people over a couple of years.

 

[NastyKimura]

Pretty much everyone I train with is now a really good friend of mine. Obviously, I didn't know anyone at first, but if you train hard and long enough with the same people, it's hard not to become friends with them.

 

[pollo loco]

I have friends from my gym, its hard not to like everyone else said. I don't really hang out that much with them though, but I do talk to them about alot of things

 

[gringobling]

i am pretty good friends with most of my training partners.

 

[johil d'o]

I'm friends with them in class, but we don't hang outside of school.

 

[Balto]

I'm good friends with my training partners.

It's nice to know that when you roll out somewhere, you have a whole crew of fighters watching your back.

 

[Slithers]

im friendly at school, but none of them are my friends really. maybe in the future, who knows.

 

[2om30]

i hang with a couple of the guys...

 

[Jiu-Jitsu Cop]

Yeah you become friends with people you see almost everyday. Even people I do not like once I roll with tehm a few times I can tolerate them more.

 

[chdnny]

its a natural thing unless your an asshole

 

[sugarboyae]

yea we're all buddies.

we get food and drink all the time.

 

[Throatpoker]

If I'm going to let a guy dry hump me till he gets a sub, I think I should at least down a few beers with him once in awhile, right?

 

[jasond]

We go out to eat, drink, etc. when we're not on the mats. Not the whole class and not all the time, but for the most part we are all pretty tight. Some of the newer people aren't as close, but most of the team is like a family.

 

[SPAZ650]

If I'm going to let a guy dry hump me till he gets a sub, I think I should at least down a few beers with him once in awhile, right?

lol ya thats the way i look at it

 

[Jujitsuboxer]

i am freind with the majority of the people i train with

 

[ripdog]

There's a group within the group that goes out and parties now and then. Its funny to see some of the guys you roll with get drunk for the first time. Kind of like seeing co-workers get shitty outside the office.

There's a few really cool guys that I try to avoid hanging with though. While they're totally friendly and fun to be around, I've heard some bad stories of them brawling out at clubs.

 

[hayliks]

I would only consider 3 or 4 of the guys I train with as good friends, then there're about a dozen guys I have gone and had a few beers with, the rest are just people I train with. I'm finding it harder to find genuinely nice people training these days, unlike 5 years ago. I feel like the TUF show has gotten so many people interested in bjj and so many people with a wannabe MMA fighter mentality that it's harder and harder to meet some genuinely nice and intelligent people in class.

 

[Waxwingslain]

I don't hang with the Japanese guys I roll with outside class much. We go to bbqs, mma events and end of year parties but I don't hang with any of them outside bjj. I think some of them wouldn't understand the concept of "outside bjj" very well either.

 

[Ishmael]

Like family. Seriously the people i train with are some of the most important people in my life. Not all of them but quite a few atleast.