Friends or Strictly Business?

[Aluminum Kam]

its a natural thing unless your an asshole

not true...im because i am an asshole, and most of the guys I grapple with still hang with me.

 

[brollikk]

to me, I respect the people who stick with it because it reflects the amount of discipline they have. In the last 3 years the best friends I've made definitely were my bjj training partners.

 

[bob]

really good friends.... had punch ups together trained hard for tourne's together....been through heaps together. sometimes its hard to find a difference between the two but we are always there with each other

 

[Spoonman7]

It usually starts off a stricly business but if you train constantly enough, many friendships develop.

 

[DirectDrive]

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.

yeah, but the asholes usually wash out after 3 when they realise that this shit isn't as easy as it looks.

 

[DirectDrive]

i know this thread was kind of wastelandish but thanks for the replies guys. it looks like a lot of people hang out with their training parters. obviously grappling is an important part of our lives.

 

[El Gato]

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.

Same here .

 

[Shadowdean]

I am friends with a number of people at my school...though the ones that I hang out with outside of class is relatively low - maybe 5 or 6.