how many schools have you been a part of?

[tjitsu]

In roughly 4.5 years I've trained 3 places:

First two years with Mike Yanez (Pablo Popovitch affiliate)
Summers with Sean bansfield (Saulo Ribiero)
Last 2.5 years Chris Malgeri (Marcello Monteiro)

My rank pretty much traveled with me wherever I went. I did most my moving as a white/blue belt. Just recently got my purple.

 

[Hellboy31]

I've trained at 4... for a while I was going to two schools at one time.. One Gi the other No gi and MMA... Such a waste of money!

Three of the schools I went to were in Southern CA and the one I'm at now is in New York... I've been there for about 8 months now and will definitely stay at this one for however long I remain here in NYC.

The main question is, where do I train when I finally make it to Rio


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Rickson Gracie
Legends MMA
Hollywood BJJ
and Clockwork BJJ

 

[laohu69]

Since this is the grappling forum I assume that you are limiting it to grappling based systems.
3
One judo, One Judo / JJJ & my current BJJ one.

 

[boisefireman]

one

 

[Jagcorps_esq]

Two schools, the first of which I left because they left their affiliation and didn't obtain legitimacy elsewhere.

 

[peregrine]

With regards to Grappling
5 official schools

Reasons I left -
1st gym - uh they were diks and I was a whitebelt getting tapped from unkewl moves like can openers or moves being held extra long by senior guys

2nd gym - closed down - loved the coaches and place

3rd gym - coaches changed, class smaller so less bodies to play, a weird event occurred that caused some friction, and I moved cities so gym is farther,

4th gym - still at, love it, love the guys and coach...plan on staying for years even after bb

5th gym - still pop in every once inawhile for new blood and mix up training

I am actually looking at a 6th gym to work my judo only.

All these gym hopping things caused me not to get promoted as fast due to being seen as a gym *hore and not loyal(there is a Brazilian word ?), there is also the thing of the coaches not wanting to promote me out of respect for other coaches and not knowing who should prmote me.

 

[nerraw]

More than I wish to count. I really like training with high-level people, but don't care for competition. This kind of puts me in a bind since all the best training partners flock to the competition-focused schools. I wish there was a Danaher around here. :icon_conf