Note: I am not posting this as an advertisement and only use this tone in homage to Adam Sessler of 'X-Play' fame and his 'Cheap Bastard' Segment. I encourage others to post their 'Cheap Bastard' training secrets and spots and encourage anyone and everyone who does check this place out to right a review since I do not profit off of the success or failure of this establishment at all. I just wanted to share
On the way home driving I was thinking does every school tie you in to a contract? Do we have to put off getting ready to do MMA because of the $150+/mon (and lets not forget hidden fees)? Then I remembered a school that I trained at in LI when I got laid off and had alot of free time and little money. I forgot where it was but it was a judo club called Waseda (named after the university in Japan). While there weren't alot of members there and many of them were much older, they charged $150 for three months. Yes thats right $150 for three months which breaks down to a $50/ month (that is an unheard of price). No contracts, and no hidden fees unless you call buying a new gi (if you don't have one) a hidden fee. The reasoning behind it was that they were trying to bring new blood (pun unintended) into the school. Classes where 3x/week and each class was around 2 hrs long. Class included warm ups, throwing drills, ground work drills, newaza (some ground sparring) and randori at the very end. The teachers there nice and very courteous and pretty opneminded (for example when this bjj guy came in and was demonstrating a bicep slicer one of the instructors told every "Hey, everyone come over here, you got to see this!" ). While there weren't alot of younger competitors to test your skill against there were alot of older experienced guys to gleen some knowledge off of. Also they were very safety oriented
So if you are looking for a place that will teach you how to fight in the cage or win in submission wrestling than go down the road and shell out the bucks for Rodrigo Gracie. If on the other hand you are looking to pick up the basics of ground works and learn a few throws and you don't have alot of cash Waseda might be the club for you.
By the way, besides training there for about three months and really when I think about maybe training there again, I don't really have any affiliation w/ this school such that I would profit off any of you going there.
Sincerely,
Karateka666 -a cheap bastard
