u/Correct_Ad4351

▲ 77 r/bjj

So I recently left the gym and I learned from someone on Reddit that the gym I was at followed some of the Lloyd Irvin blueprint. They did this:

  1. No pricing on the website or even when called (front desk people won't tell you the price of membership), no schedule on the website and can't ask for one except you have a gym membership.

  2. Make you do a trial class then put you in a room where you go over pricing and schedule. They have 3 numbers for the way to pay for membership but the first time you sign up, it's a foundations membership where you can only go twice a week. If you decide to leave to think about it and come back, they charge extra because you didn't make your decision on the spot. You end up getting a foundations program shirt with it.

  3. Weird ass stripe gates for rolling from standup. I was paying full price for a gym membership that I couldn't fully use due to not having enough stripes although I had previous experience for a year before leaving my first gym due to military.

  4. After graduating foundations, you have to get a whole new membership to access other classes which is more expensive than the foundations membership. You also get a shirt but it looks different than the foundations program shirt.

So this is what the last gym did that aligned with Lloyd Irvin and I thankfully left that gym because it was a shit hole. My last gym was a SBG gym. So avoid SBG gyms as much as you can. You can go to Google ai mode to learn more or read reddit comments because I'm sure people know about him well and his way to sell gym memberships.

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u/Correct_Ad4351 — 11 days ago
▲ 143 r/bjj

is this move dangerous? I did this move to someone actually and my last coach told me to not lace my legs like this and it is dangerous for both people. I stopped doing this move since then but I would like to know if this move is actually dangerous or not? I see it is very common and my last coach thought it shouldn't even be a move in the first place since how dangerous it is.

u/Correct_Ad4351 — 14 days ago
▲ 7 r/Samoa

Hello,

growing up I was always told that I was a quarter Hawaiian and recently, I did some research on my family history. So, I am definitely Hawaiian with all of the records I have collected through family search and I noticed that there was one name that looked more Samoan than hawaiian. I found this one ancestor back in 1840 with the name Pili. I did some research on this and apparently, when a child gets named, they usually avoid giving names that suggest royalty (high chief pili). I also found another last name called "Kekoanui" which I did some research on and found this one family tree where I was able to direct it to high chief Pili. I'm not really sure if I should really claim Samoan because I feel like I identify more with the issues of being Hawaiian which I have never been to Hawaii or any of the islands. I do understand that Samoans and Hawaiians don't care about percentages. What do you guys think?

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u/Correct_Ad4351 — 15 days ago
▲ 1 r/bjj

Ok at my last gym where I left the gym due to how shitty it was. I remember being taught by this one purple belt that I knew that half the shit he teaches us is bullshit. he taught us how to maintain turtle one lesson. the way he taught us was to have your head at the mid of his back with no body lock and hands to the side and putting all of your weight onto the persona and curving their spine. I have about a little over a year of wrestling experience and I saw this and I immediately knew he didn't know what he was talking about since he has no head control or body lock. I tried asking him if I can put head control on the opponent and a body lock where I have my hands around his body and I got told it was wrong. It kind of looked like this picture of the guy on top except with no body lock and I believe he was on his knees on the top position. I just want to see if other people agree with me on this because I have a feeling this is bullshit.

u/Correct_Ad4351 — 16 days ago