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Last edited by Athenathefabulous; 02-26-2011 at 04:50 PM.
The best thing i have heard in a strip club to date:
customer: we should get married right now! we should get a shotgun marriage!
me: uhh... i think you are misunderstanding what a shotgun marriage means. A shotgun marriage means you knock me up and my daddy shows up at your door with a gun and forces you to marry me and raise the baby. You mean elope.
customer: hmm... nah actually i will take the shotgun marriage. At least then we would be having sex.
Do not wait to start with somebody, just go and your class will take care of you and make you feel welcome. Everybody had that nervous first day on the mats, and everyone remembers what it was like. Just make sure you are at a reputable academy. There is an excellent Gracie Barra school in nola: http://www.nolabjj.com/
Good luck, and enjoy the journey!





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Last edited by Athenathefabulous; 02-26-2011 at 04:50 PM.
The best thing i have heard in a strip club to date:
customer: we should get married right now! we should get a shotgun marriage!
me: uhh... i think you are misunderstanding what a shotgun marriage means. A shotgun marriage means you knock me up and my daddy shows up at your door with a gun and forces you to marry me and raise the baby. You mean elope.
customer: hmm... nah actually i will take the shotgun marriage. At least then we would be having sex.
The style of muy thai you will find in N.America depends hugely on the trainer and his adherence to tradition. Muy thai uses elbows and knees in and out of the clinch, and is a perfect complement to brazilian jiu jitsu for combat.
And as for training frequency in jiu jitsu, start with 3 days a week, but if you can, work your way up to everyday or even twice a day. I have trained as often as 3 times a day, and find that your skill set is directly proportional to your training frequency.
And in most jiu jitsu academies you start 'rolling' or freestyle sparring to submission from day one. Don't let that freak you out; rolling is where you will learn the most, and also where you will begin subconsciously programming your understanding of body dynamics in ground combat. Not sure if Gracie Barra throws you in from your first day or not, but either way just look forward to it; rolling is one of the foundations of jiu jitsu, and is what makes it so effective---your skills are practically tested every day, instead of just being theoretical.





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Last edited by Athenathefabulous; 02-26-2011 at 04:50 PM.
The best thing i have heard in a strip club to date:
customer: we should get married right now! we should get a shotgun marriage!
me: uhh... i think you are misunderstanding what a shotgun marriage means. A shotgun marriage means you knock me up and my daddy shows up at your door with a gun and forces you to marry me and raise the baby. You mean elope.
customer: hmm... nah actually i will take the shotgun marriage. At least then we would be having sex.
Not sure about the gyms you listed, but what I can tell you is that I've found jiu jitsu gyms generally to be a lot less macho than stand up/striking gyms, with a much lower 'meathead ratio'. I would honestly recommend you start with a jiu jitsu base because 1) for female self defense it is going to be street effective for you way before muy thai or boxing and 2) even if you do move into mma the technical learning curve for grappling is a lot steeper than striking and you'll wish you had started with grappling earlier rather than later.
As for mma shows, I've been to a few, and it's mostly vendors with some demo fights. Not super fun, pretty commercial, and not really representative of what martial arts should be. But check it out, it might be interesting if you've never been to one before. Also, if you are going to start training jiu jitsu you will need to pick up a kimono/gi and they might be selling them at the expo for cheaper than normal cost.




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