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An independent shitty gym is just a shitty gym. But a shitty gracie barra will make people think all gracie barra gyms are bad. Since they are the biggest franchise it means they will have more shitty gyms than any other team. I think this plays a role in the image they get online.
I always had positive thoughts regarding Gracie Barra esp since they had a great comp team with people like Romulo, Najmi etc
Lots of haters round here
Dude considering they are being seen by more than 5K people because of you, letting you take a $20 class for free is totally worth it!
GB in Houston isn’t bad. The only issue is, some of the Brazilians tend to have a vendetta for you if you’re a higher belt, and if you roll good, but I didn’t have to buy any gear, I can talk and ask questions randomly to instructors, and even ask to roll, but it still isn’t my vibe, don’t mind it too much though.
There is a suspicious amount of branded gear
I started at a GB in Southern CA, white to purple. I had to move on due to a change in jobs but miss that place to this day. Hands down, the best gym I trained at.
Coach seems to be a cool dude. Gives me that Micah Galvao vibes.
That first guilly at 4:00 was fantastic. Made me want to be a better father.
OMG it's pronounced "Bah-ha"? JFC.
Classic franchise. The one near me had a bad rep for everything even paying for promotions
I’ve travelled and trained A LOT, so I’ve trained in a bunch of GB as well as having a pretty decent sample size of other gyms for reference. Their BJJ is legit and all the cult things are very true. One thing I appreciate about GB is their general emphasis on S&C. All GBs I’ve been to do separate S&C work throughout the week and generally speaking their guys are in better shape than most gyms I’ve been to. I’ve never been forced to buy anything to drop in to a GB. I’ve always (I think) been charged a drop in fee.
You have to keep in mind that 90% of the GB out there are not competition school, it's marketed to the average hobbyist.
A Gracie Barra school's pedigree depends greatly on the main instructor. One of, if not the best, BJJ school in southern Europe is a GB, I visited and was highly impressed.
Roger was at Gracie Barra. Some of his black belts are at GB, I trained with one – Very good technically and tremendous pressure. Just very chill pace academy.
Hey this is my gym !! Been going there for almost 2 years. The professor and coaches are the main reason I keep going there. Also, everyone is really welcoming to new people.
Go to Gracie Barra Arcadia in Arizona, it's the HQ and you can meet Flavio who is the North American leader and a great guy. That school is also the home of the competitors for AZ there's a TON of high level guys that train out of there. Might as well go in the winter since you're from MI and take a nice weather vacation. At GB there are regulars and then the very high level competitor teams, each school has to follow the franchise requirements that students wear the GB uniform of rash guard, shorts and Gi. You get a very disciplined curriculum that is used at all schools around the world so if you're traveling you know you'll be working on X. Most schools do the warmup, 3 techniques, situationals and then live training after. GB1/GB2 are beginner and then a little more advanced and then GB3 classes are for the instructors to teach as they wish. The professor at my school started BJJ 30 years ago and has been a black belt for 18 years, great guy, great techniques and competition proven.
Just got promoted to purple belt after about 4 years of training. Doesn’t feel right and I definitely got promoted too quickly. But I did want to personally thank you Tyler for your channel and teachings!!
I bought your instructional and loved your teaching style. It was so in depth but so simple! Thanks to you I now have a great understanding of guillotines (my favorite go-to). I’ll be sure to send you my new guillotine gang in the mail 😉
@tyler buddy if you need the cult like experience I can give you a place. Gb Acworth or Gbgeorgia on socials
They made you bow to São Kano, São Maeda, and São Helio? For me, when BJJ is your religion, it's sus. I've been fed lies because of that religion, and it held me back.
• Strength doesn't matter.
•Wrestling is purely strength based, ( just ignore that singles and doubles are bread and butter in BJJ).
•Jiu-jitsu is the greatest and every other martial art, aside from Muay Thai, is nonsense.
Dumb religion, awesome martial art. I will say the instructor was very open and honest about all that stuff, and there seems to be a lot of talented people there. Thank you for sharing all of this stuff with us. Definitely interested in guillotine instructional.
My gym isn't GB but we do bow to a picture of Helios, it feels pretty natural and isn't a big deal
It seems like because there’s so many GB schools there’s such a large variety of opinions and experiences.
I’ve trained at GB school from the start. I haven’t had any issues with cross training at other schools. My professors are big on leg locks and sparring every class. Only thing is they would’ve had Tyler wear a GB rash guard but they don’t charge for that at my school. They actually will give you a free gi with the rash guard once you’ve signed up as well.
I’ve heard of people having terrible experiences at other GB’s, even ones here in my own state. If I were to move and find one of these GB schools that suck or are weird about stuff then I’d simply find a new school.
But for now, I’m super happy with what I’ve got