Moving to LI / MMA places? - MESO-Rx

Joffa · #1 (**permalink**) 07-13-2006, 12:15 PM

Well...moving to long island for school next month. Any good places to train around Nassau / western Queens area for MMA that you guys recommend? I know I can find places on MMA.tv but wanted opinions and prices. I looked into Panza, but he wants $199/month which is outrageous

, especially since I'm gonna be on a student's budget. Thanks for any input. Wish me luck in school, fellas!

~Joffa

Grizzly · #2 (**permalink**) 07-13-2006, 12:53 PM

200 a month?!?! Holy shit! Isn't Matt Serra's school somewheres out that way? How has your training been going thus far?

Joffa · #3 (**permalink**) 07-13-2006, 01:54 PM

Hey Grizz. I knew ya'd respond

I'll have to look into Serra's place. What's annoying is Panza's place is really close to where I'm gonna be living. My training has been going well. After several months, it felt like suddenly something clicked in my head and I suddenly started to understand grappling. There's still loads to learn of course, but compared to 1 year ago my MT and grappling have improved drastically.

With grappling, guys that have been training as long as me or a little bit longer, I'm starting to be able to reverse them and get to a good top position - side mount, mount or scarf hold. I'm still not completing a lot of submissions though; most rolls with these guys will end in draws. Guys that have only been training recently, I can submit quite easily. And guys that have been training for years longer than me, they'll either catch me right away with something like a guillotine or we'll roll for several minutes before they finally catch me with something. I'm still love it though. I love the place I train, and the guys I train with are awesome. One guy I train with all the time just won his first amatuer MMA fight in Rahway. Another guy I train with was scheduled to fight at "Ring of Combat" in AC, but it got cancelled b/c all the casinos closed last week due to political things here in jersey.

In MT, I've been getting better also. I seem to get tired so much more easily now that it's gotten warmer. I started sparring guys maybe back in January occassionaly, so I'm getting more used to getting hit and trying to keep my composure.

Thanks for all your help last year with advice in what to look for in a place to train. I love training at this place; they offer classes in grappling, wrestling, boxing and MT. I pay under a hundred bucks a month. I hate to leave, but I don't wanna drive 1hr+ to train there after I move to Long Island.

~Joffa

Grizzly · #4 (**permalink**) 07-13-2006, 02:04 PM

That's pretty much how it works. One day, everything just clicks. And then you get better and better by leaps and bounds.

Guillotined? How are you doing that, you homo?

You can't get guillotined. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that you get double armbarred, too.

Joffa · #5 (**permalink**) 07-13-2006, 03:02 PM

Grizz, ya lost me on that one?

I get guillotine choked sometimes when I shoot in on a guy if it's a lousy shot. We'll hit the ground with me being choked and if he's good, sometimes he'll be able to finish it.

Joffa · #6 (**permalink**) 07-13-2006, 03:04 PM

I forgot to mention I have no wrestling background so my shots really suck compared to the guys that have wrestled in high school/college.

Grizzly · #7 (**permalink**) 07-13-2006, 05:24 PM

I'm just busting your balls.

Just make sure not to drop your head and, if you do, make damn sure to get hand control. Guillotines are easy to escape from.

Joffa · #8 (**permalink**) 07-13-2006, 05:47 PM

Thanks for the tip. I now see why you so often preached on here about learning wrestling and going to a place that incorporates wrestling into the training and/or has wrestling classes. Wrestlers that walk in off the street are awesome at shooting in for take downs; once they get some grappling skills about them, they have that advantage of having had previous experience with wrestling.

thecludge · #9 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Joffa

Well...moving to long island for school next month. Any good places to train around Nassau / western Queens area for MMA that you guys recommend? I know I can find places on MMA.tv but wanted opinions and prices. I looked into Panza, but he wants $199/month which is outrageous

, especially since I'm gonna be on a student's budget. Thanks for any input. Wish me luck in school, fellas!

~Joffa

Yeah listen to the fatso pimple faced goofs on mma.tv. They are all trainded killlas.

Fuck man. Grow up. Look at their fat ass threads and see the typical mma.tv fag.

Training? How most are on the computer 24/7.

Grizzly · #10 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by thecludge

Yeah listen to the fatso pimple faced goofs on mma.tv. They are all trainded killlas.

Fuck man. Grow up. Look at their fat ass threads and see the typical mma.tv fag.

Training? How most are on the computer 24/7.

Wow, way to make a good impression in your first few posts, you fucking jerkoff! If you knew half as much as you think you do, then you would know that there is a schools listing page on mma.tv. That's what he was talking about, cheesedick!