what was your goals/reason getting into BJJ

[gregoplata]

Jesus man, that's insane. Glad everything worked out for you and you were able to not only walk, but find this great sport!

[Benu]

Well I've always loved martial arts and such, the coolest stuff was karate and kung-fu movies back when I was starting school I did some wrestling and boxing... When I was 17 I saw this awesome UFC highlight video and fell in love. Then I downloaded Wanderlei's fights in amounts! I wanted to be like him and start doing thaiboxing and bjj. In the army I got a chance to try a little of both, I actually liked grappling better but didn't want to admit it to myself, because thaiboxing was much cooler

I came out of the army and started googling a proper gym... nothing close to where I lived. A thaiboxing school 30 miles away, so I enrolled there. Trained for maybe 6 months or so until I found out about a very good gym 35 miles away from where I lived and want to start training bjj too! I whent there and trained a few times and tried to combine bjj and muay thai, but as there was 60 miles between the schools, it was a pain in the ass to drive to training in one city and then to another city 3-4 times a week. So I decided to choose bjj. Here we are now, soon I've been doing this for 5 years

[Tank]

Started dating a girl who was a black belt in karate, she invited me to a grappling class. Got hooked searched out the only jujitsu school in my area. That was lest than a year ago and still training harder and harder everyday.

[JanneM]

I started MMA because my friend wnated me to. I didn't like the idea of grappling or punching to the head but for some reason I went there and loved it.
Did one amateur MMA fight and moved back to my home town. MMA and BJJ was at the same gym here and I wanted to have three stripes on my white belt because the friend who introduced me to MMA had (and still has) two. I never got my stripes on my white. STill loving to grapple and want to go to MMA classes again.

[Benu]

Where did you start to train Janne? I tought you always lived in Jyväskylä, you're sucha a local hero

PS. but you got your 3 stripes on your blue instead of the white

[ToniL]

I started training BJJ in Iisalmi last spring, mainly because of my friends request. I always had interest in martial arts and I already had planned in army that I would start practising MMA in Jyväskylä, where I was going to study. It felt easier to attend basic course same time with a friend, so I accepted his offer. At that time there wasn't any MMA's basic course, only BJJ's. I had some doubts about BJJ, but I knew that grappling plays a major role in MMA so I decided to give it a try. At first time practising I was impressed how efficient it seemed to be. I've trained ever since. I trained spring and summer in Iisalmi. Then my first year in university started and I moved into Jyväskylä. I train now here while studying and I'm also starting to train MMA soon

[AlexArmbar]

i was making some bad choices the end of my sophmore year and the begining of my junior year of high school(im a senior now). so i decided i needed something to keep me busy and keep me away from those bad things. it worked but then recently i didnt go for the whole month of novermber.....i stepped right back into that life i got caught up and now im training 5 times a week. this sport keeps my life steady. i know it might not be the healthiest of things that i just jump right back into an old lifestyle i know i need self control and all of that but hey bjj works plus i get a great body out of it!

[bushido8000]

To grope other men and dominate them both physically and erotically....I mean......I just wanted to learn some ground game to go with my stand-up game. Was in boxing and kung fu.

[JanneM]

Where did you start to train Janne? I tought you always lived in Jyväskylä, you're sucha a local hero

PS. but you got your 3 stripes on your blue instead of the white

I started at Tampere with Jarno Nurminen.

Yeah. 3 stripes to my blue. The last stripes I'll ever going to get... *snif*

[graciejj2000]

I saw Royce defeat all comers in the first 4 UFC's in the 90's when I was young, I instantly knew that was the martial art I wanted to do. At the time I was in Tae Kwon Do and a brown belt. I ended up blowing out my knee snowboarding and that ended my TKD career. I had been studying off and on through books for many years until I found Gracie University online, and I have been not looked back and been loving every minute of it. I'm 6 months in of 2-3 days a week. So still new at it.