Does anyone still train with their gi?

dlofnep

Most of the jiu-jitsu guys on here are all cross-training so I'm wondering how many guys are still using the gi as an integral part of their training, whether it be for pure jiu-jitsu or for MMA.

Since the amount of days we can train are limited due to work and what not, some people might take no-gi over gi which essentially leaves us (when I say us, I mean me) less and less time to train for gi or no-gi specifically. Although both games can be integrated into each other, there is alot of different game plans someone might take. Maybe someone might like to drain the life out of someone with the spider guard in the gi game but finds he now can't do this effectively without the gi and opts to using the butterfly guard for sweeps.

How many days if any are you guys training with the gi every week?

columok

Couldnt be arsed. Stick with no gi. In an ideal world Id train in both.

dlofnep

For MMA yes sure, But I'd like to be competitive in BJJ also so I'd like to work on my gi game. Even if it's working on gi just once or twice a week.

Also, we plan on going over to Roger Gracie's place soon too and I don't want to look out of place as they train strictly gi jiu-jitsu and afaik only train no-gi once a week.

mark.leonard

Depends what is coming up, before a figth it will be all no-gi, and mainly MMA at that. When there is no fight on the horizon I try and get in as much gi as I can, which amounts to 1 gi session a week in the winter, though finding the motivation to train with a gi in the summer is tough!

Kevin_rc_ie

mark.leonard wrote:

I try and get in as much gi as I can,

me too......


i train with gi 100% of the time. surprisingly enough.

dlofnep

Yeah, I think the gi helps in the witner to keep you warm, especially if you train in a 500 year old church

As you're an active MMA competitor, that makes sense Mark. When you are grading, are you graded on your gi ability or no-gi?

Clive

I wear the gi, and I love the gi. It's a great training tool. Training with the gi includes everything, and makes it all harder. You can use a subset of the techniques, slightly adapted for submission wrestling, and a subset again for MMA.

dlofnep

Clive wrote:

I wear the gi, and I love the gi. It's a great training tool. Training with the gi includes everything, and makes it all harder. You can use a subset of the techniques, slightly adapted for submission wrestling, and a subset again for MMA.

I'm the complete opposite Clive, I train completely no-gi but I want to work on my gi game, hopefully enter the nationals this October providing my ankle is healed.

Running Bing

excuse my ignorance but what in the name of god is gi. one guy is saying he wears gi another is saying he trys to get as much gi in as possible :eek: im just completely confused

TwoKingMick

columok wrote:

Couldnt be arsed. Stick with no gi. In an ideal world Id train in both.

Colum, for this to be true you'd actualy have to train, which you don't.

As for myself, i'm a big fan of the no gi, i just don't like rolling with the gi as much, and seeing as how its all about fun at the end of the day

dlofnep

TwoKingMick wrote:

Colum, for this to be true you'd actualy have to train, which you don't.

As for myself, i'm a big fan of the no gi, i just don't like rolling with the gi as much, and seeing as how its all about fun at the end of the day

I personally think no-gi is much more fun as you're less restricted in your movements and it's not as draining. The gi game is alot tighter but I still want to verse myself in sport jiu-jitsu for the fun of it.

excuse my ignorance but what in the name of god is gi. one guy is saying he wears gi another is saying he trys to get as much gi in as possible im just completely confused

A gi.

Running Bing

Ahhhhhh I see. But how could that effect training techniques etc? and dlopfnep said he has to "work on his gi game" how would it diifer so much. Again excuse me if im being a total idiot and missing the obvious.

Dyr

imagine hot chicks doing naked mud wrestling, now imagine hot chicks mud wreslting in parka jackets..no gi is teh sexeh

heres the proof :eek:

http://www.matbattle.com/articles/bjj/new_gay_judo.htm

dlofnep

Babybing wrote:

Ahhhhhh I see. But how could that effect training techniques etc? and dlopfnep said he has to "work on his gi game" how would it diifer so much. Again excuse me if im being a total idiot and missing the obvious.

It affects it alot more than you would think. Alot of techniques rely on using the gi for leverage or to control your opponent where no-gi you don't have that comfort. No-gi and gi jiu-jitsu although have the same foundation do differ slightly.

Kevin_rc_ie

at last ppl are recognising the gi jokes. roffle.

Mark J

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

at last ppl are recognising the gi jokes. roffle.

why did the gi cross the road?

Kevin_rc_ie

hehe you should post here more often.

to get to the other side???

Mark J

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

hehe you should post here more often.

to get to the other side???

yes!

but why was he going over to the other side!?

Kevin_rc_ie

wanted to be like hhhhhhhhhoyce gracie?

Mark J

alright, i`ve left ya in suspense long enough...








cos his buddy spotted him across the road and he shouted to him :




"kimonover here will ya!!!"








fairly brutal, but i had to follow it up somehow! Sorry!

Mark J

Kevin,

Gi-t to bed.

don`t you realise the time!?





ho ho ho........









absolutely shocking......i know!

dlofnep

I've seen it all now.. The new way to choke someone out, forget gi chokes we have gi jokes.

Mark J

dlofnep wrote:

I've seen it all now.. The new way to choke someone out, forget gi chokes we have gi jokes.

the most obvious and relevant choke, i mean joke.


look at what i`ve started.....



sorry for bringing ye all down to my level!

Kevin_rc_ie

my friend asked me what i carried my judo kit in. a gi-bag of course.

Dyr

but whats a gi for?

Kevin_rc_ie

real question?

well if you're not wearing a gi what do you wear? nothing? - no thanks.
street cloths? - i can't afford to replace ripped clothing that often
wrestling thingmyjig - looks ghey.
rash guard and shorts - this is just a more modest form of nakeneness.

dlofnep

Bambi wrote:

but whats a gi for?

It's a training uniform that emulates clothes but is much stronger in fabric and won't tear like more clothes will. The correct term is Keikogi which means training (Keiko) clothes (Gi). For Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, it's Brazilian jujutsugi.

Kevin_rc_ie

yeah my keikogi is really like my normal cloths.

Dyr

ha ha yis dont know what a gis for, yis gaylords

playground humor 101

dlofnep

Bambi wrote:

ha ha yis dont know what a gis for, yis gaylords

playground humor 101

Ok Bambi, I think you need to go back to the forest and play with Thumper.

Kevin_rc_ie

careful now, can't be calling ppl "gaylords" unless their name is Gaylord. Don't forget the lurking cat mod with it's finger on the trigger, itching for some action.

Dyr

cant'. barring order

Dyr

gaylord is just like a happy version of doomlord though

dlofnep

I hear Thumper stamping his foot.

Kevin_rc_ie

Thumper, isn't he the wifebeater from finglas?

dlofnep

That's him.

Kevin_rc_ie

lovely fellow.

dlofnep

Have you had the pleasure of meeting "Knuckles" Lonergan yet?

Kevin_rc_ie

john lonergan, govenor of mountjoy prison? every morning. govenor's parade.

dlofnep

Wonderful.

Naos

This community spirit..
So, so touching.