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Serra

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Yup. Early bay area guys. East Palo Alto if i remember correctly.

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All Day

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Watched that live with the homies. That card was stacked and the PPV was only like $25. I grew up doing judo as a youngster and got really into boxing in my early teens. I grew up in Denver and because UFC started there it was a big deal. We started a club at CU, got some wrestlers and some kickboxers and all the bjj kids. We would bring excerpts from grappling magazine, or the fighter’s notebook or we’d just teach each other what we knew or problem solve and then roll with light strikes. The old submission fighting.com site had a “fighters connection” where I found guys in my neighborhood who let me come to their garage and spar. It was actually a bit crazy. I was a kid and one guy was a middle aged dude who had a wife and kids. Eventually I started training at a real mma academy and the community was so small back then we had guys from ufc and other big promotions in regular class all the time. It was a great experience. One of the best things was everyone would get together and watch the ppvs together. It was so freaking cool to watch fights with other top pros and hear their thoughts on the fights

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Fire buddie !!! Did You Train with Bang ?

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this is awesome!

when i was in college at maryland it was a similar situation. bjj and grappling schools in general were still hard to come by. there was an official pedro sauer school all the police that trained went to and then the next biggest training pool was our school club.

what a mix of people. tma guys cross training, acc wrestlers ragdolling everybody, grizzled old DOD employee judo guys, exactly as you described us the bjj kids, etc.

all for free. if a purple belt from somewhere showed up it was like seeing an avenger come in lol

great times and i think the best time to be in the mma/bjj world

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Royce should’ve nicknamed himself Not Gracie Alger

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I remember Rob posting on the old site as h20man. He was a nice fellow from what I remember

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A little bit yeah. He was much better on the ground than people thought. He trained a lot with Nate Marquardt. He just loves striking so he never maximized his grappling ability. He always came off as the most shy person. it’s awesome to see he’s become one of the best coaches out there.

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Renzo stepping on his defeated opponent’s head after the fight.

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