yeah I know

I'm right at the top of an A3 at 5' 10"/205lbs. My gi is fine but the sleeves are getting short, I definitely don't leave a lot of loose material to hold onto, I could probably stand an A4 top and A3 pants.

But the dryer helps kill the nasties on it

Well here's a disappointing twist. Our class is pretty much out in the sticks and we combine the advanced and fundamentals classes since we don't have that many students. A full class is about 12 people, typically running about 6, Ive seen it with as few as two plus the instructor.

We just had two whites progress to blue and I just got an email saying that they are going to cut the class time in half with only blue belts and above welcome for the second half "unless" you are active military. I can understand the logic but I'm going to bitch about some, the only non active military white belts currently attending the class are myself (a navy vet with a history in wrestling) another guy who is recently retired Army (the door kicking type) and a female who is the soon to be spouse of an active duty army guy. Due to some people leaving, new people showing up and promotions we went from being white heavy to blue heavy.

It kind of pisses me off as it will only restrict us three from the second half and probably leave them short most of the time, I don't think someone thought this through very well. So my normally 2 hour Monday class becomes 1 hour, which is not enough time in my opinion. I'll go in and see wtf tonight.

I agree if it was a normal class setup but we don't have that. We only currently have two real "beginners" that aren't .mil and I haven't seen either of them in the last month. Myself and the other guy easily train with the higher belts and our classes are very small. What pisses me off is that we went from a class typically being 2 blue/4 white to 4blue/2white and then they cut us two out of an hour of class when they could have easily kept it like it was. Remember that active duty white belts get a pass and we have some that are very very junior, like, no stripe white belts with no previous grappling history. So the senior guys will end up baby sitting those guys and the advanced white belts get cut out.

All but 1 of our current students that are white belts are either .mil or veterans with previous grappling experience, the total class is probably 80% vets/active duty.

Really think so?

My washer has a "sanitary" setting where it heats up the hot water. I use that, then hang dry to prevent shrinkage.

I think the shop owner puts to much faith in the Army Combatives program, I have it from the guys themselves that it isn't all that, that's why they are in our BJJ class to start with.

eta: I guess it is assumed they are further advanced than similar and in some cases more senior belts due to that and therefore get a pass.

Coolness, sounds like it worked out for ya

I checked out the local Gracie academy the other day. It was my first BJJ lesson with a gi. It was a lot of fun and there sure are a lot more things to look out for than rolling no gi.

I don't miss wearing a gi though, I have spent too much of my life in one. If you didn't have to tie the damn thing every four seconds I wouldn't mind it so much.

Been training BJJ for just over a year. It has changed my life started a out of shape 38 year old 6foot 2 fat ass at 275 pounds. Just competed at naga at 217 pounds and took home a silver medal. I am leaner and stronger and hope to compete again in september at 200 pounds. I prefer gi training but also train nogi. I recomend it to everyone.

LOL my Sensei weighs a little more than that, practice a lot of open guard with him

doh, got the dreaded twisted/jammed toe last night escaping from underneath and moving into side control , going to be out the rest of the week at least.

really? We don't quit for those