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Originally Posted by Jeff822
You should come up and check out Ratpack man. Its a lot cheaper then Tiger Schulmanns I can tell you that. We got some great instructors up here. Renzo Gracie black belt Brian Miller, 4x World Muay Thai champ Eric Utsch and kickboxing instructor Ed Arner. I'm guessing you live in the Bethlehem area then? I live right in Wilson.
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That sounds like a good idea. The TS thing started when my wife was looking for a gym to start going to and a friend convinced her to try out the Tiger Schulmann program which led to her inviting me. I was really skeptical at first but got a free week of classes and thought it was pretty legit - instructors that knew what they were doing and ranked you by skill level instead of simply how many classes you had been to. The plus was the other students weren't a bunch of big burly tough guys that would intimidate my wife out of going.
Well, 2 years later she decided she's not into it anyway and the classes I've paid for are almost used up and I've been thinking about going somewhere a little more "hardcore" now that she won't be tagging along. Rat Pack is actually probably closer than TS to me (I'm actually kinda between north whitehall and walnutport, just about a mile off MacArthur Rd. I know it's gotta cheaper than TS. Cost is the biggest thing pushing me away from signing back up with that place.
I'd love to come by one night just as a spectator or something to get an idea of how you guys train over there. Do they offer any sort of free trial classes? Do you train grappling in a gi? That's something I haven't done at all yet. TS is all no-gi grappling.
As for my personal goals, just so you know what I'm looking for, I got into this mostly for the self-defense and exercise aspect, plus of course it's a lot of fun and I've been into martial arts ever since growing up on kung-fu movies and the early UFCs brought home by my TKD blackbelt dad. However, I've recently decided that I'd like to actually get in the cage once or twice. I have no notions of becoming a pro fighter or anything, I just like to test myself and I love competition. (I also used to really like getting into street fights for some reason back in my highschool days - even the ones I lost were fun. Guess I'm just a sucker for punishment.)