re: Is the UFC gym on Perkins and Acadian legit?

Had to reschedule due to an emergency. Wil be going on Saturday coming.

Try Gracie United, approximately $120/mo with unlimited classes. There's 3 local gyms, South BR, Prairieville, & Port Allen, but you have access to all Gracie gyms if you travel any. Most gyms are BJJ only, but some do kickboxing, MMA, and wrestling classes as well. I go to the Ascension gym and there's 7 adult classes a week and open mat on Saturdays. There are several other BJJ gyms in BR, Mancuso's gym for example. BJJ will give you the cardio and core workout you need while teaching a fighting sport. Any kind of BJJ/grappling training is a pretty intense workout.

I guess somebody is not a fan of bjj or GU. Sorry, not sorry if I think kickboxing or boxing isn't superior to bjj.

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That's cool man, I'm not knocking JM's gym at all, or any other bjj gym in the area. I know people that train at many gyms, and have been to open mat to several non-GU gyms. I was just saying to the OP my opinion on training when it comes to martial arts, give bjj a try. I'd rather do that than boxing or kickboxing at a glorified spin class setting like another poster mentioned, and it's true.

Don't knock some of the GU gym owners though. A black belt runs the gym in Ascension, and a brown belt at the Plaquemine gym. If you're feeling frisky you can go catch a class or open mat at the shark tank in Ponchatoula. Not a knock on JM Modern or any other other gym's skill level, but GU has a lot of resources and instructors with a high level of skill and knowledge. I'm not gonna name drop all the black belts or MMA fighters that have trained under Professor Rafael to prove it either.

I went to the free class this a.m. It kicked my arse. It only lasted 30 mins but we never stopped moving. The coach is a pro boxer named Darius. Tall dude. Looks like he can really move. I asked for your friend, but he wasn’t there. They offer personal training for boxing, kick boxing and muay thai. I also asked them if they had any issues with olympic and powerlifting since that is what I do for strength training. They had no issues.

So ya wanna be a ufc fighter huh!!

They've started a muay thai techniques class. Wednesday at Acadian at 6:30 and Friday at 6:00 at Sherwood.

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I’m in BR, caught for Tim when he was BR from 2005-2007, then trained BJJ with him in 2009 when he wa in Lafayette and then in 2010 when Ricco came to BR I started training with him a lot. Tim taught me a lot about fighting, good character and mental toughness shite too, but coming from a wrestling background Ricco was really able to teach me how to just smash people and put point everyone in tournies. I was his cornerman in Israel where we trained with Daniel Gracie, Renzo Gracie, Hermès Franca, etc.