To Gi or not to Gi

[pittbullJudoka]

I'd do both you find it very use to know application of gi and no gi moves.Plus you will have a wider knowledge of the grappling art with both types of training.

[ps1]

You'll find that all the greats: The entire Gracie Family, Saulo Ribeiro, Pedro Sauer, and the Machados (to name a small few) all train Gi.

So... All the Jiujitsu greats train in Jiujitsu?

Call it coincidence! All of the Karate greats trained in Karate also.

[GreenDragon]

Thank you for all the great responses, even the tongue in cheek ones. It is great to hear the opinions. I am now convinced that the best way to train would be using both gi AND no gi. Unfortunately, there is only one place in town I know that does it and the schedule just doesn't work. And as expensive as MA training is these days I can only afford one place, so unfortunately, I a m going to have to choose.

But it looks like I found a place to train that teached Jeet Kune Do. It is a branch called JKD Unlimited, in the tradition of evolving JKD to use whatever works, these guys borrow heavily from Muay Thai, Kali, Jui Jitsu and even Judo, so I can learn some throws as an addition to the standard single & double leg takedown. Wow, talk about cross-training, sounds good to me! And they train no-gi, so it looks like that is what I will be going with, no gi.

[ps1]

Whatever choice you make...give it your all and you will succeed. Good luck.