Houston (actually Pearland, but I'm assuming that only Balrog will know where that is), Texas
We've got a nice deal working. Back in 2010, when my own aikido senior instructor was thinking about retirement, my wife & I were going to the gym and she noticed a BJJ academy opening up right across from the 24-Hour Fitness where we go to hurt ourselves.... wait, I mean work out. Yeah, that's it.
This BJJ place charged $149/mo for as many BJJ classes as you wanted to take per week, and Robert, the BJJ instructor was, in my own personal estimation, killing himself being there for literally every class, 6 days a week. I'm serious, like 14 classes a week, full-tilt class with conditioning and everything. 5 days with 3x per day, and 2 with only 2 classes. Whew! Really good guy, hell of a technician. Anyway, he and his wife had a place in which they had the BJJ school which was actually too large for them, literally with a empty room (23'30') they had nothing in, not built out, no drywall, nothing. I rolled with those guys after my aikido school closed.
And then I had an idea, since I knew our old aikido school had a sprung floor, literally constructed by NASA scientists, physicists, and engineers (Only in Houston, eh...) and since the school was closed, and the landlor was going to just gut the place, I arranged to "rescue" the sprung floor and long story short -- installed it into the empty room at the BJJ school. A couple of school transmogrifications and an ownership change (remember my thought about Robert buring himself out above) and now we're happily ensconsced, still witht he BJJ people, but on their "off-class" time frames.
My aikido/judo people meet for 2 classes each week, every week, unless some of them are approaching a rank demo period, and then we add class on Friday as well.
BJJ there Is sstill $149/mo. The aikido program is $70/mo, and in it my people get more than a smattering of judo, and some of the just meanness that I've run across over the years.
