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JohnASE
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I knew one school owner who wore his gi when he ran out for fast food between classes. He said it was great marketing. People would see him in his gi and ask questions.
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 30188
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| JohnASE wrote: |
| I knew one school owner who wore his gi when he ran out for fast food between classes. He said it was great marketing. People would see him in his gi and ask questions. |
If its done right, it can be. After all, most demos are done in public, too.
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shadowspawn
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Joined: 09 Mar 2012
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I try to avoid wearing my gi out in public, but sometimes it just has to be done. I think of wearing your gi (especially full gi with belt, jacket, pants) to be an embarrassment personally. It is to me what wearing underwear is. It's no embarrassment to wear it where appropriate, but to be caught in public with it is where it gets embarrassing.
EDIT: and the reason full gi would be more embarrassing than with simply the jacket+pants is simply because of the rank designation that wearing a black belt would imply. It's simply not good news and attracts unnecessary attention to yourself. |
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shimizu
Yellow Belt
Joined: 31 Mar 2012
Posts: 39
Location: England
Styles: Shukokai Karate (and ITF Tae Kwon-Do)
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:13 pm Post subject: Relevance |
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Unless you're going to a grading, examination, demonstration or competition or anything like that - you don't really need to be wearing your gi/dobok/uniform/etc.
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Get'erDone
Yellow Belt
Joined: 23 May 2012
Posts: 37
Styles: Goju-Ryu, Kyukoshin, Judo and Self-Defense
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| I sometimes train outside my house wearing my full gi or at demonstrations. Other than that, I don't like to wear my gi outside because it's underwear. It's the equivalent of parading around a store in a pair of my sweaty boxers and having someone say, "I noticed the logo on your sweaty boxers, what training did you do to make them sweaty?" Not exactly a flattering image. |
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MasterPain
Black Belt
Joined: 26 Oct 2010
Posts: 1949
Location: Parts Unknown
Styles: Bujin Bugei Jutsu, Backyard Kali, Satsui no Hadou
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I sometimes train outside my house wearing my full gi or at demonstrations. Other than that, I don't like to wear my gi outside because it's underwear. It's the equivalent of parading around a store in a pair of my sweaty boxers and having someone say, "I noticed the logo on your sweaty boxers, what training did you do to make them sweaty?" Not exactly a flattering image. |
If your gi is underwear, are you doing Vale Tudo?
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ps1
Black Belt
Joined: 09 Nov 2004
Posts: 3025
Location: NE Ohio
Styles: Chuan Fa, Shotokan, JJJ, BJJ
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It's kinda gross isn't it? I don't know about everyone else, but we get very sweaty and my gi basically becomes like a wet washcloth full of my and other people's sweat. I take a clean gi to class, change into it and train, change back out of it to go somewhere else.
Not many people go to a gym, work out hard, then go hang out in the supermarket drenched in sweaty gym clothes.
It's just weird.
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Dobbersky
Black Belt
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 1323
Location: Manchester. United Kingdom
Styles: Black Tiger Ashihara Karate Jutsu, Japanese Kickboxing, Cheng Man Ch'ing TaiChi
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| ps1 wrote: |
It's kinda gross isn't it? I don't know about everyone else, but we get very sweaty and my gi basically becomes like a wet washcloth full of my and other people's sweat. I take a clean gi to class, change into it and train, change back out of it to go somewhere else.
Not many people go to a gym, work out hard, then go hang out in the supermarket drenched in sweaty gym clothes.
It's just weird. |
Totally agree!!!!!!!
Solid Post!!!!
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Get'erDone
Yellow Belt
Joined: 23 May 2012
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Styles: Goju-Ryu, Kyukoshin, Judo and Self-Defense
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| Get'erDone wrote: |
| I sometimes train outside my house wearing my full gi or at demonstrations. Other than that, I don't like to wear my gi outside because it's underwear. It's the equivalent of parading around a store in a pair of my sweaty boxers and having someone say, "I noticed the logo on your sweaty boxers, what training did you do to make them sweaty?" Not exactly a flattering image. |
If your gi is underwear, are you doing Vale Tudo? |
I haven't studied Vale Tudo. |
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ps1
Black Belt
Joined: 09 Nov 2004
Posts: 3025
Location: NE Ohio
Styles: Chuan Fa, Shotokan, JJJ, BJJ
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| Get'erDone wrote: |
| I sometimes train outside my house wearing my full gi or at demonstrations. Other than that, I don't like to wear my gi outside because it's underwear. It's the equivalent of parading around a store in a pair of my sweaty boxers and having someone say, "I noticed the logo on your sweaty boxers, what training did you do to make them sweaty?" Not exactly a flattering image. |
Respectfully, where did you get the idea that a gi is underwear? It's actually a very modern invention which, like the belt system, was developed by Jigoro Kano for uses in Judo. Everyone else just followed suit. It's not and never was underwear.
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on the post.
