After emailing and texting Coach Ryan Cunningham a couple times, Daniel and Stephen and I visited on September 1, 2016. We targeted the Youth BJJ and Adult Fundamentals BJJ classes that Thursday evening. There was a nice sitting area where parents or students waiting for class could sit and watch. As we came in and sat down a couple people greeted us and made us feel very welcome and at home. I was impressed with the warm welcome. Anyone we asked was happy to answer our questions. I was impressed with the organization and discipline and the way Coach Ryan interacted with the kids. He was clearly a very dedicated, passionate, kind, and caring person, but simultaneously very serious, strong, disciplined, and all about hard work and respect. I also perceived that his instruction was clear and spot on. I don't mean that I could evaluate that he taught the techniques correctly, I mean that there was no question as to what he was teaching; each step was like the hammer hitting the nail on the head: each step was loud and clear and unquestionably finished with the nail sunk in the wood--and demonstrated multiple times. Eventually, Coach Ryan was free to chat with us about how things work, schedules, costs, etc. I was still on the fence as to whether I would join the boys on this venture, but Ryan's fixed cost for the three of us and as many classes as we wanted seemed pretty straightforward and flexible. I couldn't resist....
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