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I find music during training to be very distracting. It seems like a relatively new phenomenon to have music playing while lessons are going on. And I've run into the problem of people not being able to hear verbal taps when there's loud music, so it can actually be dangerous. I turn the music to extremely low volume or preferably off completely when I am teaching. I am sort of curious as to when it became standard to have music playing during rolls. My instinct says it started to happen at the same time UFC was becoming a popular event on television, but certainly the thought of playing music while training or rolling was unheard of when I was coming up through the ranks.

I agree with you 100%. It's a distraction to learning. Imagine sitting in any classroom setting and blaring music while teaching....who does that? And while rolling if your hyper focused on the roll (as you should be) you generally won't even hear the music, it's just background noise. Also, you mentioned verbal taps, i haven't encountered a gym that plays music so loud that it would muffle a verbal tap, however i still find it pointless. When I came up through the ranks, we never played music. Perhaps from a business perspective some light music could be played before class on a low setting by the front desk (if your gym has one) to present a more welcoming and inviting atmosphere, but during an actual class has never made any sense to me. Seems counterintuitive as every time the instructor starts talking, the 'DJ' has to run to grab his phone and turn down the music. I don't get it personally.

I forgot to mention, the awkward moment when the purple belt 'DJ' has to sprint off the mat to grab his phone to stop the music because a song pops up with extreme profanity. Just as the kids' class is rolling in. I've seen that one before lol.

What's everyone listening to for training? My Playlist today contains: The Misfits Blitzkid Calabrese The Casualties Amon Amarth Hatebreed Darkest Hour Ghost Power Trip Electric Callboy

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Sometimes our gym sounds like someone is playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater on a surround sound system. As an aging punk rocker I love those days. Because we are up in the northwest corner of Connecticut there is a considerable amount of country music as well. I dont like that as much, but its ok. For me, I need the background noise. Maybe its the ADHD I've had since childhood, but it actually helps me focus.

With my old Hair... do you think I like PUNK Music? Maybe some Ramones, Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, Violent Femms, Black Flag... wow so many to list...

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If you like them, Motorgrater is far superior for the 1 album they did in my opinion, and if you want heavy but chill music, Ghost Machine was awesome as well.

I love Motograter!! Suffocate is such an underrated song. Along that line, Mushroomhead has long been a favorite band of mine. Can't say the current version is still Mushroomhead, but it's still really good. For heavy, but chill, I tend to lean towards GHOST. They get a lot of hate but I love them

.... Do you wanna go do ground karate in the garage?

Yes. and Megaton, my wife says same thing, but she used to go to sleep listening to Slayer with me when we dated in our 20's, so I take anything she says about aggressive music with salt. :D

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You're lucky I didn't verify your profile because I would immediately remove my vote for that comment 😂

I guess I should count myself lucky that my wife will listed to Korn and Disturbed all day, but she draws a line at horror, hardcore punk, or thrash. She can tell when I've been driving the momwagon because she turns the key and Cannibal Corpse or something like that blasts her in the face and ears

so... Here's some bands for you and Megaton in the vein you may dig... Some very famous and 1 that only canucks will know about. Koffin Cats Tiger Army and my favorite of this sorta genre, The Creepshow https://www.youtube.com/w[...]mp;index=2

so... Here's some bands for you and Megaton in the vein you may dig... Some very famous and 1 that only canucks will know about. Koffin Cats Tiger Army and my favorite of this sorta genre, The Creepshow https://www.youtube.com/w[...]mp;index=2