Hey man, I'm sure hearing this from some random fan won't convince you one way or the other...but DO IT MAN!
An IT job you can find just about anywhere, what you're doing now is a once in a lifetime thing...from my perspective at least. Well, and I'm totally biased because I love watching you fight.
P.S. - Have my man babies?
P.P.S. - OH MY GOD, DO IT!
i agree, seems to be a very smart move
The poon you could get in Hi > the the poon in Mass.
DO IT.
you guys are assuming Joe knows what poon is.
besides, why move to HI rather than NM, LV, or CA or just staying in MA?
"besides, why move to HI rather than NM, LV, or CA or just staying in MA?"
You can train full time with BJ Penn?
many people have been trying to convince Joe, he is a Mass boy and he's happy there. Its an opportunity that if he would be happy there he'd jump on it. He's probably in the 1 percentile of those that would turn it down, but hey.
I do IT, screw IT. Joe could just do privates and train. Will he be at BJ's gym?
good luck finding an IT job here in Hawaii.
Good luck finding a good IT job in Hilo. Training with BJ would be awsome for his fight career though.
hawaii would be lucky to have j-lau...
keep us posted... :-)
Well this Boston transplant thinks it would be wicked pissa if J-Lau ended up in Hawaii.
K-den....Shootz
Well, we all know that BJ is in need of an IT guy to fix his website server...
Dont move to Kauai !!
Hilo or Maui is fine but
NO COME KAUAI !
lol @ TJ!
there are IT jobs in Hawaii (help desk, hospital, bank, state, some consulting firms). be prepared to take a paycut, however, if you work for a local company or the state.
Joe..
DO IT! the I.T. job situation here in Hawaii is kind of iffy..but hell if you're gonna be a full-time fighter make the move.
BJ has a house for fighters. 5 bedroom place. Don't gotta pay rent. Just train and etc etc etc. Sponsors should pick up the rest and pay for month to month expenses.
I'm an I.T. guy. If you specialize in a certain field. I can def. help you get a job if you want to work. But i'd say go to Hilo and train with BJ and the guys there.
Solid group of 155lb guys at BJ's gym.
Mike Aina, Kaynan Kaku, Shane Nelson.
There isn't a lack of good BJJ guys there either. With Charuto, The Penn bros: Jay, J.D., BJ and Reagan, Kaynan, Renato and Tony when they are in town...hell that's a total of 6 blackbelts and and 2 browns.
Oahu has a lot to offer also with Leandro Nyza (Nova Uniao BB), Rylan Lizares (Pedro Sauer Brown), Relson's guys, Sydney Silva..etc...etc...
MAKE THE MOVE JOE!
TTT
guys, lauzon obviously has a camp that is ALREADY doing great things for him, great sparring partners (including his brother - "The Upgrade"). he also has some pretty good local guys to play with - you might have heard of Kenny Florian, Gabriel Gonzaga etc. there are also plenty of big names like GSP making the pilgrimage to the legendary local Sityodtong camp to develop their striking.
Mass was the first state to have a legalized MMA on the East Coast, and became an MMA mecca with a great local fight scene.
even the new gyms like Waikru have whole TEAMS of elite instructors in every aspect of the game. one jiujitsu instructor has Pan AM or Mundial gold at blue, purple, brown, and a silver at black. the other took the Bronze in the Absolute Division. they have THREE different guys who spent years in Thailand, and have had as many fights and banged as many hookers anyone else you're likely to run into. and they hold pads all day long! one thai instructor is a former D1 wrestler with a nasty combination of the thai and wrestling clinch, one has big bag of dirty tricks from decades of JKD, and the other one is just plain f*cking awesome. plus a whole posse of wrestlers from the D1 college down the street. and tons of BU/BC babes running around the area in tight little short shorts!
There's a lot of consulting gigs you can do part time from anywhere.
DO IT JOE!
regardless of whether or not someone has a great camp that he started with.
the opportunity to train and learn from the best is something that is hard to pass up.
Kenny Florian was down here in Hilo also. He might actually convince Joe to go here to expand his game for awhile.