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Pick up a hobby. Maybe some sports? Boxing, bjj or I suggest Muay Thai. Learn how to fly and make your ppl? Buy a Porsche and drive around  Plan in advance some trips around Europe? Come to Berlin? flushE. Last year I went to Scotland for 5 days. You could do some weekend trips to London, Berlin, Paris. Idk just kill me already  source, 2025 ↗

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Yeah look at Urban Sports Club and ClassPass (for businesses) I have been a USC customer in Berlin, Germany for over 3 years and love it. They got me hooked once and I couldn’t leave ever since because I can go to the gym, BJJ and indoor climbing with just one membership. I can even use it in other countries than Germany. source, 2024 ↗

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It depends where you train: If you go to gyms in cities like Munich or Berlin with several classes a day, it is more like 80-120 Euros to be fair. From my experience it is the same in Madrid, Lisbon, London.... But you can hardly compare it since your average income is higher than ours (Ger 44k vs US 59k). And it is also due the status of BJJ as a "niche sports", Football is everything here. I think in the US there is more hype about BJJ and therefore more money involved, same with MMA or even Gaming. source, 2023 ↗

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I normally do sports: Namely climbing, Jiu-jitsu, and running. Beyond that I walked around the city I was in at the time (Berlin) in 10km stretches to see how it felt. It felt ok but it was still considerably painful in the first days! source, 2023 ↗

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Started out in a grappling/MMA team in my hometown with some pretty decent MMA pro fighters and successful grapplers. It was insanely cheap. We focussed on lots of hard and long rolling, while the technique training was kept short. It was also a sports team. The advanced guys or people with higher belts taught the classes and some of them organized the finances, but in the end we were all equal members organizing that club together. ​ Had to move to Berlin joined a more traditional BJJ gym there. The teacher was really nice, skilled and knew what he was doing, but I didn't like th source, 2022 ↗

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It's not limited at all. There are lots of MMA gyms around, with Spitfire probably being the most high level professional one, but Fenriz is also pretty good and their muay Thai & bjj programs kick ass. Rani Yaziri, Attila Korkmaz, Vlado Sikic, Nico Samonidse, Julia Dorny, Jesse-Björn Buckler - professional mma fighters in Berlin just off the top of my head. But you're right about the talent pool being very low due to the many available sports... And we don't have the kind of gym yet that would make people who are already good move to Berlin to train here. Maybe in a decade from now. source, 2021 ↗

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Hallo! I moved to Berlin recently and joined USC as a member. I now work for them and I wrote an article recently about how bouldering helped me make new pals. I'll be writing another article soon about other communities I've met through USC, I'll send you a link to the next one if you're interested! It's a dance class I tried called Zouk. [https://www.thelocal.de/20181003/expat-in-berlin-five-reasons-you-should-try-bouldering-urbansportsclub-tlccu](https://www.thelocal.de/20181003/expat-in-berlin-five-reasons-you-should-try-bouldering-urbansportsclub-tlccu) ​ And here's an articl source, 2018 ↗

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Thanks for your questions. It is nice to have someone interested in stuff I have to tell :) 1) I can't tell how the worldwide scene has changed, because I was never BJJ geek/fanboy and didn't import BJJ magazines nor tapes. I preferred doing sports over reading or watching them. In Poland major differences are as follows: * It got from underground and secretive to mainstream. I'd say it is one of the most chosen individual sports. It went far ahead of judo and wrestling among adults. Among kids judo and karate are still kings of martial arts in terms of popularity. * Next huge thing - it source, 2014 ↗

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