Chatsworth Gym USA

This place is a joke.
My friend and I were interested in checking out their mixed martial arts classes that are offered three times a week (although Wednesday doesn’t count, because it’s «conditioning,» which basically entails dragging a huge tire by ropes across the gym floor as exercise — something I can set up in my backyard, replete with random bricks and all the spare junk I have back there.)
First off, there is no lot parking there — only street parking. I like my car, so it’s no wonder this was a huge turnoff. As if it’s not bad enough this part of town is not exactly savory, I just don’t want to be concerned about my car being on cinder blocks. Not a dealbreaker, but still a thought. We didn’t have a problem parking at 8PM, but it wasn’t empty out there, either.
We spoke to a few guys there — I think his name was Roy (or some other three-​letter moniker), who does MMA fighting — cool dude. Because they’ve only made their facility public within the last year or so they were actively trying to recruit women and youths to the gym. Being of the female gender did have its perks as far as price went, but there is no locker room there for either male or female. It was rather bare bones, with floor mats, punching bags, the huge spare tire, a boxing ring and MMA fighter ring.
I didn’t get a chance to check out the MMA class that night (we went on jiu jitsu night) but the cardio kickboxing instructor told us we could try a session of his cardio kickboxing class for free. We observed the jiu jitsu class, which involved a lot of headlocks a la crotch — hmm, not my style. Roy pointed out they’d just signed up a new female member to the jiu jitsu class. We waited through most of the class to see what she’d be doing. All she did was stand there (in some tapered tights that did no favors to her figure no less) and talk to the guys, which begs the question as to whether they simply recruit warm bodies for a membership fee and wait for them to one day get motivated.
My friend made plans to go back to observe their MMA class, but came back the next day to find it canceled. The guys told her it’d resume the following week so she went back again, and found that it was canceled. A guy there told her the MMA instructor was out of the country («didn’t you know?»)
I wanted to give this place some much needed business, but it was very hard. How can I expect to lose weight when classes are never in session? What a waste of my time. I’d rather roll myself over to 24 hour fitness and pay less for more amenities.