Training is Training. Right?

It seems to me that the least important part of a training session is the location. Did I lose you there? Well some people feel that for martial arts training must occur in a fancy gym or a perfect dojo. It seems that looking back on my training thus far some of the best sessions happened in a garage, backyard, house, or the dungeon like area under my dads shop in pomona. Most of these sessions were just informal exchanges of ideas between martial artist or small sparring sessions. Not the big formally structured "bow to your sensei" classes that you will often times see at commercial schools. I think that over formalization is detrimental to the martial arts. It seems like it gets in the way of the original goal, learning martial arts! Im all for respect, but not the showy respect you see alot of places. I think we should show respect by treating each other right and thats all thats really needed. It does not take a huge fancy gym to do this. I wish more people would just get together and train. No matter if its in a gym or a garage. A dojo or a backyard.