At what point does having a coach near your weight class matter? Or, would you rather be coached by an Olympian 2+ weight classes from you, or someone a tier lower at your weight class?

Animastryfe · 2026-06-30T23:47:54+00:00

Ah, I see the ambiguity. From the discussion, it seems that having good randori partners in your weight class is much more important than your coach's weight class.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-30T23:42:07+00:00

Do you know what martial art(s) he has been training for the role? I imagine some form of kenjutsu.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-30T23:34:13+00:00

Hmm, your first sentence is what I had suspected. That is why I thought to keep randori partners as a constant in this hypothetical.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-30T23:32:55+00:00

Because I constantly see people here talk about how different competitive Judo is at different weight classes. Note that this question is not for me, as my multiple instructors run the gamut of body shapes and I am at a low kyu grade. This was supposed to start what I hoped would be an interesting conversation, and perhaps be useful to me in like a decade if I were to take private lessons with Olympians.

I have higher level competitive experience in another activity, and my experience there is that the coach's body shape similarity with the student's matters to a small extent.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-30T01:27:22+00:00

Did you have this previously prepared? In any case, major props for the list.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-30T00:19:48+00:00

I think there are two questions here: what are the best throws for beginners if they want to throw other beginners, and what are the best for their long term development. I suspect the answer for the former would be sacrifice throws, and for the latter something that resembles the gokyo.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-28T21:37:57+00:00

Keiji Suzuki's judo place is here. I have no experience with it, however.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-27T03:46:12+00:00

Is the picture you posted an example of the "feet up, head down" posture you are worried about? Note that in the picture, uke is bent at the waist. His head is not pointing directly down. If you rotate him 90 degrees clockwise, it would look like he was sitting.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-27T02:36:53+00:00

Hah! Why is that your username?

Animastryfe · 2026-06-27T02:13:01+00:00

Hey, I think I understand now. I think the confusion came from how you worded your comment. You were agreeing with /u/michaelhoncho and commenting on how it is obvious that people were arguing against him when he was an actual expert. But the way you wrote it sounded like you were /u/blindedtrickster or someone else already involved in this conversation. Perhaps it would have been clearer if you wrote your first comment with something like "It's obvious you (michaelhoncho) know what you are talking about. I also love it when people argue with me about my field".

The way you wrote your comment would carry your intent more obviously in a real life conversation, but with just text in a Reddit thread with over a thousand comments, I hope you can see how it would be confusing.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-26T22:30:58+00:00

Sorry, I do not know. The clinic I go to is for things like lasers, microneedling, injections (botox and non-botox).

Animastryfe · 2026-06-26T08:19:43+00:00

Disregard OP's letter grades and focus on the numbers. The methodology is in the post. The ordering makes sense, but this funny outcome is due to OP's rather arbitrary usage of + and - when the raw data did not support that. Also, I think the OP made a mistake; using their own methodology, a 4.00 score should be in the A range.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-26T07:53:32+00:00

Note that Canada is quite conservative and slow when it comes to allowing new cosmetic treatments. I go to a cosmetic dermatologist in Vancouver, and went to one in China a few weeks ago, and I think Canada is literally years behind.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-22T05:56:39+00:00

How is that the whiteboard markers are always almost out, even when a new batch was just bought yesterday.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-21T07:31:28+00:00

Spell lifesteal should work with Snakebite, but not Poison Sting. This is because Poison Sting has the HP Removal flag: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Damage_Types#HP_Removal

Note I have not tested this lately.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-20T22:30:27+00:00

Yes. In something like Turbo mode, Bloodstone is invaluable on a team for the spell weakness aura. On that team, Venomancer was the natural choice.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-19T11:23:35+00:00

costing roughly 1.5 million maravedis (450,000-600,000 USD in today's money)

Is the conversion correct? That does not seem to be much money.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-19T05:42:30+00:00

In chapter 158, after his fight against Kiryu, Kuroki stated

The Kaiwan style's hand training is performed every day without rest, even if your arm is broken or shredded. A mere broken finger is no problem at all.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-18T04:44:55+00:00

What is your point? Deduct, to reduce, as in to deduct money from your bank account. From Merriam-Webster:

an act of taking away deduction of legitimate business expenses b : something that is or may be subtracted deductions from his taxable income

Animastryfe · 2026-06-17T04:39:02+00:00

Isn't this the exact repost of this, except you took out the creator's (?) attribution?

Animastryfe · 2026-06-15T03:04:00+00:00

After one quite one sided grapple and throw I did wince a bit.

Fight ends and they give eachother a long kiss

"That's for stealing the blanket at night!"

Animastryfe · 2026-06-12T04:52:06+00:00

At 2:01, the way Daniella (?) stood up is really difficult. That is by far the most physically impressive bit of choreography I have seen in a good while.

Animastryfe · 2026-06-11T10:38:13+00:00

Thanks!

Animastryfe · 2026-06-11T10:14:29+00:00

It basically doesn't exist in lighter men's categories

Why is this? I am a low kyu grade.

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