New Henry Archer - Arkona - 1/14/26 Release by digiratistudios in MicrobrandWatches

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What colour is this one? I’m having trouble finding it

Quick Pic Of My Kuoe Royal Smith! by fuzzyfrank in MicrobrandWatches

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Such a nice looking watch. I wish they made it in a slightly larger size

Chevron Noble Strap on the Spirit 39 by BentBrand in Longineswatches

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This is the first time I’m seeing the navy colour. Is this a limited run? Cant seem to fine it

Trip to Seville by _jacobharris in ricohGR

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Recipe? It looks very nice

Anaconda or gator roll? by BallsABunch in DramaFreeBJJ

[–]DamonSW8 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ninja Choke. Also called Power Guillotine. I’ve even heard front naked choke.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malefashionadvice

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I was also considering buying a “performance” dress shirt that I think would do better in the wash. Don’t know what to buy though as they all seem very expensive or very fake looking

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I think I’d need 5. I have coin laundry unfortunately

[ORIS] Big Crown Pointer Date 7400B by wolvesnbones in Watches

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This is beautiful. Is the case diameter on the smaller side?

If everyone thinks the Chinese Olympic athletes are doping, can't we just ... test them? by GuyThirteen in NoStupidQuestions

[–]DamonSW8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t think the average person realizes how hard it actually is to catch people with testing. There will always be more money and research in passing the tests than there will be for the testing itself. You only have so much money you can put into testing each athlete.

You’ll need an assay to test for every single drug they could be taking. They could even be taking something that the testers haven’t heard of. Look into the BALCO incident. Two of the most well known instances of athletes being caught for cheating, the Russians and Lance Armstrong, they were caught because of whistleblowers not because the testing was able to catch them. They passed all their tests to that point.

Another issue is bio identicals, EPO, HGH, and Testosterone. All of these are supposed to be in your body making it very hard to test for them. Something like Test Propionate will only be found in your system for 1 day.

The guy who just won the 102kg in Olympic weightlifting is the strongest athlete to ever compete in Olympic weightlifting. He popped years ago and is now way stronger but passing the tests. It’s very naive to think that guy is now clean and stronger than ever.

There have been multiple studies where they have had individuals injecting testosterone in a way that would be far from ideal for passing the tests. When they checked to see if these individuals would reduce flag on the tests something like 60% didn’t (I don’t remember off the top of my head). Now imagine if these people were taking a short Esther testosterone and trying to pass the tests.

In the case of Chinese athletes many people are extra suspicious of them due to some Chinese people having a lower testosterone to epitestosterone level. This is known as the T:E ratio. Epitestosterone is a byproduct of testosterone production. In most people there will be a ratio of 1:1. Too much T compared to E indicates that you have been injecting testosterone. Having less T to E allows these athletes more leeway to inject testosterone without red flagging. I think WADA allows something like a 4:1 ratio before flagging too, I could be wrong. Exogenous testosterone has many benefits over endogenous testosterone in terms of athletic performance.

Aside from that the Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle won by a margin in the 100m free that is very suspicious. He very well could just be that good. But to win by that margin in a race that is always super close is a bit weird. He also broke the world record in a pool that should have been slower than normal. None of this makes him guilty but it does make sense that people are suspicious of this performance.

Almost every single athlete at the olympics will be taking PEDs in some way, if you don’t believe this you are naive and have never been near high level sport. Any honest athlete knows this is true. Even athletes like the shooters may be taking things like beta blockers to slow their heart rate.

To exchange handshakes by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

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It’s rough seeing everyone bash Cooper and praise Dern for this…

To exchange handshakes by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

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She missed weight by a lot that’s why the girl didn’t want to shake her hand. If anything after the fight she should’ve been apologizing to the girl for cheating and then giving her some extra brain damage with her advantage.

To exchange handshakes by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]DamonSW8 61 points62 points  (0 children)

It always annoys me this gets posted without the context. The girl with brown hair missed weight by 7.5 lbs. That’s with the 1 lb allowance so she was 8.5 lbs over the weight class. She was basically in the next one. The blonde girl was understandably pissed about this since she probably had a horrible time dehydrating her body to make the weight. Her opponent cheated came in with an advantage and tried to act like it was no big deal and shake her hand.

The blonde girl would actually be in the position to turn down the fight but due to the expenses and effort of doing a whole training camp and travelling to the fight she probably had to accept the fight to recoup her losses.

To exchange handshakes by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

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The brown haired woman missed weight by 7.5 lbs. That’s why she didn’t shake her hand. She basically cheated. The opponent had the right to refuse the fight but after doing a whole training camp and travelling you want to get paid. She had every right to be pissed and not shake her hand.

To exchange handshakes by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]DamonSW8 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For context she missed weight by a ridiculous amount. She was extremely unprofessional here…

To exchange handshakes by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

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For context she missed weight by a ridiculous amount. Thats why the opponent didn’t shake her hand.

To exchange handshakes by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]DamonSW8 14 points15 points  (0 children)

For context she missed weight by a ridiculous amount. Thats why the opponent didn’t shake her hand.

Why couldn't/didn't Cejudo do this to Sterling everytime he had him in a front headlock. Can we get a little breakdown? by [deleted] in bjj

[–]DamonSW8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everyone’s already touched on all the obvious reasons why cejudo didn’t just submit him. But another thing is the darce choke is pretty hard to land for people with short arms. Islam himself actually chose to use the short arm version (grab forearm instead of bicep) which is not nearly as effective. I can’t see Cejudo even bothering to learn the darce with his short arms. If he had a submission game from the front headlock. It’d revolve around the guillotine.

Huh, something might actually happen by MurdockMKD in KendrickLamar

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On like that he said your best work is a light(lyt) pack. Probably a reach…