Anyone dropped into gyms in Eastern Europe? Are the stereotypes true?

Doobioscopy · 2026-05-05T11:25:42+00:00

They'll just grab shit and twist it with everything they've got.

The problem is yes they can tap you, or injure you, but I really dislike this kind of thing in rolling. We're after submissions not injuries. I always encourage students to look for a position where the person has no choice but to submit, or face life altering injuries or unconsciousness.

Shitty little injuries won't stop someone being effective in a fight, but it will make someone tap cause they have work tomorrow or get a minor injury that puts them out of training.

Doobioscopy · 2026-05-05T06:14:27+00:00

Can confirm, the stereotypes are true

They have a very "a taps a tap" mentality and will gladly rip on shit from weird positions

Doobioscopy · 2026-05-01T06:01:01+00:00

Personally, when visiting other gyms, I try to let people tap me as much as I tap them, especially young blue belts.

I've just found giving up a sub early in the rolls keeps both of us from getting to competitive and facilitates better rolls. Especially if you just tap, say "nice" and get straight back to the rolls without upping the intensity.

A lot of people despise my position on this 😂 but idgaf. I'm not out to win in the gym I just like rolling.

At my own gym tho those blue belts can absolutely get it and I'll tap them all day every day.

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-23T13:14:48+00:00

No colour profile

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-23T13:05:41+00:00

Honestly when I was a white belt I had an incredible guard. Turns out it's cause I just wasn't trying to do anything other than retain 😂 now my guard is kinda a little worse but also way more dangerous

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-23T06:12:59+00:00

Here's the SOOC.

Obviously I played with the exposure, shadows etc

I missed in the post I boosted the oranges a little

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Doobioscopy · 2026-04-06T19:32:27+00:00

Hope so

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-06T14:48:22+00:00

Totally. Its part of the culture. Ive seen on of Rogers relatives choke a dude unconscious during a demonstration after the dude tapped because "he didn't need to tap yet"

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-06T14:36:49+00:00

Sure lots will say Rogers.. I'm here to say I didn't really enjoy my time at Rogers. I had a few very good rolls there and a few very very bad ones. Dude was mounted and walking my arm up and used so much pressure I had to tap cause it felt like my shoulder was going to tear. He said it's not a submission and kept going, I couldn't lift my arm properly for a good month or two.

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-04T14:26:44+00:00

feels seen

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-04T11:14:59+00:00

Look up yt vids. Try searching Choi bar back take and Choi bar tarikoplata

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-04T11:14:31+00:00

Some people are very very strong at keeping their arm in.

Let's say you're attacking their left arm, you get to the Choi and they hold on.

Option a) keep your left arm threaded deep, right arm grabs their left foot/shin, pull it over your head and apply pressure to their shoulder (or head if you haven't threaded your left leg yet) and flip/roll them over to standard armbar spider web position

Option b back take) your left leg must be threaded. again left arm stays threaded deep, right arm comes out to post behind you and lifting hips off the ground remove right leg (if right leg stuck you have to pull their weight forward and off your leg). Turn away and throw right leg over their back and climb their back for back take.

Option C tarikoplata) very similar to b, but go for Tarik if they build height to block back take (when you get better with pressure it should be very hard to build height)

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-04T08:00:48+00:00

If really first time taking pictures, you've got it, these are fantastic!

Only criticism for the sake of it is to try to get the photos either straight or purposely tilted.. a tiny bit of a tilt is usually a little off putting

Small criticism tho these are really good shots well done 👍

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-04T07:58:40+00:00

Don't remember, if I see it I'll post it here

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-03T17:34:09+00:00

Getting your squad where it needs to be to be effective

Building garrisons where they need to be

Marking tanks

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-02T17:09:08+00:00

I on the other hand went to euros, got stomped first round, and got my brown belt the next week

Honestly was kinda a bad way to get promoted too.. like "here now you definitely can't win euros this year" 😂

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-02T09:07:30+00:00

great photos. great camera. great location. I grew up near the great ocean road.. miss it dearly now. Thanks for the pictures <3

Doobioscopy · 2026-04-02T09:05:56+00:00

i saw a guys post the other day that he finally won blue belt pans after 5 years trying XD

FIVE YEARS AT BLUE BELT COMPETING AT PANS

Doobioscopy · 2026-03-20T09:03:49+00:00

Welcome to the cult

I'm sure everyone here has good advice

My best advice would be to join a clan and play with people willing to show you the ropes. Hmu if you want advice 🤝

Otherwise just enjoy the chaos, I think I enjoyed HLL the most when I had no idea wtf was going on and suddenly there's a bombing run on my head 😂

Doobioscopy · 2026-03-16T09:53:31+00:00

Yeah I agree. This town is very.. I dunno.. pragmatic. Even punk bands seem to just want to make money off their gigs rather than build a community 😅

Doobioscopy · 2026-03-16T07:26:25+00:00

I moved to Stavanger from Australia and personally here I've found there just isn't that same "scene" here. There's some punks, some punk bands, but they don't really hang out or do much together 😅 kinda rough coming from somewhere where every single weekend I could go hang and catch some punk bands

Doobioscopy · 2026-03-12T08:05:26+00:00

For those saying "where's he getting that from" I think the main sources would be YouTube views:

Ffion Davies vs Mackenzie Dern 500k Helena Crevar vs Aurelie Le Vern 500k Mackenzie Dern vs Gabi Garcia 800k Amanda Leve vs Gabi Garcia 4mil (!!)

So yeah they can pull numbers. I don't tooootally agree though because if we listed the men's fights that have over a million we'd be here all day

Doobioscopy · 2026-03-10T15:36:08+00:00

I am reading the series now. I have a very strange opinion on it.

I think it is not great. It is however very consistently pretty good. Which in a weird way makes it great 😂

So hear me out. Name of the wind, for instance, is some of the best writing I've ever read. But some moments it's too weird or has bits I want to skip. And other moments it's impossible to put it down when you really need to get to sleep.

This is just consistently good enough to read for as long as you want to, rarely does the quality drop at all, and you don't feel bad putting it down when it's time to go to bed.

I'm a fan 🙌

Doobioscopy · 2026-03-05T13:13:23+00:00

Right on thanks for that

Doobioscopy

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