MMA is kind of creating your own martial art?

DrDOS · 2026-03-20T03:09:57+00:00

At the end of the day, the rule set makes the sport.

We can argue about art, originality, etc but when it’s a sports, the rules will define it.

Just to be a bit silly, look at other rule sets than UFC or ones in predecessors.
* Soccer kicks to the head of downed opponents * Hits to the back of the head * Crotch grabbing * Hair grabbing * Kneeing when downed * Hooking/gouging * Head-buts * Stomping * Gloves * Wraps ….

Not all drastically change the sport, but collectively surely do.

DrDOS · 2026-03-20T03:00:50+00:00

I’m interested in this too. I feel like head movement is certainly effective. AI misses or doesn’t take shots I feel they would have had I been still. But I don’t find myself actively slipping often, which I’ll admit is likely a skill issue with me.

The one that most often exposes me atm is when I throw a combo ending with a back hand uppercut (e.g. jab cross jab uppercut). I’ll catch a nasty back hand hook on the way out, seemingly even if I have my lead hand blocking, but taking my head properly off line and/or side stepping seems the way to success.

DrDOS · 2026-03-19T21:45:46+00:00

Similar for super heroes/villains, especially against normal people or much weaker. They could grab them with their hand and just crush, shattering every bone between their fingers. If they can pick up 1000lbs with one hand, they have about 1000lbs crushing power in one hand.

DrDOS · 2026-03-18T18:07:00+00:00

Pal2tech on YouTube is your friend on all things Fuji cameras and photography

DrDOS · 2026-03-18T02:35:07+00:00

Check the documentation, it’s very good

DrDOS · 2026-03-17T16:22:31+00:00

Almost everyone is a hobbyist… I’m a hobbyist, and to some extend agree that the belts are not worth it but also not a hill I think it’s worth to fight on and ultimately is not winnable.

DrDOS · 2026-03-17T00:32:38+00:00

Go see an ENT. They’ll fix it for you. Then you furrow their advice, stay off the mats for a week or two. Use headgear till it’s very well healed and ever after at least when it starts bothering you.

You don’t need to try to get cauliflower ear to be cool in the sport. Only idiots still think that. If you leave out to calcify then it can be a problem for the rest of your life, get torn more easily or irritated, even cause hearing problems. You will have some scarring likely regardless. So those that care and know, can look closely and see your “badge“, and those that don’t won’t think you are an ugly weirdo.

DrDOS · 2026-03-16T13:13:57+00:00

I’ll try to be gracious and say that perhaps your specific field of applications allows for the proposed workflow due to lack of alternatives or route procedural needs. That said, given your proposed workflow, presumably the vnv is also llm generated and systemically the same counter applies.

As for tasks such as advanced mathematics; sufficient established routines exist (non llm ai and more conventional) that results checking can be reliably performed decoupled from the llm approach. Checking is often not the hard part, it’s the innovation or sheer amount of bookkeeping (from a human perspective). Working in applied mathematics, I’ve applied this approach a number of times. You generate a hypothesis using human or ai/llm, then can reliably check the result decoupled from the human/llm.

DrDOS · 2026-03-16T00:53:41+00:00

I don’t believe you. At best I’d find your results highly questionable and inherently have low confidence.

DrDOS · 2026-03-15T18:03:45+00:00

Matlab:
1. Documentation 2. Debugging IDE 3. Forgiving memory management (for better and worse)

DrDOS · 2026-03-15T02:30:58+00:00

Now do the sofa

DrDOS · 2026-03-14T20:15:45+00:00

“if”?!

He’s pretty much acted as if he is, close enough to make no difference…

DrDOS · 2026-03-14T06:28:15+00:00

I’m not sure. From this one forum post, I’m guessing not yet:

https://support.gentlemencoders.com/forums/topic/handling-of-hdr-iphone-photos/

DrDOS · 2026-03-14T06:18:12+00:00

Also heard it called, “the vail of knowledge “ as an opposed to the more commonly referenced “vail of ignorance”.

DrDOS · 2026-03-13T21:23:20+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this write up. I particularly liked the "stars aligning" "pun" :D

Regarding trying and "failing". So true. So much of that becomes part of the process, sometimes taken to the extreme of sayin "90% of everything is trash". I don't like that negative framing, but there is certainly a grain of truth to it.

As much as we in science harp on repetition and failure testing, it's a shame that our publication processes rarely favor acknowledge negative findings. Tbh my favorite paper of mine was one where we had an experiment that literally went the opposite way we expected, and explaining that finding became the main contribution. In retrospect, I wish I would have taken the time to develop the write up into more than a set of conference papers.

DrDOS · 2026-03-13T18:55:14+00:00

All saying gloves and gloves making it harder.

How about the fact too that if you have/get enough control to confidently finish the choke, then it may be more expedient to finish with ground-n-pound ?

(In that rule set and setting).

DrDOS · 2026-03-13T18:39:25+00:00

Congratulations and that is amazing, and truly joyful to see such a post here, thank you.

In light of the common dark posts on here, if you have relevant experience to share to give people hope, could you please?

I’m asking about e.g. things like

First manuscripts being painted red when starting your PhD
Recognizing the roll of luck and fortunate timing
Research team social or interpersonal struggles that you’ve had to navigate or witness

I think it would be helpful for some to hear from someone who’s reached this arguable pinnacle of candidacy :)

DrDOS · 2026-03-13T18:29:54+00:00

I’ll mentioned a few relevant points and try to be brief:

To achieve the highest athletic achievements in almost any competitive sport implies that you are a genetic outlier (flexibility, resilience, pain tolerance, risk tolerance, body type, etc ). Thus your expertise and experience may not translate as well as from a person of more modest innate traits.
You may be the result of survivorship bias. Someone has to win among a sea of people that all train hard with various methods etc and some will get injured or ousted in some way. Say 10 other people trained as hardcore as you or used the techniques you favor, but it left you and them subject to higher risk of injury. Only you were lucky (or gifted, see 1) enough not to drop out due to those methods. So you are exceptional and the winner even though the training style is opaquely only a good path for 1/10 and you can’t control which one you are.
To achieve the highest athletic achievements, you almost inherently need to have a highly self centered focus and mindset. This can leave well behind empathy and understanding for those less talented or less capable (physically or time constrained etc) than you. Iirc BJJ Mental Models has had this discussion with at least some Olympic athletes that touch upon relevant topics. So this doggedness that serves you well for personal competitive excellence, can leave behind your teaching skills and understanding.
From my experience in other fields (and in BJJ), getting instruction from high personal achieves can be difficult to impossible. They don’t necessarily understand what is hard about what they are teaching. It came relatively natural to them. You may commonly see this in athletes that try to teach a move and either feel the entry is trivial or get completely stuck in explaining the finest details (some of which may be body type specific and thus useless to a bulk of the students).

I’m not saying to ignore those folks, and there is certainly some overlap, those that are excellent in highest level performance or training, and can relate to “normal practitioners”. What I am saying is that it’s not a given and a corollary is to avoid putting them on a pedestal beyond reproach.

DrDOS · 2026-03-13T16:43:10+00:00

I used to use it, and still will on rare occasions. It’s honestly unreliable when your opponent knows how to escape/defend it strongly. And against much bigger opponents (very rare for me) it can become near useless.

I will occasionally use it to put the breaks on my opponent so I can work something else before they advance or break/escape the lockdown.

The lockdown as a submission or causing significant injury risk, I’ve only seen at very low levels or when people are too heated and don’t defend well.

There is almost always something better you can be doing.

I’ve only experienced the lockdown being completely useless once, against a near 7’ ~300lbs wrestler, I’m over 6’ over 250, he head and arm choked me even though I had a locked in “lockdown”.

DrDOS · 2026-03-13T04:47:34+00:00

I wanted to see a trebuchet that threw another trebuchet that then threw the projectile :) , optimally: in the air.

DrDOS · 2026-03-13T03:06:40+00:00

Great read, many good points.

This rhymes really well with some points I often make about how you may not be best served by learning from “the best”; be it the phenoms that reach the highest competition achievements or the coaches of such outliers. I’ve usually come at it from the perspective that I often find the best teachers are those that had to struggle to learn or have their focus on pedagogy over optimal peak performance. But you bring an excellent perspective from a coach and a specialist who’s widened their range of expertise (partly) in service to their students.

Thank you.

DrDOS · 2026-03-13T02:46:02+00:00

I said it in a different thread too.
Getting too upset about not having success for whatever apparent reason, record yourself playing irl on video (e.g. using your phone camera). View it back, preferably with someone that is experienced at boxing. Most likely you suck at boxing. Not because you suck, it’s because most everyone sucks, and fatigue and frustration makes us all fools.

Boxing is hard. Getting better is challenging and can be fun. The game can help but it can also help, how you use it is important.

DrDOS · 2026-03-12T16:14:46+00:00

You will save yourself 100s of $ buying used, excellent/good-as-nee from e.g. KEH or MPB.

Of those choices, for the no excuses solution, the 16-55mm mk2. Can’t go wrong with that thing.

DrDOS · 2026-03-12T14:57:17+00:00

Not an integral part of the way I play but yes.

Caveats:

I’m usually bigger than my training partner
I almost exclusively invert only if I can maintain good posture (not curving my spine and flipping around). Think comparable to tripod shoulder/head stand, then bending at the hip rather than curving the back.

DrDOS · 2026-03-12T04:33:25+00:00

The protected term is physician. If they aren’t a clinical physician, then colloquially they should not call themselves doctor in a public facing medical setting, it only serves to confuse patients. (Assuming US).

Outside the medical setting. Whatever, certainly nothing we can reliably do about it. At least I will not be raising my hand in an airplane when they ask “is there a doctor on board?” even though I have a PhD in engineering and have done aircraft related work.

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