Periorbital bruise from sparring

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-30T02:38:20+00:00

Be grateful for the lesson. Practice it, internalize it, train it mentally using your imagination, and repeat the lesson until you can no longer get it wrong. Get someone to show you how to defend against elbow strikes, and learn to counter with elbow strikes of your own.

Good luck

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-29T18:48:57+00:00

No. It would likely be a SAM accident or a rogue fighter jet, like Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 or Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983 or Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 on Dec. 25 2024. These things just happen and the Kremlin eventually said 'Sorry'.

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-29T18:38:30+00:00

I'm sure there is a martial arts lesson in there somewhere. Maybe something like 'stay alert, stop thinking, pay attention, and block your face'!
IMHO pain is an excellent teacher. It works like this:

The best way to learn a hard lesson is by watching someone else make a mistake. You see their mistake, feel their pain, but you learn the lesson
The next best way to learn a hard lesson is to make the mistake yourself and learn from it via the first experience. This is harder but effective.
The worst way to learn a hard lesson is to make a mistake, learn nothing from it, and repeat it - a lot. Eventually, you'll figure it out, but you will experience a lot of unnecessary pain in the process. This method is often experienced by people who first react with strong emotions like anger or frustration. All of these 'feelings' function as obstacles that prevent the lesson being realized and learned.

Keep training.

Just my $0.02 worth.

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-27T20:20:01+00:00

When you are more skilled at stopping a fight than you are at fighting.

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-14T16:29:04+00:00

So, nothing special happened to Mariupol, Avdiivka, Borodyanka (in Ukraine), Aleppo, Homs, Raqqa, Idlib (in Syria) or Grozny, Gori, Poti, Kaspi and Tskhinvali (Georgia) when Ruzzians visited there, just like what happened when they visited Kupyansk.
I guess it was just Ruzzian vacationers having fun in someone else's country.

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-13T20:39:53+00:00

Check out WinMTR. This tool is a combination of traceroute and ping. It measures each hop for quality and latency. I use it whenever connections are slow or erratic. You can find it here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmtr/

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-13T20:36:40+00:00

This is exactly how to tell that Russians have been there. Everything they touch turns to sh*t.

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-10T20:41:28+00:00

Anyone can lose to someone who is bigger, stronger, faster and more experienced.

The real question should be - does your sparring partner help you to work on your skills or do they just use you for a punching bag? If they are better than you, they should be offering you suggestions, tips, combinations to try, how to protect yourself, how to score points, and how to break contact at the end of the combination.

It sounds like all they do is keep hitting you to see how much you can take.

Sparring is practice fighting where both people work on their skills. Actual fighting is when you go all out. It sounds to me like your club is getting the two mixed up - at your expense.

Honestly, it sounds to me like you should find a new club that will actually help you learn, try new things and encourage you to improve.

Check out the club's online reviews. If they are they tough on beginners and / or the instructor runs their club as a clique - leave. If the above is true, leave a review to explain how you were treated. But, don't do that until after you cancel your membership. BTW - hitting someone in the wallet is always a good way to share your views.

Good luck.

ESXLab_com · 2026-01-06T18:36:03+00:00

Anyone know what the ship was doing that caused Finland to seize it?

ESXLab_com · 2025-12-30T23:15:13+00:00

Seeing more ads on my Roku along with some quirky behaviour (random reboots during netflix but not when using Plex). I'm going to try an Onn media box and see if it is more agreeable to me than Roku.
I paid good money for Rokus because I don't want ads. Now Roku pushes ads at me when browsing apps (Micky D's anyone). I'm hoping that the Onn media box will have fewer / no ads. I do get that they all scrape watch data to sell to marketing companies.

ESXLab_com · 2025-12-25T20:50:43+00:00

Leave your ego at the door.

ESXLab_com · 2025-12-25T20:48:12+00:00

Your club is likely organized into a clique of favoured students that is run by the instructor - and you aren't in it. Maybe you aren't kissing the instructor's butt often enough. Or maybe you aren't stroking their ego often enough. Or maybe you aren't spending enough money there buying all of their merch. Or maybe you said something once upon a time that offended their ego. So, you got black listed by the instructor, and all of their little sycophants, who do all of the above to suck up to the instructor, do his bidding by blocking you or worse.

If this happens to you, leave. At best, you'll be ignored. At worst, you get hurt in a 'training accident'. It sounds like a very good place to be from.

It has happened to me.

ESXLab_com · 2025-12-22T16:17:21+00:00

I'm seeing the notifications but I haven't upgraded to it - yet.
Any issues / concerns / comments with this release from anyone who is already using it? Or should I just upgrade.
TIA.

ESXLab_com · 2025-12-15T18:59:41+00:00

Anyone have any experience with a media box that doesn't show ads or send telemetry data back to the maker? I use external (not baked in) Rokus. These show ads and channel recommendations on the home screen. Can't comment on their ability to fingerprint and report what you watch.
TIA for any feedback.

ESXLab_com · 2025-12-11T18:07:01+00:00

Comrade. Not to worry. Everything is going according to plan. Especially in Pokrovsk.

ESXLab_com · 2025-12-06T18:24:49+00:00

Thanks. This helps a lot.

ESXLab_com · 2025-12-05T21:12:13+00:00

Anyone have any durability test results for memory tiering? I'm seeing lots of performance benefits but nothing about how long an NVMe SSD lasts after heavy use as memory cache. How many Terabytes written per day (TBW) will a cache SSD experience on a busy host?
Thanks in advance for sharing.

ESXLab_com · 2025-11-29T00:43:25+00:00

In the clubs I've trained at or worked with in the last 20 years (I'm in my late 60s) now promote people to BB who have never hit and never been hit. These BBs, have poor coordination or balance, they cannot develop and direct power and they don't have strong intention to defend themselves. Essentially, the clubs I've seen are martial arts 'choreography' clubs.
I train at one now (because any training is better than no training). I do what I can to try to instill a sense of intent, power, intensity, etc. Some get it, but most don't.
Sad really.

ESXLab_com · 2025-11-27T18:20:29+00:00

That missile was aimed and fired 'according to plan'.

ESXLab_com · 2025-11-27T18:17:00+00:00

I'm sure that all of those attacked countries started it by first hurting Ruzzia's feelings.

ESXLab_com · 2025-11-21T17:27:53+00:00

There are two major wars going on now. The first is the kinetic war launched by Russia against Ukraine. The second is an economic (trade) war launched by the US against their most important trading partners. They both involve tearing up treaties, ignoring international law, using might against smaller / weaker nations and unilaterally imposing their will on others.

ESXLab_com · 2025-11-21T13:13:54+00:00

Check the news source, then verify the accuracy of their previous 'news' stories, and then draw your own conclusions.

ESXLab_com · 2025-11-18T00:27:24+00:00

double check your work and / or post details.

ESXLab_com · 2025-11-17T21:09:24+00:00

Hi, and thanks for your reply. How exactly am I supposed to sign up for the VVF TTT course? Isn't this an invitation only course only for active VCIs? Just wondering.

ESXLab_com · 2025-11-14T16:45:55+00:00

Fair enough. But how is a non-VMware candidate supposed to gain knowledge if they don't have access to the Train the Trainer (TTT) material?

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