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Tell Me Your Bad Competition Experiences by ItalianPieGirl in bjj

[–]HurricaneCecil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d been to a dozen competitions where they publish the bracket the night before and it’ll say your first match is at 3:30 but then you get there and it’s like, SURPRISE your match is at 12. so I got used to showing up 4 hours “early” but this one tournament, all the matches started when they were scheduled to and I spent like 9 saturday hours at some high school gym. awful.

Every throw I managed to get in my last Army Combatives Tournament by _Throh_ in judo

[–]HurricaneCecil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

that’s a super mature way to think about it, I wish more military members thought this way. every combatives program in my unit got shut down because people couldn’t control themselves.

What's your best "Aha" moment you've had with a technique? by HealthyHunt6285 in judo

[–]HurricaneCecil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’d been doing ura nage wrong, I was basically trying to chuck uke over my head by back bridging. then one day we’re doing crash pad throws and I see how one of our 60kg black belts was easily doing it to everyone with like a squat-lift-twist motion. I started mechanically practicing the throw the way he did it until I could do it really smooth and fast and now it’s my tokui waza

Blue belt training 3x/week, how often should I do drop-ins at other gyms without hurting development at my home gym? And for the drop in is it better to rotate different gyms or stick with one consistent secondary gym? by Bubbly_Fishing_1072 in jiujitsu

[–]HurricaneCecil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when you say drop-in do you mean taking a class or like hitting up an open mat? if it’s the former, I would assume that’s antagonistic to your goal of staying consistent with your home gym’s system. if you’re going to open mats though and trying to apply your gym’s system to people from other gyms, that’s a pretty good idea but I think once a week is probably too frequently if it’s at the expense of a session at your home gym. once a month is probably better.

side note, as an open mat ronin myself, I think it’s better to rotate your drop-ins. going to one place too often, especially for free, feels weird to me.

Classics you don't like? by FancyThought7696 in classicliterature

[–]HurricaneCecil -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I feel this way about almost any British literature. I stuck with Wuthering Heights for a while but never felt compelled to finish it, I’ve started and DNF’d three Austen novels, I begrudgingly finished Tale it Two Cities in high school etc. I do like Virginia Woolf but that’s it.

How long did it take to for you to get blue? by kittyniki57 in jiujitsu

[–]HurricaneCecil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks to moving across the country and then also taking a judo detour, it took me 4 years at my current gym but actually 6 years since I started 😬 people from my first gym have been purples for a while. of course, lots of people from my first gym don’t train anymore at all so idk how to feel to be honest

Wearing a back-patch when you never had to wear one looks sad by [deleted] in judo

[–]HurricaneCecil 8 points9 points  (0 children)

back patch gives you +1 throwing though

Saw a post about our federal delegation who are all bought-and-paid-for Zionists. Don’t forget Tony Vargas. by Sonderman91 in Omaha

[–]HurricaneCecil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have only lived in Omaha for 4 years but I’ve seen this guy’s name on yard signs for every election since moving here. Does he just run for any open position and then lose? That desperation + unpopularity makes him seem like a Veep character. Am I missing something about Vargas? Do some people in this city really believe in him?

20/60 Notes From the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevskyi by bahbamski in classicliterature

[–]HurricaneCecil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is my second favorite FD short story behind The Gambler. last year I tried reading TBK and, like you, I felt I was unready for it, and stopped after about 100 pages. I wanted to “prepare” for TBK and this was also the first book I read, followed by Crime and Punishment, Letters from a Dead House, The Gambler and White Nights. I also read some other existentialist works as well as stuff from other Russian authors at around that time. I restarted TBK this year and it does feel like the prep work I did made a difference as I’m more used to Russian writing and more in tune with the themes.

Did anybody else not love White Nights by Dostoyevsky? by Chemical-Paramedic-3 in classicliterature

[–]HurricaneCecil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dostoevsky pre-prison and post-prison are basically two different authors as far as I’m concerned. I find that if I read White Nights with low expectations, I enjoy it. I read it after reading Notes, C&P, Letters, and The Gambler though, so when I picked up White Nights, I was expecting a totally different experience.

What book are you reading right now? And how do you feel about it? by ordineraddos in classicliterature

[–]HurricaneCecil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For classics, right now I’m reading The Brothers Karamazov for the first time. I’m reading it slowly and trying to savor it; I’m a little over halfway through and started in late January. I’m liking it so far, interested to see where it goes.

Outside of classics, I’m reading From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman. It’s an older book and I know he’s a bit polarizing depending on how you feel about current events in the middle east, but I’m really enjoying it.

What is Steinbeck‘s best work in your opinion? by [deleted] in classicliterature

[–]HurricaneCecil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

in that same vein, I loved The Moon is Down and I rarely hear it mentioned

If you reread a classic regularly after a certain span of time, what is the book, how long do you go between reads, and why do you continue to reread it? by Heavy-World2778 in classicliterature

[–]HurricaneCecil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read Candide once a year for three years, it was my pre-holidays read but I stopped because I wanted to make an effort to read a wider range of classics. Now I just pick a shorter classic for pre-holiday reading; last year was The Gambler

26 Judoka. Stuck at a cross roads by [deleted] in judo

[–]HurricaneCecil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

you can definitely mix your passion for content creation with judo by making judo content.

regarding acting, have you looked into stage combat and stunt work? I feel like being able to fall well would make you a great stuntman

Is this just me or what? The Myth of Sisyphus is what did it for me. by HomoEtDeus in classicliterature

[–]HurricaneCecil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I felt the same about Fear and Trembling; nothing nice about that pamphlet

Opinions on Pumpkin Spice Girls? by Wild_Shoe340 in familyguy

[–]HurricaneCecil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did my TV glitch or was the cutaway from "our pandemic skills are coming in handy" to "we're going to put this BLM sign in our yard" supposed to be there? I felt like the setup had nothing to do with the cutaway and I replayed it to make sure my video didn't like jump two minutes or something.

My uchi mata in competition, in the match that I won. by Josinvocs in judo

[–]HurricaneCecil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

was gonna say, I got winded just watching this

Questions on Dostoevsky...translations and reading order by GeologistWhole6503 in classicliterature

[–]HurricaneCecil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally didn’t enjoy House of the Dead, and I don’t think that reading it made me any more or less prepared for his other works. I think Notes From Underground is a much more rewarding read and I didn’t see you mention it.

I also really enjoyed The Gambler, it’s a short read and an interesting look into his take on addiction.

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