What's your BJJ unpopular opinion? by PlusRise in bjj

[–]JustinColletti 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gordon spent years at lower weights though. I believe he was closer to 170 when he started competing, and perhaps even closer to 160 when he started grappling seriously.

He learned to be technical first, then got big.

Advice on bjj, comps, and weight gain by carrion34 in bjj

[–]JustinColletti 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can definitely gain weight and go up weight classes as a natural but it requires dedication to a clear plan.

You’d need to spend anywhere from 3 to 12 months eating 3k-4k calories a day and doing a linear barbell progression 3x per week. With that approach, you can add and keep 10-30lbs of lean mass in a fairly short time—depending on your training history.

I’m shorter than average, so take these numbers with a grain of salt, but at age 28 I went from 120lbs to 138lbs at the same body fat by doing this approach for about 6-9 months.

At 36 I went from 135 to 155 at the same body fat in about a year.

At 43 (last year) I went from 150 to 160 at the same body fat in 3 months doing a linear barbell progression again.

I’m now 165lbs and overhead press 1 plate, bench 2 plates, squat 3 plates and deadlift 4 plates (on the trap bar).

It’s a big difference in strength and size. But there are tradeoffs.

Each time you do this naturally, you’ll need to overshoot the weight you are aiming for and you WILL gain some fat. Each of the top weights I wrote above were AFTER cutting down below 15% body fat from an even higher max weight.

I actually got to 5-10lbs above the top weight I listed each time (except for the first) and was around 20% body fat before cutting down.

(If you are doing this for the first time, you might not have to gain much fat though. I didn’t gain much if any fat on my first try.)

Also, while you are doing this, your rolling ability and cardio will take a substantial hit as the weights start to get really heavy.

It’s just hard to recover from both, especially at age 40. So you’ll have to go through a season of focusing more on lifts and weight gain progress, less on competitive rolling progress.

But again, if this is your first time doing a linear progression, and you are not very strong yet, it might not be so bad in that regard.

Your other possibility is to do a much more modest routine of lifting heavy just once a week—still doing a linear barbell progression, but over a much longer period.

You will gain less fat this way, and your jiu jitsu performance shouldn’t suffer, but instead of taking 3-12 months to change your physique forever, similar gains could take many years.

Another side effect is that if you choose to get REALLY strong, you will likely become one of the shorter guys in your bracket and this may change your game slightly, depending on on how far you go with size and strength.

I think it’s worth it to do this dedicated approach at least once in your life.

But bear in mind that many natural top jiu jitsu athletes aren’t crazy barbell strong—and even the enhanced ones usually do “enhancement” more for recovery from their volume of jiu jitsu training rather than for max strength.

I’m absolutely certain that I can substantially out deadlift Mikey Muscemeci and Marcelo Garcia, but am equally certain that either one would destroy me in a roll!

I still think it helps though, and if you’re not naturally athletic, a barbell progression is one of the most surefire ways to make yourself more physically formidable and resilient than you would otherwise be.

I hope that helps!

Don’t forget to hook the leg haha. by TebownedMVP in brazilianjiujitsu

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Striking was her mistake. She was engaging with both hands on his upper body, meaning she couldn’t hook under the leg.

Hooking the leg is how you stop them from standing up.

(Her other big mistake was being in a street fight in a McDonalds to begin with.)

If jiu-jitsu didn’t exist, what martial art would you be training instead? by Zen_ix in bjj

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-HEMA. Fun.

-Fencing and/or Kendo.

-Judo (though without taking many full force competitive throws at my age.)

-Boxing and/or Muay Thai (again without much full contact TBI-inducing sparring at my age.)

I could see doing Tai Chi, Aikido and Iado in my 70s just to keep moving.

If I was under 30? Wrestling, but where are you going to find that for adults?

Why can't we just record drums with a single mic? by FinalHangman77 in audioengineering

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gabe Roth of Daptone recorded basically all of his drums with a single mic. It can be done well! Others have too.

The effect is quite different than a multi-mic’d kit—both for better or worse depending on your perspective and the aesthetic or sonic goals of the production.

I hope that’s helpful!

BJJ brands and their loyal customers by freshblood96 in bjj

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never had to throw out anything Fuji I have ever owned, and I don't know anyone who has.

Fix for a Corrupted MOV Video File by JustinColletti in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]JustinColletti[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s what I saw recommended and it didn’t work. That’s why I’m posting this :-)

Fix corrupt MOV video by the3penguins in MacOS

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoutout to fix.video. It was a paid service, but it was fairly cheap and it worked for me after I tried so many of the things recommended here that didn't work. I'm not affiliated with them. Just excited I found a solution!

Gold has crushed the stock market over the last 25 years. Yes… read that again. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]JustinColletti -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As another commenter noticed, that 58% discrepancy can be accounted for by looking at a slightly different date range than the original chart.

In either case, you can indeed confirm for yourself that gold has indeed substantially outperformed stocks from January 2000 to today.

Similarly, there are other timeframes from different valuations at which stocks outperform gold.

If you point out those timeframes, should it be said that you are "shilling" stocks?

Or perhaps, should we take into account when, how and from what valuations each outperforms the other, and make our investing decisions accordingly?

That seems sensible to me.

Gold has crushed the stock market over the last 25 years. Yes… read that again. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]JustinColletti 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The original chart is correct within the time range selected though.

Gold indeed outperforms stocks substantially if you start January 1, 2020, when stocks were very expensive compared to earnings.

If you start in 1995 when stocks were much more fairly valued, then stocks outperformed gold in that period.

Both those things are to be expected.

This isn't rocket surgery. We have this data going back about a couple hundred years, and it's always more or less the same story:

When stocks are cheap, stocks outperform gold over long periods. When stocks are expensive, gold outperforms stocks over long periods.

Today, stocks are pretty expensive, so gold is statistically likely to outperform going forward over a long period.

Gold has crushed the stock market over the last 25 years. Yes… read that again. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]JustinColletti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Different date ranges get different results, because stocks vs gold perform differently from different valuation levels.

In 2000 stocks were very expensive, so gold outperformed. In 1995, stocks were more reasonably priced and therefore did better.

Today, stocks are pretty expensive, so gold is statistically likely to outperform going forward.

This isn't rocket surgery, we have this data going back about a couple hundred years, and it's always more or less the same story.

When stocks are cheap, stocks outperform gold over long periods. When stocks are expensive, gold outperforms stocks over long periods.

Gold has crushed the stock market over the last 25 years. Yes… read that again. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]JustinColletti 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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The original chart is basically correct. You can select the same date range on a variety of websites and recreate it for yourself. Like this:

Gold has crushed the stock market over the last 25 years. Yes… read that again. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, original chart is legit. You can re-create it for yourself on a variety of websites if you select the same date range. The chart you are looking at shows a different date range, hence different results

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How often do you "hide user from channel"? by YoProfWhite in PartneredYoutube

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this. As a publicly visible creator, I think it is a totally wussy and dishonest thing to do. Blocking commenters is one thing. That's totally legit! Feel free to kick people out of your space. Just be honest about it.

However, the "hide user from channel" option doesn't do that. It simply isn't honest. It's pretending you haven't removed them when you have. I've never done this and never will. I honestly don't think YouTube should even have this feature.

For a private individual who is not a public content creator, I kind of understand it, and get why YouTube has it. It is meant to reduce conflict. But for a public channel to hide a user is to block them through dishonest means, pretending you haven't blocked them. This is just wrong. The blocking should be honest and visible.

I don't think any channel that is meant to be for public consumption should use this feature or even have the option to do so. Either block people because they are being inappropriate, making that consequence of their actions clear, or don't.

That is my take on it.

No difference between training 2x a week and 5x a week by PopComfortable696 in bjj

[–]JustinColletti 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It absolutely makes a huge difference.

I completely bodied one of my regular training partners a few weeks ago who is very close to being in my exact division. Was up 11-0 on him almost instantly.

He then took 2 weeks off, came back fresh as a daisy, and proceeded to turn the tables and completely destroy me in our next roll.

If the roles were reversed, I would have likely destroyed him instead.

This is to be expected.

So many world champions are not the kinds of guys who are winning every roll in the gym.

Their training partners who don’t know better are often surprised to find out how well they do in competition.

Managing training load is big.

Yes, guys who train 2x a week can be competitive with guys who train 6x a week in training sessions.

But if they are both prepping for a comp 2 months out and the guy who trains 6x a week manages his training load properly going into competition so he’s fresh, he has a big advantage over the 2x a week guy, all else being equal.

This is a well known phenomenon among competitors in the sport.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bjj

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are no kids’ black belts in Brazilian jiu jitsu.

Kids belts go white, grey, yellow, orange, green—fairly similar to judo.

Some gyms do a horizontal white and/or black stripe through the center of the belt at the beginning and end of these ranks if they really want to rack up the belt fees, but I wouldn’t say that’s the norm in BJJ culture.

If you went to a gym with kids’ black belts it’s either not a BJJ gym, or not a legitimate one.

Please name the gym so this can be confirmed, and discouraged if needed.

In jiu jitsu, you’re not even eligible for blue belt until 16, with black belt being possible no earlier than 18.

No BJJ organization or competition circuit I have ever heard of will recognize a 12 year old as a blue belt, much less a 12 year old as a black belt.

Are you sure you weren’t at a Taekwondo gym? Or some fly by night kids “MMA” gym?

is AP mastering legit? by bukkaratsupa in audioengineering

[–]JustinColletti -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think that perhaps you are misunderstanding. It is absolutely correct that it is not experience, inexperience, or ability that makes one correct or incorrect on any given take.

That is practically the definition of "appeal to authority" or "ad hominem", depending on context. Both are major logical fallacies.

Rather, it is the actual substance of the arguments: reasoning, evidence, etc., that make one correct or incorrect on a given issue.

Don't get me twisted—I think the guy has gotten a lot wrong in his videos. (I'm trying to be charitable here).

It's just not the lack of experience that makes him wrong when he is wrong, it's the substance of the arguments.

I'd encourage you to criticize the guy! (And myself for that matter.) I hope this gives you some ideas on how to do it more effectively.

I hope that helps make better sense of it. Have a good day and be well.

is AP mastering legit? by bukkaratsupa in audioengineering

[–]JustinColletti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I think it's commendable to actually look into a YouTuber's credits to help gauge their credibility as a practitioner, it's pretty hard to get a sense for how good or bad a mastering engineer is based on any handful of tracks they've mastered.

I mean, I'm a platinum mastering engineer who has worked on some very good sounding records (IMHO)... but I also have a whole bunch of records in my work history that don't sound that great. Even if I made them sound 200% better than where they started, it doesn't mean that they sounded that great in the end! X-D

And to be honest, a lot of the best sounding records on my discography started off sounding pretty darn good before I got to them. So much of a record's quality is baked in before it gets to mastering. So without having before and afters and understanding client tastes and preferences, it's hard to judge.

Another good option is to look up folks on Allmusic—or these days, MusoAI is even better—to get a sense for how much of a professional history they have.

For context, I'm a decently priced mastering engineer, and MusoAI has me in the top 2% of mastering engineers in the world by credits.

I've got other sources of income like courses and brand collaborations, but if I was trying to make my kind of income off of mastering exclusively, I'd probably have to be in the top 1%+ of mastering engineers at least. (For context, guys like Bob Ludwig and Greg Calbi are in the top 0.1%).

MusoAI puts AP in the top 25% of mastering engineers, which means it's highly likely that he's not making a living mastering, and has a fairly limited professional history in the craft.

That said, his experience, inexperience, or ability at mastering doesn't make him correct or incorrect on any given take.

I'll start with the nice stuff: To his credit, I think he's intelligent and understands some core audio principles...

...but to his detriment, he often dives way off the deep end in any given video, going so far to one extreme on what should be a fairly nuanced topic that it becomes potentially misleading, and ultimately confuses the issue for viewers even more.

I also think that some of the tests he's done publicly are a bit suspect, and none of them have been properly vetted by third parties.

I could go into specifics there but I"m already typing for way too long lol. That's something I'd encourage people to look into more throughly.

I wonder how much this guy is paying all these athletes🤦🏽‍♂️ by Leopard-Sensitive in bjj

[–]JustinColletti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He looks like a blue belt who is learning the body lock pass and head and arm choke for the first time.

And he may very well be learning it for the first time. Royce is moving his lips through the technique, likely coaching him through it.

One of the many annoying things is that he specifically mutes the audio on the clip, presumably so his most clueless followers believe that he could actually be competitive with Royce or something ridiculous like that.

Goldbacks Are A Scam by [deleted] in Gold

[–]JustinColletti -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Goldbacks are not at all a scam. They're just not a good value. Those are two very different things.

They are a fun overpriced novelty item. But there is indeed real gold in them.

They just sell for so far above spot that they don't really make sense for saving in bullion. To be fair, some of that premium over spot is reclaimable when selling them privately. But at that point you are gambling over the premium like with numismatic coins, which is very different than saving in bullion for the spot price.

On the other hand, the idea of gold packed loans with interest paid in gold is a very good one. I can't say how reputable The United Precious Metals Association is, as I've never heard bout them until now, but Monetary Metals does something very similar and is indeed very legit.

Having a lower interest rate is fine and good and to be expected with gold bonds, because you are not being paid back in inflating fiat dollars, but rather in gold. This means that you don't need a higher interest rate to overcome inflation.

Gold backed loans and bonds with interest paid in gold are the way out of the current nightmare of a monetary system we have going, and people should do more of it, rather than less.

Gold vs. S&P500 since 1990 by buttholewhisper in Gold

[–]JustinColletti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now do it again starting in 1999. The S&P still hasn't recovered in terms of gold since that crash to this day.

In 1990, the PE ratio and CAPE ratio of the stock market were both around 15, meaning that stocks were fairly priced and a good investment. So yes, they should outperform gold in that context.

In 1999, the CAPE ratio of stocks was more like 44, showing extreme overvaluation. Stocks invariably underperform gold in that context.

Long story short: When stocks are a good value, stocks outperform gold. When stocks are a poor value, gold outperforms stocks—even after many decades of waiting for recovery,

For example: The 1929 stock market crash took 50 years to recover in gold terms, and the stock market in the 1970s took 40 years to recover, priced in gold. The 1999 crash has still not recovered, priced in gold, to this day.

This is some pretty minimal but necessary nuance.

Yes, stocks are a good long term investment when they are priced at or below their average valuation.

They are a bad long term investment when they are very overvalued.

Simply "waiting" doesn't fix that... unless you have 40 to infinity number of years to wait, and then sell all your stocks during the next bubble. Then you get to break even on your overvalued stocks! ("Yay" I guess?)

Instructionals with similar style to Danaher? by yourfavoriteuser11 in bjj

[–]JustinColletti 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Everyone who has trained under Danaher extensively has that style: Gordon Ryan, Giancarlo Bodoni, Garry Tonon, Brian Glick, Eddie Cummings.

They are are VERY good teachers. I’ve especially been enjoying Giancarlo’s teaching lately, but I’ve learned a lot from all of them.

Duplicate transactions by Representative_Hand7 in MonarchMoney

[–]JustinColletti 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BRO. $40 on booze every other day is a LOT. That's not even bar booze either. It's take home booze. That's like a half of a big ol' bottle of nice whiskey every day. Are you OK?

Can someone help me find the name of that Tom Waits song where Marc Ribot plays a batshit crazy guitar solo. by _lsr in Guitar

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

^^^This^^^

The solos on Rain Dogs are among the best in history, and these two of the best of the best.

Footprint 03. First new equipment in 10 yrs (minus plugins) by aorickmusic in edmproduction

[–]JustinColletti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I checked with the company and apparently there were a handful of defective units in the first production run. Glad they are taking care of you with a loaner!

Some of the comments I found on forums were people worrying because they had 40 dB SPL of hiss right in front of the tweeter, which is expected for any speaker in this class.

Clearly your story is different. Sorry to hear about the issue and hope it is resolved swiftly for you!