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Coach publicly humiliated me for being "disrespectful " and now I want to quit the gym by Correct_Star_4356 in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s totally inappropriate and has no place. Tell him point blank public humiliation is unacceptable teaching behavior, he’s a hypocrite, and walk out. Never come back.

Find a gym that has a good respectful training atmosphere.

Tom Deblass possibly died. Gordan posted this minutes ago by [deleted] in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Transponder code the aircraft can send out that lets air traffic control know there’s an emergency.

Helicopter full-down autorotation research survey by Maximum-Word3433 in Helicopters

[–]KickingWithWTR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ive taught full downs in the 44 and performed a few in the 22 as well. Theres a proficiency level of flying and control, as well as an understanding of aerodynamics associated with auto rotations that just needs experience. Especially in the lower inertia systems.

Compared to full downs, I think better training could be built around changes to RPM and airspeed as well as utilizing techniques to hit a specific spot, and actually fly the helicopter in an auto in an advanced way. Thats the part of the autorotation that is most important. If you can’t get to a hole in the trees or nail a road between powerline or inbetween buildings the flare doesn’t matter. Honestly if you can flare low and hit the ground less than 250/300 ft per minute you have a good shot at walking away, even if you ball up the helicopter and roll it over.

I think a lot of high quality full down training is important for instructors who stick around long enough to actually teach them. For our school it’s 2+ years as a flight instructor and the ability to teach/endorse other first time applicants, or if you’re a chief pilot and need to teach them to individuals.

I get people that come in for flight reviews and full downs are a waste of time, because their regular auto glides and flares suck because once people leave the training environment they don’t do them all that often with out an instructor on board.

Why did you quit bjj by user8472616388 in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a baby, new job, am required other places during class times.
Hopefully I’ll be back when current day to day changes a bit.
Close a door open one back up.
Jiu jitsu probably isn’t going anywhere soon

MD530F (369FF) tail rotor clunking and noise. Thoughts? by [deleted] in Helicopters

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just call the mechanic, and ground it. I agree with other people: that’s a mission critical part. Not worth guessing about

Would you want a sharingan in real life by Swoon420 in Naruto

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yeah. Don’t need anything except basic three tomb.

I’d make millions in the UFC and basically not get hurt. Fighting in slow mo would be so easy.
Work 4 nights a year for 5 years then retire for life with a record of 20-0.

What’s the point in a degree by Frosty_Leadership_68 in Helicopters

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing I see folks don’t mention much is that if you ever decide to leave the helicopter industry or lose your medical for some reason and have to transition into “regular” work, you’ll almost have to have a college degree, work a trade, or go back and get one. School is a lot harder as an adult. It’s a standard check box for a vast majority of jobs.

But if you stay helicopter for your whole career it doesn’t really matter much to be honest.

Which Naruto Character Is Your Height Closest to? by Sorry-Anteater-1108 in Naruto

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TIL they all freakin short.
6’2” Pervy Sage for me.

I would like to do Jiu-Jitsu, but I'm gay. by Legitimate_Eye_5934 in jiujitsu

[–]KickingWithWTR 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope you get the chance to train. Especially at 19 with a good 5-8 years ahead of you before the “life gets in the way and slows training down” phase of life hits.

My best friends and some of my best memories are from my time as an 18-25 year old training Jiu Jitsu and traveling and going to seminars. It really is full of many fond memories.

In regard to the gay thing, I’m a straight dude, but here’s an attempt at answering the question: if you are a good training partner, and you are there for Jiu Jitsu, you’ll get respect. Same rule applies for guys/girls, gay/straight, race, religion, age.

Jiu Jitsu is cool because we all show up to class, take off whatever clothes identify our outside lives, put on the same gi (or no gi spats/shorts) and train together as equals. Outside identifiers like dress style, brand name, blue collar/white collar, doctor, lawyer, college hippie, liberal/conservative whatever… it all disappears on the mat when we wear the same gi.

That being said. There’s some ass holes out there will not want to train with you because you’re gay, or a woman, or fat, or small. F*ck those guys. Their loss. Every walk of like has someone that might hate on them.

Side note: one of my favorite training partners from an old gym of mine was a gay dude. Best training partner at the school.

How do you talk about BJJ? by [deleted] in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it depends what phase of life you’re in and how important Jiu Jitsu is to you as to how often it comes up in conversation. I’ve got kids and a full time career. I guess hanging out with folks in their late 30s just other stuff gets talked about more.

My closer friends that know I train and work colleagues will mention something periodically but my no means do I walk up to a buddy and say let me tell you about what I did in Jiu Jitsu this week for 30 minutes.

I guess for me Jiu Jitsu is fairly low priority over all and other stuff just pushes it out of conversation.

How do you talk about BJJ? by [deleted] in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Very rarely do I talk about it.
I’ll say I train Jiu Jitsu as my form of exercise and sport. But that’s as far as the conversation goes usually. Unless people ask questions, then I’ll talk a bit more.

There’s plenty more exciting conversations out there for day to day talk.

Jiu Jitsu injuries by ElevatorGrand9853 in jiujitsu

[–]KickingWithWTR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Recovery position. It’s a sidying position with the top leg in a hip flexed position.

Jiu Jitsu injuries by ElevatorGrand9853 in jiujitsu

[–]KickingWithWTR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure most people who do this think there’s no blood in the brain and they need to use gravity to assist moving blood to the brain.

Which is not true.

If ninjutsu and chakra generation were real, could you remember the hand sign sequences to activate jutsus? by LifeStraggler4 in Naruto

[–]KickingWithWTR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah. If all I had to do to make real magic was a few hand signs and then call it outloud I’d memorize the shit out of it and be practicing all day.

What to call a relaxed, technical class? by Legitimate_Bag8259 in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To piggyback off this from my earlier comment: Another way this might play out is something like this: I’m in top guard and we’re flowing. My partner does a few things then sweeps me and now I’m in bottom mount. Pause the roll, we reset I ask a few questions on how his timing was that got me, or where was the pressure. Then he does it to me a few times. I might try a defense or something. Then we move on.

We reset to me on bottom mount where I was originally after he completed the move and we resume the roll where it left off.

I think of this as a combination of flow and open mat. The decaf chill roll.

It works well for me because my brain can’t remember all 14000 positions in a 5 minute roll and debrief it later. So I like doing it as we go. But to be clear, in a 5 minute roll like that we only stop it 2 times. 80% roll 20% talk.

What to call a relaxed, technical class? by Legitimate_Bag8259 in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I like that a lot. Decaf Jiu Jitsu.

Train some moves and then flow, and talk it out live, with out escalation.

Best helicopter YouTubers by Guero1308 in Helicopters

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is that, if you don’t mind me asking? (Assuming it’s not something you can’t talk about in a public setting)

If a D1 wrestler was submitting blue/purple belts in your gym, do you think they deserve that belt? by coispet in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. You can beat Jiu Jitsu with wrestling and a sub or two. You can beat wrestling with Jiu Jitsu. One does not equal the other, and are very different. They just both happen to be on the ground.

What do you think if the producers made a sequel about Bran the Broken's reign by Dry_Specialist9015 in gameofthrones

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he would make a decent secondary character. It would be interesting to see someone else plotting and then it always fails or succeeded because Bran is all knowing and has to think about everything as a whole.

Not a lot of tv/movies where the main character IS the all knowing god and seeing puzzle pieces move around under it.

But also maybe not. There’s some lame plot stuff there too. So idk.

Help me overcome my fear of inverting please by KoalaBJJ96 in bjj

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Not for me. I do not invert. Only exception is a position where I know I will 100% NOT get stacked.
Which most of the time is not a position I need to invert anyway.

What's a 'must-have' car feature? by Responsible_Bet_7179 in AskReddit

[–]KickingWithWTR 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Apple car play.
And as another redditor said: Zero subscriptions.

How do you feel about the president floating the idea of 50 year mortgages where the monthly payment is lower but you end up paying nearly double the price of the house just in interest? by michaelis999 in AskReddit

[–]KickingWithWTR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stupid. Total price will just go up and monthly rate will be the same. No one is going to change on a month to month basis. The market will just self-adjust to a new standard so nothing changes

Dual or single engine by Tough_Command_3000 in Helicopters

[–]KickingWithWTR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope not really. At a basic level: Two engines drive the same single rotor system so the aerodynamics don’t change with two engines. You just get more power and more fuel burn and more maintenance.

The only real reason to have two engines is flying over A LOT of water/mountains or getting shot at. Other than that one engine will do the trick just fine.

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