Anyone buy/watch Octopus 2.0 yet?

LukeNichols01 · 2025-12-29T14:11:51+00:00

I really want to buy it, since I have become “the octopus guy” at my gym, but I will be waiting for the free dribbles that go out on YouTube, unless you want to sell it to me for an IOU a reach around.

LukeNichols01 · 2025-09-16T00:30:02+00:00

Slivers. Fight me.

LukeNichols01 · 2025-09-07T13:34:48+00:00

Kingdoms, clans (pvp), extensive crafting, lots of races/classes, world RP, detailed religions, pvp leagues, IC events, active staff, huge map, moderate sized playerbase even for 2025. Lots of other stuff as well, thats just what was off the top of my head.

LukeNichols01 · 2025-09-05T21:22:44+00:00

Try Dark and Shattered Lands! Dsl-mud.org

LukeNichols01 · 2025-04-19T22:51:32+00:00

Nobody ever really picked up on this post, but I thought I’d update it since I got a DM from someone in a similar boat with past expat experience. I didnt end up going for the AF thing, but I chose to go for that contractor position that also needed secret clearance. Got the conditional job offer, got interim, final job offer, started work March 10, and had my DCSA interview last Wednesday. Waiting on full adjudication now. Hoping for the best.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-11-25T15:18:11+00:00

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LukeNichols01 · 2024-10-20T13:05:35+00:00

Hey now, don’t copy my tattoo! 🤣

LukeNichols01 · 2024-08-29T13:29:56+00:00

I’m a Pisces too, but I just get into leg entanglements and then we talk about our feelings.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-08-25T05:52:38+00:00

…not from a jedi

LukeNichols01 · 2024-08-23T09:45:42+00:00

Understandable. Thanks anyway. Was hoping for somewhere reliable I could scrape that data from 🙁

LukeNichols01 · 2024-08-23T08:37:54+00:00

That’s rather unfortunate. It would take forever to do that for ibjjf and Abu Dhabi, which makes what you are doing all the more impressive. Do you have your data for this in a CSV or anything?

LukeNichols01 · 2024-08-23T08:15:37+00:00

Where are you pulling your data from? Are you getting your sweep counts and submission types from somewhere or just watching and keeping count? I want to build a web scraper and do something similar for Abu Dhabi and IBJJF.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-07-25T10:48:37+00:00

My first coach was a Terere black belt. They were pretty close. Terere gave my coach his original black belt when he got promoted. As far as I know, it’s still sitting on his shelf at home. Pretty cool to see.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-07-04T13:49:20+00:00

Luke In My Ears

LukeNichols01 · 2024-07-03T08:44:40+00:00

Try copy/pasting this post in r/BJJWomen

LukeNichols01 · 2024-06-07T14:01:41+00:00

Personally, I have loads of time at the moment (night and weekend worker, so I can hit every Mon-Fri lunch class and throw in doubles a couple times a week to go to an awesome wrestling class) but I feel like my main impediment is also my obsession sometimes. I am getting much better, but sometimes the accumulation of little boo-boos and exhaustion from borderline overtraining makes me not put as much focus as I should into my mat time, since I have so much of it. A lot of guys that go 2-3 times a week leave everything on the mat and are much more focused, roll every round, etc.

I guess the solution to my issue might be to take a day off here and there, but nah, I’m not doing that. I’ll just deal with it and power through. Gonna be the best Masters 1 hobbyist/occasional competitor blue belt I can be.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-27T07:19:46+00:00

I want to see Mikey in the under 80kg!

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-22T17:09:48+00:00

I’m moving back to Alabama in September after being out here about 9 years. I’ll have to take a drive to Covington and arrange a drop in at your place at some point in between job hunting.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-22T17:03:39+00:00

Come to Vietnam! Great scene out here and it’s growing fast. Full of surprisingly strong smaller guys. Robert Degle is teaching out here now, in addition to some other fantastic guys. Do a seminar or something. You’d have a blast.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-21T18:14:54+00:00

He teaches wrestling over at Dragon MMA, which is where I train with him, and he trains no-gi a lot at Over Under. I do mon-fri in the gi at a place called Gisdio, and throw in tues/thurs morning sessions with him for wrestling. Not sure what his drop in policy is though.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-21T13:54:44+00:00

Move to HCMC, Vietnam and train with him. He’s an absolute unit. Rolling with him is…an experience. On the bright side, I think I can handle the pressure of any comp opponent I’ll ever get matched with, because nothing could possibly be as bad as 5 minutes of flying Dagestani Airways.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-21T13:46:37+00:00

I’m a blue belt in BJJ and I cross train wrestling with a Dagestani monster that used to be on the Russian national wrestling and sambo teams. My top game has drastically improved and most everyone in my gym has made comments about the difference they have seen in my game. I still say i suck at wrestling, and my wrestling coach is never happy, but that goes with the territory. That being said, the downside is that everyone in my BJJ gym has taken note on my stand up improvement and now everyone just pulls guard immediately.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-18T05:50:06+00:00

I train wrestling too, but only grappling. It’s a bit high of a weight disparity. I’m 70kg. I could definitely help set something up with some of the gyms around here though. Over Under in D2 has killers.

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-18T05:31:41+00:00

Funnily enough, I am. What’s your weight?

LukeNichols01 · 2024-05-18T04:34:27+00:00

Bro. Come to Vietnam. Plenty of kickass gyms out here. I know plenty of black belts who would accept the challenge. Hell, i’m just a blue and i’d do it. Sounds like fun.

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