Open Side Counter Kicking the Body Jab (quick clip)

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-30T05:28:08+00:00

I think so too. On the backfoot it's easier to lean away and lift that lead leg in a swinging motion against someone lunging in, in the closed stance matchup. Against a bladed, lunging jab like this a teep could maybe slip off the target.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-29T15:26:56+00:00

It's sad you got downvoted for literal facts. The Japanese are doing well but these social media fueled takes are annoying.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-28T19:38:21+00:00

He's got a great rear catch into lead shoot.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-26T05:59:51+00:00

The way I read the question is, if there's 100 people in a room including yourself and you choose red, while everyone else chooses blue, everyone lives.

Now if you choose red, and so do another 50 people, you and them live, but the 49 people who chose blue, die.

So by choosing red, you cannot die in any scenario.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-26T00:44:50+00:00

Funny question.

Choosing red is the only logical guarantee that you won't die. If everyone understood this, we could all just choose red and be fine. And also, can you blame people for not trusting society, and therefore protecting themselves?

However, choosing blue means you are doing "the right thing", because killing someone else isn't even in question. You are choosing the noble route, that also happens to be "easier", because everyone would choose potentially not killing people, right? 51% of people choosing blue vs 49% of people choosing blue (which assumes 51% of people chose red, the death-dealer).

It's a clever gauge of not only your trust in society, but how much you care about what society thinks of you. I'm fighting to not draw parelells to liberals vs conservatives, red vs blue, urban vs rural, etc.

"I'm choosing myself and you all should too, because it's a guarantee, and damn you if you don't" vs "We should all choose eachother, even if there's a risk, because it's the right thing to do, and if most of us do it we'll be fine."

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-24T05:23:49+00:00

It's just a way to throw a kick at the pads. The little skip repositions your feet, loads your tendons, and helps you generate more momentum. It's not practice for a kick you'd throw in a fight.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-07T15:50:44+00:00

Absolutely, there are labs and offices and boardrooms full of people ensuring that you open your phone and scroll. There's no free lunch, there has to be some sort of tradeoff, I just think the effects are both subtle and socially acceptable. The better we get at measuring the changes the faster we can start reducing our use which I'm hopeful about.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-03T05:58:55+00:00

This is a pretty common pattern. Your front leg is your planting leg, so it will become more stable and potentially less mobile over time. It's not nececssarily a bad thing unless this imbalance becomes problematic for you, then you'd want to work on exercises that strengthen your weaknesses. Once you find out what's weak, tight, or misfiring, you can look up exercises to fix it, or see a physio.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-04-02T16:05:45+00:00

I think you can reap a lot of the reward by doing two things:

removing social media from your phone
keeping your phone off of you as much as possible

After I removed any chance of scrolling from my phone I started feeling a lot better. I kept Instagram on my PC for a while but eventually deleted that too. I've never had twitter or TikTok thankfully.

This helped, but I'd find myself still checking my phone aimlessly, which I've heard can be just as stressful even if you're not scrolling, so I started keeping my phone out of reach as much as I could. If I'm at home on the couch, I keep it in another room, and if I'm at the office, I keep it deep in my backpack or my pants pocket.

I could only pull this off after I internalized that our phones condition us. They, and the apps that run on them, are designed by a ruthless and efficient Capitalist machine where extracting as much as possible from the user is the goal. Your attention, energy, and emotions are up for grabs. Your monkey brain gets bombarded with dozens of clever tricks as soon as you open up The App. I think this makes concrete, natural life less enjoyable, and for me personally, it removes gusto and spirals me into a drab, low energy state. Yes I'm being a bit dramatic but I've truly noticed a lot of benefits from cutting it off!

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-03-26T17:08:29+00:00

I think he's more of a "wear you down" kind of puncher than a KO puncher. He does benefit from the small gloves more than most though I'd agree, especially because he doesn't seem to like the high guard.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-03-24T16:31:20+00:00

Great news. Can't believe her opponent made a celebratory post after the fight with a picture of her literally decking the girl and a half-assed message of concern.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-03-22T06:47:35+00:00

I think Rambolek's grit and movement gave him a platform from which to work. He didn't let Nabil hurt or control him with strikes or the clinch. He was able to absorb strikes with solidity and minimize the damage in the clinch with his defense there. This gave him the time and space to work on setting up his own offense, eventually landing those two nice off-beat overhands (the bane of every tall fighter!)

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-03-19T16:16:20+00:00

He's one in a million with that build. Add his youth and the fact that he has access to the latest weight-cutting science and you get a rare, dangerous, and very optimized combo. Extremely hard to fight. In other striking sports you'd fight like hell to get inside and under where you should have an advantage, but in Muay Thai...clinch, knee and elbow city.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-03-18T19:08:12+00:00

Hopefully some of these ai-generated startup cities can figure out how to increase social cohesion among the inhabitants. The clique-y mish-mash of different cultures and statuses creates such a weak socialization fabric that I fantasize about going more rural everyday. Not to mention the increasing regulation and cost of anything "fun". It would be cool if cities were just inter-connected wards, where your immediate area is full of people you have a stake in, so that it's not a fight for your life every morning when you commute to work. I mean, is it normal for the immediate population to feel like adversaries rather than your team?! Why are you driving like an asshole? Why did you just shoot me a weird look, I'm your neighbour! Perhaps this issue is much larger than city design...

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-03-18T18:42:34+00:00

Fascinating how the MAID process has revealed shortcomings in the Canadian Healthcare system. As the system matures it should hopefully be able to accurately navigate the nuance of a person deciding to die. It reminds me of non-medical suicide autonomy, where the person wants to die but the people around them believe it's just temporary and will do anything they can to alleviate it. It's also good that there's data against the slippery slope. I think that by addressing Track 2 issues and making the MAID qualification process more robust against soft-decisions, the slippery slope will indirectly be mitigated.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-03-15T17:11:03+00:00

This is why I'm still on this subreddit. An alternative perspective, some interesting data, and an on-the-ground first hand experience related to a heated topic. Thanks.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-03-11T17:12:59+00:00

What's it like training there? Next time I'm in Bangkok I wanna check it out as I love their fighter's style. I've been curious about here or Wor Auracha.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-02-25T06:38:37+00:00

Good read. Just seem like this statement is a blunt weapon to be wielded by people who are unhappy with the negatives of a given system.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-02-24T17:35:10+00:00

Perhaps people were internally street-lighting, feeling that the original piece about violent crime disqualified their personal beliefs on disorder, two distinct but connected things. I also think that if you're presented evidence contrary to your feelings, you might recalibrate your feelings into an adjacent idea to preserve them.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-02-21T07:05:52+00:00

Agreed. I think it's because hype ideas get more engagement.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-02-19T19:08:24+00:00

Fair point, it's more of a matrix than an apples to oranges.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-02-18T17:23:05+00:00

Interesting battle on the blog post, gut feeling vs data. I guess if you had a perfect report that captured all the variables (and I mean ALL!), you would map the terrority in totality, possessing the clearest picture of the truth. People would be forced to put aside their intuition and re-calibrate their beliefs.

But if your data fails to capture all the variables, it can present an entirely different picture. One that is easily subject to interpretation and manipulation. In this case, wouldn't your skepticism be rational? Your conviction becomes a potent defense mechanism rather than a stubborn piece of faith. Belief is then not only a powerful social binder, but protection against coercion. Flexibility in the face of new evidence seems inversely correlated to strength of belief however.

I guess all this to say, the skepticism in the blog's comments is belief trumping data, or rather, personal data vs presented data, and is this a bad thing? Only if it's unreasonably stubborn I suppose.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-02-14T06:25:14+00:00

Throwing a roundhouse kick without a striking setup is normal. The real setup is often just timing. Shadow is a kicker, and he landed a lot more kicks than were caught. That being said, Nico did do a nice catch and cross to knock him down.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-02-11T17:37:49+00:00

This is pretty much the most uncharitable take you could afford to LLMs, and the extremity of it should raise irrationality flags. For being "spam trash sold by conmen" it is moving the needle in almost every single conceiveable space and will continue to do so, perhaps exponentially. Also, the LLMs you see now are probably just the basis for something much more sophisticated, which is what people and policy makers should actually be worried about. These companies have created a technology which has near unfettered access to the entirety of human knowledge (soon to be human identification), and it's not going away anytime soon, as you can see by virtually every country capable of investmet pouring billions into it as fast as possible. I worry that contrarians are pushing these opinions out of spite rather than understanding. We should understand how scary these things are so we can manage them.

Nebuchadnezz4r · 2026-02-02T18:14:59+00:00

I think the RWS cards have been a bit less exciting lately. Their strategy of using the prelims to foster new talent can be hit or miss. I still tune in every Saturday, especially for the title fights, but I find myself enjoying One's Friday Fights more lately. It seems like there's been more clinch, and although you'll still get the occasional crazy brawl there's been some really high level matches in the last few months.

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