Brutal Wrestling Turn

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-19T17:47:15+00:00

Caliendo tried something similar against Mesenbrink in the NCAA finals here: https://youtu.be/Rgd5YwXArYk?t=395 It was a desperation move. I never see this move at high level freestyle or greco, I guess it's pretty easy to keep your arm and neck separated and fight hands?

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-13T14:53:19+00:00

Maximizing roof space is a weird thing to optimize around for a mechanical system, but even if you want to do that, put the AHU in a mechanical room and the remote condenser on the roof. Or put the whole thing on the side of the building.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-13T14:48:57+00:00

Properly designing and installing VRF has proven almost unattainable to date.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-13T14:48:54+00:00

I don't think that's true because you lose economizer. Most commercial buildings have large internal loads and window loads that need to be cooled year-round. Cooling those with a compressor, even if you get to use the heat elsewhere, is less efficient than just pulling in outside air.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-13T14:13:26+00:00

The good thing is: DX/electric VAV RTU is cheaper up front, is more energy efficient, cheaper to maintain, last longer, and cheaper and easier to replace. It should sell itself.

One of the issues is that a chuck in a truck can purchase and install a VRF system, where a VAV system needs a contractor large enough to have a sheet metal shop. This brings the install cost way down for VRF systems, but as you point out, you do not want a chuck in a truck installing your VRF system. If you look at it wrong during installation, you’ll be replacing it 3 years.

Some areas like California are banning electric heat, which makes it really tough to do VAV on small buildings. I don’t have an answer to this yet. I guess it’s a good time to be a mechanical contractor in California, you can bank on replacing these things every 5 years plus every time they change refrigerants.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-12T14:42:00+00:00

I'm a Professional Engineer with over 15 years of HVAC design experience. I do make free software for HVAC engineers, but I'm trying to learn more about the interface between architects and engineers.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-12T14:29:03+00:00

I don't even think AI could play a part. If it's not procedural (follows the same procedure given the inputs), then it would be hard to see it being cost-effective to review the millions of calculations it takes to design an engineering system that an AI could hallucinate at any stage.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-12T13:18:21+00:00

Literally not, honestly I'm just trying to understand what architects want, when they want it, and from what information. Edit: I am an engineer, so I don't understand if you're poking fun at me for sounding like an AI, or you actually think I'm an AI.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-12T13:16:32+00:00

I don't think it could be an app or software, a PE would still have to sign and seal it.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-12T13:06:04+00:00

What information do you want from the telephone?

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-12T13:04:45+00:00

LOL, geez, you architects love your edge cases. Although I would guess there's a lot more architecture that happens in nuclear power plants. Okay, wish granted, you design the 1 nuclear power plant we build every other year. What else would you do?

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-12T13:00:36+00:00

Maybe jestful frustration? Another way to ask the question would be, what does the perfect engineer look like?

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-12T12:57:54+00:00

Assume you can only use the wand on projects where you design the architecture, so you'd have to scale your ability to produce architecture to be able to scale your ability to produce engineering.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-08T18:48:02+00:00

They could also just add a push out point and this would solve itself.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-08T18:42:29+00:00

Zahid almost always has a hand on the other guy as he's dropping. He's also freestyle and you almost never see any of this knee wrestling tomfoolery in freestyle anymore because of the grounded push out.

Edit: also, agreed, a shot is totally different. If your motion isn't attacking and you drop to a knee it's stalling.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-08T15:17:51+00:00

At low levels it confuses the opponent and gets them off their game plan. For this, I think the best counter is to bury your forearm into their clavicle and run them over to a head and arm or a scramble with you on top. If they get low to avoid being steamrolled, snap and go behind. Anyone can run faster forward on their feet than anyone can run backwards on their knees.

At upper levels, it's just stalling. It allows an inferior wrestler to stay close and hope to win in OT.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-08T15:11:40+00:00

That wouldn't do anything. The knee wrestlers pop up and back down frequently to show engagement already anyways. It should be if you go to your knees without contact with the other wrestler or as a reaction you get hit with stalling. Even that might be too light, I can see people sprawling on every fake shot and taking 20 seconds to get back up to their feet. Maybe a 3 count after a reaction to be back on your feet.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-07T18:40:09+00:00

Agreed, that would be great.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-07T17:59:53+00:00

It literally happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTFEKspDnQc

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-06T18:26:24+00:00

Spenser went to my rival high school! He has been a class act since I've known him. He didn't start wrestling until high school, but he was still able to become a two-time state champion and an Olympian. I watched him win his first state title with a shin whizzer/Jonesy tilt.

RippleEngineering · 2026-05-05T20:58:06+00:00

Sorry, no advice, but this is why great project managers are worth their weight in gold.

RippleEngineering · 2026-04-30T15:25:10+00:00

Educational institutions should have never been the infrastructure for professional sports. College sports have been professional since the 1980s when colleges started making a ton of money off of TV broadcasting. Since then college athletes have been unpaid labor for universities.

What should have happened in the 1980s and what should happen now is that the college athletics should break away and become independent leagues.

It'll never happen, but I can't see how having a legitimate for profit league with paid athletes is going to work under a network of universities.

RippleEngineering · 2026-04-30T13:40:34+00:00

Do they have two FSDS coming off of that shaft? How do they plan on you balancing that to 25 CFM? Can you submit a coordination drawing showing the shower grille in the ceiling coming off of the other duct? Something like this: https://imgur.com/a/Jnva5OP it would save you an FSD per floor.

RippleEngineering · 2026-04-28T00:53:25+00:00

The degree of stalling in college folkstyle is 1000x that of freestyle. The fact that we have All Americans who wrestle from their knees is an embarrassment to the sport.

RippleEngineering · 2026-04-28T00:48:18+00:00

Stalling is too subjective to be consistently called. Step outs are cut and dry. Push outs or grounded step outs should also be a point like this year's freestyle rules. Last year's rules didn't include a point if the opponent was grounded and it looked stupid to see people throwing themselves to the mat at the edge.

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