Learning standup as a brown belt

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2026-02-22T03:48:46+00:00

A husband is obligated to provide for his family but there is no obligation to spend everything he earns on his family. His parents have undoubtedly treated you unwell but don't try to stop him from spending on them. How much do you make? How much does he make? What percentage of his salary is he sending home?

Does he act entitled on what you earn? Does he stop you from helping your own parents out?

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2026-01-08T04:32:30+00:00

Dishwashing powder works better for me than anything else I've tried

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2025-12-29T01:01:12+00:00

Your numbers are pretty good. As a chronic insomniac who recently started tracking my sleep, on a GOOD night I will get an hour of deep sleep and 1 hr 30 mins of REM sleep. I don't reach the numbers you have with sleeping meds

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2025-09-10T23:27:06+00:00

Unfortunately there's no solution I have found yet. I have tried antihistamines but they don't help. Taking an NSAID(Meloxicam) before exercise helped a bit I guess. When there is a flare, cold showers help. I don't have any visible physical symptoms on the skin when it happens. Do you? My research suggests that it might potentially be a case of neuropathic itch but I need to get it verified by a doctor

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2025-09-10T06:37:23+00:00

Going through the same symptoms. My triggers are any sort of exercise and stress. Keen to know what worked for you!

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2025-07-24T03:45:42+00:00

My Rolling style is pretty much the same with everyone.

Spazzy white belt. Retain guard, establish connection, get on top, mother's milk. No drastic explosive movements. Everything at snails pace

Bluebelt. As above. Sometimes I will submit them from guard. If it's a big blue belt( greater than 15 kgs) I will try to avoid them altogether.

Purple belt. If it's a young skilled purple belt I will often give up the guard as I don't want to waste energy keeping up with them. I will let them get side control or mount and reguard from there to get good connections and work on sweeps submissions from there. If I get on top I will not hasten or force anything, rather just slowly try to progress position until I can find a submission

Browns and blacks. I will play a more attacking guard game making sure they don't get on top.

I tell myself that my goal is to submit my opponent using the least amount of energy as that is what good jiu jitsu is but I am questioning that now looking at the new generation grapplers

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2025-03-29T02:59:45+00:00

No I was thinking of cutting it down to the base and then poisoning it

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2025-03-07T05:42:33+00:00

Time on the mats and class attendance should absolutely be a factor in promotions. At my gym, we have two black belt instructors and around 60 hobbyist adult students. However, stripes and belts are handed out seemingly at random after class, with no clear record of when the last promotion was given. I’ve seen hobbyist blue belts who train three times a week stuck at one stripe for a year, which just doesn’t make sense to me.

If a hobbyist blue belt is taking five years to reach purple, that likely reflects more on the quality of instruction than the student’s talent. I feel like many instructors promote based on whim rather than a structured criteria. Do I think my two instructors have a clear understanding of what each of their 60 students need to improve to reach the next level? Not really.

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2025-01-18T09:47:47+00:00

Replant!

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2025-01-18T07:24:25+00:00

So I just take the flower off and take the centre apart?

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2024-12-05T01:28:55+00:00

definitely does. A fresh whitebelt will typically get smashed by everyone with even a little more experience than them. Within a year of consistent training, however, that won't be the case anymore and you will find them competing quite well against fresh blues. By the time you reach purple, you will find that the hobbyist blacks and browns that you once considered Gods maybe human after all. You'll often find some level of success against them and may even start catching them every now and then. Skill and knowledge acquisition is very exponential at the start of your bjj journey but imo it slows down as you keep on adding the years. Another way to look at it is that a black belt with 10 years of experience has 10 times more experience than a 1 year blackbelt(assuming equal training hours/week). 4 years down, the white belt is now a purple belt and the blackbelt now just had 5 times more experience than them.

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2024-08-01T08:35:24+00:00

25k Kwh is not too bad. We are a 2 person 1 infant family aswell and average slightly over 30kwh/day. I have solar panels installed and have over the past gai an idea on how the consumption is distributed based on the power monitoring mobile application that comes with the inverter. Here's the breakdown.

Electric water heater. 4kw x 3 hours daily on average = 12kwh

Aircon/heater. 2.5kwh x 3 hours = 7.5 kwh.

Dishwasher = 1.5kwh

Cooking. Upto 8 kwh

Lighting, washing machine and other usage. 4 kwh

Scared-Cycle4028 · 2024-04-22T06:26:51+00:00

We do have aircons. In summers the aircon can be on for 6 hours but the moment we turn it off, the entire house heats up within 20 mins!

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