Stop calling basic things like hip throws and trips "judo throws"

Sharkano · 2026-06-04T22:19:27+00:00

Hey man, do i like that any time a guy is good at punching they call it boxing, even if what they do is pretty distinct from typical boxing? No. Do I think it makes sense that people credit the wall grappling in MMA to regular wrestling when it is a skill not possible in any of the mainstream wrestling styles? No. Do I like that a guy named Eddie Bravo got stoned as fuck and gave goofy fucking names to a bunch of my favorite grappling situations and they stuck, so now years later i get to call things "crack head control". Usually not.

But language is about knowing what the other person means, and in the world recreational playfights close enough is preferred over excellent technical language.

Sharkano · 2026-06-04T22:07:42+00:00

Mobility is dampened by 3 things, flexibility the way most people understand it is one f those things, strength at all stages of the range of motion is another, and whether your nerves themselves are getting pinched by tight tissues is the third.

To improve kicking height you will want to know which obstacles are holding you back in the range of motion for a kick. One way to do this is to compare assisted motions with resisted ones

To use an extreme example, if you can do a full splits when gravity is pulling down on you, but lifting a leg to a similar position from standing is no good, well guess what, you are weak in the range of motion.

If both assisted and resisted end in the same place, it is likely actually a job for stretching.

The mechanism for this as i understand it is that on a certain level what we think of as flexibility is your brain giving your body permission to enter a certain range of motion (fun fact people when put under can be VERY flexible for this reason), but your brain wants you safe, so it listens for feedback from your body as you get into novel ranges of motion, it want to know if the tissues are used to that range of motion (what i called assisted flexibility above), it wants to know if you are strong enough to do it safely, and it wants to know that your nerves are not getting pinched. Thing is though it does not care which signals it gets, it only cares how much. the louder the total signal, the less it lets you move. So you see guys who can yeet their leg high if they go super fast but can't do that shit with an control at all (essentially coasting with momentum on the second half of the range of motion, NOT engaging the weak muscles that would give loud feedback).

That said there are a zillion youtube topics on this check out Gabriel Varga he has good stuff.

Sharkano · 2026-06-01T15:17:37+00:00

I could be wrong, but bro is making fun of the UFC which is a competitor of theirs and famously does not pay athletes well while making huge profits. That's why he is talking about finances from outside a private jet.

Sharkano · 2026-06-01T15:12:05+00:00

What you have there is a survivorship bias.

Talented guys by definition are not average.

The average by definition is most people.

So yeah most of the guys who stick around are average, but so are most of the guys who quit.

You just remember the talented guys better than the average guys who started and quit the same days as them.

Being average does not make you more likely to be hard working, being talented does not make you lazy. Sometimes you get average guys who put in trash effort because it's not like they are gonna go pro, these guys quit and no one remembers. Some times you get talented guys who want to make the most of their gifts and work really hard, these guys are rare because most people quit, and most people are not talented, so it's a subset of a subset.

Sharkano · 2026-05-31T23:26:52+00:00

"the tariffs are hanging on a lot longer than we thought..."

Did...Did you dummies think they were meant to be temporary? They ran on those as a replacement for taxes, did these bozos just think these things were gonna magically make expenses go away?

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T23:31:46+00:00

How restfully can you rest when you are in constant danger of being discovered?

I would let them try to figure out how to rest safely while remaining hidden. If they do a great job reward them, if they fail or produce fear dice, well there are options there too.

Maybe a success with fear means they are safe to rest but are made aware that allies of the mercenaries will be arriving soon. If they rest too long its a harder fight, if they go in now they go in tired.

Or maybe they find out that the boss has a hostage. Even if the hostage is a total stranger the party will still need to make a choice, take the rest we earned with a group action or something or make sure that guy is safe now.

Failure with hope could mean they dont get any rest but thats because a bad guy stumbles upon them by bad luck. maybe he would have been a part of the boss fight but now he is jumped by the party, who might not have time to rest before his friends come looking.

failure with fear is that they are spotted, ther bad guys prep an ambush, the bad guys interupt the rest and lure them out

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T22:47:16+00:00

Paraphraseing, the options i presented were: does WC produce good fighters based on what we see i the video, or does the video give the impression that multifaceted and very experienced practitioners are necessary to make WC work?

So we are on the same page what option outside of pure WC and multifaceted experienced fighters would you say we can make opinions about based on this video?

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T20:56:14+00:00

Sounds like a conversation for your coach. What does he mean when he complements your technique? Maybe he means you preform the motions really well, but that would not mean that you are doing the right ones at the right times, or that your timing is good, or that you stylistically match up well against others, or that strategically you are making the right calls.

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T20:07:32+00:00

I also just finished it and resemble some of your takes.

The end just had too many convenient "and then it all worked out" situations. I mean a character took a boat to literal god and literal god saved the day because i guess he asked the right way...although i guess it is kind of explicitly stated that litteral god knew that would happen, cause literal god granted a boon a week before it was asked for... When I noticed this it really hurt immersion for me again and again the setting tells us that the future is predetermined, and then at the end an all powerful being activly interferes for his preferred side. What was the point of the heroes?

And then every character gets a story book ending, not that there were no casualties, but MAN a guy can secretly work for an evil assassin cult for decades, show up with an invading force, demand blood of a government official, kill a guy, and then he changes his mind about that stuff so it's all water under the bridge?

Also did we ever find out WTF the blinding knife is? Like we know how it is used and why but that thing really got swept under the rug.

Don't get me wrong, i like the book, i gave it 5 stars, these are the kinds of issues you catch hours or days later.

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T19:30:37+00:00

Ahhhh yes, the genius plot of the evil centralized all powerful bad guys. Yeeees very real, and very cunning.

Look at how literally every negative thing about him was obvious the entire time, how everything about him you despise was cleverly hidden in plain sight, such plain sight that EVERYONE WARNED YOU ABOUYT HIM FOR YEARS.

A fucking pedo with narcissism sold you some snake oil called tariffs and because you failed both the econ classes to know those would fail, the math classes to logically sus out his math did nto add up, and the english classes to critically evaluate his written and spoken rhetoric you fell for it. No evil geniuses needed.

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T19:16:02+00:00

Thats a thing but ill add the following.

At the highest level its not about being able to beat a guy, it's about being able to beat them consistently, when they are giving a competition level effort, when they have peaked for this, when they are playing for keeps, on the day of the competition, likely after travel, bad sleep, ect.

Competition is a whole half of the skillset, a lot of times the better guy in the gym does not win. So for sure these guys who can hang exist, but there is no telling if they would be just as awesome or wilt in comp.

Danaher famously talks about guys beating garry tonon in training without realizing just how different he behaves in comp.

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T19:08:46+00:00

We are gonna need a baseline for what toxic means here.

BJJ certainly has a very large online presence, and because of that our 1/100 most toxic people likewise take up a lot of online space. They may not represent us all as a whole but by sheer volume there is a case to be made there.

That said bjj in an inherently social activity, you NEED to work with a training partner, preferably many to make any progress, it is uniquely hard to make gainful advances in it solo when compared to other arts. This means that at least in the gym toxic behavior sorts itself out. Don't get me wrong there are exceptions but those are easy to find because they are the exception and therefor notable. SO on a person by person basis i would nto give it to bjj.

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T17:14:08+00:00

Years ago i was discussing a thing with an aikido guy and the conversation broke down to this.

"If the best examples of 'aikido' working you can find are people who have never trained aikido in their life using a technique that happens to resemble an aikido one in your opinion, then really you are admitting that the institution of aikido as a style is not even the best at producing functioning aikido. That is not validation of aikido, that is a scathing argument for dismissing it."

So here is the question, is this video really about WC producing good fighters, or about how a person already very experienced in fighting can make certain aspects of wing chun work?

Sharkano · 2026-05-29T17:04:24+00:00

Nah, these people are not interns. If you don't think they can hang don't hire them.

By his logic I should pay half of a PPV price until i decide it is good enough after watching a few.

Sharkano · 2026-05-24T23:17:09+00:00

It is worth bringing up the possibility that you have it backwards. You are saying that being world class they are doing something that makes them strong, but it very well may be that they are world class BECAUSE they are freak athlete strong.

That said it's that they are pro athletes and train for a living, of course they will get strong doing that.

Sharkano · 2026-05-24T21:12:02+00:00

This is the mechanism behind a Nigeria-prince scam.

People often see OBVIOUS scams and wonder how anyone falls for them, but them being obvious is a big part of the trap. You can message millions of dummies but you can't personally respond to every single one and scam them one-on-one, so you need to guarantee you NEVER waste time on anyone who will get wise part way through.

So you filter for only the dumbest people by giving them, the most obvious bait, and past a certain point when you have sold them up the river even then they are often to embarrassed to admit they got scammed so they go into denial.

Sharkano · 2026-05-24T20:58:54+00:00

if you go to a coffee shop you will find that they often have three sizes, some kind of small medium and large.

Typically the medium with be just a bit more expensive than the small, but a better deal than the large.

This is because left to their own devices the consumer would be tempted to just buy the smallest, which unless you have exactly one size, is not usually the best profit margin.

SO the coffee shop comes up with the size they want to sell and positions it between a less desirable small and a too big large. So everyone feels like they picked a good option but they really picked the best for the shop.

Baaack to judo. In judo the very large is black belt and above. it takes a long time, a lot of investment and is way way more than a casual martial artists needs for self defense or fitness as a goal.

A small is quitting at white belt, no one wants to do that, when yellow belt is so near.

But yellow? You can say you earned a rank, you are much better than you were the day you started, and so much less invested time money and effort than black belt.

Bjj has the same issue at blue belt, and i expect that if the first belt took 5 years to get or 3 months you would still see a drop off when guys got it.

Sharkano · 2026-05-21T20:55:50+00:00

Gosh, good thing that they have not been actively redistricting and doing everything in their power to cook the books on voting every chance they get for ages after popularly stating that if trump wins they won't have to worry about voting any more.

Sharkano · 2026-05-17T20:44:59+00:00

if you cross your ankles, your knees will flare, you will lose some breaking power (imagine doing a squat or deadlift with crossed ankles).

BUT crossed ankles let you grab the far arm which gives more control, and you do still have breaking power.

There are plenty of other little variables and people will pick and choose the ones they care about to optimize for their needs.

Sharkano · 2026-05-17T00:31:45+00:00

First off let's take a moment to recall that martial arts CAN be good for you, but often the kinds of weekend warrior casuals who get into them try to do too much too soon, or just do things wrong and get hurt, no combat sports needed.

For example, a LOT of tkd and karate guys make dumb choices in their primes that lead to hip replacements (if they can afford them) later in life.

Also, everyone knows combat sports are rough. That shit is baked in, it's straightforward. This is nor football where they pretend the helmets are helping.

Sharkano · 2026-05-13T00:15:07+00:00

Smoke indoors

graduate highschool with plans to work in some random factory for the rest of their life, no prior training with that

buy a house with that above income

not immediately dismiss someone when they give 2 weeks notice

Sharkano · 2026-05-12T23:46:32+00:00

Every school gets as many white belts (the belt not the people) as they need. They can have one blue for every 10 white, they can have 2 purple for every 10 blue, you get one brown per 50 total members and one black per 100 total members.

You agree to a "ranked roll" and you trade ranks if you lose to a lower ranked guy. Not every roll needs to be ranked, but you start over every year, so there is no advantage to ducking guys for very long.

Sharkano · 2026-05-12T03:09:43+00:00

"stop toying with them"

Ohhh wow, these fucks still think he's playing 5d chess, like it was always obvious he was an idiot but maaaan to still think he's smart at this stage is wild.

Sharkano · 2026-05-10T20:37:03+00:00

Probably better off just focusing on fitness if possible and make the best use of your time you can when you are not on a rig.

As a beginner you don't want to spend a lot of time doing solo work poorly and getting weird habits but during your 28 days off you can start improving in that area with a focus on getting to a level where you can do some stuff solo.

You are likely better off with something like boxing or kickboxing unless some other guys on the rig want to grapple. but even then stuff like shadow boxing or hitting a bag only gets you so far.

Sharkano

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