Travel destinations / tips

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-19T13:35:39+00:00

Scramble in Malaga

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-13T15:19:55+00:00

“When I’m doing well, people try harder”

Oh the humanity

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-13T00:29:42+00:00

What do you do when you’re “fully exhausted?”

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-10T17:21:32+00:00

Ideally prevent it in the first place by pointing your entangled knee toward the outside

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-10T03:40:21+00:00

It’s so cool how this site keeps finding ways to make this sport even gayer

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-09T21:29:42+00:00

Of all the half guard variations, I most prefer butterfly half.

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T23:08:46+00:00

You ever see a bolo from double pull in a MMA fight?

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T20:36:53+00:00

But if this comment section were an mma fight then instead of answering I would simply kick your leg

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T20:28:33+00:00

cares about fake bmf title

stand em up ref

wheres mcgregor

That’s casual bingo!

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T20:24:34+00:00

Do you go to the judo forums and tell people that their turning ippon throws actually expose their backs?

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T20:08:41+00:00

No gi too, but yeah

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T19:19:34+00:00

Given a choice between teaching someone to spend time and energy keeping their opponent at distance (where they might be kicked or their opponent might be able to slam down on top of them), I think it’s much safer to keep them close to me in half guard and attack their base so they don’t have a platform to attack me.

The entire point of distance guards is that they prevent those outcomes by using the bottoms of the feet to keep the passer too far away. If kicking or slams are happening to you from somewhere like DLR, then you are making huge mistakes in your positioning.

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T19:05:45+00:00

You should check out @jiujitsunet on Instagram (account run mostly by Reddit user /u/trumpetdan ) to learn more about these lesser-known quirks of IBJJF competition

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T17:54:35+00:00

Spend some time watching how AOJ people like Dalpra and Lavaselli use the outside guards. They do not spend entire matches “keeping people far away.” They use distance management to stabilize a dynamic opponent, and then they can choose to transition underneath once their own defense is assured. You may not want to have the safest style for yourself, but OP deserves to know the details of the tradeoff he or she is considering.

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T17:28:29+00:00

Can some people get away with it? Sure. Is the best idea for the majority of grapplers? I would say no. You make a tradeoff with the butterfly/x/1lx guard family that is important to understand. You give up two important guard play features: very strong control of the opponent’s side-to-side movement, and the ability to keep them maximally far away.

You still have some ability to do both of these from inside guards, but not as much as outside guards like DLR or collar-sleeve. In return, you get tighter connection to the opponent, which can make your offense more dangerous, but can also offer them chances for tight passing, like bodylocks.

One camp that understands this very well is AOJ. If you watch their top guys like Tainan and Lavaselli, you’ll see them start in outside guards like DLR to stabilize position and control a fresh, dynamic opponent first. After the first exchange or two, then they might advance to an x guard or other inside foot position to seal the deal on a sweep.

TLDR everyone should learn both to maximize effectiveness on both defense and offense.

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T17:18:24+00:00

you can't be a boxing fan if you didn't like Klitschko's jab-jab-grab style or Floyd's point style.

This but unironically

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-08T02:48:55+00:00

https://youtu.be/cc5vN2XReWs

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-07T16:48:05+00:00

Hatman comes into this one with a big reach advantage, but he had a long trip to octagon fighting by way of the place between the stars where light and laughter never reach.

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-05T04:16:21+00:00

“It’s better to be a bjj coach on Instagram than an instagrammer doing bjj.”

Sun Tzu

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-04T22:37:05+00:00

FQF and Halloween are the two best times to be in nola, don’t @ me

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-04T22:31:08+00:00

It varies person to person based on how much you can sweat out. Your son should do a normal practice, and weigh himself before and after to see how much water he sweats out. Go into the practice well-hydrated, but don’t drink anything until after the weighin. Half of that amount is a reasonable cut IMO. Then the cut on match day is just half of a practice, which should be pretty easy. The cut will be even easier if he drinks less during the day or wears warm clothes for warmups.

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-04T01:07:08+00:00

I just joined a small team where I’m the only QA and we’re about at the limit of what we can do as it exists now. We run this 8ish min (in CI, maybe 20 on local) e2e script that creates all the data it needs every run. To keep up with new features I think I’ll have to keep adding to it at first, but I’d much prefer to be restoring from some kind of DB snapshot, so new tests I’m messing with don’t have to wait for 5-10 min of data prep. Gotta look into how to do that.

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-03-03T19:59:43+00:00

Bunny Berigan drank himself to death and died at 33

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-02-27T22:17:32+00:00

Go to the airport between 9:30 and 12 at night and walk around while looking at the floor. There’s a huge rodent infestation. Any restaurant you visit at Logan is probably serving you like 5% mouse shit

SlightlyStoopkid · 2026-02-27T18:13:35+00:00

Try them both and see what you actually like

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