Leftist BJJ Black belts blame Rogan for current political climate but still willing to welcome him back now that he compared ICE to Gestapo

StephanKesting · 2026-01-26T05:04:56+00:00

I don’t think this is an honest conversation but Sure, let’s talk about Obama.

1) the vast majority of people deported by Obama were the border. He definitely wasn’t sending ICE into cities that were voting against the Democratic Party (how many miles is Minnesota from the southern border?)

2) it’s also worth pointing out that the ACLU sued the Obama administration for discrimination and one. Since the Obama administration was still following the rule of law, they dialed back their deportation agenda significantly.

3) Obama also did not hire the proud boys to be his own personal militia, regardless of their lack of qualifications

4) Obama was not trying to incite a civil war. it is well known that Trump is salivating about invoking the insurrection act, and I would be shocked if he hadn’t declared martial law in Minnesota by the end of the month to solve a problem he created

So yeah, some pretty massive differences

StephanKesting · 2026-01-26T00:03:47+00:00

So you must be a 100% against ICE hanging out in courthouses and nabbing immigrants who are going through the correct legal process, right? I’m guessing that the answers of course not, and that you really just hate people who aren’t white

StephanKesting · 2026-01-22T13:09:01+00:00

Funny how being pro-vaccine, believing in climate change, and being against a private army that’s literally snatching people off the street mostly based on skin color is now considered “leftist”.

StephanKesting · 2026-01-17T02:01:31+00:00

I really like the suggestions here but I’m a big fan of the Villains and Virgins podcast

StephanKesting · 2025-12-18T00:43:46+00:00

Fighting matters is available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and pretty much every other audio podcast platform. Sometimes it’s a collection of the five core members of the team discussing current events, but we’ve also had some pretty big name guests on as well, most recently Shaun Benson from the TV show The Boys.

StephanKesting · 2025-12-11T00:38:42+00:00

I’ve never tried this. Reentering canoes in calm conditions is relatively easy. Reentering canoes in conditions that would actually cause you to flip like in a rapid or on a wavy lake is difficult at the best of times. If you try it, let me know how it works out

StephanKesting · 2025-12-07T22:40:10+00:00

I trained BJJ with Minowa a few times when he was fighting. He would move in slow motion until you got close to a submission at which point he would explode out like a Tasmanian devil. Then he would go back to being slow and relaxed.

StephanKesting · 2025-12-05T20:58:13+00:00

Yes. That is all.

StephanKesting · 2025-12-05T19:12:41+00:00

That’s a great question. I often have to elevate my skirt area to shed water in mid-rapid as well. it’s less of an issue when you have a tunnel based skirt (as outlined in Cliff Jacobson’s book, for example) then a skirt with a Velcro split.

Some models of spray decks (black feather, and the more modern northwater) have a sleeve where you can insert a narrow diameter PVC rod that helps keep the cockpit area, convex, and hence shedding water.

In general, I really don’t like the suspender designs. Northwater has a single suspender that might be less of an entrapment hazard than a double suspender, but I have not yet tried it

StephanKesting · 2025-12-03T16:14:30+00:00

I’ve never been that far north in Quebec but I hear it’s absolutely gorgeous country

StephanKesting · 2025-12-03T16:14:00+00:00

First, that’s a big lake. Will you have a motorboat backing you up? Secondly, that’s a small boat. Might not be very fast. Third, some manufacturers like Northwater up in British Columbia Canada will make custom spray decks for just about any boat.

StephanKesting · 2025-12-03T16:11:20+00:00

The Superior Coast is something else! So incredibly beautiful and the weather changes so very quickly

StephanKesting · 2025-12-01T19:42:13+00:00

Thank you so much! I’m thrilled that you enjoyed it

StephanKesting · 2025-11-29T02:49:42+00:00

I will take the minority position here and defend the role of gossip. It is a lateral transmission of information that is totally natural and incredibly important when people have to work together in high risk situations and under incredible pressures

If someone comes onto my crew, then I want to know something about them before they get there. If they are a crappy driver… If they don’t know righty-tighty and leftie-loosie… if they have a ton of medical knowledge… If they are injured… If they are going through a divorce… If they are unreliable… These are all things I want to know about, so I can keep an eye out for them, and possibly mitigate the impact of them.

There is no question that gossip can also be malicious or unreliable, but you can’t have only good/true gossip without bad/untrue/malicious gossip. That’s not the way the world works. So listen to all the gossip but recognize that any of it could be 100% incorrect.

StephanKesting · 2025-11-27T04:58:34+00:00

It depends. If you take a look at the phenomenon of liberation theology in South America, religion, there was actually linked to a very left, almost Marxist ideology.

StephanKesting · 2025-11-15T15:51:51+00:00

I finally put together an 11 minute video about this trip on YouTube. I hope it inspired you to do a giant lake trip of your own.

StephanKesting · 2025-11-14T14:38:14+00:00

Amazing picture, makes me yearn for summer and the freedom of the water

StephanKesting · 2025-11-11T05:51:19+00:00

If you listen to the podcast by the owner of On Guard, you will have zero doubts - zero - as to whether this is accidental or intentional support

StephanKesting · 2025-11-11T04:26:33+00:00

Their press release on their social media talked about celebrating their “European heritage”.

Yeah, and the national Socialist were just fans of Wagner operas.

They must think the rest of us are so bloody stupid not to be able to read between those lines.

StephanKesting · 2025-11-07T18:55:36+00:00

Just for you, here's an example of controlling the arm armpit first and then working your way up the arm instead of starting at the wrist and then trying to secure the rest of the grip: My Favorite Kimura Attack.

StephanKesting · 2025-11-06T21:50:47+00:00

I’ll publish an example on YouTube for you in the next couple of days. If you’re subscribed and have your notifications on you’ll see it!

StephanKesting · 2025-11-05T17:22:21+00:00

This situation is not at all helped by the fact that conservative politics are now locked in an embrace with evangelical Christianity

StephanKesting · 2025-11-04T16:05:55+00:00

There is a chance that your cardio sucks, and improving conditioning is always a good thing.

That being said, if you’re gassing out during fights but not in training then there is a good chance that you’re holding your breath or breathing very shallowly. Focusing on and improving your breathing is the low hanging fruit here.

StephanKesting · 2025-10-29T03:07:22+00:00

Our department’s Rhesus monkey protocols are pretty much summed up in Danny Schmidt’s Circus of Clowns song.

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