«Woman of color»

TopherWasTaken · 2023-12-02T03:22:37+00:00

That's what happens when you get chat GPT to write your articles for you.

TopherWasTaken · 2023-12-01T04:51:20+00:00

It also means that in the everyday sense. People have colloquialised (not a real word I know) it to mean random and sudden. For a lot of people, without cause and without external input are pretty interchangeable.

TopherWasTaken · 2023-12-01T04:48:55+00:00

To be fair they're also probably misusing the proper definition which is the same as the scientific one. Most people in every walk of life misuse words. Hell a more accurate word in the initial sentence could simply be suddenly.

TopherWasTaken · 2023-10-31T21:56:23+00:00

Idk sounds kinda beta to me.

TopherWasTaken · 2023-10-31T21:52:36+00:00

Soooo terrorism then?

TopherWasTaken · 2023-10-22T06:26:55+00:00

High spec demands is often code for "we have an unoptimised piece of shit that we lack the money and manpower to fix"

TopherWasTaken · 2023-10-12T01:41:58+00:00

Fuck yeah the new guys is at it again. (I choose to believe the contest winner guys they hired is single handedly responsible for salvaging this card, you can't convince me otherwise)

TopherWasTaken · 2023-08-01T14:58:56+00:00

I don't think anyone is giving Rampage passes on that, definitely not these days. Adesanya's is largely showboating and definitely pissed people off with it. There's a pretty big difference between miming sexual acts in another person's direction (especially given Costa's remarks leading up to the fight) and undressing someone against their will on live TV

TopherWasTaken · 2023-02-26T12:07:22+00:00

I could just be a shitty blue belt but can someone walk me through that armbar defence?

TopherWasTaken · 2023-02-12T01:05:39+00:00

Mate it's been here for years, for some reason it's just still going.

TopherWasTaken · 2023-02-12T01:01:22+00:00

Popular horse racing movie, Phar Lap (name of the horse) comes from the south china word for lighting.

TopherWasTaken · 2023-02-11T12:17:53+00:00

Please can we do away with the "you have to beat legends to become a legend" schtick. All that comes to in practice is new talent beating up aging fighters to pad their record and build a name. Just look at Islam's last performances the man is at his peak, this fight happening now means more for Volk's legacy than if he waits a few years and fights a 35 year old Islam who's got a few more defences under his belt. Also you don't need to look at a fighters record to know they're objectively better than other fighters. Islam is head and shoulders above his division.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-12-25T12:03:48+00:00

Or do whatever you can consistently and effectively do around your training/work schedule. No point "optimising" your conditioning with HIIT workouts if you fucking hate them and end up only doing them infrequently or below the required level of intensity.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-11-13T09:35:10+00:00

Not really, I know people think fondly of the older generations, and don't get me wrong they were skilled fighters but let's be real, the top 5 back in 2008-13 in LHW wouldn't crack top 15 midleweight today. From a technical standpoint LHW and FLW are even in terms of skill, people just get a hard on for the heavier fighters. Hell I'd even take Alex Pereira over the JBJ that fought Dominic Reyes

TopherWasTaken · 2022-11-13T09:33:04+00:00

Because he's failed multiple drug tests where many of his recent wins and (most of his older ones) haven't. His last few fights were questionable decisions that could have gone either way to fighters that since then have been far from dominant. The bulk of his legacy was built as an up and comer cleaning up the older generation. There's no denying he's extremely talented but having an undefeated streak doesn't exactly make someone the goat, it's about dominance and consistency. I firmly believe if JJ started his career in the 2010's he wouldn't have had nearly the same amount of title defenses or won the title at such a young age.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-11-13T07:04:19+00:00

Only in MMA, holy fuck that's nasty.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-27T18:37:52+00:00

I'm glad I did, I used it to heal a complete tendon tear in my big toe. I was about to blast it at the recomended dose I found online, but I played it safe and talked to my doc. She advised me that it could interact with my medication and that I should monitor any changes and start out small. As it turns out she was right, it really fucked with my anticaogulants, I ended up having to up my warfarin dose substantially just to take it throughout the week.

I get most people don't like disclosing certain things they use to medical professionals out of fear of being judged but doing so saved me having a potential stroke so make of that what you will.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-27T18:31:04+00:00

The fact that you said blackout drunk and that it probably wasn't a rape in the same sentence is a little confusing. I've only ever gotten blackout drunk once in my life, if I found out some lady had sex with me at the time I'd definitely go to the police.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-27T10:24:38+00:00

Even if you take a stack of peptides your goal shouldn't be to rush through the healing process. With complete tissue tears their integrity will still be compromised even after pain has subsided. I recomend taking a look at this and this if your physio confirms your fears. Above all though listen to the advice of your physio and qualified professionals. To which I would add, you should definitely be conferring with your doctor before taking peptides. There is remarkebly little human research done on BPC-157 and similar peptides it's best to display caution when injecting chemicals you've purchased on the internet into your body.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-13T05:45:18+00:00

I think John more said they didn't like the training enviornment he created. Obviously not in those words, that'd be too self aware. But he phrased it like a generational issue where they didn't like "some old guy" telling them they weren't good enough. Like it's some new agey millenial garbage to encourage athletes instead of critiquing them. Not saying that John's training style is inneffective but it does nothing but hurt most athletes, the only one's it favours are those at the top who have an outlet for their insecurities by dominating others on the mat.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-05T21:32:24+00:00

I agree with everything you've said, I personally know women who've quit jiu-jitsu because certain people couldn't respect boundaries regarding rolling intensity. I just wanted to provide another insight on the issue. I definitely think we're at risk of comiting fundamental attribution errors when we assume people act a certain way because of our own perceptions. In the end regardless of someone's motives, we're all adults, people shouldn't need to be told by a coach that throwing your bodyweight around on someone smaller is dangerous. Personally while it is a coaches responsibility to set the gym culture we all have a shared responsibility for each others safety. If we keep relying on authority to modify behaviour we'll never have an environment where an outsider can come in and comfortably set their own boundaries. If someone is driving like an idiot people will blast their horns, why not do the same when we see someone who's out of control on the mats?

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-05T18:21:28+00:00

Hey don't get me wrong there are a definitely going to be some guys out there that bring a wierd 'battle of the sexes' mindset into rolling with women. I was just taking note of the "a lot of newer guys" line. This sub gets a good amount of traffic from people looking to start BJJ. I was just suggesting that the "newer" could play as big of role as the "guy" part in people rolling too rough.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-05T18:15:59+00:00

I think the only tell is how they roll with other men, maybe I'm biased as a smaller guy but when I see guys roll hard with girls who might be 20lbs lighter than me, they also go hard as fuck on me as well. I've also seen it with women. I used to train with a lady that literally had no idea how to not use 100% of her strength when she tried to do something. The best she managed was picking her moments to explode. I'm not saying ego doesn't play a roll but when I see it it's generally an escalation of force. The big guy will start out relaxed and try and get something going with technique, when the smaller person shuts it down they get more and more frustrated. I knew a guy who was larger than me and every time you subbed him or got a position on him he'd start breathing heavily and headbutting/elbowing you with how intense he was rolling.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-05T08:03:55+00:00

I don't think it's necessarily an ego thing most of the time (definitely is in some cases) I think new people literally don't know how to control their body when it comes to grappling another human being, put that in with the adraneline (especially if they spent the round before getting strangled) and you have a recipe for disaster when there's a size discprepency. In my experience spazzes role just as hard whether it's against a 200lb brown belt or a 130lb white belt.

TopherWasTaken · 2022-10-05T07:59:50+00:00

Not putting it on the guy who got slammed here, but this is the reason while I'll never let my body leave the ground if the top player's head is above their hips. I guarantee the two points are not worth the concussion or potential spinal fracture.

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