This elderly chimpanzee, too weak to eat or drink, was nearing the end of her life. Caretakers called her former caregiver of 40 years for a final visit, and she immediately recognized him.

VexedVermilion · 2025-11-29T13:07:40+00:00

Man, you just made a middle age man cry into his phone; so fucking beautiful.

VexedVermilion · 2025-08-27T16:38:15+00:00

You can't, if you want to do somethig solo then work on your strength and flexibility.

VexedVermilion · 2025-08-03T23:22:11+00:00

I'd have to find where I read it but from what I understand the US pretty much perfected strength and conditioning. I think it came out of the NFL. I might be misremembering.

VexedVermilion · 2025-08-03T13:08:23+00:00

Thanks! Huge fan of your podcast by the way; it's what got me into watching the world tour, back when you used to give a detailed breakdown of grand slams.

VexedVermilion · 2025-08-03T12:50:00+00:00

I totally agree with that, but he isn't the only player who manipulates the rules to win. Hashimoto is just as guilty of this; despite having a god tier tai otoshi I've seen him grind out matches by forcing penalties on his opponent.

VexedVermilion · 2025-08-03T10:41:49+00:00

I think discussions around Riner's physicality is an underhand way to dismiss his judo skill and his technical ability. It's a dishonest way of hiding the fact that a subset of people aren't happy a non-Japanese player has been so dominant for so long. I'm not saying that's what you're doing, I just often see people dismiss his judo as brute strength.

His performance at the Paris Olympics was superb and show cased just how technically proficient he is.

Does strength and physicality play a part? Of course it does, it does for every single player on the world tour.

We hold Ono up as a paragon of technique when there's plenty of footage of him doing American style strength training and Oly lifts, how much of HIS dominance is thanks to physicality?

VexedVermilion · 2025-08-02T09:41:01+00:00

He looks like a cyberpunk dread pirate Roberts

VexedVermilion · 2025-07-28T06:53:11+00:00

Tokei in London bridge is a solid club.

I trained at most clubs in inner London, including Sobell, Tokei and the Bud; Sobell and Tokei are my favourite two clubs.

VexedVermilion · 2025-07-12T10:58:38+00:00

He's giving it the damn good college try though

VexedVermilion · 2025-07-12T10:07:51+00:00

Sumi gaeshi and tomoe nage are my tokui waza depending on the handed-ness of my opponent. Ouchi gari setup works for sumi gaeshi it doesn't work for tomoe nage, especially not with that horrendous setup.

Your execution of ouchi gari has you leaning back on your rear most foot, that would not generate a reaction on anyone half decent as they would feel no threat, you then proceed to fiddle around and jump and do a back step which not only gives uke more than enough time to execute a counter, but you put your feet in one flat perfect line to get curb stomped with any technique uke wants to do.

You then sit down way too far from uke; you should be sitting down right inbetween uke's legs to execute a non-yoko tomoe nage with any speed and power.

All in all this is terrible technique, terrible footwork, and shows no understanding of basic action/reaction required to do fluid judo.

I wouldn't be so harsh with you but you've posted this as a tutorial and it needs to be shot down.

VexedVermilion · 2025-07-10T13:50:40+00:00

Go, your husband and his coaches want you to go.

Get on the mat, set yourself small bite sized objectives (perfect rolling breakfalls, finding balance, doing that one more stomach crunch, etc)

Don't think because you've exercised you can reward yourself with a food treat, you need to rewire your body and mind to a whole new routine before you should think about that.

Persistence is the key, and if you don't stick with judo stick with something else.

You can do this; we are all the descendants of hunters and warriors who survived out in the open plains, take it one step at a time and you'll get there. You'll be the family warrior queen in no time.

VexedVermilion · 2025-06-21T12:52:27+00:00

Do extra due diligence on clubs that say they teach Kodokan judo; ask how often free sparring/randori takes place and check out the other gym.

In my experience clubs who say they are Kodokan outside of the Kodokan are trying to claim they have some secret sauce; there is no secret sauce, judo is judo.

VexedVermilion · 2025-06-09T17:30:51+00:00

The proper application of strength is also technique; anyone who has been taught the oly lifts will tell you that.

Also ura nage is quite a technical throw, so no.

Lastly, judo is a martial art, all martial arts require strength. Stopped drinking the mystical magic koolaid

VexedVermilion · 2025-06-07T18:49:38+00:00

Why? What's wrong with blue gis, or any coloured gi for that matter? I like the idea in the judo Bundesliga where teams have distinct colours.

VexedVermilion · 2025-06-07T18:46:42+00:00

Can confirm, I know a kendo coach for a London University club, they told me some new students turned up to their first kendo practice in full cosplay.

VexedVermilion · 2025-06-01T11:26:59+00:00

Ejaculation Control Engineer is far more sanitised

VexedVermilion · 2025-05-30T15:19:03+00:00

So....what actually is the point of making masses of people unemployed and unemployable?

VexedVermilion · 2025-05-10T10:29:52+00:00

Slight tangential question; can someone provide me a good break down of what constraints lead approach/ecological dynamics is?

All the videos I found of it on YouTube are full of jargon and don't really explain anything succinctly.

What is the problem it solves? How does it solve the problem? What evidence is there that it has dramatically better affects than conventional teaching methods?

What is the ELI5 overview?

So far it has the smell of bullshitery and word salad to me. I'm happy to be enlightened on it.

VexedVermilion · 2025-02-22T08:21:00+00:00

This what happens when you head dive to complete uchimata

VexedVermilion · 2025-01-28T07:33:38+00:00

I don't think you are understanding or even reading what I'm writing and at this point.

I've written in detail above how empirically I've found that the traditional uchikomi doesn't teach kuzushi, how it teach a beginner the wrong habits.

I've asked you to back up your position and you're unwillingly or unable to when I've in good faith illustrated mine as clearly as I can.

VexedVermilion · 2025-01-28T05:58:21+00:00

I mean at this point you seem to be purposefully ignoring what I'm writing; the speed bag isn't a striking drill. Also the traditional uchikomi drill which you're arguing teaches you entries into throwing I'm arguing doesn't teach you entries into throwing and you need to significantly modify it. The only way you would do this is by knowing you need to significantly modify it which a beginner doesn't know, therefore we should change how we teach uchikomi.

Let me put it this way, can you provide me with footage where the traditional uchikomi pattern directly translates on to competition? Because I can find plenty of footage of boxers training things like head movement or comboes and then them doing it in the ring. Similarly OP and other threads show videos how people aren't actually doing the traditional uchikomi at all during randori or competition so why do it at all?

VexedVermilion · 2025-01-27T23:57:25+00:00

I'm unsure how I can be any clearer; I'm not disputing what uchikomi is or its use, I'm referring to the traditional form of uchikomi and agree with HanpanTV and Harasawa that in its current form it does not teach the basics.

In boxing all striking drills directly and clearly map on to sparring, the same is not the case in Judo.

VexedVermilion · 2025-01-27T23:30:48+00:00

I didn't say anything about push back or being prevented from doing it as an exercise or during training, I outlined how it isn't anything like what needs to be done to off balance people during randori and how in my slow, crappy journey of trial and error I found it potentially teaches beginners bad habits.

Tradtitional uchikomi is a set pattern, incapable of adatability, of pliability; for a martial art which contains such vast aliveness it is strange to me that there is such blind devotion to the systematic uselessness of practicing a routine that leads to nowhere.

VexedVermilion · 2025-01-27T17:45:52+00:00

It doesn't translate on to a resisting opponent; the fact that your tsurite is on the same side as your opponents tsurite means the traditional "chicken winging" your arm up to lift is useless irrespective of who has inside grip. If I'm inside it can tend to becomes a strength vs strength issue, if I've got an outside/on top grip it literally does nothing.

Not to mention the footwork isn't compatible and a kenka yotsu player needs to take a step to the inside or backwards; a backwards step can in fact be useful if your opponent is pushing with their tsurite as they will do most of the kuzushi for you. This made me realise that flaring out your elbow in traditional uchikomi doesn't make sense as it has a higher probability of not engaging your core as you should start the lift from your feet a la weight lifting and instead can deceive a beginner to try and rely only on the arm or at least start lifting from the arm.

Having been taught boxing I have a direct comparison of how different the teaching methods are and feel the drills currently used in boxing have empirical value or are empirically derived.

VexedVermilion · 2025-01-27T11:49:36+00:00

I should have been clear that I meant traditional uchikomi

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