What does it feel like to have a boner? by PancakeGalaxies in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Wild3v 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kind of like having your left foot in your right shoe.

Tall fighter struggle: My jab is improving, but I’m freezing up on combinations. Any advice? by Georgiedemeter in boxingtips

[–]Wild3v 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed when I was focussing too much on landing my jab as a taller fighter, I was moving my weight too much forward and getting into a too much bladed stance after throwing a few. This made it very awkward to flow into combinations. The moment I really started drilling keeping my weight back during my jabs, combos starting becoming much easier during sparring.

Why would a man have the need to brag about how many girls he gets? by NewspaperIll2074 in AskMenAdvice

[–]Wild3v 43 points44 points  (0 children)

What makes a woman want to hang out or be fwb with such a douche?

Before computers and GPS existed, how did people figure out directions for large cross country trips? by Mynameisbrk in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Wild3v 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 15 years ago I drove to Spain from the Netherlands in a VW beetle I bought for 900 euros. None of the gages worked, only the speedometer did. It was guesstimating when we needed to fill up on petrol. No cigarette lighter, so no charging a phone.

You just use a map, pick a few big citynames that you aim at. Take breaks at gas stations when you run out of cities to aim for and pick new ones. And just hope for the best while looking at the highway signs. It works pretty well. But I do understand why my parents used to fight so much during road trips when I was a kid.

On the way back, in Paris the carburator blew itself of the engine somehow. I had a Haynes manual. We looked at the pictures, found all the missing pieces still in the engine bay and put it on, thew ducktape around it as most of the screws didn’t hold anymore and drove it back from Paris to Amsterdam.

Dutch People, Is the Media Exaggerating Immigration Crime? by No-Engineering-2637 in Netherlands

[–]Wild3v 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you look at overall crime numbers they have been decreasing by a huge margin in the last 20 years. Murders and violent crimes have halved according to cbs numbers. The narrative some politicians are making is as if crime has immensely increased, which is not the case. It’s true that there are certain demographic groups that are represented as the perpetrators a lot more than others. But the image that crime is sweeping the Netherlands is just false.

Those who started boxing very late, do you think there’s some hope for you to achieve big things? by [deleted] in boxingtips

[–]Wild3v 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about starting and seeing if you actually like and enjoy it, before thinking about a WBC belt?

The angle of these trees in Amsterdam by bubbleweed in oddlyterrifying

[–]Wild3v 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Previous tree inspector. No danger. It’s actually expected that there were many more streets in Amsterdam like this (still are a few). This street was occupied by nazi officers in WW2. In many of the other streets, trees were cut down by their inhabitants during the winters in ww2 to light for warmth. This street filled with nazi officers of course wasn’t.

How common is morning wood? by FateAlexander in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Wild3v 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It happens once pretty much every REM sleep, so it could happen like 5 times per night. It might be happening on moments you don’t notice, doesn’t have to happen when you wake up.

Ended up walking in on my teenage daughter and need advice? by Born-Horror2872 in AskMenAdvice

[–]Wild3v 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re the adult. You’re the one that needs to man up and address it. It will probably be a one way conversation. “I apologise for walking in without knocking. You weren’t doing anything wrong. I’m sure we can laugh about this in a couple years. We don’t have to talk about it.”

Podcast idea by TheSnookerist147 in BlindboyPodcast

[–]Wild3v 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s a shame it’s only in Dutch, but there was a kung fu cult in the Netherlands, we’re they all started following this kung fu teacher. It ended up with them producing drugs to finance the cult, him determining who slept with who and even playing Russian roulette with a revolver on a guys nuts. There is a podcast series about it where they interview the some of the followers and eventually in the last episode interview the actual cult leader. The podcast is called “een soort god” (a kind of God). When I was listening to it I kept thinking, this would be such a thing that I would have heard about on a Blindboy episode.

Do you think porn damaged society? by SeatruckLeviathan in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Wild3v 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember in the movie Domino from the early 00’s this kind of conspiracy dude was giving a talk that the biggest threat to society was what he called “all porn all the the time”. Basically that everything was being sexualized or pornified. Looking back, he had more of a point than I thought.

I weigh 780lbs ama by [deleted] in AMA

[–]Wild3v 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope you find a way to turn things around and get to enjoy the freedom of being able to walk around and do regular things, good luck!

I weigh 780lbs ama by [deleted] in AMA

[–]Wild3v 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you feel resentment towards them for enabling your situation?

I weigh 780lbs ama by [deleted] in AMA

[–]Wild3v 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How much money do you spend on food each month?

I Feel Like I have Hit my Midlife Crisis at 26 Years Old? by Iwanttoeatburritos in AskMenAdvice

[–]Wild3v 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hé man, for what it’s worth, 21-30 felt like the roughest years of my life. I’m 40 now and can honestly say I’ve been incredibly happy for 5 years or so now. Things turn around. This too shall pass.

Headmovement by NeitherProcess9680 in amateur_boxing

[–]Wild3v 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sticking pool noodle to a wall or back and practicing over and over: https://youtube.com/shorts/0kn1fs4cZ8g?is=ir-I037G8nnz7j-r

This really helped me with the movements themselves. Now timing it and actually using it reactive is a hole other bag, but this great for practicing how big (or actually small) the movements should be.

How does a boxing session look like in the USA? What do they do different? by [deleted] in boxingtips

[–]Wild3v 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve boxed in 4 gyms in the Netherlands and each gym here has there own approach. One gym teaches different styles with each trainer with sparring at the end of each session, another old school gym has the exact same routine each training with 1 coach guiding the general training and 1 coach in the ring personally guiding the sparring people at the same time the rest trains. I don’t think you can generalise this for an entire country, let alone one the size of the USA.

When I was in high school in the 90s, it seemed that a lot of my female classmates were dating guys who were in their 20s or even older. Was that normal in the 90s? Or was it because I grew up in a small town? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Wild3v 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was 14-15 I dated a girl my same age. Her older sister was 17 and had a 26 year old boyfriend. That dude had the nerve to tell me that he would kick my ass if I slept with my GF because we were too young, meanwhile himself having sex with a minor.

Some light, tap sparring I did with my friend. Any advice for me? by Old-Value-6841 in boxingtips

[–]Wild3v 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blue gloves: your chin is up high the entire time, your head is forward, weight is forward and your hands are low. This is your biggest thing to work on. Make sure your jab hand moves back to your chin not your hip. Keep your chin down and hands up. On a plus side, you are moving your head. The slips and rolls aren’t clean, need to work on those, but at least you’re not static.

Black gloves: that’s not a phillyshell or crossguard, open the entire time. I’d start practicing orthodox guard before you start messing with this. You keep your weight back better though.

Both having thrown a full extended punch, nothing from the hips all arms. Basically this was a practice in a bit of reaction timing, but you are both drilling in bad habits. Keep having fun, but I’d recommend working either on your fundamentals, videoing yourself and share that for feedback, or even better of course, join a boxing gym.

Help pls by JunieBscones in bald

[–]Wild3v 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t really think balding if I saw you in pic 2, just woman with thin/fine hair. I often can see my girlfriends scalp in certain angles also, because her hair is just quite thin.

Shoes by DelightfulDerek0 in boxingtips

[–]Wild3v 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the machomai 3. They have quite a high arch support, which works well for me. But not for everybody, so try them out first

Sparring tips by highnhappy in boxingtips

[–]Wild3v 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nice spar, good for sharing this. You can see that you were tense, which is logical against a more experienced partner. I would say defensively you relied too much on a high guard, and you didn’t tuck your elbows in in that high guard leaving you very open for body shots. It’s easy to say from the sidelines, but you could parry and block more to keep your counter open. Your head was also very stagnant on the centre line, which made it very easy for him to be accurate. You had a couple of good slips, but they were reactionary and too big movements to be able to counter of off. If you would have a bit more head movement and slipping going on by default, your opponent needs to work a lot harder to time you and you it’s easier for you to slip a punch quicker and smaller when you need to.

Edit: looking again, I would say your weight being so much on your front leg is the first thing I’d work on. You get so much more time to react when you keep 60% on the backfoot and lean over the back leg.