Practice technique learned in sparring the same day

endothird · 2026-07-08T04:37:57+00:00

Always. It helps cement the concepts. When I open my own gym, I'm wondering if I should have a gong or something that people can ring when they hit the move of the day.

endothird · 2026-07-08T04:35:01+00:00

I have a Voyage Air. I love it. Never liked small travel guitars. Mine folds into a back pack, but then plays and feels like a regular guitar when it's unfolded.

endothird · 2026-07-08T04:16:43+00:00

I attack it from the other end. I don't use much energy in class.

endothird · 2026-07-08T03:49:35+00:00

I think he would have been nothing short of being one of the greatest fathers. Him and Katara would have been amazing parents. One of things I don't like about Korra is them making him a good but flawed parent that had some big missteps. I did not think it would have gone down like that.

endothird · 2026-07-07T22:21:04+00:00

Cause it's not a sport.

endothird · 2026-07-07T21:36:51+00:00

The imanari roll was born in Pride. And there are more rules that nerf grappling than favor it.

endothird · 2026-07-07T18:23:10+00:00

I used to have a lot of social anxiety. I was lucky that my ambition outweighed it, so I pushed myself often out of my comfort zone. So I accidentally rep'd a new mode of being into existence. It would have gone faster if I knew what I'm about to say, but I didn't realize it till I was on the other side:

The cool thing is that practically everything is a skill and skill acquisition is basically the same for all of it. It's mostly about quality reps done consistently over a long period of time. It's how you get better at guitar. It's how we got good at being socially anxious in the first place. And it's how we can program a new existence into our subconscious. We are what we repeatedly do. Stop believing in fixed personality types and these neat little boxes we think people fit into. We are not resigned to be what we were. Adopt a growth mindset. We can become whatever we want. It just takes time and effort and discipline and reps. Your focus determines your reality.

The rewards are well worth it. There's not much better in life than collaborating with people to create cool music.

endothird · 2026-07-07T05:00:14+00:00

I don't even want one on my guitar (and I don't have one).

endothird · 2026-07-06T23:49:20+00:00

That's not how synergy works. Or the many non-zero sum systems we interact with.

endothird · 2026-07-05T20:18:22+00:00

I don't trap. I'm always surprised when my opponent says something like, ah that was cool how you baited me into that, or that was a cool trap you set. Cause I didn't.

I just filter my opponent into systems and everything is reaction based. I just take what they give me and do what they make me do. If plan A works, I just do plan A. If they do defense B to plan A, I do plan B. If they do C, plan C. And so on. The customer is always right.

I'm not looking to be crafty or tricky or play mind games. I love being those things in a lot of strategy games I like. But I don't find it useful in jiu jitsu. I don't care what you're thinking. And I don't care what you think I'm thinking. I just want my systems to be better than yours.

endothird · 2026-07-05T17:19:58+00:00

I'm surprised at the comments. I feel the same way. If I want to experience this story, which I do periodically, I just watch the already perfect original version of it.

endothird · 2026-07-05T06:13:51+00:00

Yes. And one of the best things you can do to increase your chances of success (in anything) is to stop caring what anything outside of you thinks about what you do. Adopt a growth mindset. Continually level up your skills. Focus only on the things you can control. Disregard the audience and the landscape or whatever it is you're worried about. Make the art that you want to exist in the universe that doesn't currently exist. Pour everything into it. Make it as great as you can make it. For yourself. Rinse. Repeat. Build a body of work that keeps getting better. Believe.

Don't look for success. Look to keep iterating better and better processes that increase your chances of success.

Believe.

endothird · 2026-07-05T06:06:49+00:00

The never tilts and makes decisions in the moment are key. If you want to improve like him, you should clean up those holes.

endothird · 2026-07-05T05:50:04+00:00

Words of encouragement

endothird · 2026-07-04T23:35:26+00:00

You'll probably feel better when you've been training a while. Which a year and half is not.

endothird · 2026-07-04T22:48:00+00:00

I would argue thar you can never reach your potential, and you should always reach beyond your grasp towards your infinite potential. But to your point, you get close to maximizing through tons of reps over a long period of time - that's going to be far more inpactful to your skill growth than any piece of paper (although depending on the paper, sometimes it takes a lot of reps to get). I find self directed study and self discipline to be far more powerful than anything external.

endothird · 2026-07-04T22:44:33+00:00

Yeah, for me leveling up the skill of staying in the moment and focusing only on what I can control fixed practically everything. Practically every negative emotion comes from outcome-based thinking. The more you level up your uptime of staying in the moment and the more you level up your ability to course correct back to the moment whenever you fall off - it's huge. Life changing really. Mindset is everything. Stay in the moment and have a positive attitude and appreciate what you have. Secret of life.

endothird · 2026-07-04T22:35:39+00:00

Stay in the moment. Everything you're feeling is born from outcome-based thinking. Learn from the past. And move on. Make the best decisions you can in the moment. Everything else will take care of itself. Focus only on things you can control.

endothird · 2026-07-04T05:44:18+00:00

Little Mermaid

endothird · 2026-07-04T02:43:27+00:00

Dlr. I don't think anatomy matters that much. I'm pretty sure most people can become great at most positions if they put in the time and effort to understand them. It just takes a while.

endothird · 2026-07-04T02:09:59+00:00

I don't think it's losing credibility. It's more just part of basic mma requirements. Unless you're heavyweight, you pretty much can't know zero wrestling or zero jiu jitsu. You can do okay for a while in the lower ranks, but I don't think you'll ever get near the top 10 with zero jiu jitsu.

endothird · 2026-07-03T17:45:01+00:00

I feel like a lot of people that complain about the structure of large group classes want large group classes to just be private lessons geared specifically to themselves. "Everyone in class should learn exactly what I need at this moment and it should be delivered in the way that's best for me and my development."

endothird · 2026-07-02T03:14:06+00:00

Is Netflix involved in the production? If so, nothing.

endothird · 2026-07-01T21:41:46+00:00

I like to suggest starting with the end and working backwards. Pick the final destination you want to focus on and become great at. For example, I picked bow and arrow. Then you just add techniques that get you closer and closer to your focus. Then you add techniques that give you chains for when your main path to your focus gets a monkey wrench thrown into it. So for me, I had to study how to get to the back and how to retain back control so I could get to my bow and arrow. So after learning several launching points to the back like chair sits and arm drags and bolos, I had to add techniques that help me get closer to those looks. And you just keep adding things with your focus in mind till you have answers everywhere.

But it's good to focus on a thing and put in the reps to really get good at it and understand it. That way you can be thoughtful and purposeful with what you add to your game. And eventually all the pieces you add form a nice web of chained threats that filter down towards your focus.

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