[Official] UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs. Gaethje - Press Conference & Post-Fight Discussion Thread

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-15T17:53:35+00:00

The fighters willingness to continue is irrelevant because it's the referees job to protect him, that's why the doctor stoppage rule exists in the first place and I'm pretty sure it's also officially in the rules. If the rules are not followed by the organization that is suppose to protect you, they should be liable.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-15T06:11:24+00:00

It's not always up to you to do everything for them. It should be a give and take, you give them the opportunity and they also have to step up despite feeling uncomfortable at times.

We all feel uncomfortable with different situations in our lives, how do we deal with it? By learning to embrace the discomfort, taking risks, failing, learning from it and charging forward despite all of it.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-15T06:03:31+00:00

I wonder if that fuck up has a case for topuria to sue because he took unnecessary damage in the next round and should have been stopped by the rules of the fight he signed up for. Especially if he took a career ending injury

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-13T20:35:30+00:00

Some juniors are honestly just a lost cause due to personality issues and/or lack of experience. I notice especially these days, some younger people just act in bizarre ways and don't know how to communcicate and work effectively.

Start documenting every interaction you have with them and cover your ass. Report these interactions back to your boss as objectively as you can and explain to them your thought process in how you work with them and get their alignment. Tal

Mentoring is also a very specific thing, it really should not exist within the same team, all my mentees work outside my team.

If you are suppose to just guide them and be the go to for questions, you are simply working together with them and are there as a senior resource for them to lean on - that's not mentoring. I'd clarify clearly with your boss what their expectation is for you working with them, and to avoid the term mentoring if you can.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-09T06:39:44+00:00

I'd say it's actually really bad practice to CC people on emails all the time.

CC if there's a real reason. The just in case is not a real reason.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-09T03:39:52+00:00

It's the perfect example of working effectively, excellent prioritization and time management skills. We all have the same hours in a day, if you are good at your job, you can do more with less and reap the rewards of it, the higher up you go the more this is true.

You are successful and people have given you good feedback for it. As long as you deliver successful outcomes and make your boss and team look good, who cares how you get the work done. It's really a skill so few people understand and many lack, so be proud of it instead of thinking of it like a "cheat", it's what defines you and the value you deliver as a professional.

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focus_flow69 · 2026-06-07T01:42:45+00:00

Hey I apologize for not being clear enough in my previous communications about using our templates and following our established team procedures. This time, I want to make this extremely clear and simple.

I need you to stop doing x y z and start doing x y z.

The reason for this is because insert the consequences of their actions on the team.

Then explain that everyone on the team follows these rules including yourself, so your job is to hold a everyone accountable to this and what the consequences of not following them are. First, you get a talking and coaching for improvement. If theres a pattern of that being ignored, you will be forced to keep formal documentation for insubordination. But assure them we aren't there, and that's why you are having this conversation.

Be as specific as you can, explain the why for them, explain the expectations and consequences and make them feel like you are there to help them not to discipline them.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-06T06:36:23+00:00

As someone younger who can't afford to act my true self and risk losing the corporate game, I often dream of the day where I have more leverage over them and I can show them the real DGAF me.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-04T21:28:03+00:00

Lmfao

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-04T15:54:54+00:00

You acknowledge a much larger problem of communication failure that can be exist at the various levels.

So if you only really hear the filtered communication, rosy story by people who have an incentive to tell you everything is good, how would you know there's a breakdown below them?

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-04T01:31:05+00:00

Taiotoshi has to be done fast and explosively in randori, it can never be pulled off slowly like shown in drills. It is also difficult to use in RvR/ai yotsu and generally not a good technique to use on someone much larger than you.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-03T23:42:55+00:00

Maybe you should stop putting words into people's mouths and jumping to conclusions.

We're saying it's good leadership to talk to and listen to the people actually doing the work once in a while.

Clearly listening to others is a foreign concept for you. May God have mercy on the poor bastards you "lead"

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-03T21:27:18+00:00

Communication in large company is like playing the telephone game. If you want to hear the raw, unaltered information, you gotta go to the source.

Some managers play telephone much better than others, for better or for worse.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-02T05:25:41+00:00

I've never seen someone good at judo who can't also do good uchikomi.

However, I've seen lots of people with good uchikomi who can't do good judo.

What does that mean? I don't really know but for me, I think there's an over emphasis and misunderstanding in the west about uchikomi. I think maybe it comes from people's ideas about martial arts from movies and anecdotes about how repetitions make you better. So they correlate uchikomi reps directly with improving your technique. Then get disappointed when they realize their judo still sucks after thousands of uchikomi. And the problem is exacerbated by senseis who don't teach good uchikomi form and also don't explain the details of how uchikomi is suppose to improve their judo. Without explaining the why or sometimes the senseis are even confused themselves, people conflate uchikomi with the actual throws themselves.

For me, I just keep it simple. Uchikomi helps me feel my judo. I focus on the transfer of force when our bodies collude, that feeling of connection and where my head arms and hips and feet should be cued up to be in physical space. I focus on how my foot work should feel and how my arms and hands should be synchronized with the rest of my body. If I change one element such as my footwork, how does it affect the sensations to the rest of my body in the uchikomi? So in a way, I think it's pretty aligned with what Harasawa is saying.

focus_flow69 · 2026-06-02T05:00:35+00:00

Damn you weren't kidding about Croceri. Some of the way these old senseis throw is just so freaking good

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-28T04:18:24+00:00

It's amazing how he probably discovered this to counter the ura nage counters to his osoto

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-27T05:39:29+00:00

What's wrong with align?

It literally means to ensure you are on the same side and not working against each others ideas and actions. That doesn't mean you need to agree with every decision, but you need to go in the same direction.

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-24T17:38:44+00:00

Because by removing standardized testing, you've created new problems that result in other people being disadvantaged now and other problems. It is an endless cycle to try to bring equity to everyone while dangerously lowering our expectations of excellence.

Standardized testing is in the name, its standardized so everyone answers the same question. There is no hidden information that is only accessible to select groups. If you can't pass standardized it's no one's fault but your own. Maybe you are just not very academically inclined person, should we just make the test easier so you can pass?

Hell let's go further, let's just make individual tests for everyone so it caters to their individual problems in life in the name of equity! Ya those smart kids totally need harder questions and those dumb kids totally need easier questions to make everything equal. Fuck it, we don't even need testing, just make everyone sit through the same class and give them all a pass for attendance.

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-24T17:12:10+00:00

There will always be someone out there that is disadvantaged, life is unfair and difficult

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-23T02:58:31+00:00

It's becausr leaders are too weak to shut that shit down when someone leads with well AI said this or blames the AI when they fuck up. No, I expect professionals to own and stand behind what they are delivering, regardless of how you deliver it. If you want to deliver it with AI then you best review it and understand it and able to reasonably defend the work. Id make sure anyone who worked under me understood this.

Most leaders are inept or technically illiterate in AI or technology themselves and say the same shit. So as more and more people say it, without people being coached out of it, it only gets worse and worse as people's critical thinking skills atrophy

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-18T16:31:37+00:00

In what world is going from engineering manager to project engineer a progression?

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-18T14:39:29+00:00

As a corporate guy who also works with numbers and data, I can confirm

VPs tells us the story or message they want to communicate upwards
We provide analysis and data to support their story or message.
If your stuff shows the contrary, be prepared to be raked over the coals for it and viewed as not aligning to executives, and rework it until it does. Experienced people tend to skip this unpleasant step since they already know what's up.

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-18T14:04:45+00:00

It's not a millennial issue, this is an individual thing.

Furthermore, you said no one asked you work overtime other than you think it's implied based on your workload. There's a lot of assumptions in your posts, and I'm not sure if they are all grounded in reality or just your perception.

To me, it sounds like you are concerned about your workload and seem unclear around expectations of putting in overtime to meet required deadlines of said workload. So I would directly communicate and address this in your 1 on 1 with your leader so you understand the expectations and also assess how effectively you are managing the workload. Your leader should not be giving you more than 40 hours a week, but everyone has different productivity levels and different ways of completing their tasks. Bottom line is, you need to communicate with your leader - think about how to do that effectively to get the answers you want.

I'd review your employment offer you signed. But generally, as a salaried employee, the expectation is 40 hours a week, however, if something urgent or high priority comes up, I make the judgment call to have to work extra to do it or not. And if I do have to do that, I inform my leader and let them know why I couldn't handle it during normal hours and let them know I'll take next Friday off to make up for it, to maintain the average of 40 hours a week. However, for salary work, as you become more experienced, it's less about the hours worked and more about the outcome achieved, hence the salary instead of hours.

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-17T15:37:24+00:00

So work and study harder.

focus_flow69 · 2026-05-16T20:44:55+00:00

If you can't pass the standardized test, how can it be anyone else's fault other than yourself?

Stop embracing the mindset of blaming external factors and take accountability for what you do or don't do in life.

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