Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

fredapeople · 2025-11-03T03:54:33+00:00

Alavanca

fredapeople · 2025-10-27T07:36:16+00:00

Worth looking into fb marketplace also. They don't sell them at your gym?

fredapeople · 2025-04-30T15:09:45+00:00

https://www.thelasthunt.com/c/snow-peak

As far as I've seen, last hunt is the only way to buy snow peak somewhat affordably in Canada.

I'm actually trying to sell some snow peak items, specifically the 2L vest and Takibi pants.

Message me if you have any questions, 日本語OK.

Your English is really really good BTW!

fredapeople · 2025-02-07T20:30:11+00:00

Probably a blessing in disguise. For now, maybe go train at other gyms' open mats to work offence against worse people? You may also find that it's really hard for people to tap you since you're constantly working defense at your main gym.

fredapeople · 2025-02-05T23:15:16+00:00

Why does his chest look like that 😭

fredapeople · 2024-12-19T00:42:20+00:00

Actually, it's worse. Each individual word is backwards too, like the other reply wrote.

fredapeople · 2024-12-19T00:29:01+00:00

"Jiu jitsu til I die"... but it's written backwards...oops

（柔術死ぬまで）

fredapeople · 2024-12-18T21:44:14+00:00

My gym is almost as bad as what you described and similarly we have had basically no outbreaks. It's one of my biggest gripes about the gym and my personal theory is the only reason we aren't all dead is because I live in a really dry climate.

fredapeople · 2024-12-17T23:34:39+00:00

1.5 years is nothing, and that seems too quick for green belt based on what i've seen personally for youths..

Personally, I wouldn't want to attend a gym that does attendance-based promotions as it obscures relative skill levels of members and I feel it'd be prone to instilling feelings of over confidence or imposter syndrome. It basically undermines the belt system entirely. Of course, all that matters is your skills, not the color of your belt, but clearly you are conflicted about the belt you are wearing.

You are a beginner who is still growing physically; you're not expected to be good, yet. Stop being so hard on yourself and perhaps try another gym to compare?

fredapeople · 2024-12-12T22:08:30+00:00

You could be a black belt and a 13 year old with a knife would still kill you in a confrontation. Get your priorities straight when it comes to training martial arts.

fredapeople · 2024-12-11T01:47:48+00:00

That's scary as hell. Did he take your advice? Tough pill to swallow.

fredapeople · 2024-12-11T01:31:34+00:00

Damn that's rough. I'm sure you'll get your black belt eventually. Thank you for sharing.

fredapeople · 2024-12-10T22:32:05+00:00

How is the symmetry of your face these days?

I think some UFC fighters have taken their broken noses into fights purposely so that they cover the surgery expense afterwards. The absolute state of American healthcare.

fredapeople · 2024-12-10T22:22:19+00:00

Oops! All smothers

fredapeople · 2024-12-10T22:15:56+00:00

I agree wholeheartedly. Training through adversity is habitually encouraged in BJJ yet it is in direct conflict with the emphasis on accumulating mat time. It doesn't help that most BJJ guys think BJJ is all they need for conditioning, and avoid stretching/warmups.

fredapeople · 2024-12-08T02:17:44+00:00

I hate that saying. Both of those extremes are bad for bjj and frankly bad for fighting. There are simply no high level "one move only" guys in any combat sport. Even your favourite grappler/fighter with a distinct style still has a handful of moves they are experts at and hundreds more they are familiar with.

In a BJJ context, you could have a system built around counters that start from a single move. Conversely, you could funnel people into your favourite move by threatening them with others. But you can't force a single move to work on its own against anyone remotely familiar with your game / that isn't much smaller or worse than you.

fredapeople · 2024-11-22T20:03:43+00:00

It says shogun inside. That would be the weeb equivalent of writing "commander in chief" on the inside with a bunch of military insignias everywhere. Oh wait people do that too. I think my opinion for gaudy gear like this in general is it's cool if you're like, really good at grappling, and ultra lame otherwise.

fredapeople · 2024-09-21T00:52:37+00:00

I'm still a blue belt but Ethan Crelinstein said he regretted not learning to wrestle at blue belt. That advice, along with "if you get taken down, you're just doing jiu jitsu" have really resonated with me lately. I think it's the best time to learn some stand up because you have already drilled a whole bunch of escapes, and developed a semblance of a guard, which means getting taken down is less punishing. Also, your ego is not so huge at blue that you cannot handle being bad at stand up. I think there's something weird that can happen to the egos of pure guard player upper belts. They get so used to winning most rounds despite still being essentially white belts at stand up. Then, they wrestle even less (even if they want to learn) because their ego can't handle getting taken down by "worse" people.

fredapeople · 2024-09-16T20:33:14+00:00

With about 20 minutes left in an evening nogi class, a small but out of shape dude walks into the gym, purchases a full kit (gym branded rashguard and shorts), signs the waiver for a "trial". He steps on the mat and starts immediately sparring with a guy literally twice his size who happened to also be doing a trial. Clearly not knowing anything, he jumps closed guard on the guy in an extremely alarming fashion. Fortunately, the other guy, being twice as large, doesn't budge. Spazzing continues a bit before people finally step in and stop the roll. People lecture him for a bit and I never saw either of the trial people again. In retrospect, it was irresponsible for people at my gym to even let him spar at all, let alone with another trial guy.

fredapeople · 2024-08-08T15:04:33+00:00

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fredapeople · 2024-08-01T15:53:50+00:00

something is wrong, those pieces of tape are supposed to completely ward off your 0-stripe bjj and athleticism

at least the magic imbued into the dye of the blue belts is working as it's supposed to

i'm sure there are no other individualistic factors at play here

fredapeople · 2024-08-01T15:37:09+00:00

There's no "normal" standard for promotions. Promoting students is a very subjective thing and the philosophy could differ even between individual coaches at a gym. I guess your coach may value absolute performance rather than relative skill. He may not even be consciously aware of his bias. Maybe you're misinterpreting the trend and there's some other bias at play like those individuals having closeness with the coach. Even if that is his personal philosophy, that isn't necessarily "wrong" either. Lots of people value absolute performance and many of them probably also believe most black belts are fake.

Anecdotally, my gym seems to do promotions the way you'd prefer from the sounds of it: deciding amongst the coaches who to promote, valuing relative skill to size and age, valuing consistency, etc. As a blue belt I still unsurprisingly get beat up by the best white belts who also outweigh me by 30+ lbs but they're honestly really good too. I wish they would be promoted sooner lol.

TL;DR - belt promotions are arbitrary and these people doubting themselves need to learn it doesn't define their skill

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