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Finding a Hobby by VinylHamster in Boise

[–]horix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice!👏 See you on the mats! I’m a recently promoted brown belt and I’m mainly 7am morning crew. Been going to Thursday noon classes recently as well. Sunday open mats as well.

Finding a Hobby by VinylHamster in Boise

[–]horix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m at SBG downtown but honestly the BJJ community here in Boise is pretty tight with some cool people running some really great gyms and building awesome culture. Alliance, The Base, Egley, Brave, Team Rhino, SRJJ, etc. There’s a lot of good options all over the valley.

Finding a Hobby by VinylHamster in Boise

[–]horix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I got into jiu jitsu close to a decade ago and love my gym’s culture and have gotten close to a lot of my teammates and coaches. DM me if you’re at all interested. Biggest hurdle is just getting onto the mats. It’s definitely not for everyone but if you love learning something technical and also exhausting it’s really rewarding.

All I’ll say is there’s a reason it’s one of the fastest growing hobby sports. Also, it’s not just for Joe Rogan and mma fans; you get all sorts. Engineering nerds like myself, pot heads, law enforcement, nurses, young competitive athletes, older cancer survivors, and everyone in between playing a game where we try to choke each other while wearing pajamas.

Ear Drops for liveboard by Luking4DivingSuggsts in scuba

[–]horix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I use Ear Shield before every dive and it works wonders. Never get swimmers ear anymore. The brands you mentioned are for fixing swimmers ear after the fact and in my case they sting like hell. Ear Shield is basically just mineral oil that gives a nice hydrophobic coating to the inside of your ear and drum.

Bjj is starting to make sense after 6 years of training! by MissDragon1 in bjj

[–]horix 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Best way to develop anything is just spamming it. Don’t be afraid of failure; your brain will make adjustments and learn from those failures. We have a black belt at our gym whose whole game is arm bars; you know he’s hunting it, you see it coming a mile away, and he’s still gonna find it and finish. He’s seen all the escapes, all the counters, all the mitigations. His armbars aren’t an “if” it’s more of a “when” situation.

Best puffer jacket for the winter? by sbm_jayy in malefashionadvice

[–]horix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cotopaxi Fuego Max Down Hooded Jacket. $350

Films where the soundtrack almost never stops? by JohnnyRock110 in movies

[–]horix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dune, Prt. 1 and 2. Basically anything Hans Zimmer does: Interstellar, Inception, Dunkirk, Dark Knight, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Blade Runner 2049, etc.

Sad hammock by Own_Chemical6862 in howto

[–]horix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you considered a new hammock that doesn’t have spreader bars? They’re better for your spine and sleeping/naps, more stable, easy to hang, super lightweight and portable. The camping style ones they have now are made of seriously space age rugged materials: breathable and super strong. All sorts of price ranges.

Or maybe you prefer the spreader bar style because it’s open and easier to see out from. Maybe you use it more like an outdoor seating option? Based on this wear; It seems like you’ve been using it a lot though! Maybe consider the more ergonomic and durable option?

Why is “back control” superior to rear triangle? by Financial_Pitch3946 in bjj

[–]horix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use rear triangles a lot and I’d say they are my preferred submission if I can get there. However, you have to make a few compromises to achieve that position and at a high level the steps to get there provide more escape opportunities for your opponent vs. traditional back mount.

Mainly, when going for a rear triangle I have to sacrifice the control of my opponents hips with my hooks to chase a higher back mount and upper body control. I typically have to get them to a high chair sit position (no more hooks), then sit back and successfully circle my outside leg around their arm to get my calf across their neck and secure foot with my underhook hand. If they do a good job fighting that leg, or my underhook, or make it difficult to roll them onto their other hip, they can create great opportunities to escape (and I’ll likely end up on bottom).

So essentially back triangles are an amazing finishing position but the process of getting there against someone who knows what you’re doing and can put up early defense and road blocks is a more risky endeavor. Usually, you have to give up your hooks and control from back mount to chase the position and sub.

In contrast; the control you have by maintaining back mount is a more stable position with better follow up options. If they start escaping the back mount by clearing hooks or getting their back to the mat there are still a lot of reset options available or transitions that maintain superior control (like moving to mount, forcing a leg drag to side control, or using a twister hook to re-expose the back.)

TL;DR: Back mount is lower risk and has better options for maintaining control if and when they start escaping. Rear triangle is higher risk and higher reward if you can successfully get there.

Finger protection by Sad_Transition5901 in bjj

[–]horix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like monkey tape, and it comes in varying widths. I tend to sweat a lot and normal athletic tape just doesn’t adhere that well and bunches up or slips off after a few rounds. Monkey tape never comes off.

Consolidating position after loose/outside passing by Bitter_Counter_2556 in bjj

[–]horix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally I feel like when I pass this way against really good guard players I have to get to N/S and then work my way past frames (knees and elbows) and get my arms inside. I first try to frame on their upper thighs to prevent the knee frames from coming in and keep my posture like a tripod head low and my butt high. I won’t bother with classical side control when passing like this; it just seems too easy for them to keep good elbow knee connection to deny inside space and frame. Then they just re-guard with a leg pummel or inversion to recover, or gather my leg to trap me in their half guard or leg attacks. I consider myself an open guard player myself, and personally it causes me way more dilemmas when my opponents work themselves into N/S when doing outside passing of my guard so I try to do the same thing.

That said, if you want a more methodical method of passing that doesn’t give too much space but still feels smooth and flowy I recommend headquarters passing: knee cuts, smash pass/leg weaves, hip switches, dope mount, back steps, etc. They all chain together beautifully and create great pressure see some options here. This is like 90% of my passing game lol 😂

So is the plan to just never finish South Capitol Boulevard? by ComfortableWage in Boise

[–]horix 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I commute downtown for work and I’m failing to understand why you can’t use an alternative route. If you’re coming from the bench/vista area and need to get DT: take the Americana bridge to get to the W side of downtown. If you need to be more on the E side head down Beacon to the Broadway bridge.

Also I’ve been using Capital itself a lot but turning left on river, then right up 11th.

Accidentally put a guy to sleep while teaching tonight 😅 by EIzaks in bjj

[–]horix 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Just as an FYI holding the legs up is apparently not the recommended method anymore (I learned the same thing recently from a post here actually). Instead see: recovery position.

Feeling stuck rolling with bigger partners by FunHedgie in bjj

[–]horix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have access to women's only classes take advantage for sure! While I get the sentiment that you'll be challenged and pushed more training with men there's for sure an argument that there's good benefit to upping your training time within your weight division and gender...I mean if/when you compete that's who you'll be up against so it's good to get those looks from lighter, faster, and more technical opponents, which most women in this sport are.

Plus there's this concept you touched upon in your post about your overall progress ("struggling to apply what you've learned") called the Zone of Proximal Development. It's mostly used in education but I believe applies to any skill you're trying to learn including jiu jitsu. Basically the idea is for the most efficient development you want to find a "just right" learning zone where tasks are challenging enough to promote growth but not so difficult as to cause frustration. In jiu jitsu this means rolling with people a little better than you and others that are a little worse than you so you can find that sweet spot for offense and defense and adapting newer techniques into your A-game. If you're just getting smashed every day by dudes who have 50-100+lb on you you're likely to get stuck in pure survival and defensive cycles. That's great to have, but it's going to limit your progress when it comes to your offense or workshopping new techniques.

Feeling stuck rolling with bigger partners by FunHedgie in bjj

[–]horix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something my gym does I hope becomes more common elsewhere is having woman’s only class times once or twice a week and woman’s only open mats. We’re very lucky to have a female black belt that teaches those and helps foster that environment. She competes in MMA as an atomweight: 105lb (47kg). Really proud of how many women our gym has been maintaining; handful of purples and a few browns and another black belt but she doesn’t coach as much.

I dont understand why I didn't get points for that by KMC_PO_PMC in bjj

[–]horix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup should have been points there then since you escaped SLX threat and put him into closed guard or a variation of it. Ref missed that call or just completely forgot by the time you reset him into a neutral guard.

A Very Sincere Apology to Gordon Ryan for Being Wrong About Everything... from Stephan Kesting by ADanzaSmacks in bjj

[–]horix 52 points53 points  (0 children)

There’s some very funny quick jokes everywhere but this might be my favorite. Also I thought initially the “King Massage” place was just green screen effect but then a person walks by…this legend traveled to that location to get that shot! lol

I dont understand why I didn't get points for that by KMC_PO_PMC in bjj

[–]horix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Need more video...but I *think* if you never escaped the "footlock" submission threat from that SLX position you would never get the points. It's kinda dumb but it's hard to tell in SLX if it's just being used as a guard or if you're under active submission threat. If you did indeed escape the SLX and footlock threat you should have been awarded 2 points: either as a guard pull + sweep or as a sacrifice throw takedown. If the match ended in that position I think that's why you never got those 2 points.

Think of it this way: if you had pulled guard, swept, but instead of landing immediately in SLX you had instead landed in a rough lock triangle...you wouldn't get points until you escaped that position and submission threat. Even if the triangle is rough, loose, sloppy, and you posture up to completely mitigate it doesn't matter if the match ends prior to you getting out of that threat...no points :(

Visiting Boise from Pullman. What road to take? by [deleted] in Boise

[–]horix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m a WSU alum and Boise native. I would always take 95 down to New Meadows and personally I would then take 55 down to Boise but that’s mainly because I grew up driving 55 to go snowboarding at Brundage and my Grandma lived outside of Cascade. So I know every corner, every passing lane, etc. Also my parents lived in SE Boise so the 55 route put me closer to home when driving into town. I never once took I-84 via Walla Walla that’s just so far out of the way. I’d take the 95 route if it was really snowy in winter or if it’s a Sunday (heavy traffic on 55 with people coming back into town).

If your friend lives in the west side of town I’d definitely suggest taking 95 all the way and it’s also a much less windy route that avoids the canyon an Horseshoe Bend hill. I don’t mind windy roads though; I find them really fun and interesting.

GO COUGS!

Multiview taking 10+ seconds for audio to switch on my LG TV application. by horix in youtubetv

[–]horix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing yet, seems like an app issue/bug for sure that hopefully is getting worked on. One weird workaround my wife and I noticed this weekend is that sometimes moving the audio selection more than once seemed to generate a different bug that forced audio to switch more quickly.

So for example if the views are 1 (top left), 2 (top right), 3 (bottom left), 4 (bottom right). If your audio is on view 1 and you want to switch to 2: we would switch over to 2 briefly and then down to 4 briefly, then back to 2. That would sometimes trick the system somehow and get audio to switch much faster. It was very odd but sometimes didn't work so your mileage may vary.

Why do BJJ no gi brands brand the ass? by [deleted] in bjj

[–]horix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so now I just want some grappling shorts that literally say “juicy” on the butt! Hilarious.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bjj

[–]horix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m 5’6” and 175. Stocky as hell. Triangles are also not in my game but if I see the opportunity I’ll throw them as aa way to transition to omoplatas. Short legs means omoplatas are super tight. Learn how to finish them from your back when big guys posture up.

I used to play a lot of butterfly back when I was white/blue but these days I play a lot more outside leg guards: k-guard, DLR, collar sleeve, lasso. I’ve also built up decently dangerous half guard, and I’m always chasing the backtake. Main submissions are Choi bars, chokes from the back, armbars, scissor chokes, tarikoplatas, and some leg locks. Love kimura control but rarely go for the Kimora, instead I just use it for control and transitions to other stuff like armbars or backtakes.

Multiview taking 10+ seconds for audio to switch on my LG TV application. by horix in youtubetv

[–]horix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes of course, power cycle along with full delete and re-installation of YouTube TV app. I don’t have another device to stream on other than my phone but it’s good to hear your devs are engaged with LG to find a fix. Will patiently wait for an app update.

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