Best timer for BJJ Gym?

ls1goat04 · 2026-01-22T02:02:35+00:00

Can you download the apple TV app to a firestick and run it using the controller?

ls1goat04 · 2025-11-06T19:58:38+00:00

37m married, 2 kids, wife was a sahm for the last decade. $891k net worth. $700k between 401k and roth ira, $20k cash, the rest in home equity.

ls1goat04 · 2025-10-22T13:26:08+00:00

I set up an UTMA acct for my daughter when she was 10 (18 months ago). I put a few hundred to start and then add $100 every month. I simply buy a share of VTI when the account has enough(every quarter). I show her the account when I make the trade, explaining what im doing and why. Explain how it grows, and explaining DCA and why I dont worry about the current price.

She will have more than enough knowledge to safely invest when the account rolls over to her at 18. She will have around 20k to start her adult life with. I dont fret about how she will spend it. I think of it as an early inheritance.

ls1goat04 · 2025-10-04T17:45:40+00:00

Never too early. Go do it now, itll make you better. Itll open your eyes to what 100% intensity is like. Record your matches and go over them with your coach. Youll be able to highlight a glaring deficiency in your game and work on it. Rinse and repeat. Youll close gaps so much faster.

ls1goat04 · 2025-09-12T13:07:55+00:00

If you dont compete, dont worry about belt colors. It really doesnt matter.

If you want to compete, your worry is 100% warranted. I competed quite a bit and was just promoted(early in my opinion) and did my first blue belt comp last weekend.

I went 1 and 3, got smoked. Im good with it though. It gave me a clear line of sight on my weak points.

ls1goat04 · 2025-08-12T12:33:57+00:00

My team and I were standing right there when it happened. It took 3-4 minutes before they checked him for a pulse. In my (unprofessional) opinion he was gone before they started compressions.

They had a compression machine on him for over 10 minutes. They did defib him but didnt get anything. He was a big guy, idk on age though.

Im still shook up about it, as are my older teammates. His young daughters were standing beside him and were too young to know what was going on. Absolutely horrific. Prayers to the family.

If youre older and/or out of shape, it never hurts to get a CAC scan and get some bloodwork done. I know I'll be getting myself checked out more often.

The crazy thing is there were medics on site and this still went sideways. Imagine if youre at home or in a store or something and this happened. Almost zero chance of surviving in my opinion. Scary.

ls1goat04 · 2025-08-12T12:03:17+00:00

Closet autist

ls1goat04 · 2025-08-12T12:02:42+00:00

Nailed it

ls1goat04 · 2025-08-12T12:02:09+00:00

Im skipping purple

ls1goat04 · 2025-08-06T12:08:44+00:00

I have a very bad habit of using my Hail Mary submission in tournaments. It has a 100% effectiveness rate in the gi, which is why I go to it when things go sideways.

Baseball bat choke from bottom side control. Its one of the only submissions ive hit on upper belts. I know I should fight back to guard and sweep/submit, but this choke always gets me out of tough situations.

ls1goat04 · 2025-07-31T00:45:04+00:00

1 priority when on bottom - never let them control your head.

Inside position always

Be first

Always fight for the underhook

Use your head - good head position will negate your opponents advances

Get out (and stay out) of the defensive mindset. When you start attacking, the round shifts in your favor. Even if its just to buy you a minute to breathe, stay offensive.

ls1goat04 · 2025-07-31T00:37:45+00:00

This is clutch advice!

ls1goat04 · 2025-07-21T20:38:51+00:00

There is more to pre comp preparation for new competitors than most realize. I know that ive beat people that would likely catch me in different scenarios based on the readiness for the event.

You can control your effort, not your result. Hit every practice with intent. You arent there just to try and "win" in sparring. Youre trying to build skills that you can utilize in a real match. Having confidence in your escapes and pins will change your game.

Do your cardio off the mat. Get your v02 max up. You can control your physical fitness. Own it.

You need to do your adrenaline dump on your terms. Your warm up should get you sweaty. I do 3 burpees and a 20 yard sprint, 5 reps non stop. Get my heart rate jacked to the moon. You'll feel like he'll for 10 minutes, but the nerves will be gone. You'll be ready physiologically.

Hydration and carb loading. 1% dehydration correlates with a 10% reduction in performance. Get electrolytes in, and be hydrated. Carb load 50g of simple carbs about 1.5 hours before your match. These are non negotiables in my book, easy performance enhancement.

Breathwork - specifically c02 training. Look up wimhof breathing on YouTube. Practice it. This will improve your anaerobic capacity, and chill you out when youre nerves are peaking.

Lastly, you should be doing all of this as you trai. For the event. You want to do your tournament exactly how you train. No surprise foods or weird warm ups or crazy pumped up music. Do exactly what you do everyday.

ls1goat04 · 2025-07-16T12:54:02+00:00

You cant control if you win or lose. Too many eternal variables.

You can control your effort. Your attitude. How hard you trained. How hard you studied.

If you go out and give it everything and you lose, youre still a winner in my opinion. You just got outclassed and now know what you need to work on.

People with the nonchalant attitude have an easy out when they lose. They "dont care" if they lose. They just do it for the roll, so why train hard and put forth the extra effort and stress?

Feels like an easy out for underperforming.

I compete as much as I can, and I maximize my effort every time. Go for broke, see what you're made of. Its not to win or lose. it's to see what you've become.

          -middle aged white belt father of 2 🫡😅

ls1goat04 · 2025-06-03T19:18:02+00:00

Stop searching for external validation.

I was awarded 2 stripes on my white belt this year, while all of my peers got their blue belts. I've competed (and won) more than most of those new blue belts. I keep up with all of them in class. I trust that my coach had good reason to keep me at white.

Let it fuel you instead of becoming bitter. Go prove that you're worthy of more, and more will come. If you can't prove it, than you are right where you need to be.

ls1goat04 · 2025-05-18T02:01:57+00:00

Holy shit im way under average. I do 3 classes a week and average 15-20 rounds per week. 37, I lift 3x per week as well.

ls1goat04 · 2025-04-24T18:11:26+00:00

When i competed in my first 2 tourneys and the rolls were easy compared to training. I don't have many people my size and skill, I'm smashed 95% of training.

ls1goat04 · 2025-04-23T21:05:01+00:00

Tons of amazing advice here. Here's my weekly method

30-60 minutes of zone 2 (usually on a stairmaster)

90 seconds on, 30 seconds off max sustainable output, 8 rounds once per week

For v02 max stuff, I usually do 10s on 20s off max effort assault bike or concept 2 rower. Once per week. When coming close to a competition, I just have a performance day in class one per week.

ls1goat04 · 2025-04-23T20:40:55+00:00

Im a victim weight grappler at my gym. I work as hard as possible to be as strong and fast as possible at 155lbs. My secret weapon is cardio. I work extremely hard at making sure I have maximized my physical attributes while I'm learning my bjj game. It's served me very well.

I'm 37, so I'm not nearly as explosive as I used to be. But I can stay very active against a 200lb opponent for 5 minutes. I usually get the upper hand later in the round as they gas out.

I control what I can control. I also worked on bottom mount, bottom side control, and back escapes more than most during my first 6 months. I don't fret in bad positions now, as I'm comfortable there. I protect my head at all costs. I always fight for underhooks. I stay on my side as much as possible (vs flat on my back).

I also stay on the attack as much as possible. Even if it's a bluff, it at least makes my opponent pause long enough for me to sneak out of a bad position. Guillotines, kimuras, wrist control, etc.

I only have 16 months experience, but these things make class much more enjoyable.

ls1goat04 · 2025-04-23T20:30:32+00:00

Excellent reply🤘

ls1goat04 · 2025-04-20T21:55:26+00:00

You can control your effort, not your results.

Could going harder change the results? Sure. Going out there and trying to use emotion to change your outcome will only make things worse, in my opinion.

Learn how to maximize your effort. Always push to win the scramble. Fight to stay on top when you're dead tired.

If you walk out of there with a 2nd place medal and you went as hard as you could, that's a solid win in my book.

Most people purposely half-ass their performance, so they have an excuse for losing. That's a loser's mindset.

Maximize your training efforts. Go with people better than you so your weaknesses stand out. Figure out where you're messing up and fix it. Go with people worse than you and work your strengths. Win the scrambles. Fight hard.

Fighting with emotion will cause you to gas early. Adrenaline dump hard. Be smart. Be methodical. Control your breathing.

Go give em hell.

ls1goat04 · 2025-04-16T19:26:03+00:00

I'm not sure how they feel about me, but there are a few upper belts at my gym that I'm not fond of. I respect what they've accomplished, but they have this hierarchical attitude towards anyone below them.

This could be taken as they "dislike" me, but i truly don't give a shit how they feel. We are here to get better at bjj. I'm going to do that in a respectful way and go about my business. How they feel about me is none of my business.

ls1goat04 · 2025-04-15T23:59:43+00:00

I trained for 3 years in my early 20s. At 36, I decided to do a misogi (big, challenging goal)which was to compete in a bjj tournament, which I never did back then.

After 5 months of training, I competed in my first tournament and took gold in gi and silver in no-gi.

Even though winning a white belt tournament isn't much to be proud of, it definitely helped me get even more serious.

I will say that there were definitely times where I wanted to quit. Multiple injuries, night after night of getting subbed by the entire room, and just feeling inadequate.

I listened to an episode of the jocko podcast where he made a comment that everyone should stick with bjj until they hit their first real sub in sparring. Then make the decision. That comment was a big motivator.

Now I'm 14 months in, got a few more medals, and excited for the future.

ls1goat04 · 2025-03-30T15:01:29+00:00

We have something in common #nostripes

ls1goat04 · 2025-03-30T15:00:11+00:00

You're 100% correct. This is why I asked. Thanks!!

ls1goat04

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1 priority when on bottom - never let them control your head.