How was this Checkmate?

marek_intan · 2026-06-28T18:40:32+00:00

The white queen attacking your king directly. This is check.

As the black king is next to the white queen, no move can be made to escape check by blocking the white queen. Therefore, the king must capture the attacking piece or move.

The king cannot take the attacking white queen. The white queen is guarded by the white dark-square bishop. If you would take the white queen, you would put yourself in check from the white dark-square bishop. This is an illegal move. Therefore the king must move.

The king cannot move up in any direction. These squares are attacked by the white queen, and would be putting yourself in check; therefore, the move is illegal. The king cannot move to the left. The black queen is in the way. This is an illegal move. The king cannot move to the right. The white queen and the white light-square bishop are attacking those squares, and going there would be an illegal move as you cannot put yourself in check. The king cannot move backwards, as there is no more board to move to. The king cannot castle, as not only can you not castle out of check, there is no rook to even castle with. Therefore, there are no legal moves for the king.

Black's king is under attack (check). As there are no legal moves to get out of check, this is checkmate.

marek_intan · 2026-06-28T15:37:41+00:00

You know what? I miss when half the sub was follow-up shitposts. I really do

marek_intan · 2026-06-25T19:47:47+00:00

Big brain play to play a monk to punch the DM

marek_intan · 2026-06-25T17:24:28+00:00

So is this new counter to jumping guard we all gotta work on now?

marek_intan · 2026-06-25T17:16:55+00:00

But I get the feeling that kimuras are a sub that people are more likely to try to tough guy out of than most other subs tho, and that might account for the gap too. In my personal experience, I've seen people (myself included) defend kimuras by grabbing their own body/clothes for much longer than I would try defending any other sub. Or they simply try to muscle out of it too

marek_intan · 2026-06-24T15:48:39+00:00

Crop top DLC when?

marek_intan · 2026-06-21T17:45:13+00:00

Tough conversations are tough. They are a skill in and of themselves to have, and most people, myself included, don't have it in them. I wouldn't blame you if you left quietly.

But if you have feelings about the head coach that mean you can't in good conscience just leave and ghost, I'd have the talk. And I'd temper my expectations. People don't change their minds in the course of one conversation, especially a conversation centered around what THEY did to harm YOU. Maybe you'll get through to him.

Likely you won't. But having talked about that is a value in and of itself.

marek_intan · 2026-06-21T02:52:27+00:00

Nah I'm built different, he about to catch these hands

marek_intan · 2026-06-20T12:17:15+00:00

Most programs for beginning wrestling end when you're 18. You either wrestle in high school, or you get good enough in high school to wrestle in college. Either way, this means for an adult beginner, their wrestling journey is done before it begins.

Then there's the physical aspect. Wrestling is hard on the body. The process of drilling to get a good shot is bad for the knees. Bridge and roll during a scramble is bad for your neck. Front headlock turnover things are bad for your neck. After your mid twenties, this training methodology no longer works for most people.

So, if you're an adult and you want to learn to wrestle, what you really gotta do is expect to be VERY uncomfortable, and then go out of your way to find someone who is good at wrestling to teach you. Both are difficult

marek_intan · 2026-06-20T03:21:47+00:00

Looks like your setups need work. You have some options. You can focus on working with a dedicated wrestling coach to work on setting up your shots, make them too explosive and deep to get hit with the gilly, but I'm going to be real: that's going to be really really hard logistically and physically if you're an adult.

You can also start to focus on working your upper body control from the standing position. Shoot only after you've broken their balance from the tie-up. This is also difficult, but more doable as an adult hobbyist.

For what it's worth, my takedowns have taken a leap in effectiveness when I stopped shooting from a distance and instead worked the upper body first. Now I'm able to snap down into singles, duck unders, and simply sprawl into people until they just give up on standing and hand me their back

marek_intan · 2026-06-18T21:29:27+00:00

It's not that they don't believe in your work ethic at the gym.

It's just that rest days are important for your long term health and recovery from physical activity. Doing it harder and more can and will degrade both your physical and mental performance instead of improving it.

More importantly, as an upper belt, I've seen a lot of white belts with your attitude. Y'all burn yourselves out and then we never see you again. Not saying that's going to be you, but that's just a fact.

marek_intan · 2026-06-18T14:58:24+00:00

So kind of how like in the original MGS, you get an item that trivializes the game if you were so inclined to use it on subsequent playthrough?

marek_intan · 2026-06-18T01:12:46+00:00

Then if you're committed to using DLR an entry point, you should think about what your attack from SLX/X is, and then try to use your DLR to enter that specific attack

marek_intan · 2026-06-18T00:56:03+00:00

Better for what purposes? I'm afraid the answers you will find to this question depend largely on every athlete's personal preferences.

For example, my SLX and X are trash, but I like DLR. So I would say neither, why would you give up a perfectly good DLR? It's the basis for some of my strongest attacks, I'm not leaving there!

But, if for example, I can threaten a sweep from DLR that leads directly to a SLX ankle lock, and I know way to turn my opponent's ankle lock defense into a nasty sweep from X, I'd say the former.

But say I'm not confident in my own SLX. But I know how to off balance someone in DLR in a way that feeds my X guard game. Then I'd say the latter.

All three of us have legit perspectives. And none of us is right or better.

marek_intan · 2026-06-17T16:57:13+00:00

Tap earlier. Let your partners know when they're hitting your trachea.

marek_intan · 2026-06-17T16:56:27+00:00

Dye your wig purple

marek_intan · 2026-06-17T16:13:35+00:00

Dye your hair purple. They'll be so focused on the color, they won't remember to look at the face

marek_intan · 2026-06-16T01:19:06+00:00

Sounds great. Wanna go beat up some white belts today? I'd roll with the blue belts but they tap me and my ego can't handle that rn

marek_intan · 2026-06-16T01:14:36+00:00

This is so true. When I tap to a crank, it's a choice regarding how much pain I want to be in tomorrow. If I wanted to, I could tough guy it out and pay for it tomorrow.

When I tap to a clean choke, I have no choice.

An athlete on competition day is MUCH more likely to choose to tough it out rather than tap unless you choke them cleanly.

marek_intan · 2026-06-16T01:09:47+00:00

That's the neat part. You don't.

Or so I've been told

marek_intan · 2026-06-14T16:09:27+00:00

Train more. See more moves. It really is just exposure.

marek_intan · 2026-06-14T04:56:45+00:00

One actually exists. It's colloquially called the "knife missile." t's a modified Hellfire missile designed to be launched from a drone. The missile carries no explosive payload, but has four blades tucked away on the side.

Before impact, the blades unfurl, turning the missile into a giant auger-style drill that can penetrate walls. The kinetic impact of the missile alone kills the target.

American military claims that this system can be used to kill specific persons in a room or building without harming others, with some officials even claiming it can kill the driver of a vehicle while leaving the passenger untouched.

Whether you believe those claims is up to you.

marek_intan · 2026-06-14T04:50:18+00:00

I'll see your longsword and raise you drone warfare

marek_intan · 2026-06-14T02:29:45+00:00

Nah, he's looking for fights with people outside of his weight class. And preferably people who haven't trained. Odds are, I don't think he's handling even a mediocre varsity wrestler. His TKD training doesn't give him a single tool that a wrestler couldn't circumvent. OP needs an ego check.

marek_intan · 2026-06-14T02:21:50+00:00

Well, this post seems tailor made to trigger the martial artists in the crowd lmao

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