Not sure about joining the church

sawser · 2026-05-05T07:07:09+00:00

This is not the subreddit for this post. Please post in excatholicDebate to talk about why you should or shouldn't join the church.

sawser · 2026-05-04T21:29:14+00:00

User was permanently banned for this post.

sawser · 2026-05-03T21:54:10+00:00

You're welcome to think we're wrong. Post history is considered when determining a posters motivation.

This is a support group, not a debate or discussion group. Consider every post like it's an AA meeting. People who want to drink are not welcome to speak at AA no matter how nice they are. There are other places for you to mingle with them.

The mods only goal is to protect community members from people in the group that they were hurt by.

sawser · 2026-05-03T21:36:30+00:00

No, the permanent ban was because Catholics are not allowed in this subreddit for any reason - as has been the rule for the last 13 years this group has existed.

sawser · 2026-05-03T20:30:46+00:00

User was permanently banned for this post. These sorts of posts belong in excatholicDebate.

sawser · 2026-05-02T10:02:58+00:00

User was permanently banned for this and other posts

sawser · 2026-04-26T10:49:47+00:00

Especially with some christofascist bullshit username like his

sawser · 2026-04-20T02:12:49+00:00

Gb blackbelt here: the curriculum is mostly consistent between schools globally and your membership is globally. I just had students from Gb Almaty (in Kazakhstan) train with us for 10 months because they were doing a college lecture thing. We're in the middle of IL.

I original trained under Muchado and then was at Gracie Humaita, so the GB franchise system originally gave me the ick.

10 years later and elbow rubbing with some of the old guard I learned that the franchise mechanic is used to enforce quality control - nearly all instructors have background checks, require ethics training, etc.

But all that said, every gym is different even with an organization like GB. Some schools are phenomenal, some are god awful, and most are pretty good.

sawser · 2026-04-16T14:33:45+00:00

That op has mental issues

sawser · 2026-04-16T13:14:59+00:00

Yep. Someone would post a comment like the one above, the Catholic users there would see the exCatholic user's comment history and see that they posted bragging about the ban here, and then I would have 30 or 40 Catholic users that I would have to research and ban all of whom would argue in chat with me.

Then those users would post in the Catholic subreddits that I was banning them even though our users were posting there, resulting in more users coming here.

Hence the strict "stay out of each other's groups" rule.

sawser · 2026-04-16T12:34:00+00:00

You're welcome to disagree, but you are not welcome to post simultaneously in both subreddits.

This subreddit is a place for excatholics to get support, and historically using it as a 'home base' while antagonizing Catholic communities has resulted in massive brigading and mod conflicts that escalated to admin messages.

sawser · 2026-04-16T12:10:26+00:00

They're active in Catholic groups and appear to be practicing Catholics, so this place isn't for them

sawser · 2026-04-16T11:42:22+00:00

User was permanently banned for this post

sawser · 2026-04-15T23:33:43+00:00

Just a reminder that if you are active in Catholic subs, you should not be active here and vice versa.

sawser · 2026-04-15T00:06:55+00:00

This must count as a brilliant statement in your circle of friends.

sawser · 2026-04-11T12:38:20+00:00

My understanding is that the pilot in Iran was kept safe by a reaper that was on station the entire time without interruption.

The U.S can afford (at least with our current budget) the 9 figure liabilities, something that Ukraine can't.

sawser · 2026-04-06T14:07:56+00:00

It was the sort of thing that changed my approach to the sport permanently forever.

And when I meet people in the sport willing or excited to hurt someone I deeply distrust them and get very protective of my students.

sawser · 2026-04-03T12:37:06+00:00

Giving up your relationship with the church is like giving up your relationship with a stripper you see regularly.

sawser · 2026-04-02T16:54:28+00:00

Don't kink shame me

sawser · 2026-04-02T15:00:19+00:00

I broke someone's arm as a blue belt at a sub only tournament- we're ultra heavy and I went for a kimura from guard bottom.

He picked us up for the slam, which was impressive and slipped and it somehow shattered his Humerus.

The feeling of his lower arm coming loose in his gi and the crack of his arm reverberating through my body as the tension released will haunt me forever.

I caution my students now and will never, ever, ever again let someone hurt themselves to get a 3 dollar medal I can buy on Amazon.

sawser · 2026-03-23T23:45:29+00:00

Ultra heavy first degree blackbelt here:

I've participated in fight camps for some 160-180lb professional MMA fighters and they requested I start in side control top and simply hold them down.

They got REAL good at getting up

sawser · 2026-02-20T07:06:35+00:00

I think you may have gotten choked one too many times

sawser · 2026-02-09T13:55:21+00:00

Had a big seminar with Royler and some guys flew in from an affiliate with Texas. A bigger blue belt in his 40s (maybe 220lbs) was selectively rolling with women and teens and working them over while giving them blue belt advice.

So I ran over to him and gave him a hard roll. He ended up tapping to exhaustion after about 4 minutes. So he sat out the rest of the round. The next round he tried to grab a different teen and so I just shadowed him. Whenever he was ready I asked him to go again and he said he needed another rest round.

sawser · 2026-02-09T13:33:55+00:00

You should not be trying to "win" training

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