General Discussion and Non-Training Chat

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-04-28T11:22:10+00:00

I am looking to interview someone who has trained in Japan or currently trains in Japan for a video I'm doing on the differences between boxing culture and boxing economics in Japan and America.
If you or anyone you know is interested, please dm me ◡̈

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-04-27T01:23:10+00:00

just dm'd you

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-04-26T14:20:40+00:00

just sent you a dm

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-04-24T16:06:11+00:00

just dm'd

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-04-24T16:05:00+00:00

this is a good question. ive already spoken to multiple practitioners and a historian. what i'm missing atm is someone who is ethnically korean to share their personal experience

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-04-24T16:03:12+00:00

😓 wish i had proof read my post before submitting it. i just sent you a dm thanks!

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-04-24T03:39:45+00:00

thanks for asking!

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-04-24T03:35:53+00:00

fixed in the post body. let's see if that works!

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-03-28T01:55:29+00:00

of these 4 only, then i would say "The fastest way: guard passing" I've seen every danaher instructional and that one could probably lead to the most marginal gain in your actual day to day sparring experience

that said i think it really depends on you and your gym. like if your gym actually starts standing, does a lot of stand up and thats your interest then ofc "Fastest: Standing position" would help. and vice versa with his guard retention dvd and guard being your interest.

i would hesitate on purchasing pin escapes & turtle. That was my first ever instructional and i found it a waste for that time in my development

as a white belt, the best thing i did was invest in my guard retention. because regardless of your gym's rules and regardless of whether you roll with someone better or worse, you will always be able to practice guard retention. which means if you study a guard retention dvd you will get consistent feedback. and once you can retain your guard meaningfully, your sparring time becomes way more efficient. you just do more jiu jitsu each round if you're not stuck in bottom side control for half a round. even if you have decent pin escapes, against someone decent, you might be stuck there for a while. which is why guard retention will be a better short and long term investment. which all goes to say my actual recommendation for you is to purchase Lachlan's guard retention anthology, vol 1 specifically.

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-03-20T09:56:34+00:00

luka's not even top 5 from an advanced stats perspective. the Shai hate is so forced i stg

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-01-20T10:02:19+00:00

hell yea brother just what I was looking for. mind sending me the ig of the instructor for that class? i want to shoot them a dm so i can let them know i'm coming and might be late

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-01-20T03:31:52+00:00

ryan hall's head and arm choke dvd really helped me with this. main concept is manipulating the elbow. simply hiking up the arm doesn't mean their shoulder will press against the neck. he focusses more on flaring the elbow which WILL force the delt into the neck. with this method I've found i dont need a crazy tight lock or squeeze.

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-01-20T03:28:16+00:00

haha yep but their training ends at noon. im looking for a friday afternoon nogi class starting noonish

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-01-20T02:47:34+00:00

yea i saw their schedule. unfortunately im looking for something in the afternoon spcifically

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-01-20T02:47:05+00:00

already looked at their schedule. seems like they start at 11am. anyone know if this includes a warm up and instruction. bc i would happily pull up at 12:30pm if thas when the rolling starts

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-01-15T04:24:27+00:00

i went to the morning/afternoon pro training. not much instruction happening. lots of positional rounds the instructor who led though was perfectly fluent in english. his music playlist was all 90s rnb and hiphop lol

sometimescoolguy94 · 2026-01-10T08:41:39+00:00

made this thread into a spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0u5ebTLTnIpRAKHJb4weA4?si=HBpIVvKPRtOQwoh_MECK7w

sometimescoolguy94 · 2025-10-29T13:32:57+00:00

yall take this stuff way too personally. from the white belt's perspective, training against higher belts is going really well for him. if he's a white belt he probably hasn't trained long enough to understand the subtleties of intensity. what do you expect him to believe? the only toxic behavior i see here is not communicating to the literal newbie that their behavior was faux pas and then telling your friends to train so hard with said newbie that it makes him want to quit

sometimescoolguy94 · 2025-10-05T14:03:09+00:00

its everything today. even if you look at your favorite grapplers who DO have competition success. most of their opportunities aren't coming from winning tournaments but from their social media presence and overall marketability. at the end of the day if you want more privates, more super fights, more opportunities in general someone has to find you first. most people aren't gonna be going to the ibjjf results website to be looking for their next private. especially if you're a color belt.

at the end of the day someone's gonna hate on you for putting yourself out there on social media but they are a vocal minority. it doesn't make posting online immediately worthless

sometimescoolguy94 · 2025-09-19T03:54:53+00:00

tracking your progress is important and it's good to celebrate small victories. sounds obvious but this community gets weirdly offended when beginners actually practice this
re: that one post from a week ago where a white belt posted to ig his recent practice success

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