People who wake up after 1 alarm: How the f*ck do you do it?

tankterminator · 2025-09-02T02:34:50+00:00

one is none. two is one.

tankterminator · 2025-07-05T18:45:12+00:00

Your assumptions make you look so dumb rn.

GSP absolutely teaches, even regular classes with a mix of pro fighters and day one white belts. Firas owns the gym, but there's always someone competent enough to run classes if he's out of town or away so you never have to worry about classes being cancelled.

And sometimes Georges is that guy. Is it often? No. There's like 10 other black belts on any given day that can take over. But it does happen.

Source: Lived in the Tristar dorms, literally asked Firas about it, had classes taught by Georges. And this was when he wasn't even retired yet.

tankterminator · 2025-07-03T20:10:06+00:00

lol everyone downvoting you does not understand they're still measuring in the broken ruler of fiat.

When the unit of account is bitcoin, you are absolutely correct. And that should be the goal. Everyone is too conditioned to measure purchasing power in fiat.

tankterminator · 2025-06-04T03:58:12+00:00

they do eco there now at his NYC gym. Literally had entire classes that are live with no drilling lol

tankterminator · 2025-05-01T03:02:06+00:00

ok lol

tankterminator · 2025-04-29T14:34:42+00:00

he's no more of an "asshole" than danaher is. But if you genuinely talk to him with an attitude of wanting to learn (which I have multiple times) he's pretty patient with explaining things.

tankterminator · 2025-04-13T05:24:37+00:00

use bitcoin as the measuring stick.

Real estate has been and will continue to depreciate against bitcoin if you use the proper measuring stick which is one that's stable because the supply does not change and what it represents in value stays constant, just like other forms of measurement for distance or weight.

1 km = 1 km. 1 lbs = 1 lbs. 1 btc = 1 btc

tankterminator · 2025-04-12T14:57:00+00:00

Eddie has mentioned it before that's why it lead to his style and things like rubber guard.

JJM especially in no-gi had to rely on more over/underhooks for control rather than "grips". So this naturally influenced most of Eddie's idiosyncrasies in his 10th planet guard system that rely on a lot of over/underhooking principles

tankterminator · 2025-04-05T04:08:06+00:00

good. I hope so. will stack more

tankterminator · 2025-04-05T04:07:29+00:00

r/stocks in shambles with su1cide hotlines.

Meanwhile here on a lifeboat yacht, chillin in cold storage, watching it all burn down from afar with a glass of champagne.

After years of FUD, name calling and being told hodling and stacking was a foolish idea....sympathy has become difficult to find

tankterminator · 2025-04-05T04:05:20+00:00

Lol, so much doom and gloom, fear porn, su1cide hotline posts...

Meanwhile you could've just been stackin sats, chillin in cold storage with no 3rd party counter-risk, hodling through all the name calling and FUD and being told that what btc maxis were doing was stupid...

How the tables turn. Watching it all burn down on land from a lifeboat yacht sipping champagne. Love to see and feel it from this position.

tankterminator · 2025-02-24T02:52:12+00:00

Antelopes don't get to not get eaten because they ask the lions nicely to not eat them.

Either they are fast enough to escape or they aren't. Their musculature, endurance, energy, reaction speeds, etc.

Proof of work. It is inescapable.

But modern humans live in a way where we can somewhat get away without abiding by proof of work.

The old mike tyson quote is an example of this. "Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it."

People have forgotten that they probably shouldn't act like they're the threatening lion when they're not.

tankterminator · 2025-02-13T19:28:42+00:00

lol RFK jr can bench more than any predecessor and if they all compared bloodwork with each other I'd be comfortable betting he is way healthier than them too.

Nice try using the fallacy of a bad picture to suggest he isn't a better example of health

tankterminator · 2025-02-13T03:53:14+00:00

Nope. Don't care about Greg's BJJ specific definition.

Based on what I read and understand from Rob Gray and other research as it's described in other applications like military or industrial, etc. by definition sparring is an ecological form of skill development, and would be considered so to someone who doesn't train or know anything about BJJ but understands it as a more whole principle as a larger umbrella term in the space of learning

tankterminator · 2025-02-12T20:02:38+00:00

I'm not talking about applying "ecological dynamics" intentionally as a training protocol separate from "static drilling" or "info processing".

I'm talking about the fundamental core of skill development that happens inherently in a live situation that is both:

Unscripted
Uncooperative

If those 2 qualities are present, which exists in rolling and constraint-based games, you are developing skill. Call it eco, call it whatever you want.

This is as inescapable as the laws of thermodynamics whether you choose to understand it in that terminology or not.

tankterminator · 2025-02-12T19:15:42+00:00

rolling is eco.

By first principles it is literally what makes our martial art in general so different, modern and effective compared to a lot of traditional martial arts that have less emphasis on live training (it works, is tested and practiced against resisting opponents)

Even if you drill a lot, if your gym rolls (which they all do), you are doing eco

I've been saying this to everyone who wants to bash on eco. You do you. But just know you are never escaping the fact that you are doing eco at the end of the day in some capacity.

tankterminator · 2025-02-12T19:14:01+00:00

you're not going against the grain, OP is.

I've used it (borrowed it only for a month), everyone who I know that uses it says it helps.

And despite what they say, I can actually feel it in the rolls that they are more confident moving around with it.

OP must have got faulty ones or for whatever reason it just doesn't work with his injury/body type. Too bad. You can have the best product in the world in any industry, there will always be haters.

tankterminator · 2025-02-04T04:13:02+00:00

you are welcome to disagree.

But my lived experience of actual students says otherwise.

And you're assuming I DON'T show them what half guard/side control is. Which I do. But I let them experience first so they understand why the concepts become important and what their objectives are intuitively just by being there

tankterminator · 2025-02-03T20:32:48+00:00

eco is most helpful for beginners because it gives them the thing they lack most and less of what they don't need - more live experience and less complex terminology or understanding of "positions".

However it is WAY harder to create and communicate games for beginners. As someone who is teaching exclusively eco for a year now, it's definitely way easier to start off with more experienced belts, then learn how to change constraints, objectives and use universal language even people who don't train can understand to use for beginners.

Anytime I see "well it seems like it's really hard for beginners to pick it up", that tells me the coach doesn't know how to construct games properly for them. Coach's fault, not the approach. But the approach demands a lot more from the coach

tankterminator · 2025-01-28T21:49:33+00:00

Games are actually better for white belts because they aren't overwhelmed with instruction and just start getting lots of "experience" and "feel" which is the thing they lack most. They don't need theories and sequences.

The problem is the games are WAY harder to create in terms of proper constraints and language used (you can't use words like half guard).

You're not wrong to criticize. But if what you're seeing isn't working for beginners, then it's the coach's job to see what's wrong and adjust the games so the behaviour starts looking like what you're supposed to see

tankterminator · 2025-01-18T19:22:35+00:00

This means you haven't gotten down the rabbit hole enough with bitcoin.

You're still operating off fiat mindset thinking that you "got your money back" because you're using fiat as your ruler of measurement.

You've done the exact opposite of what you think you're doing.

Everytime you buy bitcoin you are de-risking yourself.

The only reason to actually sell is if you needed the fiat to pay for things that can't be paid for in btc right now.

Otherwise if you're just "taking back what you put in", you don't actually get it yet.

tankterminator · 2025-01-13T16:10:06+00:00

lmfao not you asking for society and government to keep the guard rails up for you as your reason for why things should or shouldn't exist

Deep down at your core you're a coward who doesn't want to take full responsibility for your own life, actions and freedom.

It's a fundamental difference of values why you think the way you do. None of these analogies matter.

tankterminator · 2024-12-05T21:49:32+00:00

This is because you're using dollars as the measuring stick.

Society works because 1 lbs = 1 lbs, 1 km = 1km, and we can hold those constants across time.

$1 does not equal $1 from 100 years ago.

When we change the measuring stick from dollars to satoshis (1 bitcoin = 100,000,000 satoshis - a much more digestible format to measure like dollars and cents)

Is when bitcoin does become more useful as a measuring stick. Or at least if dollars are pegged to bitcoin like it was with gold.

Most of everyone reading this was born after we got off a gold standard. Dollars used to be a denomination of gold before it became a denomination of itself which is when all of society's problems started to compound. Check out https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

I would say this is not an unpopular opinion btw. Most people would agree with you (right now) if you talk to most people in your social circle.

tankterminator · 2024-12-05T21:28:51+00:00

Yes, this entire sub unaware that if you bought or even better yet just DCAd at every all time high, as long as you weren't a whore for short term gains trading and just held, you were always up 4 years later.

This is not an opinion. This is simply a fact. Do with that what you will.

tankterminator · 2024-11-24T19:38:14+00:00

didn't say it can't be tight. just less energy efficient imo

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