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Xguard86 posted:every post in the MMA subforum is a troll. 
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^ Branding in BJJ: Does Sex Sell? http://bjiujitsu.blogspot.com/2011/10/branding-in-bjj-what-works.html#more
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http://www.fightopinion.com/2011/10/14/mma-link-club-mmafighting/#comments ho ho ho
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Oct 16, 2011 05:50
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"No other site even comes close to doing the amount of technical fight analysis and education that BE does. No one." - kid nate
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Oct 16, 2011 06:32
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fatherdog posted:ho ho ho
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Oct 16, 2011 06:49
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RevlisYdoc posted:I hate to use the term "tl;dr" but this deserves it. Snowden is trying to defend his "journalistic integrity" and kid nate is attempting to pissily defend bloody elbow in the comments. It is loads of laughs.
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Oct 16, 2011 06:53
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please note that "kid" nate is like 42
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Oct 16, 2011 06:55
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bump this thread every time Jonathan Snowden ducks criticism from fatherdog
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Oct 16, 2011 09:16
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Bubba Smith posted:bump this thread every time Jonathan Snowden ducks criticism from fatherdog Man, I miss that thread. 
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Oct 16, 2011 19:52
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RevlisYdoc posted:I hate to use the term "tl;dr" but this deserves it.
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Oct 16, 2011 21:13
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Johnathan Snowden posted:I’m not sure why I would need to “study” Helwani. I know how to shoot videos in a hallway after an event. But why do I get the feeling he would still find a way to gently caress that up?
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Oct 17, 2011 00:04
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RevlisYdoc posted:oooohh catfight meow "Jonathan Snowden here with Frankie Edgar who almost got knocked out AGAIN by Gray Maynard..." I really love it when people call Snowden on the Penn comments and he tries to weasel his way out of it. He spent a long time trying to argue his way out of it on Meltzer's board when he made them .
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Oct 17, 2011 00:12
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I don't know if Snowden is just being defensive or he really is that dumb, but what Helwani does is a lot more involved than "shoot videos in a hallway after an event." I don't even like Helwani.
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He also suckles the tumescent wieners of members of Zuffa in order to keep from being banned from UFCs like literally every other journalist. So it's a pretty tough job and not one I'd want.
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Oct 17, 2011 02:54
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Ariel Helwani seems like a decent interviewer, but he does seem to poo poo-stir a little. There was an interview with Chael right after the Wandy/Leben fight, where Helwani kept trying to get Chael to say something terrible, and all Chael could say was "I hope he's okay" Then again, that is Chael, and if he wasn't saying something ridiculous, you'd wonder if you were interviewing the right person. On topic, Andrew Siciliano says a bunch of dumb things, including that he is proud of the fact that he doesn't watch MMA, doesn't know who any of them are, yet calls it "garbage" in the same sentence. http://www.mmamania.com/2011/10/11/2483210/could-this-be-a-precursor-to-a-heated-battle-between-the-nfl-and-the I know that might seem a little  of me. It's not that he doesn't like MMA, it's just that it's rare to hear someone both admit ignorance and cast criticism.
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1st AD posted:I don't know if Snowden is just being defensive or he really is that dumb, but what Helwani does is a lot more involved than "shoot videos in a hallway after an event." I don't even like Helwani. Helwani's interviews are pretty vanilla but at least he is a fan of the sport, the fighters and not the sound of his own voice.
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I think a big problem with MMA interviews in general is that there's really only so much you can ask a fighter. You can ask him what his plan is, who he's been training with, if he's changed anything to try and fix holes in his game, but not a lot else. Plus, a lot of fighters aren't going to directly answer those questions because they don't want to give anything about their camp or gameplan away to their opponent. It's not like a team sport where you can discuss player dynamics, the coaching staff, the weekly game, and so on in great detail. A lot of these interviews come off as kind of dull because there's just not much to say. Dana White is way more interesting to talk to because he's always got something in the works, but that's because he's running a business. The fighters have very little to do with that.
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A couple years ago my girlfriend bought a book by Snowden with the best of intentions. Some interesting parts that got me into some fighters but I found many parts lacking. My question is what should I do with said book now. Burning seems too easy. I need some ideas.
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Oct 17, 2011 06:20
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BrianPhillips posted:A couple years ago my girlfriend bought a book by Snowden with the best of intentions. Some interesting parts that got me into some fighters but I found many parts lacking. My question is what should I do with said book now. Burning seems too easy. I need some ideas. Does it make any predictions about fighter careers? I'd send each prediction with the relevant Wiki article to Snowden.
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Oct 17, 2011 06:25
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BrianPhillips posted:A couple years ago my girlfriend bought a book by Snowden with the best of intentions. Some interesting parts that got me into some fighters but I found many parts lacking. My question is what should I do with said book now. Burning seems too easy. I need some ideas. Take some pics with your local mma fighters reading it in amazement.
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Haraksha posted:I think a big problem with MMA interviews in general is that there's really only so much you can ask a fighter. You can ask him what his plan is, who he's been training with, if he's changed anything to try and fix holes in his game, but not a lot else. I think another part of it too is that fighters aren't really that well trained to talk to the media, fair enough there was the summit etc but there's a huge gap between someone like Chael or Couture who've been he public eye for a while and someone like Rory McDonald. I can imagine it wouldn't be easy to get a lot of coherent material out of some of these guys.
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BlindSite posted:I think another part of it too is that fighters aren't really that well trained to talk to the media, fair enough there was the summit etc but there's a huge gap between someone like Chael or Couture who've been he public eye for a while and someone like Rory McDonald. Except for the Diaz's, who are somewhere in the sweet spot of that Venn Diagram.
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Moose Bigelow posted:Take some pics with your local mma fighters reading it in amazement. Oh God, I'm 40 min away from the Diaz bros. I must do this. e: In fact my gf goes to Stockton every Mon and Wed. I believe I could make this work.
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A lot of these guys are really private too. Going back to the team thing, since this is not a team sport, they really only have to focus on themselves and their families. The whole atmosphere around MMA is different, so it probably feels like a big invasion of privacy whenever they get interviewed. Remember, wrestling is probably the most common background for the majority of American fighters and wrestlers are hardly in the spotlight through high school and college, especially compared to football and basketball stars. There are fighters who have been training for a decade or more, but have probably said all of two words to the media on their way to the UFC.
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Oct 17, 2011 08:06
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Haraksha posted:A lot of these guys are really private too. Going back to the team thing, since this is not a team sport, they really only have to focus on themselves and their families. The whole atmosphere around MMA is different, so it probably feels like a big invasion of privacy whenever they get interviewed. so is that why soccer is the best base for mma? because of the media?
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Oct 17, 2011 08:09
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BrianPhillips posted:Oh God, I'm 40 min away from the Diaz bros. I must do this. http://www.jiu-jitsu.net/pics/handbook_teamquest_masterte.jpg This was the inspiration.
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I think one of the coolest things about MMA is if you want to be a Journalist all you have to do is find a fighter and yell a website and they'll talk to you if they have time, Good Luck doing that for non-fake sports.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:so is that why soccer is the best base for mma? because of the media? If you're a Brazilian soccer star, I imagine you get a lot of media attention.
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BlindSite posted:Helwani's interviews are pretty vanilla but at least he is a fan of the sport, the fighters and not the sound of his own voice. Jordan Breen did a radio interview with Big Nog shortly after he signed with the UFC, he decided to ask questions in the manner of Jordan Breen and Nogueira had no idea what the gently caress he was being asked 100% of the time (if you discount "Rodrigo... how are you?" as a question)
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Hello, and welcome to Jordan Breen's Eternal Undergrad Power Hour. Today we'll be talking to some of the biggest names in the sport, and asking them about different online message boards for half an hour. Be sure to tune in later, when I explain sociology incorrectly over a weird, 12 minute story which I relate to why people keep emailing me pictures of human dicks with the heading "This is what you sound like".
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So if MMAFighting.com gets shut down what happens to Dan Herbertson?
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I'm actually legitimately concerned for the future of Ben Fowlkes career because he can write entertaining MMA things without loving the facts OR sounding overly pedantic. If MMA Fighting closes, what is he going to do, go back to Cage Potato? Christ.
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The following is my Round Scoring Graph to plot the ebb and flow of the action and how effective Marshall's offense was in relation to a 10-9 versus a 10-8 round. Since Vera mounted no offense, the line never shifts in his favor. The distance the line travels is based on how effective each of Marshall's offensive maneuvers were.
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My favourite part are the initials in the corner.
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Oct 30, 2011 23:34
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dummy didn't even notice the holland kicks
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attackmole posted:My favourite part are the initials in the corner. Fun fact: it's made by the same dude who was responsible for the Rick Story/Thiago Alves footwork graphic. When you produce high-quality work like that, it's important to make sure others don't try to claim credit for it. 
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I'm not watching MMA anymore, I want it all explained in graphs and bad diagrams.
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Snowman_McK posted:I'm not watching MMA anymore, I want it all explained in graphs and bad diagrams. May I recommend: baseball!
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colonel_korn posted:Fun fact: it's made by the same dude who was responsible for the Rick Story/Thiago Alves footwork graphic. When you produce high-quality work like that, it's important to make sure others don't try to claim credit for it. oh gently caress you for reminding me of this. also there's no way in hell this idiot's name is actually Dallas Winston.
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