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the first piece of advice that everyone gives to a guy looking to join a gym is 'shop around, find one where you like the culture and feel like you fit in'. if seeing people getting congratulated with a little more enthusiasm than is typical gives you ptsd flashbacks and makes you write long screeds online about how brutal it is and what type of people enjoy this behaviour, you may have joined the wrong gym. but that's ok, because you can go to another one! or you can talk to your coach and say 'coach, this makes me uncomfortable, may i not please?' or basically any number of things besides this really bizarre and passionate online hissy fit.
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Marching Powder posted:it is really stupid, but nobody here is saying that. Okay, I'm probably holding some baggage from Facebook threads about the same thing
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CommonShore posted:when's the next EBI?  I'm really excited for it. I love Ritchie's style, him and Ben Eddy are my favorite guys to watch roll. TheTofuShop fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Apr 29, 2018 |
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TheTofuShop posted:to the best of my knowledge it's Hm I guess that looks ok. Nothing that makes me  but Gumbi Girl Grappling is always a good time, and I'm interested in seeing Vagner just completely murder Boogie.
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Apr 29, 2018 03:36
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It's stupid but so bowing every time you step on or off the mat and lining up by belt color and bowing and shaking each other's hands at the end of every class. BJJ and sports in general are full of stupid poo poo
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Craig Jones is queued up for this http://boasuper8.com I don't expect the competition to give him much trouble, but I guess you never know
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Marching Powder posted:the first piece of advice that everyone gives to a guy looking to join a gym is 'shop around, find one where you like the culture and feel like you fit in'. if seeing people getting congratulated with a little more enthusiasm than is typical gives you ptsd flashbacks and makes you write long screeds online about how brutal it is and what type of people enjoy this behaviour, you may have joined the wrong gym. but that's ok, because you can go to another one! or you can talk to your coach and say 'coach, this makes me uncomfortable, may i not please?' or basically any number of things besides this really bizarre and passionate online hissy fit. 
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has there been a combat jiu jitsu match yet where everyone agrees they are glad that it's cjj and not just typical ebi rules grappling? i'm thankful that ebi is willing to experiment with things but my initial assessment was that this is stupid and sucks and every match i've seen since has pretty much reinforced it and i wish it would go away
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Marching Powder posted:has there been a combat jiu jitsu match yet where everyone agrees they are glad that it's cjj and not just typical ebi rules grappling? i'm thankful that ebi is willing to experiment with things but my initial assessment was that this is stupid and sucks and every match i've seen since has pretty much reinforced it and i wish it would go away There was that one where Vagner TKOed the dude. There was also one at the last EBI which had that dorky rubber guard guy which had some moments. But I like Boogie vs Vagner whether it's cjj or regular EBI. That it's cjj just makes it a bit more of a freak show.
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Apr 29, 2018 03:43
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Jerome Louis posted:shaking each other's hands at the end of every class. Whats wrong and stupid with shaking hands at the end of class?
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butros posted:What’s wrong and stupid with shaking hands at the end of class? I dunno but I'm sure someone out there online has a problem with it
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butros posted:Whats wrong and stupid with shaking hands at the end of class? you shake hands before every roll and if respect and good will isn't implicit with a person in a gym i'd hope he would get kicked out. it's superfluous and unnecessary and dumb and is probably only done by frat boys, military guys, and the guys who gave me swirlies in high school. it's disgusting that people think this ritual is necessary and every gym that does it should be embarrassed that the only thing holding the fabric of the gym community together is the shaking of hands at the end of class. *spits* pure loving filth
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Marching Powder posted:good one Look, man. I train at Marcelo's, I like the gym culture there just fine. They do the gauntlet at promotions, I have no issue with opting out of it, and I don't think that it sullies my training experience. I also think it's a dumb thing that taps into the same psychology as frat hazing and nothing of value would be lost if nobody did it anymore. Sharing my opinion about that on this, the thread where we talk about grappling, doesn't mean that it's somehow taking the place of communicating with my coach. All that nonsense about "throwing a bizarre and passionate online hissy fit" is pretty drat obnoxious. e: ^^^ Yikes.
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Don't you know every social interaction has the same level of aggression? You fool, you absolute imbecile.
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Marching Powder posted:you shake hands before every roll and if respect and good will isn't implicit with a person in a gym i'd hope he would get kicked out. it's superfluous and unnecessary and dumb and is probably only done by frat boys, military guys, and the guys who gave me swirlies in high school. it's disgusting that people think this ritual is necessary and every gym that does it should be embarrassed that the only thing holding the fabric of the gym community together is the shaking of hands at the end of class. *spits* pure loving filth Frankly I don't like the idea that I'm being forced to shake hands with people who have been in the military, or god forbid, a frat. An IT guy, for sure I'll shake his hand, and perhaps even bow.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Look, man. I train at Marcelo's, I like the gym culture there just fine. They do the gauntlet at promotions, I have no issue with opting out of it, and I don't think that it sullies my training experience. I also think it's a dumb thing that taps into the same psychology as frat hazing and nothing of value would be lost if nobody did it anymore. Sharing my opinion about that on this, the thread where we talk about grappling, doesn't mean that it's somehow taking the place of communicating with my coach. All that nonsense about "throwing a bizarre and passionate online hissy fit" is pretty drat obnoxious. you are equating a consenting silly ritual between friends to poo poo that traumatises and kills people where there is clearly a social / military status disparity and an intent to belittle and reinforce that disparity. it's loving weird and bizarre that you don't see the difference there, and you are more than welcome to have your opinions, but i still think it's stupid to equate the two things and that's my opinion.
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Jerome Louis posted:Frankly I don't like the idea that I'm being forced to shake hands with people who have been in the military, or god forbid, a frat. An IT guy, for sure I'll shake his hand, and perhaps even bow. this guy gets it
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I did kyokushin for a while growing up, and there were definitely some physical pain/hazing stuff that teachers and students would do during promotions that was worse than belt whippings and definitely crossed the line of stuff that should have been done with kids. The gauntlet has a similar vibe that I'm not comfortable with and choose not to participate in, on either side. Handshakes at the end of class, not so much. I also don't think that anyone is wrong or bad for taking part in the gauntlet (though I probably do look a little more favorably on coaches who choose not to do it).
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We such each others dicks at the end of each class
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starkebn posted:How many people who enjoy the gauntlet are former military, boarding school or frat boys? I was in a fraternity in college and think gauntlets are dumb.  Granted, our fraternity chapters idea of "hazing" was learning the dumb history of our chapter and then doing workouts as a group.
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*bows before stepping into thread* Traditions are dumb and often nonsensical. *bows before leaving thread*
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Mechafunkzilla posted:I did kyokushin for a while growing up, and there were definitely some physical pain/hazing stuff that teachers and students would do during promotions that was worse than belt whippings and definitely crossed the line of stuff that should have been done with kids. The gauntlet has a similar vibe that I'm not comfortable with and choose not to participate in, on either side. Handshakes at the end of class, not so much. I also don't think that anyone is wrong or bad for taking part in the gauntlet (though I probably do look a little more favorably on coaches who choose not to do it). Real posting -- I don't really fault people for not wanting to do it, it is kinda stupid. I don't hit people hard at all even if I know them, more as just an acknowledgement, hey you did it. I really am probably warped from wrestling meat head culture where people would try to give each other cauli ear on purpose or steal kids clothes and make them run around the school in their underwear. Worst was when a coach had kids hold down another kid when he found out the kid had minor hemophilia and would bruise at the slightest pinch. The coach tried to pinch his initials into the kid so they would show up as a bruise and the kid got majorly hosed up, whole leg swollen and nasty. Parents made him quit wrestling and coach almost got fired. And I know for sure other wrestlers had it worse, so to me the gauntlet is extremely minor stuff, but probably not so to other people. Now that I'm officially Old I probably shouldn't take it so lightly since my kids will maybe do this stuff some day and I want them to like it.
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Jerome Louis posted:Worst was when a coach had kids hold down another kid when he found out the kid had minor hemophilia and would bruise at the slightest pinch. The coach tried to pinch his initials into the kid so they would show up as a bruise and the kid got majorly hosed up, whole leg swollen and nasty. Parents made him quit wrestling and coach almost got fired.  What sort of lovely school district did you go to that thought this dude should stay on after doing that?
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He was our head coach and like 70 years old... this was back in 1999 too. He was about to retire anyways so I think they just took the heat off him and let him retire. He was rad but hosed up... called everyone "meatball" and would show us weird little techniques like how to break fingers and poo poo
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Mechafunkzilla posted:It's 100% a macho thing that started because some shithead coach wanted BJJ training to feel more like the military. Fabio Gurgel said he started it. He stopped doing it because parents at kids gradings didn't like seeing their children get covered in welts. He regrets it now. Chris Hauter also said he invented it so idk.
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In my experience, the guys that hit the hardest in the gauntlet are the ones that are either : A - Some friends with whom you trashtalk a bit. B - Guys that won't roll with you for drama/ego reasons but will jump at the occasion of getting one in on you without fear of repercussions on the mat. Just because of B, I don't want to do the gauntlet. I had no fun doing it last time and it was only fun for a select few.
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Marching Powder posted:this really bizarre and passionate online hissy fit. Marching Powder posted:you shake hands before every roll and if respect and good will isn't implicit with a person in a gym i'd hope he would get kicked out. it's superfluous and unnecessary and dumb and is probably only done by frat boys, military guys, and the guys who gave me swirlies in high school. it's disgusting that people think this ritual is necessary and every gym that does it should be embarrassed that the only thing holding the fabric of the gym community together is the shaking of hands at the end of class. *spits* pure loving filth Marching Powder posted:you are equating a consenting silly ritual between friends to poo poo that traumatises and kills people where there is clearly a social / military status disparity and an intent to belittle and reinforce that disparity. it's loving weird and bizarre that you don't see the difference there, and you are more than welcome to have your opinions, but i still think it's stupid to equate the two things and that's my opinion. I didn't see anyone throwing a hissy fit. There were some posts by people who would, for whatever reason, prefer not to have to walk a gauntlet of strangers hitting them for a belt. It's not a personal attack on your way of life, or whatever.
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for the record, and i can't believe this needs explaining, but my 'hand shake' rant was a parody of the gauntlet issue and not an earnest opinion.
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Marching Powder posted:for the record, and i can't believe this needs explaining, but my 'hand shake' rant was a parody of the gauntlet issue and not an earnest opinion. Maybe it needs explaining cause it was dumb and not funny
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God drat does Eddie Bravo need to never talk about things not related to grappling ever again. His recent idiocy on the JRE Fight Companion makes me question whether or not he actually has serious brain damage.
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Odddzy posted:In my experience, the guys that hit the hardest in the gauntlet are the ones that are either : Same. Also having been in the military and gone through a bunch of dumb hazing rituals, the dudes that are the most enthusiastic about it are 100% without fail the biggest shitbags that only care about dumb military culture BS not actually being good at what they do.
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Unfunny Poster posted:God drat does Eddie Bravo need to never talk about things not related to grappling ever again. I recently listened to the episode of Grappling Central with him on it, and near the end he is literally shouting "Tower 7! Tower 7, man!" as Ryan Ford just ignores him and keeps talking.
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TheTofuShop posted:I recently listened to the episode of Grappling Central with him on it, and near the end he is literally shouting "Tower 7! Tower 7, man!" as Ryan Ford just ignores him and keeps talking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMducuXJeKg This is what recently just set me off. The dude is literally being willfully r-word and then pulling a "dude don't be mad, I'm just asking questions" when faced with the reality that what he's saying is horseshit.
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i am a shark and the ground is my ocean but i dont understand what the ground is and i dont understand how oceans work and sharks are a myth perpetrated by nasa at the behest of the lizard illuminati to try and keep me away from my weed *is in a mentor position over a bunch of children*
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Dave Grool posted:Maybe it needs explaining cause it was dumb and not funny i agree, getting extremely upset about a harmless ritual is dumb and not funny
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Marching Powder posted:i agree, getting extremely upset about a harmless ritual is dumb and not funny You really gotta knock it off with this "extremely upset" "lol u mad" poo poo. It makes you sound like an rear end in a top hat and it's out of place in the thread, let people in CSPAM or whatever talk to each other like that.
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The only one upset here, is me
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