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CommonShore posted:Fuuucking hell the impostor syndrome was kicking in and then Goongratulations!
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CommonShore posted:Fuuucking hell the impostor syndrome was kicking in and then Hell yeah! Goongrats!!
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Apr 24, 2024 02:49
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I'd love to do more in gym tournaments, great write up. Yes! Yes!!!
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Apr 24, 2024 03:30
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Congrats commonshore!
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CommonShore posted:Fuuucking hell the impostor syndrome was kicking in and then congrats!!
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Apr 24, 2024 03:55
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time for Commonshore to finally open that Oildome gym he's been promising.
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Apr 24, 2024 05:09
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everyone's a brown belt in the oildome
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CommonShore posted:Fuuucking hell the impostor syndrome was kicking in and then Dear hugfriends, we gather here today to commemorate the cool belt that a good poster has suddenly left behind, and we wish them the best in their sudden ventures into browner pastures. Goongrats!
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CommonShore posted:Fuuucking hell the impostor syndrome was kicking in and then goongrappulations man
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Apr 24, 2024 09:56
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Congrats commonshore, that's a huge one
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Apr 24, 2024 14:00
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Congrats!!!! Thats a huge accomplishment.
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Apr 24, 2024 14:21
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Thanks all. What a weird journey this is. Sometimes it feels like I do these classes and all that happens is that everyone else gets a bit worse
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Apr 24, 2024 14:47
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Like the experience of becoming middle aged, but positive. I haven't gotten any better, y'all just stopped blocking my chokes!?
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Congrats!!
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Congrats and welcome to the club! Although that might not cure your impostor syndrome, lol. I remember how impossibly good brown belts felt when I started, and even though rationally I know that my gym isn't generous with promotions, I sometimes find myself thinking "there's no way I'm *that* good now, is there?" Then some white belts complain about not being able to do anything to me when we roll and I'm reminded that it's hard to evaluate your own performance. Tacos Al Pastor posted:Tournament stuff I've said it before, but in-house tournaments are some of the most fun you can have in this sport. Playing around with different rulesets is also very cool.
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Nestharken posted:I've said it before, but in-house tournaments are some of the most fun you can have in this sport. Playing around with different rulesets is also very cool. Way more fun than a tournament! I think it gives all the guys a moment to think about what they need work on.
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Congrats on the brown! I have a few Jiu Jitsu things coming up that I'm nervous about. Will be doing the BJJ Globetrotters Maine camp from May 26 to June 2. Then signed up to compete in a no gi tournament on June 15. Then doing a Gi tournament followed by a no-gi tournament the next day at the end of the month. Honestly haven't been doing well mentally lately so not sure how things will go!
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Congratulations! Anyone have any experience with training while a mallet finger injury heals? Seeing the doctor tomorrow but looking for personal experiences too. Per the Internet, people train with the splint on but I can't tell if it's "the addiction" or actually safe to do. Same for swimming which is the other exercise I like.
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Xguard86 posted:Congratulations! I had a mallet injury like 10 years ago but just waited to train until it was healed. Couldn't really imagine grappling with it since you'd be straining against the splint every time you grabbed anything, which is all the time.
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Xguard86 posted:Congratulations! I cant imagine training in the gi with any finger injury. Nogi? Maybe??? VV Yep Tacos Al Pastor fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Apr 25, 2024 20:20
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Just train with one arm
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Yeah figured mostly no gi and not gripping with that hand. Seems like a long recovery time ... Ugh
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Have you ever been mat enforcer? Have you ever been mat enforced?
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https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1783647975237169411
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I was attacked outside my hotel room the last time I was in San Diego. I was on the street and a dude asked me if I had any change and I told him that a lot of people dont carry cash anymore which set him off. Him and his buddy started throwing glass bottles and poo poo at me and I used the best martial art: running. I ran into a 7-11 down the street until things cooled down. Didnt have to use my jits once (which is good for both of us). California is wild.
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Hellblazer187 posted:Have you ever been mat enforcer? Yes. Not sure. If I was I didn't notice.
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Apr 26, 2024 15:07
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This security guy went for sasae and osoto with 0 kozushi...
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Hellblazer187 posted:Have you ever been mat enforcer? Yes. Yes. As a prank at an open mat, a group of my gym friends told our coaches coach that a large purple belt was being a jerk and needed to be taught a lesson. They forgot to mention to him that we had two such purple belts at the time, me, and the guy they wanted beaten up. So when I went over and was like "Yo I'd to roll please!" I got put into the 2000's adcc trials unknowingly. It actually wasn't all that bad until I tried to do a sitout from under him, got sprawled on, and injured my shoulder. They didn't realize the mistake at the time until I went up to them and was like "yo dudes goin' really hard on me." Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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I don't mean to sound like a wet blanket, and maybe I'm just showing my increasingly middle age, but they wanted coach to roll dangerously hard on some innocent dude as a joke, just not you?
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Buschmaki posted:This security guy went for sasae and osoto with 0 kozushi... It always looks worse on video than what you think you're getting away with in the moment 
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CommonShore posted:Yes. Same. I was mat enforcer once, in Judo, like 15 years ago. I was not told explicitly with words to do it, and I was not entirely aware of the concept previously, but I swear my coach communicated with me telepathically. He gave me a look that told me what I needed to do. Sometimes I wonder, 15 years later, was I imagining the look or misinterpreting it, and just being a dick to that guy without official license to do so? Edit: I'm pretty sure I was OK. Coach stopped the randori dude was doing and said "no you're randoriing with hellblazer now" and then gave me the look. That's gotta mean I was supposed to splat dude a little bit right? Hellblazer187 fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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kimbo305 posted:It always looks worse on video than what you think you're getting away with in the moment Haha yeah my friends were laughing at this and I was thinking this looks like my first competition.
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Hellblazer187 posted:Same. It would be extremely funny if the look was supposed to be "make sure you throw with control this time."
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Jack B Nimble posted:I don't mean to sound like a wet blanket, and maybe I'm just showing my increasingly middle age, but they wanted coach to roll dangerously hard on some innocent dude as a joke, just not you? It wasn't dangerous or felt dangerous at any point, it was more that I wasn't allowed to do anything and any small mistake or hole was punished. The small injury I sustained was more of a freak accident because I did a technique not great, rather than dude intentionally trying to injure me, if it was literally anyone else sprawling on me in that position I probably would have sustained the same injury. Imagine if like a line backer came into your gym and wanted to roll and was talking smack. You're not gonna injure them, but you're going to make it very clear that there are levels to this thing. It just so happens the skill gap between a mediocre purple belt and a national grappling champion is about as large as a normal black belt and a guy who doesn't know anything. Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Hellblazer187 posted:Same. The two times I've been mat enforcer are stories I've told, but here are the short versions: One was to give a barn fights MMA dustman a clear indication that he has not been training hard enough and should withdraw from a fight. One was a big army dude who was being rough with other new people and entirely size bullying them. In both cases the message was "this guy is 150 lb and schooled you without breaking a sweat and he's a proud weekend warrior. You need to get your poo poo together."
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Defenestrategy posted:It wasn't dangerous or felt dangerous at any point, it was more that I wasn't allowed to do anything and any small mistake or hole was punished. The small injury I sustained was more of a freak accident because I did a technique not great, rather than dude intentionally trying to injure me, if it was literally anyone else sprawling on me in that position I probably would have sustained the same injury. Imagine if like a line backer came into your gym and wanted to roll and was talking smack. You're not gonna injure them, but you're going to make it very clear that there are levels to this thing. It just so happens the skill gap between a mediocre purple belt and a national grappling champion is about as large as a normal black belt and a guy who doesn't know anything. Gotcha, glad to know I over reacted; it is actually pretty funny, getting bodied through mistaken identity.
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CommonShore posted:
This is who I generally get to do mat enforcing against, but it's more that I do ridiculous rear end submissions that are frankly embarrassing to get caught, Wrist locks from bottom side control, vader choke, muffler, mothers milk, or pin them by basically tying them up in their gi and carry on a boring conversation edit: Jack B Nimble posted:Gotcha, glad to know I over reacted; it is actually pretty funny, getting bodied through mistaken identity. Yea, any dufus can hurt someone's body in a roll, it takes a real artiste to crush the spirit without hurting the body.
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As my instructor used to say “we don’t just want to physically dominant our opponents, we want to mentally dominate them as well.”
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CommonShore posted:One was a big army dude who was being rough with other new people and entirely size bullying them. I saw this as well with a white belt that was hurting a guy that was like 100 pounds lighter than him when I was a purple belt one night at open mat a couple years back. The look of fear on the smaller guys face and the "this is not jiu jitsu" vibe I was getting from him, made me get involved. I gave the mat bully a look of "we're next" and he got the message after our roll.
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