Defenestrategy posted:

There comes a time in every grapplers life, where they have obtained the most coveted thing that they didn't realize they wanted. No not a black belt, or a medal, but THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE THE MUSIC BEING PLAYED AT THE GYM/DOJO/WHATEVER!

Yes, that's right, and to help improve I will be posting my own tier list of thoughts on gym music I've personally seen or heard, and I urge yall to your thoughts on your own/other coaches music choices.


F Tier:
Nothing - No music is F tier, easily the worst, unless the guy running class is hard of hearing or cant speak up, no reason for there to be no music.
Talk Radio - Trying to get me pissed off while in the gym is A+ motivation, not great for my peace of mind
Terrestrial Radio - No reason in tyool 2024 to be listening to terrestrial radio.
Slow BPM music - Yea, lets all just have a nap while we roll or whatevs

D Tier:
Generic Top 40 off of spotify/youtube/whatever - This is chaotic evil imo, you have a streaming service and you choose to basically just play terrestrial radio? What is wrong with you.
Not with it mix - Top 40 that rotates like a month or two too late Kpop last month, whatever taytay or who ever put out last month regardless of if its good or not. 2020, I was traumatized by both Covid and BLACKPINK - 'Ice Cream'

C Tier:
Terrestrial Radio, but piped in via boombox that sits on the edge of the mat. - This is pretty sick aesthetically speaking, but cant be moved up higher based on vibes only.
XM Radio, well... you tried I guess? I hope you picked a good station.

B Tier:
"I spent my twenties in Iraq play list" - A mix of Late 90s/ Early 2000s butt rock and rap. This can go either way depending how deep the mix is, but I swear to god if I hear Kryptonite one more time
Wrestlefuntime Mix - I'm not biased, I know my own mix of AEW/WWE intro themes with fast progrock weaved in isn't for everyone, but I feel at worst it just turns into white noise instead of being annoying
Deth Metal 30000% Volume - Bands whose logos are things you can't decipher, but played so loudly that you're sure the speakers are gonna blow out. Good, because you know the coach isn't gonna be able to teach with it so it's pretty much open mat

A Tier:
Live band - Never seen this, but I have seen wrestling shows where it happened as a gimmick and so it seems sick.
"Summertime Jammie Jams Mix" - Early 90s Hip Hop/R&B, The person who made the not with it mix only played this during the summer time

02-6611-0142-1 posted:

How lucky can one guy be? Heelhooked her and she heelhooked me

kimbo305 posted:

Out of curiosity, are there any stats for incidence rates of concussions for adult practitioners of various grappling sports? Normalized by hour or something.
My initial gut reaction was that judo would have a higher rate than either folk style wrestling or BJJ, but I think that only comes from anecdotes.

kimbo305 posted:

Hunh — those must all be the same dataset. Plus/minus a couple outliers. Thanks for the abstracts!

kimbo305 posted:

The counts and proportion of women are so insanely close.

Tacos Al Pastor posted:

Was sick for a while but Im back on the mats. Did a seminar with Edwin "Junny" Ocasio over the last weekend. Hes that dude that won like 3 world titles this year (bonkers). Anyway he taught some really cool toehold and knee bar concepts. Kind of flipped out when he saw a woman was taking pictures and thought she was recording. Some of these guys are really rpotective of their techniques. I will say for $60 for a two hour seminar it was definitely worth putting the phone away and paying attention.

stramit posted:

Competing tomorrow and got my bracket combined into adult. lol giving up 15 years to have some matches with 25 year olds. Gonna be interesting.

Hellblazer187 posted:

CommonShore posted:

My judo has me feeling pretty safe in turtle,

CommonShore posted:

you should try turning over a judoka with competitive experience from turtle sometime.

Really what I often do is sit there until they give me a makikomi, a single leg, a half guard pull, or a backdoor escape. If they try just to flip me over I roll into a butterfly guard. If you're confident in your turtle defense, you can often simply stand up - that's actually what The Black Beast and Gastelum do for their Just Stand Up: go to turtle, stand the gently caress up.

Defenestrategy posted:

Honestly it doesn't phase me at all because I always observe Rule 1) Protect yourself at all times. Grappling experience or lack thereof only affects how I treat Rule 2) Protect your partner. If they're less experienced I don't attempt complicated leg entanglements or jam submissions on tightly, but if you follow that premise you will never be surprised by a white bell throwing imanari rolls or whatever on you.


Certainly if you get asked don't hide it or whatever, but I don't think it's really required to offer up "You know I have x experience." before rolling with someone, especially in my case where "purple belt in bjj" doesn't really adequately describes my experience anyway.

Hellblazer187 posted:

Have you ever been mat enforcer?

Have you ever been mat enforced?

Nestharken posted:

That's lame; hope you were able to get a refund from them. The silver lining is that a good chunk of the benefits of competing is the focused training leading up to it, at least?

In other news, someone posted a thread in GBS with pictures of a vintage book that has some... interesting jiu-jitsu moves.

Tacos Al Pastor posted:

Thank you for posting this.

Theres an interesting post from Keenan Cornelius on Insta about the true origins of Jiu Jitsu in the US. Brazilians were like the Beatles of rock music; they made it popular, however they were not the first ones to show Americans the beauty of the art. Remember all those Combative videos of Helio? A lot of that can be found in these old books. The Japanese dont get enough credit for their part.

Jack B Nimble posted:

Judo had decades of precedence in showing these techniques to Americans, it just never broke into the public consciousness the way the UFC did. "Opening the closed guard" asserts that there's no technique used in Brazilian Jiujitsu that isn't found in Judo until the IBJJF exponentially increases tournament participation in the the early aughts. The public at large, even the majority of the martial artists in the USA, may have considered UFC 1 a revolution, but fundamentally there's nothing there that couldn't have been done by a Judoka with a preference for the ground game. Joe Rogan has an anecdote where he (with essentially only a kick boxing background at this point) gets a hold of a VHS tape of the event and has his view of fighting challenged by the fights; it seems like Royce is just dragging everyone to the ground and strangling them and they're powerless to stop him, but it's essentially the same outcome of a Judoka fighting a Boxer in the early 1960s when Gene Lebell eventually gets back mount and puts Milo Savage in a rear naked choke.

Defenestrategy posted:

After reflecting on rolling yesterday everyone who does gi needs judo in their life its just too much of a disadvantage in grappling. My coach is bigger, stronger, more technically sound, but I was basically able to keep the game even because Ive been doing judo consistently for a year at this point so everytime I got into a scramble and was able to make it to my feet Id be able to basically negotiate that to a top position of some kind. Its not that hes never had to have a stand up game its just he never had the formal education for it and hes mega rusty having rarely to do standup outside of rolling against me since hes basically retired from comp.

Tacos Al Pastor posted:

I love Drysdale and asked him at Worlds a few years back what happened to the documentary for that book and all he told me was "Its still being worked on". Well here we are a few years later and the filming is done(?), but it hasnt been released. The book itself is great but I dont get a consistent flow of how a documentary could be made from it.

Tacos Al Pastor posted:

Oh drat didnt know that