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| A time of festivities with family and friends that reminds you of life and love |
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5 | 13.89% |
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| A time of quiet, cloudy depression where you fold yourself in shows and video games until it's over |
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| A time to smoke just so much god damned weed |
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10 | 27.78% |
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I'm kind of amazed that more comments are decrying that than supporting it.
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I remember catching a lot of poo poo for asking if having the Southern Cross tattoo had too much nationalist connotation, but I guess I can pull that question back out.
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Dec 3, 2022 18:49
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LobsterMobster posted:Ponzi has been spared Please, won't someone fix Twitter embedding on desktop? Anyways, the timing of these always feels suspect, but it's naturally how it'd play out if you wanted to keep waiting to the last minute to see if you could manage to make the fight.
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Dec 5, 2022 21:20
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mewse posted:Apparently even Joe Rogan is saying Conor is juicing? It’s hard for me to get into the mind of an idiot, but i think it’d be weird for Rogan to put it out there if he had talked to Conor directly about it. I assume it’s drawing the obvious conclusion like he did with Liver King.
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Dec 9, 2022 04:22
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It’s now an annual tradition  e: can’t believe it’s been more than a year since the Venum deal.
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Dec 12, 2022 00:36
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CarlCX posted:but #4 is so pissed off he's not sure he wants to fight anymore He clarified that translation: https://www.lowkickmma.com/magomed-ankalaev-post-fight-mistranslation/ Unless it was saving face? Brut?
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Dec 12, 2022 07:20
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CarlCX posted:He was then promptly banned from twitter (for the second time; the first was for stoking anti-immigrant hatred) for calling a bunch of other people fat and telling them to kill themselves. Also telling Mohammed Mokaev he would never be British because he wasn't born there, and calling Ilia Topuria a mixed-race mongrel, and at one point calling the entire nation of Georgia idiots who deserve to be killed by Russia, etc. etc. He turns on the charm when it counts, but he's kind of a giant toolbag. I feel like the mma media has taken it easy on him for this stuff, but I also hope they don’t dig anything up on Meatball  mister posted:Then I saw today that DJ said when Paddy asked him to appear on Paddy's podcast there was never any offer of pay. So Paddy is a hypocrite as well as a race baiting turd. Mekchu posted:Iirc, part of this came out that Paddy was being paid by Howler Head or someone's stuff to do appearances and it's somehow linked to being owned by Dana White. If y’all got links, link em. I appreciate advancing the narrative but i just wanna see the sources.
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Dec 13, 2022 09:22
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 Unless Cejydo is really into burritos, comes off pretty racist on O'Malley's part.
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Dec 18, 2022 05:44
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Wrt thread overlaps, I wanted to bring up The Dumb Combat People on Social Media Thread It's only about a year old, so I'm not sure that the extent to which social media is separable from real life has changed any from then... but -- I feel like it's inefficient to isolate fighters' viewpoints/beefs/stories from social media from the rest of our discussion. There is a minority(?) of posters who prefer not to know or discuss figthers' political stances, and I understand that, but I also think it's inevitable, so we might as well. As an example of how social media ties it all together: Snowman_McK posted:I'm not linking, but apparently Jake Shields went to Mike Jackson's gym and attacked him before going on to boast about it on social media because he's a loving idiot and is just leaning into the chud thing now. Onto my point -- that assault was 4 days ago. Today, John Danaher posts:  That seems pretty cool in a bubble, but it's Danaher -- there's no way he doesn't understand the message of what he's posting. At the very least, you know he doesn't disqualify associating with Shields over all this. In a better world, we could all just be making Diaz drinking airplane water making him fat jokes. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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Dec 20, 2022 16:09
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CommonShore posted:I'd be ok if the rule was to post here but discuss there. That seems like a good rule, so it streamlines the discussion but lets people get the firehose if they really want it.
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Dec 20, 2022 17:17
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BlindSite posted:It tends to slop over into other threads though. People get weird and abusive over their little ideological tendencies. I think it does get vituperative, but at this point, it's not "little" ideological tendencies. Believing or disbelieving in vaccines, like Shields doesn't, isn't a little tendency. BlindSite posted:I honestly don't think Danaher thinks for more than 5 minutes about anything other than martial arts.
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Dec 21, 2022 16:50
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ccubed posted:Judge Douglas Crosby Responds to Criticism Regarding Controversial Scorecards The 1% are just lighting up the comments against me!
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Dec 21, 2022 22:14
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CarlCX posted:https://twitter.com/DamonMartin/status/1606022851496124421 Smdh PI not offering wheelchair service for athletes.
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Dec 23, 2022 02:59
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You can and should learn how to use the dev tools to just delete the html block that contains the chat window. Good until the stream inevitably freezes and you have to refresh. I'm sure the official stream would be just as Nazi if they had a chat. If you'll excuse me, I now need to try to bridge and shrimp out of Jake Shields calling me a racist.
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Dec 23, 2022 17:34
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Mekchu posted:I mean, Kadyrov's son was in a fixed MMA match recently with Khamzat in his corner. I believe you, but for stuff like this, can you drop a link so people who want to know more can get the details? https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2022/12/23/23524268/video-ramzan-kadyrov-son-wins-pro-mma-debut-fake-fight-mma-ufc-politics-news This takes Chimaev from bootlicking to super saiyan, drat.
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Dec 24, 2022 03:39
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I follow this whale watching tour guide/videographer and
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Dec 26, 2022 03:11
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Kelvin got pulled up pretty quick for Tate support https://twitter.com/DesmondMMA/status/1608648580163866626 Aljo spent some energy distancing himself in October and now again https://twitter.com/kerching68/status/1608663954661969920
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Dec 30, 2022 09:13
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Mekchu posted:It was that. And not some elliptical support of Tate, right? Which i think was Freudian slippers’ question.
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Dec 30, 2022 21:18
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Boco_T posted:Also, I spent an hour nailing down the SHOOT BOXING rules so that I could start following it and posting about it, it's a cool sport with cool rules and I think it would be popular but only tiny Japanese guys do it. Interesting ruleset. Particularly in that it seems heavily biased towards throws and submissions. Anyone who's versed there would be well served to try to smother their opponent and keep going for grappling attacks, since those score so much more than the 1 point of normal winning a round. In other words, if you get on the board with a couple throws, then it's effectively open scoring -- you know who's going to win the round based on how far ahead they are with throws. Definitely makes me me want to think harder on how it compares to sanshou -- no knees or elbows (usually), no subs, all standing throws allowed. You get 1 point for a throw where you land on top of your opponent, 2 points for where you're still standing. 1 point for a punch or kick landing cleanly, 2 points for a head kick. (there's also ring outs on the platform using TKO like rules -- 2 push outs a round is sudden victory, or 3 total) The sport seems to be a mix of people who can put together very clean throwing games, people who can point fight, or a small portion of people who have KO power. The thing I stress a lot when I teach sanshou is that the throwing game is very different when you have boxing gloves on. You can do some kick catch sweeps where you have their foot/leg scooped in your hand, but otherwise, you are working with underhooks/overhooks, or 2-on-1 on a limb. e: there's also some emphasis on gripping at the elbow or tricep That makes the repertoire of throws look downright simplistic compared to even nogi. Double leg is legal (have to modify so you don't drag your lead knee on entry, and don't land on your hands/forearms) but potentially less worth it than MMA because you have the same risk of getting kneed and you don't end up in a better position at the end -- you score well, but get stood back up. An RNC is possible but you have to be very clean to do it with boxing gloves on. And now that I'm on this ramble, here's a video of some sanshou throws I just ran into that I was gonna dig through for class. Most I would say are too fancy and work best if your opponent is fully committed to their strike, which sanshou people rarely are because of the threat of catch counters. https://i.imgur.com/2Q1mpRL.mp4 As I tell my students who ask about MMA applications -- getting a clean throw may or may not be how you wanna work your MMA game. It's preferable if you wanna keep it standing, but a lot of the throws don't have easy variations that let you follow the throwee to the ground. Before K-1, Andy Souwer was a Shootboxer. He was pretty good in what I saw -- definitely comfortable with the ruleset and had a serviceable grappling game. Given the more frequent breaks in action from successful or unsuccessful throws, you really couldn't tell that he had the tools to be an elite level kickboxer. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 23:16
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Boco_T posted:It's crazier to me that sanshou counts a throw the same as a clean strike. Like, is a clean jab worth a full point? That makes your "point fighters" thing make sense, that's such a heavy weighting. Two points on this -- 1) it's definitely by design to encourage throws. I'm ok with the ruleset determining the look/feel of the sport, and the way to do that is to heavily encourage throws. A lot of strikes won't score, and you can't know for sure til the end of the round, but after each throw, the ref tells the judges how to score it. 2) yes, any clean scoring strike is counted the same. Those chest guards are to help provide some visual contrast and audio cues that a strike has landed. The 3 (or 5 for international competition) judges sit around the platform with clickers in hand for each contestant, clicking in points as they watch the match. At the worlds level, the clickers are digitized to the video stream so you can see who's ahead on points that way. e: in my limited competition experience, there's quite a lot of variation by judges on whether strikes land or not. Understandable, given their different viewing angles on the action. I remember getting pretty split scoring in some of my rounds, like winning solidly with one judge and losing solidly with 2 others. In sanshou, Muslim Salikov was a good striker with a fight-changing level of power, btw. Even if you don't get a TKO point score, you still benefit from your opponent being rocked. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Lol
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I guess this is better than power slaps https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmHffF6p5XS/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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