Posts by wanderingridge

Oh, man, I just love getting under people's skin, don't I? 🤣

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BJJ vs. Kempo instructor 🤣
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naWEb...%20jiu jiu jitsu

In Mostar, there's a Gracie Barra gym run by Slaven Planinić—he really ought to drop by this forum sometime.

Daniel Chavez14 said:Are we talking about how they act inside the cage? Or just their day-to-day lives? Because if it’s the latter, why on earth does that even matter? And if it’s the former, what the hell is that supposed to actually mean?

Look, you have to understand—fighters say all kinds of nonsense. Some of them are just full of themselves, acting all arrogant and puffed up, and frankly, it's ridiculous.

well, he’s actually quite polite in his behavior.

Oh, absolutely. Mirenić actually took home the gold at the first Submission wrestling tournament in the under 93 kg division, and honestly, since then? I’ve heard nothing but glowing reviews about him.

Jamie Fowler2 said:He’s competing in all those open submission wrestling tournaments too.

Are you even sure about that? I haven't heard that name before... 😕 Steve will probably know
. As far as technique goes, that finger-to-the-neck move can actually sting quite a bit if the guy has strong fingers
. But the rest of it? Doesn't seem all that effective to me
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The radar supposedly

Oh, what a complete disaster.
I really hope you pull through quickly.

crimsonbison10 said:www.ebay.com

Absolute blasphemy!!!!!!!!!!! 😳

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ruggedfalcon2 said:-Elvis is just bitter because I’ve pointed out, more than a few times now, that my game is objectively superior to his; naturally, he refuses to see reason because he thinks hooking up is some kind of mindless athletic competition rather than a refined skill set 😁 ☕

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Christian Miller68 said:A new club?
So, they finish a seminar, grab their new belts, and then immediately go hunting for their former coach?
Why on earth can't they just show what they learned to their own teammates—or even their current coach—back at the home gym?
Look, I mean, major props on the new belts, truly, and opening a new location is perfectly fine if the team is expanding BJJ to a different part of town. But if this is just about setting up direct competition against their original club? That’s just not right.

Listen, from everything I've gathered over the years through various conversations, that Argentinian guy is a total traditional JJ specialist. So, my guess is they probably trained together at the same academy, but I highly doubt he was ever actually their coach. It’s much more likely they were both just running the BJJ sessions themselves.
At the end of the day, why they split up doesn't really matter to me, and there won't be any real competition anyway if those two were basically the ones leading the BJJ program at that club to begin with.

Jeffrey Taylor49 said:I don't think the guy actually locked in the kimura, but he definitely knocked him out on that second attempt, assuming it was even the same dude 🙂🙂!!

No way, man. As soon as he let go, the guy just went limp. He totally knocked out the other guy 😬

Look, he let him go, sure, but it wasn't exactly some life-or-death crisis that warranted breaking a man's arm, you know? It was just two guys who had clearly had too many drinks at the bar and decided to get all worked up over nothing. That’s just foolishness. It's a completely different story when someone is actually pulling a knife on you or making real threats.

So, a buddy of mine—barely two or three training sessions in—gets jumped by this older guy at the gym. And I mean *significantly* older, like a decade gap or something; the kid was maybe 17 and this other guy looked to be about 25. Needless to say, the older guy ended up screaming on the floor pretty damn fast once he got caught in a kimura 😬

Brandon Lopez, you into BJJ yourself? Whereabouts do you train?

P.S. Seriously, major props on those belts! I can't speak to the second one, but I do know that Dean competed in the ADCC Europeans and made it through the first round. I even caught him sparring with Werdum at a seminar once—if we're talking about the same guy, that is.

I honestly believe this whole thing is just mental. He didn't set out to hurt him, plain and simple. Look, even in the UFC, guys sometimes forget to release a lever—I wouldn't go as far as calling it a lack of training, per se. My take? In those kinds of spots, you absolutely shouldn't let go of a choke until they actually start losing consciousness. Once that happens, then you can deal with the fallout. And that second situation? That’s even worse—if some guy pulls a knife on you, attacks you with a blade... man, you break every single one of his arms and you do NOT let go!

Well, obviously it’s a different ballgame! You aren't exactly going to be dropping into a high guard on a street corner like you're in a sanctioned match, and you certainly aren't going to be pulling out some obscure X-guard nonsense when things get real...

I mean, yeah, sure, but you can't just brush off that kind of strength. I was actually sitting there watching the ADCC just now... it's wild. You've got Garcia, weighing in at maybe 140 pounds, somehow taking down Rodriguez who's pushing 250. And then, get this—by the end of the tournament, Garcia actually walked away with 3rd place in the absolute division. And let me tell you, those guys are absolute monsters.

Look, the guy was clearly the stronger one. I mean, a few people were already calling her some kind of freakish mutant, but honestly? She just outclassed him on pure technique. It was simple as that—she was just technically superior.