>>246833
I know this is supposed to be "realistic" but given that someone got injured in the last running challenge, which already had a largely clean environment with a nice green lawn, having the new boring running challenge be in an abandoned lithuanian building with rocks everywhere is a big safety oversight.

New episode. Challenge: Home invasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2HvexwioeA

>>247643
And the next one: 8 hacks and a baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMQX19LrL1k

I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but can I just state that I find the "Master Ken" segments in season 3 boring as all hell. It's funny if you've never seen it before, but if you've seen one of his skits, you've seen them all.

>>248037
I liked the one in the first episode where it was an actually choreographed sequence showing his stupid shit "works" within his weird little bubble, but in the later episodes it doesn't really work.

The other alternative is they should've made it so each segment just has a random Master Ken version of the challenge interspersed instead of all piled at the end.

>Going through each baby segment
>Gets to Master Ken
>He's accosted for his baby
>"I don't even know this kid, you can have him."
>Throws the baby at the mugger then kicks him in the dick anyway because "I've had enough babies with enough women to know no good man actually WANTS to have a baby"

>>248095
I suspect he's the meth shoe poster

>>248087
Straye makes good shoes

>buy DC thinking they're still skate brand
>majority owned by blackrock
eh I tried

>>248105
There's nothing left, dude. What are you going to buy, Last Resorts? Have fun paying dunk prices for Kohl's quality.

It's up
>>248124

>>244701
I stopped caring about looking gay, now I'm just having fun.
I do kinda look like a pedo being the only grown man in group classes filled with little girls though.

But all the adult women seem to like me well enough. If I was single I could probably land a few of them.

>>244701
ur crazy if you think thats a sport that'll make you unattractive, being the only figure skating man on the ice surrounded by women already makes you have a pretty good chance at standing out, plus take a good look at men skaters (who have the strongest following) and try telling me that most of their fans are only here for their technical prowess and nothing else. of course thats not the case, these women find the flying and dancing around the ice very attractrive, i mean sure, not all women are gonna be into a figure skating man just as not all women are gonna be into a football guy. but trust me bro fs is not gonna be the thing that keeps u single

>>244809
HAHAHA THATS TRUE, figure skating is such an obscure sport that you'll find yourself talking to people from all different stages of life just for that sense of community and i think its beautiful, being young and having conversations with older people, it gives me the impression of getting wiser just by our social exchange

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for me it's speed skating

>>247757
why do you like this? is it the same appeal of people watching running races or something? crazy that on the ice there are discplines that vary so widely

>>246480
>they're fast and if they jump on you you'll end up getting fucked up on the floor
It probably worked so well BECAUSE the dog kept trying to jump at me. The opponent being airborne makes redirection throws super easy as long as you get the timing right.

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>>246550
>It sounds like you're more interested in doing super clean kata

not really, i mean i like 'em but of course i also like sparring, though competing isn't very interesting to me, i'd do it if i have the time and money

>demonstrating them in kata with someone whose job it is to make your throws look as good as possible

i guess both have their use in that case, though i've seen some hapkido competitions that end up looking like judo ones, so there's that

>dogs
lol, how do you do it?

>cardio
what's your routine like now? i'd like to improve my cardio training :)


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>>246422
>Those involve a lot of struggling in order to perform a takedown while these ones are usually just making one move to throw the opponent

Oh you sweet sweet summer child

>>246422
>i mean yeah, but those involve a lot of struggling in order to perform a takedown
Yes, because they are real techniques against people trying to resist their opponents.
>while these ones are usually just making one move to throw the oponent.
That's how you know it's a McDojo. Aikido or Hapkido exhibitions look cool, but whenever they try to make actual tournaments, it always ends up looking like an amateur Judo competition.

How bullshit is Yoshinkan Aikido? There's a dojo near my place with good credentials. It looks like fun, but on a scale of "completely" to "not at all" how useless is it? I heard it's one of the harder styles, though I don't know precisely what that means.

>>247891
Kickboxing.
Look, I might have a retarded vision of things here, but I see Taekwondo and Aikido as very similar martial arts. Laughed upon, misunderstood, with too many mcdojos and clowns. In short, ineffective. But what I also noticed when doing kickboxing is that taekwondo guys have a style that's powerful and unconventional. They have to adapt to some KB stuff, but some go into fights with a taekwondo style, almost like fencing with their leg, and it works. Kind of like this girl, but less obvious https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2ShTujCVJzc
So I think that Taekwondo is like a DLC for Kickboxing.
I mentioned Aikido because I think it's like a DLC for Judo and BJJ, but that's a whole other can of worms

>>247891
Will you become an amazing all around fighter who can threaten competent fighters? Probably not

Can you kick a crackhead in the chest and make him rethink his decision? Probably yes

Not everyone has to be super optimal MMA guy

>>247891
Since you have kicks boxing or kick boxing. Escrima seems cool but hard to find a good gym.

>>225994
>your walking down the street and u bump into a guy. one things leads into another
https://youtu.be/UajTvU3sjrY

>>226006
fpbp

>>235157
wrong. sambas are the best, hence why all urban terrorcore fits feature various sambas

>>225994
The number of times I've whipped a bitch in the face with a jean jacket is well into the hundreds.

Throw it off your shoulders while someone is running their penis trap, a quick spin and snap like a towel right in the fuggen mouth.

Also good if they draw a knife. Well, better than nothing, anyway.

Step in behind it, use the distraction to cover your advance.

It's a fight.
Cheat.
Stupid.

>>225994
Something you can run, kick, and stomp in.
Leave the tactical Crocs at home.

I don't know, man. Seems to me if you live in an area where violence is a thing, wearing a gun and a condom is probably a good way to go.

>>247747
Kendo is also good for its intensity and seriousness with which it takes itself. They don't fuck about, in comparison to most of the others mentioned.

>>247851
>Kendo is also good for its intensity and seriousness with which it takes itself.
Yeah, just like Olympic fencing, it's why I group those two together and put the other two in a different group.

Has anyone ever tried Ryushin Shouchi Ryu? A study group opened up in my area. I have no previous experience with sword arts.

>>247884
What other sword stuff is available in your area?

>>247906
Fencing and “weapons” classes at TKD dojangs.

>>247841
You can go to a dojo/class and just observe or even participate a little if they invite you to, so you can get a sense of what the practices are like and what the people and instructors are like. Make sure that the club is affiliated with the regional or national federation if there is one.

How fast you progress is entirely dependent on you. How much you practice, train at home, etc. Virtually all fencing arts are going to work good fundamentals into you before taking on more advanced techniques which could take years. Western fencing arts don’t really have the same culture and system of progression as does kendo (i.e. ranks) so I guess hypothetically you could progress faster. In kendo, most sensei don’t want you to practice some techniques until you’ve progressed to a certain point or attained at least shodan. I don’t think that exists quite the same way in Olympic fencing but it might depend on the coach/club.

My question is why you would practice something that is fastest over what you want to learn. You’re never going to reach a “pinnacle” of understanding in an art. You could potentially practice your entire life, so wouldn’t it make more sense to learn something you’ll actually enjoy?

>>247846
Maybe instead of saying fast progress I should have said I’m afraid of making slow progress at 50% speed because of bad teachers. I don’t have a lot of time to waste as I’m getting older. I don’t mind putting in the hours but I don’t want to do it purely out of bad teaching slowing me down. I’m trying to get back into shape for firefighting so I also don’t have a lot of time either in general for periods of the year. not enough to waste without making progress if that makes sense. my biggest concern is putting in 500 hours into something I could have gotten just as good at in 300 hours with the right teachers. But I don’t mind putting the time in if it pays off.


>>247856
Smart


What are your places like you trained at? How did you find them?

>>247859
I think they’re all cool I think that some of them are cooler than others though. it doesn’t make sense for me to travel 3 hours to a place to practice though and it doesn’t make sense for me to do nothing because I don’t have what I “want” to do near me, so I’m willing to be flexible.

I’d like to get to the point I can compete in a year or two. it seems like fun recreationally. And I’m concerned with making fast beginner progress in the first few months so I don’t get bored. that happened with me an TKD when I was much younger where they wanted me to do the 20 step kata over and over when what I wanted to do was two or three step drills and light sparring and practicing individual moves to get the form down.


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>>247876
You can compete within a year or two in both western fencing and kendo. Ask the club how often they usually have competitions.

You usually will be practicing for around 6 months in kendo before you can start wearing the protective armor (bogu). Before then you can’t really “spar”, you’ll be learning footwork and basic swings. The reason is because wearing the armor too early can actually mess up your kendo and make you form bad habits early on. Olympic fencing also places a big emphasis on footwork first, but I think generally you can start sparring much earlier. Ask the instructor what their timeline for beginners looks like.

Btw, iaido has almost no actual “fencing” component to it. It’s basically all kata as you describe.

>>247876
>What are your places like you trained at? How did you find them?
I didn't write that, it's in the thread I also quoted, but it's something we have all come to agree if a self defense/competition place is what you want.
That aside, I'm a judoka. The only serious, proper (as in, not ridiculously small garages) place I could find was a national judo dojo for training Olympic athletes. A shodan there was granted permission to teach to adult beginners.

Learn anatomy.

Find some friends and start stress testing with training knives or noodles. Hell, use a marker or a brush with some shit on it to track contact.
Start slow, try to strike a certain area, and have your friend try to defend or even disarm.
Speed the movements up, slowly working up towards a realistic speed.
Try every variation possible, and practice it all.
Then introduce some combo strikes, find a flow.

Then realize how FUCKED you would be in a real knife v knife scenario.

Techniques won't do jack fucking shit for you in practice, motor skills and actually understanding movement/principles will.
You need to learn to intuitively put the pointy thing deep enough into the soft thing while your opponent is spazzing or offering resistance.

>>244737
I didn't get this with judo as we didn't do any randori, we just did positional newaza, pin, and very complex and unintuitive throws

I did get this feeling with boxing and wrestling as the conditioning was to the max and the sparring felt intuitive

BJJ I hated but maybe it was the instructor. We didn't roll at all just practiced guard "play around in it" he said

>>244716
i hope you find your spark anon

I don't like training, it's not joyful
I just want to roll around with the lads for 2 or 3 rounds then go home

There's not really any reason to do anything other than that either. Training is overrated, you get better at doing things by doing the things

>>247357
slow your roll, i do agree to a degree however there is a time and place for specifics, and that time and place is most of the time. if you want to get good at your armbar, well, how often during a roll are you in an armbar? What if it's a more specific spot, like deep half guard? It might be an important tool, but it might be a tool that you're not in long enough, or often enough. Nothing wrong with just getting a couple of rolls in though, we all need some kind break from this retarded gay life.

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>>244716

ive done taekwondo for some time and im pretty split on it. on one hand, i kinda like it but on the other its one of the most useless fighting styles for an actual fight. i would say the mixed feelings overall comes from what you want to get out of it and whether or not you are actually receiving such goals.

How do you skate in winter, when it's too cold without a coat?

>>247616
Wear a coat.

>>247616
Skate really hard so your body produces more heat.

Do you skate at night? If yes, what equipment do you use? If no, why?

Anyone from the UK? Is it allowed to use inline skates on the road? Pavement? Cycle paths?

>>246453
He got paid a shit ton and did something he wanted. He fought in a cage in front of millions of viewers

What have you done?

>>246463
not humiliated myself in front of millions of people in a sport i started too late

>>246556
Only pussified men care about how others perceive them. He did what he wanted and that's more than you can say for yourself wagie.

>>246556
you are a not-fighting bitch. your opinion is worthless and trash.

>>247769
he did what he got paid millions for*
fixed that for you
if you dont care how others perceive you youre more likely to be a slovenly retard, which you are, so that works
>>247848
keep simping for an old pro wrestler who failed at MMA

Brock Lesnar is an example of how to actually do MMA after being a pro wrestler.

>>243058
It's just people fighting on concrete. Go to any shithole with clubs or bars and you'll see the same every Saturday night. It's a tale as old as time

What's beautiful is most of them have a gentleman's agreement even with no rules allowed only a few eye poke or gouge bite etc.. even these hooligans have respect for their enemy

>>243048
Thats a man anon.

>>238849
Death Sentence talks and acts like he's middling somewhere between high and low functioning, they really shouldn't be letting him fight when he can't retain anything from being coached by a professional

>>247794
That charlatan only fights other charlatans. They won't let him fight anyone with real training.

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HE PACKIN

>>225840
Did you stay sane, Anon, or did you lose it?

>>225840
Feet are here for a reason, get yourself a second keyboard for them

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>>225840
>How do you stay sane while you’re healing from injuries?
After you have been injured enough times you know the routine. See pic - guess what I had to get? Surgery was fine, but during the recovery I had something called vasovagal or some shit like that and my heart rate dropped, dropped some more, then I flat lined for 30 seconds and saw the light. Dr. says 6mos before I go back to motocross riding. You either live life and enjoy the aches and pains later, or do nothing and waste your life.

You just need to do what you can. when I broke my collarbone I just did body weight squats and toe raises and used hand grippers in both hands for blood flow and did some very light lifting with the other arm. I could have probably used a treadmill but did a stationary bike instead to minimize movement.

I didn’t get surgery for my collarbone and I have problems with it but a year and a half later it’s stronger than it was before I broke it so it’s manageable.


when I fet my collarbone healed enough to lift I started with a. One pound water bottle and very slow reps, and just slowly went from there

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>>225844
O'Hare had some good roles on L&O
It gets a bit jarring on rewatches when he's constantly showing up as different characters though

>>241563
I'm not christian i pray to myself :3c

>>241565
I've never thought about it so clearly, it sounds a bit defeatist but i guess in my situation and for you you'd be right. Strange that you havent found any dancebuddy yet because in my 3 years of posery i've had like 2 who i still keep in touch with, one i met at dancing classes and the other on a famous dancing spot, maybe you should check those out your city?

>>242007
Nah, it's not strange at all. First of all most of the "dance classes" I could find here are aimed at literal children and teenagers. And even if they weren't, I just consider this whole dance class thing very faggy and fake. I have a very specific and autistic vision of what dancing should be (at least for breaking in particular). It's the type of shit you should be training in some garage alone or with some sort of makeshift crew (while occasionally yelling at eachother), up until like 2am and then maybe cracking a few beers open. Should feel a bit grimy and rough around the edges, a bit sporadic. That's what makes the whole process feel authentic and unfiltered. Paying some guy to "teach" me dance moves through his carefully curated lessons over the course of a few weeks, surrounded by other clumsy chumps feels so sanitized and corporatized. There's no charm to it.

As for "dance spots", there are none. Not in my city at least. I live in the balkans, there just isn't a culture for this sort of thing here. I'm pretty much an outlier in terms of my obsession with this dancing shit. I'm sure there are at least a few others ( in this country) who have a passion for this sort of thing, but they most likely keep it to themselves, just like i'm doing lol. So there's not chance of intersecting whatsoever. Again, not exactly bothered by this fact, since i'm not actively seeking out people in the first place. But hypothetically, it would be an interesting experience to practice with someone like that.

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Anyone else watching this?

>>247619
huh idk about this event but the one redbull event that really made me wish i could dance well was the redbull dance your style, especially that one stance compilations. so much entertainment and vibes

>paying to watch f1

I'm a Verstappen hater but damn I wish him to steal the championship from those papaya faggots. I lose respect to McLaren since Monza.

Why there arent any F1TV Streams ? I can find Skysports F1 streams but not F1TV because i hate Crofty so much, hes fatter than me for fuck sake. Fat and Gay

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>>243081
The sky commentators are such senile br*ts, they're awful.
Although I don't really like the f1tv play-by-play commentator, he has a weird inflection he always does with his voice like he's telling a stupid joke constantly