>be me>Growing up sports were hard>Uncoordinated as shit>Can't wash dishes without soap ending up across the other side of the room>Can't throw paper in a trash can without it missing, and actually knocking out trash>Can think of countless times where my lack of coordination caused things to be worse>Grow up>Join school's lifting club>Get strong>Get the physique I've always wanted>Still uncoordinated>Get pissed off>Get into various sports vowing to become average>Play soccer>In 1 year, can now play pickup games, defend against failed D3 athletes, become main striker of my team, develop amazing game sense and finding gaps in opposing teamComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Holy shit I meant to post this in /fit/. Can The janitors clean this one up?
>>268265One of my old taekwondo instructors started as a little kid and by all reports absolutely sucked at it until around age 15, when it suddenly clicked and he got so good that he almost made it to the Olympics (stopped by a knee injury).
>>268265What exactly are school clubs? My school only had just lectures and a free pt period at the end where we used to chimp out.
Is there any ice skaters here? Figure, dance, speed, freestyle, or even hockey can be included.Not many places to talk about it.
>>257598>RussiansRussians are well known for rigging though, it's not even a conspiracy they've been caught doing it repeatedly.That said, while I don't like Alysa that much she's far from being bad. Regardless of your stance just based on her technical output she's in the top of the olympics for this year. You could argue the Japanese girls were better, but honestly I find them pretty tame too.You can say they're overscored, but who in the lower federations are actually putting out something better? There really isn't much competition there.Like I LOVE Isabeau and Kurokova, but they just objectively don't have the technical abilities to win.
I like watching off-ice videos because the girls like to show their feet.
I just went stars on ice recently, and while it was certainly a fun show, it was a bit disappointing. I knew going in it'd be a watered down version of what they normally do, but idk I was just expecting something that'd make me go holy shit. But largely speaking it just felt like a slightly more polished version of what I'd see the older girls at my rink doing. Obviously better, but not to the extent I feel like I'm seeing a hugely different level of skater.It makes sense, but just a tad disappointing for my first real look at this level. Maybe I'll try to hit skate america or something one of these days.
>>257598Glad someone is saying is with how astroturfed by bots this bitch is. It's beyond ridiculous the no calls on errors, points for mistakes, increasing score boost, usa hosting worlds to boost her up in rankings for a rigged win, the slow junior skating skills and choreo, the fucking golden hair and dress along with the "omg I'm just having fun teehee", the "I don't care about winning (because I know I will anyway), I chose my music I am independent (daddy still pays for everything but I'm totally doing this on my own teehee)", the media posts, the constant interviews, the awards, the fattening up, banning Russians (also cheaters but had some talented girls that never even got to be here), the desperate need for comrady propoganda for upcoming Israel funded wars, need for a ladies medal after 20 years of mediocrity, "omg she made skating popular again and she's so cool wow skating is not for pretty girls anymore it's for rich ugly "alt" girls now homoglobo shit, woke message forcing, hosting LA games need to prop her up, looking like winners as a FU to the world.It's such fucking bullshit. She shouldn't haven't even gone, and shouldn't have been within the top 10 places even scored fairly. I'm so fucking tired. Every competition is just a fixed winner. You can bet money on this sport with how much it's fixed. It's insulting and a joke to everyone else.Also the audacity to bitch and moan about a silver ice dance medal. You keeo cheating and acting like sore losers when you get out cheated by bigger money launderers.
https://neochan.net/fs/catalog.htmljust leaving this herefor science
Imagine being so hated they design infrastructure against you
>>242468That's a subtle way society uses to tell you that you're too old to be seen skateboarding in public, it's time to evolve into more mature activities, like buying an used Ford Crown Vic and going for a booze cruise
>>268485I use those signs to claim I can read brail.
Every skater I've ever met was a fucking psychopathic jerk. Something about the sport attracts all the assholes in the world. Fuck 'em.
>>268836sorry
>>242468this is what it feels like to be fat
How come gymnastics is targeted towards kids and not adults?
once you have the mobility for it as a kid it's much easier to keep doing it through your life, if you try to do gymnastics as an adult with no experience youll just be frustrated as hell for months before achieving really anything worthwhile
>>268626Literally the same logic applies to yoga. And that exploded amongst adults yet has almost no child exclusive studios or classes. Also pkids can't workout, but why shouldn't the same defeatism apply to lifting weights? It takes forever to achieve anything yet its almost abnormal to not do it now.
Pedo thread
>>268620It's kind of boring unless you're already into it and an inefficient use of time for strength and physique gains versus weight training while requiring more space and more coaching. Schedule-wise, you'd have to run the kids' class at the same time as the parents' class for it to be logistically appealing, which requires even more space and staff.>>268654Yoga doesn't require a specialized facility, or any facility or equipment at all.
>>268620it's literally tumbling daycare unless you're a select few with talent to compete at the local level.
Is sky diving an extreme sport?
>>256826the admins are not the arbiters of truth
>>256851AFF Instructor here.,...not everyone can do it. We fail about 30% of the people to the point of telling them to take up another sport.
>>256851Please try swooping or freeflying and tell me it's not extreme and that anyone can do it
>>256377Getting circumcized is an extreme sport
>>256851>>263977A lot of instructors and dropzones will ostracize and push out people they don't like as well. Even if you can get your A license, theres a fair chance you may not be accepted into the club.
A place to discuss zorbing and zorbing accessories. A misunderstood but globular extreme sport. Limp Bizkit once wrote a song about this
>>167995cool
My balls are fully polished for the summer
I'm looking for a Zorb rep, i'm trying to get sponsored. I know somebody in here knows a Zorb rep!
#zorbgoals
Zorbing is so fun George Martin is refusing to write more books
If you could only teach your daughter one martial art for self-defence, what would it be?
Honestly just teach her to go for the balls and to bite his jugular out or gouge his eyes in. Fighting by the rules is for men.
>>263901Rape defense.I win all the time
>>267441This, dressing not-immodestly, Noticing, Muay Tai + Greco-Roman.
>>268503>dressing not-immodestly, Noticingunderrated, I'll add, not being out after dark
>>263901Avoiding niggers
what martial art should i do after taekwondo? i'm currently abt to be a black belt in ITF taekwondo and i noticed that it kinda sucks due to the lack of handwork.ive been thinking of exploring either judo (since im pretty big) or eskrima (for grappling techniques and knifeplay). in general im looking for a style that is more hands-focused to go with the footwork of taekwondo
boxing or any grappling martial art. boxing because taekwondo, no matter the type, has shitty punching technique and defense (check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn98RdwPw48 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz-kU1X0Q2I, which are boxers beating taekwondoins from the ITF). grappling martial arts because you only know striking and MAYBE some takedowns (if your school actually teached you them), since you said you're big then any will do, though judo would be my main recommendation
Why not just boxing? TKD strikes suck, you want something hands focused..
>>247891My taekwondo instructor bundled it with judo while teaching combatives during the Korean War. Stateside, all of his taekwondo students were made to learn some judo and all his judo students learned some taekwondo. They seemed to go well together. I would prioritize judo over eskrima but do at least dabble in eskrima if you can because considerations change in an environment where weapons are a possibility and not every judo school is going to spend time on that.
I actually rate taekwondo if you enjoy it just carry on >>247908This Obviously if you want to be well rounded do boxing or a grappling style . More urgently a grappling style
>>247891I went to Muay Thai and Judo after TKD, but I was doing ITF Competition and Hapkido on world level. If you are WTF you need learn real footwork and urgency.
Does bjj teach you anything useful?
>>220100it teaches me everynight that i am a worthless piece of shit with no ability to learn any grappling whatsoever
>>253964I take it you have been mounted often
>>233512Another retard who knows fuck all about self defense.>Muh eye gougingTry gouging my eyes when I have you in top mount. I can do the same to you but way worse.All you niggers believe BJJ is just gaurd pulling and going for armbars. You are actual retards that know nothing about fights.>How to do takedowns>How to defend against takedowns>How to stay on your feet and not trip>How to quickly recover from the ground to step up again>How to escape from bad positions>How to grapple in generalComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>234577>how to safely and aggressively get off your backthat's more of a judo thing, BJJ guys train to stay on their back and drag and submit people down from there, often much slower and more methodically.
>>264098nta and i don't believe it to be bad or useless.the problem is that so much of the training time in bjj is spent in guard it doesn't just take away from learning more practical skills but even creates bad habits for its practiticioners.>How to do takedowns>How to defend against takedowns>How to stay on your feet and not trip>How to quickly recover from the ground to step up againbjj "teaches" this but unless they cross train 90%+ of bjj guys are very poor at it. to quote Danaher you can be a bjj world champion without knowing a single takedown, as the sport currently stands.
What are the primary differences between Japanese and Okinawan karate?
>>251050Kendo has more in common with Judo. Though you do make some interesting points. Really J-Karate long-range was a result of a J-Karate master being influenced by French military advisors doing Savate, a type of foot-fencing martial art with an emphasis on kicks.O-Karate is mainly a mix of different Chinese Fujian kungfu styles mainly Incense Shop boxing and White Crane style.>>265572J-Karate being adopted as a university club, meant that katas and exercises had to make sense in a large group setting.O-Karate dojos were smaller and had more 1-on-1 training.See: Jesse Enkamp's extensive research and videos on this
>>248343Okinawan karate is a stand up grappling style with strikes at mid and close range.The stances are tall like in muay thai and 90% of the moves in kata are grappling techniques.Japanese karate has become a sport prioritizing long range strikes.Gichin funakoshi brought shotokan to mainland japan and he modified Okinawan karate to be simpler in order to be able to teach it to a large number of people at once.Then his 3rd son studied in tokyo university where he come in contact with kendo, inspired by it he made karate competition and adopted the long range approach of kendo making the stances longer and deeper to be able to strike from long range.On one hand this made karate fighters become amazing at long range, counter punching and become fast as fuck but on the other it recontextualized karate into becoming exclusively long range strikes when it originally was meant to be in your face style and have grappling.This completely ruined kata as no move in kata makes any sense as a long range strike because they were short range grappling techniques.Then there's full contact karate which funny enough did inherit the tall stance of original karate and has the mythical toughness of all karate masters.
>>266089Yeah this is true, okinawan karate originally had no kicks above the belt but the Japanese influenced it and most traditional masters teach high kick techniques even though they aren't technically how you're supposed to do them in katas.If you watch enkamps isshinryu video with uechi. Master uechi is my senseis sensei.>>266223I would say this is mostly true but if you look at original katas it's more like 50% grappling and the rest are close range strikes. Southern king fu comes from denser regions and is where karate cane from hence the close range
>>265657You DO NOT touch the boats.
>>251636Or you roundhouse kick their knee or calf and drop them in one shot.
How would you create a martial art that had as it's main purpose to be most effective against UNTRAINED people? Are there any techniques that are useless in a trained context but disproportionally effective when used against untrained people?Kind of like how in chess there are openings that are principally not sound and easily rebuked by people who know how to play chess, but allow you to easily checkmate a complete beginner (like the scholar's mate).
>>268431Oh, so you're a troll who's never been in a self-defense situation. My bad for taking you seriously; you got me good. 10/10
>>251402>Something that relies on reflexTony Blauer is that you?
>>268467Ive never been attacked because people can sense my world class half guard play from aura alone
>>268505Of course, your aura has been tempered by not showering. No one will approach you.
>>251389It's called army combatives and it's been a thing for over a century all across the world.
Chris edition>Banzuke:http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Banzuke.aspxhttps://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBanzuke/index/>Fight Schedule & Results:https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoMain/torikumi/1/1/>Some sumo links and how to watch live:https://rentry.org/uwbgc88dPrevious thread: >>267830
>>269779>do I got any other options?Yes. Take a time machine back to August 8 when the tickets went on sale. Fuck's sake man, it starts next week.
>>269781god dammit im the most retard stupid jackass ever fuck im stupid fuck
>>269779yes you can find resale tickets. are you the guy going on the last day? they're going to be extremely expensive.sumo's been more popular lately so tickets sold out fast
>>269782Don't be so hard on yourself, it's not like they announce the sale dates two years in adva- oh wait... https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnTicket/year_schedule/
>>269784reaching for that vertical rope. Hopefully i get lucky with resellers
I think the most legendary ones were Tyson (he would need to get out of prison) and Karelin but it's rather obvious that Tyson would lose due to lack of grappling skills. Karelin would be more serious threat to the Gracies because he would toss them around easily but Idk if he would be able to actually end the fight.
i think you have to give it to the boxers.while grappling is awesome in its own right because it worksand as a fight science its awesome to level the playing fieldlike that. its really funny. to nullify someone like that.but if the boxers hit you its overif they couldand if youre knocked out youre deadits like the rock shrimp. a tiny sucker but i do thinkthat velocity and precision outmatch physicality in the senseof brute strength because we all have a tiny compiler segmentsitting about on our shoulders and knocking it around sendsan overload of signals causing the brain to shut down to justprobably sort things out as an extreme precaution.its the best buts nothing is perfect, if they missed or didnt getthe hit in then they could be grappled and torqued.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>268850Clueless
Was ground and pound allowed? If so, Karelin, would just throw people on their stomach, sit on them, and punch head. Though I suspect Karelin's success is mostly due to nobody giving a crap about greco, and russians pumping him full of steroids when everyone else in his weight class was just a fatass.
>>268868im not talking about sustained competitiononly a gauntlet with people picked out of timefor one tournament
>>268979Karelin couldn't even do 1 real MMA fight it had to be a staged fight He's a wrestler, 1 leg kick and he's limping and crying
Can you do this natty?
Posted one minute after https://archived.moe/xs/thread/243888/#254800 to slide that thread to get the last word.
>>254801Sauce? Clip context?
>>254801hate this sorta shit. she's fighting him as a warrior, giving it her all, and he has the audacity to grab a titty in the middle of it. I know he's vastly better, but that's no way to treat a fellow warrior. I know it's just a cartoon but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth>>264619this on the other hand, is pure kino
>>254801what anime?
>>266059maybe if she dosnt want to be treated that way, she shouldnt be acting like a man getting into physical altercations in the first place? Dumbass.
Beagle editionOld thread >>265850
Which faggot here is this
>>270108many do not realize that being kind in this cruel world is the gnarliest thing,,
New bread>>270140>>270140>>270140
>>270141fuck sake pick a real skate pic ya doink
>>270096wax yo pivot cups
