Spacetime

ironkhan57 said:
@spacetime did you look up the groups on facebook? I dont think its healthy to be in that shitty house all day man. You need to see the sun. You look like a phantom right now.
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europeans r quite pale lol i was in ireland coaching mma for 4 months in 2012 couldnt really get much sun there
 
Nnedd said:
Spacetime, you don't have to compete to have a sense of legitimacy. I have this conversation around my gym all the time. If our hobby were playing the trumpet, no one would be asking us all when we were going to go to trumpet competitions. If you want to compete, do it. If you don't, don't. Simply competing or not won't legitimize or delegitimize your status as a combat athlete. Compete for yourself, but never, ever, compete for the benefit of others.

Along those lines, extending the trumpet analogy. From our perspective, you are not a trumpeteer or a person learning the trumpet. You are sitting at home blowing haphazardly into the mouthpiece and fingering the valves and chatting ALOT about it online, but you don't appear to be trying to actually make music.

Going to a gym, taking advice from others, and sharing any evidence that this is actually occurring, will go a long way to convincing us that you are actually interested in trying to play music instead of just talking about it and playing make believe. The clips you've shared are the equivalent of sharing a clip of two notes on a trumpet and then arguing about how great those two notes were.

I hope you are going to a gym and I hope it works out. Because it can be a life changing experience to fall in with like minded people who propel eachother toward betterment in the pursuit of combat proficiency.

Best of luck to you
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as great advice that this is, and how much sense it makes, he wont take any of it. I also attempted explaining, reasoning, and logic with him but it did not work. Your trumpet analogy is a great one. However I would say that its more like he shares a clip of 1 note, then rants on about what a great song it was rather then how great the note was. He will then go on to say what a great musician he is and how easy music is to make because he can play 1 note perfectly, despite never creating a song. He will then go on to attempt to instruct musicians how to make music, and attempt to correct other musicians on where they are making faults, then go on to challenge an established well know musician to a "musical contest" the he is convinced he will win.

I personally think he is extremely self concious of himself, so he is only willing to post a split second of a "perfect" technique, to attempt to show and convince everyone how great he is. the guys is way too "wired" and nervous that he cannot even shadow box, as evidence by his extremely stiff, robotic, and awkward movements when punching or moving.

that being said, to his credit, his TKD kicking technique is good, you can tell from his movement and flexibility he has trained TKD, he can TKD kick better than myself, and I bet he can probably TKD kick better than most the people on here that bash him as I have not seen anyone else post a video of themselves doing one better.

the problem is the guy is convinced that he can make great music and capable of competing with mozart, and attempts to convince others by playing 1 note, thinking he can fool people.

spacetime, just shadowbox or hit the bag for 1 minute. I think you will find all of this stuff will come to an end, and you wont do as bad as you or others expect. Overall I dont see anything horribly wrong with the majority of your technique.
 
tekkenfan said:
europeans r quite pale lol i was in ireland coaching mma for 4 months in 2012 couldnt really get much sun there
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Thats racist. Jk i have family in london. They can confirm that shit. Russians have pale skin and some of them got darker skin.
 
First day back over with the advanced/ fighters group. More than 1 year off and yeah.. Felt like normal say the first 30 minutes shadow boxing, running. Then he cranked up the cardio, then Pad work (again OK but still rough) and ended with heavy bag work out (.. ) , and then more S och C...then stretching... Let's just say I'm fried...

new gym too..
 
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spacetime said:
First day back over with the advanced/ fighters group. More than 1 year off and yeah.. Felt like normal say the first 30 minutes shadow boxing, running. Then he cranked up the cardio, then Pad work (again OK but still rough) and ended with heavy bag work out (.. ) , and then more S och C...then stretching... Let's just say I'm fried...

new gym too..
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Proof? Video?
 
ironkhan57 said:
Proof? Video?
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I asked about filming and it's fine with him. I'll get in shape before I post anything.

He didn't actually rip me apart like I thought he would shadow boxing to him. Just small modifications. I was ready for the worst considering it's their fighter group. Super cool dude. HW Champ in 2002. Never heard of him but he's on their albums listed as HW champion. Obviously not the higher belts but a belt nonetheless, and he looked ripped...
 
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spacetime said:
I asked about filming and it's fine with him. I'll get in shape before I post anything.

He didn't actually rip me apart like I thought he would shadow boxing to him. Just small modifications. I was ready for the worst considering it's their fighter group. Super cool dude. HW Champ in 2002. Never heard of him but he's on their albums listed as HW champion. Obviously not the higher belts but a belt nonetheless, and he looked ripped...
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Alright i see you. Lets see this shit.
 
Elevator trauma today...Stuck with the dog for 60 mins. No ventilation.

Metal protection elevator. 40 mins passed. I bend it up with my hands .. Ten there's ANOTHER door after that in plastic. ..lol.....

Why the fuck can't they just make the doors in wood? 10 seconds and we are out of there. Is it meant to make you feel claustrophobic?

What if there's a fire?
 
spacetime said:
Elevator trauma today...Stuck with the dog for 60 mins. No ventilation.

Metal protection elevator. 40 mins passed. I bend it up with my hands .. Ten there's ANOTHER door after that in plastic. ..lol.....

Why the fuck can't they just make the doors in wood? 10 seconds and we are out of there. Is it meant to make you feel claustrophobic?

What if there's a fire?
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Tell it to yo girlfriend.
 
spacetime said:
This is the extent of my home training a year ago, after boxing classes. It's limiting and that bag got pulverized in a few weeks. Shit quality.



And if I snap at it goes south.
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Punching downwards always punch at eye level or above bend knees if you punching low with a cross or jab. Snap it by no means am I an expert
 
SandisLL said:
To become a national champion in one of these small countries....

I think someone doesn't knows enough about these small countries.....
Because Scandinavia and Baltic states are " small " this doesn't means that they have weak athletes that doesn't beat hard.
One example ; guy 17 y.o was 3 rd in Europe in KB and 9 th in Europe in boxing ( ammies of course ) and this of course means that become ammy adult champ in one really small country is easy?
How many ammy athletes ranked in first 16 th for Europe these 7 countries produced in past 25 years.
Of course this not means anything.
Thanks to God at least grapplers, karatekas and MT weren't mentioned.
They have also small regional events, where athletes from Poland, Belarus participates etc.
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For sure couldn't agree more to be a national Champion in any country in Europe is a great feat. Even small countries in certain parts of Europe have high number of Martial art practitioners and hard work ethic.
 
John Schultz said:
For sure couldn't agree more to be a national Champion in any country in Europe is a great feat. Even small countries in certain parts of Europe have high number of Martial art practitioners and hard work ethic.
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most european nations i'd put on par with US states so a national champ in a european nation i'd put a bit above a state champ in the US (above because national level will always end up with more prestige and as such likely bring in more participants per capita than a state/regional tournament/competition)
 
^I'm not sure about that. It entirely depends on what region of Europe we're talking about. Even down to the City and/or what Gym. Winning a State or Regional title in the U.S. isnt all that easy. Mainly because in notable areas theres dozens of fighters.
 
Sinister said:
^I'm not sure about that. It entirely depends on what region of Europe we're talking about. Even down to the City and/or what Gym. Winning a State or Regional title in the U.S. isnt all that easy. Mainly because in notable areas theres dozens of fighters.
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it is a generalization. MOST states will have a landmass about the same size as most european nations or larger, while having a similarly sized or smaller population than european nations.

nebraska is 77.22k sq mi while england is only 50.34k sq mi ireland 23k portugal 35k belarus is 80k

etc.
there's only about 9 european countries that i would classify as significantly larger than nebraska (a pretty medium sized state.)

meanwhile romania is a bit larger than NE it has nearly 8.5 times the population of NE, and while ireland is much smaller than NE it has a population approx, 4x that of NE

in fact romania has a larger population than all US states except 4 it looks like, and ireland's population would put it just about the median US state population
 
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