Toasty needs MMA words----

[toasty]

I would like to ask for you help on a writing project I am working on.

If anyone of you would like to share any expressions or terms your gym or fighters use to describe stuff that happens in training, while cornering, during sparring or just bullshitting around the gym, I would very much like to steal them and incorporate them into this project.

It's been 2 decades since I've been in a serious martial arts gym, so I am way behind on the lingo and want stuff to sound authentic. I assume y'all don't walk around your gym going "that was a Jim Dandy of an overhand right Bill uncorked."

I'm looking for modern terms for stuff like calling getting cut "Leaking" instead of bleeding, or what you call it when someone lands a bomb during sparring did the one guy get "Splatterblasted" or "Mollywhomped" or "Slobberknocked", etc.

Hopefully that makes sense and thanks for any help you can give me.

FULL DISCLOSURE- Other than a few newspaper articles, nothing I've done so far has been published, so you might be wasting your time helping, but I promise you a like on your helpful comments, so there is that benefit.

Special thanks to @Nathan LaMontagne @DoctorTaco and @biscuitsbrah for already helping in the standup technique forum . This is a repost because that original post didn't garner enough attention. I plan on using "green light" "holding his mud" and a corner using terms like "Randleman punch" so the other corner can't figure out what it means.

Cheers,

 

[lowlife]

If you want real substance why don't you rejoin a gym for a bit and get it firsthand?

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Free Palestine - when you try to extricate yourself from an imaginary submission

 

[toasty]

If you want real substance why don't you rejoin a gym for a bit and get it firsthand?

well that would only give me the lingo of 1 specific place,,,,since characters will be from many different areas, a diversity of expressions would make sense. I'm sure a gym in Washington State uses very different lingo than a place in Texas, vs a place in Canada etc.

plus I'm old, fat, shy, cheap, that would take time to build up some of their terms, and no longer want to be punched in the face....

Here, if people will help, I get diversity of location, its free, and I don't have to suck wind, and puke on the mat to find out what people call sucking wind and puking on the mats.

 

[lowlife]

well that would only give me the lingo of 1 specific place,,,,since characters will be from many different areas, a diversity of expressions would make sense. I'm sure a gym in Washington State uses very different lingo than a place in Texas, vs a place in Canada etc.

plus I'm old, fat, shy, cheap, that would take time to build up some of their terms, and no longer want to be punched in the face....

Here, if people will help, I get diversity of location, its free, and I don't have to suck wind, and puke on the mat to find out what people call sucking wind and puking on the mats.

I think the second paragraph is your main reason. I would say it's all relevant, and even if it's localized there's absolutely nothing liking being in the shit you're trying to talk about. Also no one is going to force you to spar. It's just a suggestion though, your approach is your own.

 

[DoctorTaco]

There’s a post on this in the striking forum I think? Idk where, but I threw a few nuggets in there. Lmk if you can’t find it and I’ll repeat what I wrote there for you

 

[toasty]

There’s a post on this in the striking forum I think? Idk where, but I threw a few nuggets in there. Lmk if you can’t find it and I’ll repeat what I wrote there for you

Special thanks to @Nathan LaMontagne @DoctorTaco and @biscuitsbrah for already helping in the standup technique forum . This is a repost because that original post didn't garner enough attention. I plan on using "green light" "holding his mud" and a corner using terms like "Randleman punch" so the other corner can't figure out what it means.

didn't read all the way to the bottom of the post did you Dr. T?

i have already incorporated at least one of your terms into a scene.......and you and Biscuit have given me a whole scene idea centered around "green light" but that will be in a later chapter if I ever get that far.

bonus for you, my company ordered Mexican for lunch not too long ago, when asked what I wanted I impersonated you by shouting back "you can call me Dr. Taco today.

 

[William Huggins]

Bombay Roll, it's an old move being made new again..... Definitely something you should consider......