War Room Lounge v51: A Total Non-Starter

[Prokofievian]

I agree far too many videos focus on a move/technique rather than the underlying concept of why it works. Maybe that's why people like Danaher so much but as you said, he's the whole other end of the spectrum where it becomes completely detached from anything practical for improving. I've run into a few good videos that struck the right balance. It's somewhat like planting the right thought pattern you should have at a certain time and if you keep to that principle, the moves will follow fairly easy. And yes, posture seems like another big point that's missed at times too.
Someone at my gym gets the Danaher dvds so I'm fortunate enough to have him filter through all that content and then filter it down to an hour of drilling some moves in a certain position and trying to chain them together. I've only paid for instructionals with Lachlan Giles (for No-Gi) and Keenan Cornelius (GI) aside from Youtube. I usually stick to the free route cause I hate risking forking over money just to find I don't relate much to the style or techniques in the series so I almost have to see a few things from them previously that really click on the mat to trust them.

I've always found Danaher to be unlistenable for this reason. Jiu jitsu is like pottery, not like philosophy. You do it. You are good when you are good at doing it. Thinking about it might help a little bit, but philosophizing about it? Seems like a waste of time.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Lol was this posted already?

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Posted that in Trotsky's thread and a few people lost their shit

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

TLC is the best

They have a show called Big & Little about fat midgets lol

 

[Fawlty]

Seems like a lot of effort to turn one neutral position into another one.

 

[Lead]

I've always found Danaher to be unlistenable for this reason. Jiu jitsu is like pottery, not like philosophy. You do it. You are good when you are good at doing it. Thinking about it might help a little bit, but philosophizing about it? Seems like a waste of time.

He does have good techniques though. I’m uncertain how much of it has been shown/ done by others but the kimura series is pretty useful.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

 

[BarryDillon]

Seems like a lot of effort to turn one neutral position into another one.

 

[Sketch]

Posted that in Trotsky's thread and a few people lost their shit

You never answered my question to you in that thread where you posted the picture. Would you play through?

 

[Sketch]

Who do I have to talk to here about getting Trotsky to take me off ignore? I tried taking my sig down for about a week and that didn't seem to do anything.

Can someone here communicate to him I'd like to try and start over with him? If he won't take me off ignore, I'll settle for Jack taking me off ignore as a close second.

 

[Sketch]

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

After your entry?

<{ByeHomer}>

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

You never answered my question to you in that thread where you posted the picture. Would you play through?

I only do mini golf

 

[Straight_Edge]

Only skimming convo but I thought you two were talking about butterfly entries from seated guard?

That's single leg x

 

[Sketch]

I only do mini golf

We've got ourselves an aristocrat over here.

 

[Lead]

Who do I have to talk to here about getting Trotsky to take me off ignore? I tried taking my sig down for about a week and that didn't seem to do anything.

Can someone here communicate to him I'd like to try and start over with him? If he won't take me off ignore, I'll settle for Jack taking me off ignore as a close second.

@Trotsky

He sounds sincere

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

 

[ultramanhyata]

Why is Yang a non-starter to you?

There's a segment of dems who purport that Yang is an insincere, malicious actor - a libertarian corporatist Trojan horse attempting to incrementally disassemble the social safety net with his Freedom Dividend.

I am embarrassed to admit that I initially accepted this read because I trusted some sources. Having taken a deep dive on Yang I now see it is nonsense.

The nuts and bolts of his proposals aside, IMO Yang is the most tangibly sincere, intelligent, well-researched, empathetic, unassuming and unflappable candidate in this race. And I believe his take on the catastrophic job displacement coming as a result of automation and AI will be looked on in retrospect as prophetic.

But do I think he has a shot in hell of winning the nomination? No. Do I hope a Sanders or Warren finds a place for him in a potential administration? Yes.

 

[Trotsky]

@Trotsky

He sounds sincere

Huh?

 

[Trotsky]

Could be because his opponents were so hopelessly outmatched in regular striking distance that it seemed pointless. I don't know. The underutilization of the technique probably means that it can be exploited by good wrasslers.

btw I found one pic:

Legit felt bad for Rich. You can imagine how shitty and painful it must be flexing your core trying to get out of a guy's clinch but taking nasty knees to your arms and body.

Reminds me of how I feel for a lot of the guys that lost to Nick Diaz, like BJ, Frank Shamrock, and Paul Daley, where you can just feel them getting annoyed and frustrated with the experience of getting pelted in the face over and over again and not being able to stop it.