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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 22, 2016, 06:30:18 pm »
fuuuuck. was just driving home and passed this area where I most often run; a bus ran off the road completely.. Lately I run around this time too, eek.

I always worry about stuff like that.

As long as you didnt have a vision about it beforehand, movie rules say you're good.

i have a vision about it every time i run, how's that factor in? lol

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 22, 2016, 04:34:12 pm »
fuuuuck. was just driving home and passed this area where I most often run; a bus ran off the road completely.. Lately I run around this time too, eek.

I always worry about stuff like that.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 22, 2016, 04:32:12 pm »
I was wondering, I'm thinking of going to a boxing club. Except that usually it's filled with under 80 IQ people, gypsies, and extremely idiotic "coaches". Plus probably I would quickly get in a fight with someone and, well, let's just say that getting in a fight at a boxing club is the last thing you want to do.

What do you think? What's your experience with this?

lots of good people at boxing gyms.. sure most of them might not be into the stuff you're into but, you'll find lots of dedicated people in there.. most of which probably wouldn't judge you/size you up at all; they'd probably be pretty helpful.

i seriously doubt anyone would get into a fight with you.. think about it, you're in a boxing gym. In boxing gyms, if people really have a beef, they get in the ring and slug it out, usually under supervision. Fighting outside of the square circle is often a big no-no and can get you banned from most gyms.

People actually go into boxing gyms looking for fights.. there's videos on youtube. Usually, the boxing coach will find some young tough amateur KID to beat this grown man's ass in the actual ring.


Yeah I absolutely LOVE that. Always makes me think of Charlie Zelenoff (although that guy is a victim of mental illness, so I can't really make fun of him, but still, you get the idea).

ya.. the zelenoff stuff is bad. He was harassing Wilder's daughter etc, who I think has handicaps. So Wilder definitely wanted to hurt him.. but even then, he refrained from just beating his brains in when he was on the ground helpless.



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The more I think about boxing the more I want to do it.

Do you "have" to fight in the ring or you can just train? What's the progression? How does the typical learning curve look like? (what do you learn first, and how do you grow as a boxer, even a non-competitive one)?

nah you don't have to fight at all, ever. most people don't.

the progression is:
- learning how to wrap your hands
- joining a class: a coach runs you through various drills and basic stuff, holds the mitts for you, has you and a partner in the class do drills together, gives you instruction while you're hitting a bag, takes you through some finishing extra stuff like core-work/jump rope etc.
- after a while of this, you may want to actually spar, so you'd let the coach know or he'd ask you: light supervised sparring, where going out of control/going 100% is not the goal.. the goal is to learn how to move and react to punches, throw clean but light punches, get hit a bit
- after a while of this, you may want to hard spar: this is 100% effort while sparring, again supervised. A coach (or multiple coaches) supervise and will step in if someone is hurt or can't defend themselves. They also try and pair you with someone you are "equal with", or, someone who is slightly better than you if the goal is to get you to improve against better opposition.. This person who is better might be told to hold back a bit, but still try to get the better of you obviously.
- after a while of this, you may want to do amateurs or turn pro: At this point your coach is literally your coach, and you have a team etc.. Anyone can go pro or do amateurs.

In sparring (at any level), everyone should have a mouth piece and wear head gear, a body guard, and heavier gloves (16 oz for example). They will put vaseline on your face, head gear, and gloves so that you have less risk of getting cut and punches slip off easier. Heavier gloves (16oz or more) are preferred because they slow down the punches, protects your hands more, and protect your opponent more.

If you're going CRAZY LIGHT with someone you know/trust, you could go without head gear etc. You should never do that with someone you don't know though.

But ya once you get some of the basics down, you can just go into a gym and hit the bag, work the speed bag, jump rope, shadow box, all on your own. Don't need to train with anyone.

pc!

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Fitness Goals: Michael Jai White

It's too bad hes always in direct to dvd films, he is the black Jason Statham and I think the biggest movie he was in was exit wounds.

he was in The Dark Knight too.. I still remember watching that movie, mind blown. Wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 22, 2016, 03:36:49 am »
I was wondering, I'm thinking of going to a boxing club. Except that usually it's filled with under 80 IQ people, gypsies, and extremely idiotic "coaches". Plus probably I would quickly get in a fight with someone and, well, let's just say that getting in a fight at a boxing club is the last thing you want to do.

What do you think? What's your experience with this?

lots of good people at boxing gyms.. sure most of them might not be into the stuff you're into but, you'll find lots of dedicated people in there.. most of which probably wouldn't judge you/size you up at all; they'd probably be pretty helpful.

i seriously doubt anyone would get into a fight with you.. think about it, you're in a boxing gym. In boxing gyms, if people really have a beef, they get in the ring and slug it out, usually under supervision. Fighting outside of the square circle is often a big no-no and can get you banned from most gyms.

People actually go into boxing gyms looking for fights.. there's videos on youtube. Usually, the boxing coach will find some young tough amateur KID to beat this grown man's ass in the actual ring.

so ya, not much fighting happens outside of the ring in a boxing gym (even if you were joking, just addressing it).

who knows you might love it.. one thing you absolutely must not do though is "rush it". You'd need someone in there to show you how to wrap your hands, get you good gloves, show you how to work a bag, maybe hold the mitts for you.. If you do want to spar, you'd want to go light first with people who know how to hold back.

Hitting the bag is the only thing (other than dunking) that I miss. It's so much fun and a very good workout. Also speed bag is so damn fun.

If you have a gym near you, ya stop by and check it out. No reason to be intimidated.. if it's an actual gym, it should have somewhat responsible coaches and people at all levels preparing for amateurs or pros, or just trying to get fit/improve.

One way to look at boxing gyms is similar to your comment in Eric's thread, about not giving up on people. You know how many criminals have ended up in boxing gyms and completely turn their lives around? ALOT. That should give you an idea of the respect/discipline that can be found in most of those places.

My experience with boxing gym's has been mostly positive. The only negatives I have is when people allowed me to spar 100% with less than optimal gloves. Ended up permanently hurting my hand. I got good gloves after that and sparred for several months but the injury just never went away. So that kind of wrecked everything.. The coaches should have taken more interest in the gloves I was using, IMHO. I thought they were decent, but they apparently sucked. I should have gotten some Winning gloves initially which are much safer for your knuckles.

pc!

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No, we have to find way to rehabilitate these people. Otherwise they are completely useless and a burden to society for as long as they live, beyond the fact that their lives are wasted and lost for one idiot thing that they did (yes, I know, the girl that was killed had her life wasted away, but as a society, we have to be better than those abusing the society). It's that simple.

and remember one thing.. it's our system which is failing the youth.

I have this habit of looking at the system first, before looking at the people. Obviously people need to be held accountable for their actions.. But the piss poor education system, sugar-crack-fiend nutrition culture, crap health care system, disproportionate criminal justice system, for profit prison system, innocent people put to death penalty system, violence acceptable - nudity not acceptable, corporate & social welfare system, failing infrastructure, perpetual warfare state .. deserves alot of blame.

Why are we so quick to blame a kid who lashes out in a high school bathroom, beating someone to death.. when our society is in a perpetual state of warfare where violence is accepted?

Fuck, and you've also got kids growing up drinking water with lead in it. wtf.

Everything I mentioned above is a problem with the state.. we also have parents using violent video games as baby sitters, and violence all over tv 24/7; that's another issue, but still intertwined. Bad parenting is probably the biggest issue, but when you fail the youth who then become parents, what do we expect?

In a different story, the GOP always does this. They always find someone to blame, to distract people from the issues I mentioned above. It's always immigrants and poor people. It's a very effective tactic. (The democrats do it too, but they usually blame republicans and now Wall Street, which I think is far more fair :)

All i'm saying is.. ya hold these violent offenders accountable, but like raptor said, don't give up on them.. because in many instances, the system we have in place right now, helps perpetuate their behavior.

It's just a big cycle of wreck, IMHO.

In a nutshell.. any time someone does something, hit rewind.

pC!

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Kids are fucking stupid, holy shit.  I read an article about an incident like today or recently a 16 year old girl was fighting with another in the bathroom at school then was jumped and left in critical condition and later died at the hospital.

What's fucked up is if the attackers are the same age, they will probably get a slap on the wrist which is complete bullshit.  Fucking people today aren't scared of the god damn laws because they are a joke.  At 16 I did stupid shit but I was also able to think about IF i do this then this this this and this could happen, so is it worth it? 

If you are old enough to be trusted to get behind the wheel of a car where you are constantly making decisions then you should be old enough to be tried as an adult. 

Lock them up and throw away the key, they can't fight over a man in prison.

Also, did anyone see the dildodrone? Shit is weird.

regarding the "back in my day" rationale.. there's far more laws/penalties now than there was in your day, than there was in my day. When I was in elementary school, you could bring a toy gun to school without incident. Now, if you draw a gun, you can get expelled. HEH. Also there are much tougher penalties in place for bullying and assault in schools. Young kids are being tried as adults and such; law enforcement steps in at these K-12 schools to handle fights and such.

To illustrate my point.. in 1998 I had a teacher who was high (apparently on crack) in the classroom, several times. She'd fall asleep while teaching us. You're not going to see any cell phone footage of it, or any news stories.. because "back in my day" (lol) there wasn't any cell phone cameras or facebook's to share it on.  :lololol:

The only thing that's changed between "back in your day" and "back in my day" is the media (online and tv) saturation of all of this stuff. It's like when my mom talks about how it was "safer" back in her day. Meanwhile, kids were getting abducted left & right, serial killers having the time of their life. For example, people think it was "safe to hitchhike" in the 1960's.. It's probably safer now. No one knows what the hell was going on back then, no cell phones, no traffic cams, no sex predator lists etc. People just went missing and no one outside of their local community ever heard about it. Now that's eerie shit. They had to put faces on milk cartons.. that was there facebook. lmao.

dem stats.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

rape is way up.

i imagine changes in prosecution (of everything on that stat list) influence stats over time.

pc!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 22, 2016, 01:27:42 am »
04/21/2016

Bio: Morning

wakeup = 11:30 AM
fell_asleep = 3:30 AM
bw = 150
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = none
aches = right tennis elbow barely (least i've felt it in a long time)
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = great



Food

11:30 AM

- 2 x wheat bread with peanut butter
- green tea



Food

3 PM

- greek yogurt
- green tea



Session: Evening

6 PM
- beautiful day out

run to court:
- 3.90 mi in 26:31
- pace: 6:48 min/mi
- speed: 8.8 mph
- top speed: 13.0 mph
- fastest run in a while (since coming back from injury probably).

splits:
- mile 1: 6:15 min/mi, best instantaneous pace: 4:36 min/mi
- mile 2: 6:46 min/mi, best instantaneous pace: 5:34 min/mi
- mile 3: 7:07 min/mi, best instantaneous pace: 6:26 min/mi

pretty good run ! felt great.. decided to push it.. lost about ~10-15s on that run too, crossing the streets and such.


jumps at court:
- felt really good, but just got a bunch of ~10'4" L-SLRVJ's
- R-SLRVJ felt great but still just did backboard taps
- toenail started to hurt again


run home: light jog with max sprints mixed in
- 3.81 mi in 32:11
- pace: 8:27 min/mi
- speed: 7.1 mph
- top speed: 15.0 mph
- got ~11 sprints in

best pace during each split:
- mile 1: 4:03 min/mi
- mile 2: 4:03 min/mi
- mile 3: 4:00 min/mi

very happy about that.. would have liked to get into the 16's but, need to sprint more. felt really good though.

- bw after run: 147



a little bit after getting home, left big toe = very painful.



Food

7:30 PM

- 2% milk



Food

10 PM

- spicy stir fry: grilled chicken, green pepper, carrots, garlic, olives, brussels sprouts, olive oil, coconut aminos, jalapeno, juice from lemon, mixed nuts
- banana
- small ice cream



Food

12 AM

- hot mint tea



Session: Stretching

12:30 AM - 1:15 AM

- lower + upper
- good stretching



left toe is a little better than when it was extremely painful.. but.. not that much. still hurting alot.. even when i'm lying down etc.

after yesterday's run is when I felt it.. then I trimmed my toenails, which I should have done prior to the run.. but prior to today's training, it felt fine. Didn't worry about it at all during my session until it started bugging me when jumping.

sux.. doubt i'll be able to do anything tomorrow.. feel good too.

pc

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 21, 2016, 10:29:43 pm »
wrecked toe bros  :highfive:

ya.. 4 black/destroyed toenails, ingrown toenail on left big toe, old left pinky toe which was completely dislocated and now barely moves correctly.. lol

and you got that toe arfritis.

this shit hurts so fucking bad.. HEH.

 :raging:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 21, 2016, 08:46:35 pm »
faaaawk. I think my left big toenail might have an ingrown toenail issue. Had one of my best sessions (in a long while) tonight but, after the session, big toe is in so much pain.

FML. ;f

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Basketball / Re: The Dunk King - coming May 18 on TNT
« on: April 21, 2016, 04:32:39 pm »
Definitely, the question is - was that rim 10 feet? Because if so, even with the angles and so on, definitely head over rim there. 10'6"? I don't know.

The point I was trying to make is that he's definitely at ~48" or so. But 53? Hard to say, it's exponentially harder to cover these 5 inches from 48 to 53 than it is from 20 to 25...

sure, but look at that video I posted. He hits his head on the way down, and still hits the top of his forehead.

and ya I definitely am not minimizing those ~3" from 50-53.. It's astronomical - olympic level record gap. I just think that if there's anyone out there who can make the case, it's myree (and t-dub). Most of these dunkers are several inches taller than they report and don't get up anywhere near how high he gets up. If you took all of his vids and searched for legit 50", you'd find some (like the vids you and I posted).. and for 53"? the one I posted seems pretty close.

all of this depends on legit 10' rims though.. he's gotten up crazy on so many rims that i'd believe he's hit at least legit 50" several times in his life.

pc!

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Basketball / Re: The Dunk King - coming May 18 on TNT
« on: April 21, 2016, 04:02:01 pm »
53 in that video? or 53 max, at some point, in his entire life?

i dno.. I know him and t-dub have the highest verts i've ever seen. I can believe Myree has hit LEGIT > 50" in his life.. video estimated > 50" -> definitely.

I think that video does more to support his case than yours. That's one of my favorite videos, it's absolutely mind blowing. This is perhaps a better image, given the camera angle. I'm not even sure I caught it at his complete apex. Also remember these are dunks and not max RVJ's. Obviously there won't be a huge difference but I suspect he could have made us lose our shit if he max head height jumped that day, on that rim.



If his max RVJ isn't 53", then what is it? 50-52"? The thing about Myree is, I don't suspect he actually pulled that number out of his ass like Guy or Ziani do with their 59/60's. Myree seems to have a decent understanding of s&c, from what i've seen. Imagine if Guy had hops like Myree? He'd be claiming an 80" RVJ. lmao.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zarCk7dSf20" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zarCk7dSf20</a>

oh man..

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this is from two years ago, don't get any higher than this now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxmvy5eue7E

from my comment on youtube.. runup was slow as hell, jump was slow, didn't expect to see you get up so good on that first R-SLRVJ jump. was surprising but awesome.

I wasn't around much in 2014, so I missed that.

niiice.

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Mixed Martial Arts / Re: The Conor McGregor Thread
« on: April 21, 2016, 11:43:19 am »
conor posted on FB:

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I am just trying to do my job and fight here.
I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.
I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.
There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.
50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I'm left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this.
Nothing else was going through my mind.
It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.
Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a fuck morning show did not get me this life.
Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a fuck about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass a nice raise, and I'm cool with that too, I've been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.
I'm coming for my revenge here.
I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.
With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.
I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.
I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.
But it was denied.
There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.
So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.
And all with one tweet.
Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.
I must isolate myself now.
I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here.
Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.
He came in with no shit to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I'm doing what I need for me now.
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.
I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training. With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say.
For the record also -
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -
I AM NOT RETIRED.

daamn.

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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: beast
« on: April 21, 2016, 11:26:47 am »

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