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Did you end up trying BJJ or not yet? It's an addictive martial art/sport. I am starting up once normal life resumes at the end of Jan.

haha no i posted that update last night and the only things i've done since are watch "tinker, tailor, soldier, spy," have sex, sleep, eat breakfast, and come into the office. i'm on the forum as a way to avoid looking at my email, which is predictably terrifying after two weeks away.

BJJ will have to wait until my finger is well enough to grab with.

74 kg !!

give athletic anorexia a chance!!

fwiw I absolutely hate bjj.. when I was boxing at ATT, I tried a few bjj classes (no-gi and gi). In the gi class I had several 250-300 lb. men eventually just lie on top of me while trying to choke me out. In the no-gi class I dislocated my pinky toe completely while doing drills on the mat, oh that was after doing like 10 minutes of chokes. hahaha. At that point I realized, I will do everything to stay on my feet if I have to defend myself. i'll stick2boxing. lol.

If you end up training with some dedicated wrestling/bjj/mma folks, you'll find some great training partners.. Those people are nuts and usually train pretty hard. It's a cool group of people.

pC!

Quote from: adarqui on January 09, 2017, 01:16:19 am

74 kg !!

give athletic anorexia a chance!!

no. 

Quote from: adarqui on January 09, 2017, 01:16:19 am

fwiw I absolutely hate bjj.. when I was boxing at ATT, I tried a few bjj classes (no-gi and gi). In the gi class I had several 250-300 lb. men eventually just lie on top of me while trying to choke me out. In the no-gi class I dislocated my pinky toe completely while doing drills on the mat, oh that was after doing like 10 minutes of chokes. hahaha. At that point I realized, I will do everything to stay on my feet if I have to defend myself. i'll stick2boxing. lol.

If you end up training with some dedicated wrestling/bjj/mma folks, you'll find some great training partners.. Those people are nuts and usually train pretty hard. It's a cool group of people.

pC!

yeah it looks like a recipe for lots of injuries. OTOH, i want to fight someone. the size difference thing could be kind of cool even, at least in sparring, because you have to play to each other: the class i watched in saigon had big dudes grappling with little women and they just made it work. obviously the guy could just crush the woman if he wanted to in a lot of cases, but that's not what the training is about, and people were working together on it. seemed like fun.

cool.

btw, "i want to fight someone" -> meaning, you want to actually fight in a sanctioned match?

if so, you're smart.. that is a somewhat of a problem. Eventually you'll worry about your brain and such, it happens to pretty much every "smart person" who wants to fight. Progressively harder sparring will leave you with headaches and such .. smart people eventually worry.

fight training itself is fun/beneficial though.. it's the hard sparring component of preparing for a real fight that starts to make you think..

I've never had real migraines in my life, other than when I was hard sparring (hours after matches) ~2-3x/wk for several months.. And I barely got hit, had great defense. But even blocking punches (covered up) can rattle your brain etc, and especially if you get caught with clean shots... even with head gear etc. Head gear can even make it worse, apparently (some studies find) - mostly due to absorbing more shots and increasing the surface area for shots to land IIRC.

as for sparring bigger people, that's how I got hurt. I was < 150 sparring lots of people 170-185. Weight difference and bone structure are huge factors. I ended up getting hurt by punching someone hard on top of their head (when they ducked down), wrecked my index knuckle. Had that person been ~150 instead of ~180, I might have been ok, not sure.. But you have to be careful of trainers who aren't actually looking out for you, it happens alot in these fight gyms.

but ya there's a difference between light sparring and hard sparring .. light sparring with bigger people is fine as long as they aren't psychopaths (who try to hurt you out of nowhere). But hard sparring with much bigger people?? not a fan..

anyway not trying to scare you away from it, just figured i'd mention some stuff based on my experiences.

also i'm talking about striking, not BJJ.. when I see "fight" I just immediately think striking. So sorry if i'm off.

pc!

thanks both, good advice. adarq i'm not talking about actually fighting, i meant more grappling/sparring. if i get into the training and it seems like an actual bout would be fun, i'll cross that bridge when i get to it. no interest in getting hit in the head or hitting someone else in the head. although, from a brain preservation perspective, i also really want a motorcycle. 

Quote from: LBSS on January 09, 2017, 03:57:00 am

thanks both, good advice. adarq i'm not talking about actually fighting, i meant more grappling/sparring. if i get into the training and it seems like an actual bout would be fun, i'll cross that bridge when i get to it. no interest in getting hit in the head or hitting someone else in the head. although, from a brain preservation perspective, i also really want a motorcycle. 

Arent you from Connecticut?  If so and you're going back there after you're done wherever you're at now, they have an American Top Team in Danbury.  If you're close to it I'd recommend going there.  Once you're in a class you'll grapple with a ton of different body types and levels.  I had to grapple during drills with a few black belts, one was significantly smaller than myself and another one was an ex NFL player(I think he was like a 3rd stringer or some shit) but nonetheless he was a jacked 250.  Then the time where I almost sparred with Bones Jones before he debuted in the UFC lol  I would have gotten fuuucked up.

you almost sparred Jon Jones? RIP. lmao.

nah i'm from maryland, lived in DC the past 8 years until moving to pakistan. sparring with jon jones sounds like a recipe for a dislocated shoulder at best.

this is the gym here: https://www.facebook.com/TeamFightFortress/?fref=ts

Oh ok for some reason I thought you were from Connecticut.

last night:

ACHES/INJURIES: right ring finger is busted af
SORENESS: quads, hamstrings
MENTAL STATE: very tired

- warm up

- squat 110 x 10

- pull up x 13

- DB OHP 20s x 6 ()

- hyper x 15

didn't have time or energy for much and was quite sore from sunday. but anyway good to get these (embarrassingly low, except for the pull ups, which surprised me, all done strict and full ROM) baselines. i have a bench baseline and a kroc row baseline more or less already.

this is my plan for the next two months. it's going to be interrupted by at least a couple of multiday trips.

starting training maxes:
(bw 75)
squat 110x10
bench 70x12
pull ups x13
kroc row 36x20R/17L
feel kind of small

goals:
(bw 80)
squat 140x10
bench 100x10
pull ups x20
kroc row 44x20R/20L
feel kind of swole

WEIGHTS 2x/week
- warm up
- (SL/DL SVJ, pogos, DSVJ)
- squat 3x6-8
- bench 3x6-8
-- hyper OR RDL 3x10-15
-- hyper sit ups OR hanging leg raises 2x10
- pull up 3x6-8
- kroc row
- curls 2x10-12
- triceps 2x10-12

GPP 2x/week
- run x ~30 mins
OR
- HIIT-style workout x ~30 mins
OR
- ultimate OR tennis OR something else like that

it's cold in the morning but not too cold to run before work. if i can get my sleep sorted i may start trying to do the GPP stuff then rather than after work. that said i'll do one or the other of these after work today. plus i'm finally getting a car this evening. helloooo quality of life improvement.

on an unrelated note, shit has gotten a little bit more emotional with the aforementioned bed company than i meant for it to. complicated situation. hate giving power over myself to other people. not going to get into it more than that at the moment but it's on my mind and definitely affected my sleep last night. oh well.