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My knees hurt just watching that calf slicer. Royler is a tough bastard.

Hey, I have an invite pending. I've been around since noows. Would love to get some farm on in the xpac. EGDM#1285. Thanks!

I requested an invite to the clan. EGDM. Thanks.

ACLs don't grow back and there's not much else that causes that kind of knee injury . He'll have to have surgery.

My wife was a wreck for a good two months. Fits of crying for literally no reason, etc. She's normally a very rational person and knew that she wasn't herself, but those hormones are powerful stuff. Regular exercise really helped her.

Kids often look and act as if they are made of rubber, but that doesn't always hold true. Yesterday my two year old rolled off an 18-inch high bed and fractured his arm. Fun at the ER!

Great thread. He's a little hit and miss, but I have a soft spot for Michael Whelan. His Passage series has some good ones, and some of his book covers are spectacular. I have a lithograph of this in my office. Gerald Tarrant is one of my favorite characters ever.

Ugh, what a loss.

I case anyone cares: I did a week-long course of steroids, which helped a lot. Withdrawal was a motherfucker, though, massive headaches and lethargy. I have minor lingering hearing issues (<75hz) but it's not noticeable unless I'm wearing headphones and really listening for it. The official...

Does anyone here have experience with sensorineural hearing loss? A week ago I lost all the low-frequency hearing in my left ear over the space of about 15 minutes. I've seen an ENT/audiologist and they diagnosed sensorineural hearing loss (nerve malfunction as opposed to a mechanical...

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That's unrealistic. People who train combat sports are constantly injured in one way or another. I doubt you could find a single fighter who didn't have something hurt at any given point in time. Add to that a huge financial incentive to train harder than the other guy, and you have...

What are you going to do, prevent them from training? MMA is dangerous, even to practice.

As The Ancient points out, those are decimal rates and not percents. Continuing with the basic math fails, whoever made that forgot to include the ties in total number of games, so teams with ties have win rates that are too large by ~0.002.

Clearly someone has been taking lessons from Master Ken.

They claim that the OS-level improvements allow for enough performance so that you only take a 10% fps hit and maintain "playable" latency. Obviously, that's vague enough that we won't know for sure until it's released.

I'm just praying that in addition to streaming TO a SteamOS box, that you can use the same technology to stream FROM a SteamOS box. I would love a robust, low-latency streaming system to be able to play high-horsepower games on my tablet, using a controller, while in random parts of the house...

God, Weidman is bland.

Twilight Samurai is great, and Hiroyuki Sanada is a legit badass. Big fan.

Skip lunch and make reservations here. Thank us later.

Yeah, there are precisely zero people with grappling experience who think that was a tap.

Yeah. It's technically possible but shouldn't work on an opponent that knows how to respond properly (I fucked it up bigtime in my match, and never since =). Generally speaking, any choke you apply from inside your opponent's closed guard sets you up at very high risk for an armbar if you insist...

He didn't tap. That guillotine wasn't remotely tight. GSP was far too elevated and you simply can't generate the leverage to finish the choke at that angle. Hendricks was trying to use his right hand to post off GSP's hip and prevent him from achieving the proper body alignment. GSP's hips were...

There is a metric fuckton of amazing food in Boston. Just check Yelp for your cuisine of choice.

I competed at the IBJJF Pan Ams when I was a white belt. In front of 2,000 people I got choked out by an ezekiel from inside my own closed guard. =(

I'm a fan ofFuji gis. They're not sexy like Shoyorolls, but they're no-nonsense, durable, don't shrink much and only cost $70. Hard to beat that. Since the thread is partly for introductions, I'm a bjj purple belt under Romero Cavalcanti and Lucas Lepri (blue from Cobrinha). I also have a 3rd...

You and/or your partners aren't pushing very hard, then. Even world champion level competitors can burn themselves out in 10 minutes in a tough match. Have you competed? I'd be curious to hear your experience with how strenuous that is as opposed to sparring in your gym.

I'll second (or eighth) Plex. I have PMS running on an old headless desktop. NAS for storage. I have plex clients on laptop/tablet/phone, and with the dedicated server I can transcode as necessary for whatever device I'm on. I don't use my TV much, but I have HDMI output for my phone when I do...

This is my first ccg. I am fucking terrible at this. Ugh.

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Yes. Especially for heel hooks. That is the point everyone is making. Negligence isn't excusable at this level. Maybe he should practice better sportsmanship, then.

So, Toquinho is a nice guy, you grappled in a tournament that didn't have the necessary "verbal submission" rules, and fights are high adrenaline. I don't see how any of this is relevant to cranking on a sub welll after both the opponent and referee have indicated that the competition is over.

Yeah, one second is forever, never mind that Pierce was tapping vigorously for a full second or two before the ref intervened. Human reaction time is about two tenths of a second, and probably less for a prime athlete. In this scenario, he could easily have seen the ref coming and been able to...

This whole counter-argument is stupid. I train with high level grapplers and a few pro fighters. One guy has broken 10+ arms in fights, but because his opponents were morons and didn't tap when they were caught. Not one of them ever continues to apply pressure like this after the opponent has...

I really want to like the guy, since it seems like he's had a tough life and is a humble dude outside the ring. You just can't do that shit, though. I don't care if you're trying to win, aren't paying attention, or are partly retarded. You just can't do that.

Good. Essentially everyone else in the history of grappling can manage to stop cranking on a sub when the other guy taps. Palhares fails at that basic respect over and over and over again. I'm ok with the "I don't stop till the ref calls it" attitude for pro fighters, but he isn't even doing that.

You could not pay me to compete against Palhares. He's my ju jitsu nightmare.

Holy fuck, this movie was beautiful. I normally dislike Bullock but thought she had a convincing performance. Two thumbs up. I hope it does well. I also pray that Gravity sparks a new movement in cinematography. I absolutely love the long-duration shots that Cuaron developed (I read the...

There's nothing special about a directional pad that couldn't be emulated by a sufficiently good algorithm on a touchpad (except for the physical feel of the thing). I'm going to reserve judgement until I see it. No matter what the case, you always have the choice not to use it.