I see two little spheres in there, what are those?
This was my Super Bowl treat lol. I can’t be convinced pork rinds are good for ya, but at least I stayed keto.
Since moving to the DMV, NO STORES have cracklin, and it hurts my southern soul
Black olives.
And “good for you” is such a nebulous term. I see pork rinds as neutral as far as a good to harm scale goes. Omega 6s, yeah, but also a big source of collagen.
But cracklin is even more legit, haha. Shame you are without a supplier.
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I thought it was olives lol, for a second the color through my off and I was wondering if it was liver, but the shape was wrong.
Agreed on the pork rinds. If anything, I think it’s a much better alternative in the “crunchy snack” category, but it’s also something that if I was building a list of “foods to eat for life” I’d probably leave off. In my mind, I don’t see much HARMFUL about them, but I also don’t see much beneficial when compared to other fat sources.
Edit: I didn’t know “cracklin” wasn’t the default for the longest time. It’s all I had ever tried growing up. My first experience with “pork rinds” had me legit dissapointed, I threw out the bag lol
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Oh yeah, in general I wouldn’t consider any snack food type product “non-essential”. This is like methadone for people transitioning away from processed foods, haha.
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AM WORKOUT (0400 wake up via alarm)
TACTICAL BARBELL OPERATOR Week 6, Workout 3
MAIN WORK
Deadlift
14x425
Unscripted moonwalk
ASSISTANCE WORK
Circuit of standing ab wheel/reverse hyper/band pull apart
3x10/3x15x360/3x33
Axle curls
53 unbroken
Band push downs
60
5 minutes cooldown pacing
Notes:
- 10 reps was my previous PR with that weight on deads. Came in wanting 15, but being at peace with 12. 14 was a nice compromise. The second rep was a bit too controlled, and I think if I blew that one out of the water it may have had a downstream impact for one more rep, but I am over the moon with how this went. Primarily because I’m not hurt coming out the end of it, and I definitely gave it an effort. It’s been a few years since I hit the etch-e-sketch and started back from ground zero, and I’m feeling like a much healthier version of my old self these days. Still got some hope to grow.
- All that said, I was strategic with this workout, knowing it was going to take a peace of my soul with it, so I made this week a Fighter vs Operator week, with plans to only squat and press twice and have this day be only a deadlift day. I allotted myself to do whatever assistance work I wanted to do afterwards, and it wasn’t much. I was blown away and just getting in a small pump.
- Weighed in at 83.8kg, exact match of last week’s Wed weigh in. Got in a timed hold of some amount yesterday.
- I was naughty in Tang Soo Do. We did a drill at the start where one person was in the middle and 4 attackers stood at all cardinal directions, each assigned a random number. The attacker would engage the person in the middle with any sort of attack, and it was up to the defender to defend. Since most folks there have only trained in Tang Soo Do, those were the attacks they used. I chose wrestling and, predictably, few people had a defense against it. I took down both of our black belts with a combination of thai clinches and single legs, and sprawled/gator rolled the bigger one. And when I was in the middle, after having experienced that, few people wanted to actually get close enough to engage me. At one point, both black belts were teamed up against me, and I managed to take one to the ground while warding off the other. I also ended up in a situation where I was teamed up against by a black belt and a smaller female partner, and I totally spun her around and grabbed her by the shoulders to use as a human shield against the other. Taking a page out of the goon playbook @twojarslave
- We’ll have another class tonight. My knees are a little sore from grappling on a non-grappling mat, but nothing insurmountable.
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Using women, children, and frail men as human shields is covered in Chapter 2 of my soon-to-be released e-book, Fire Up Above: 12 Essential Techniques For Starting And Winning Any Bar Fight.
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Unscripted Moonwalk.
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Good job on the PR.
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@twojarslave Reminds me of the classic joke: “I once won a 6 on 1 fight. We really kicked the sh*t out of that guy”
@wiseman83 it’s how you know it’s a good set!
@Friedrich thanks!
Nutrition Recap
Breakfast was a repeat on Monday. Dinner was leftovers night. Leftover smoked beef cheek, 5 deviled eggs, and 4 scrambled eggs as the base for a taco bowl.
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All joking aside, I like the creative use of your environment. My first BJJ coach once scolded me for choking him with his own black belt that came loose during a roll, which I thought was kind of petty. It was right there on the mat and he didn’t defend it, so I just did it. I don’t recall the exact position we were in, only that he stopped the roll because of it. He also stopped another roll to change the music one time when I had him in side control with good pressure. He was a good coach and a great guy but I’m glad I eventually found a coach who could decisively shut down my entire arsenal of goonery.
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Love it. I remember kicking my karate sensei in the short and curlys. Not intentionally…we were full contact sparring, I was aiming for the thigh pad…and for whatever reason he squatted a little and caught it higher. Lol. Fell like a sack of potatoes. He ended the sparring 
. Didn’t scold me though, said it was a good strike
It is always the lower belts that kick you in the balls - no offense. When I was training I always wanted to spar with the black belts. It was the other assholes that had no control and punched in with abandon that would jack you up.
FWIW, there is also always that guy that wants to check if you’re wearing a cup and leaves you wondering if he is gay or planning to kick you in the balls.
I don’t miss training these days.
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I was indeed a white belt at the time .
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We have all been there - part of the process.
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We call that “White Belt Magic”. People new to training are going to do things that you simply don’t think to do as you get more experience. Honestly, the drill we did the other night was proof of that. Despite being told “attack like an aggressor on the street”, most folks were using Tang Soo Do techniques, because they’re just conditioned to respond that way. It threw them for a loop when I came out with thai clinches, low kicks, haymakers, etc.
It’s like if you’re skilled at chess and play against someone that has no idea what they’re doing. They’re going to use moves that make so little sense that it throws off your own gameplan.
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I had a black belt in Tae Kwon Do kick me in the mid section once during a Judo session. He was good at Tae Kwon Do, but like me, his Judo skills were lacking. Fortunately mine were better and I threw him and then he tapped. As we were separating he displayed his anger in being thrown by kicking me in the stomach. Poop happens. But the little turd should not have done it.
Martial arts can be weird. I was doing Kempo (Kenpo) at the same time my son was going through Shotokan. His dojo was oriented to neurodivergent kids and my son wasn’t ND (at least as far as we can tell). It was interesting to see the different approaches.
His first training kata was to step back, put his hands up in a defensive position, and to speak loudly “Stop! I don’t want to fight you!”
Thought it was good.
Displaying anger doesn’t sound like black belt mentality. I would question the lineage.
Hope you are feeling better, love your log!
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This is my favorite. I try to maintain this approach to new problems, as it can be very effective agains the ‘sport’ of the martial art. I think people forget it’s a martial art, not a martial science.
There’s a personality in BJJ (Craig Jones), who trademarked the ‘Just stand up, bro’ philosophy. His belief was that people forget that’s an option and will concede to playing a guard, when standing would be far more effective.
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I am a fan of the Mike Tyson philosophy - every body has a plan until you get hit in the face.
My experience in street fighting is that striking wins. I have never gone to the ground in a street fight. I would do white belt stuff - fake a punch and leg kick you. But, I wish I had jiu jitsu experience as well.
Luckily I have grown up and fights are not on my agenda these days.
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Ya, the street fight scenario is different entirely. I was speaking about within the confines of the sport, as that’s what I interpreted @T3hPwnisher to be referencing. For example, in BJJ, the very common response to a triangle choke, would be to tuck the choking arm, stand up and stack your opponent. A white belt approach might be to put their forearm against their opponents throat or attempt a cross collar choke. That might work against some colored belts because no reasonable person would do that. Whereas, a skilled opponent would react and armbar the shit out of them.
Ya, my primary training is bjj and I wouldn’t go to the ground either. I would close distance, get to a clinch, isolate an arm and take you to the ground. of course, this is assuming I had no way to escape such a situation.
It’s a great art to learn and really at any age. I wish I could participate in a striking sport again, but I’ve exceeded the healthy limit of concussions and wear hard contacts, so strikes are no bueno.
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