I’m going with this one. I am all for ethical treatment of animals but to equate them to humans is pretty asinine.
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Did you just assume that rooster’s gender?
Oh no, don’t cancel me!
Well there goes the old “If a rooster lays an egg on a pitched roof…” riddle.
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Degenerates.
This picture is a gazillion times funnier if one speaks Russian. I’m pretty sure the illustrator trolled PETA.
Go get lost in the woods or the jungle and it won’t be that crazy to end up on an animal’s plate, haha. When we’re in their territory, the tables do turn.
EDIT: Felt like that seems like it was directed at you. It was towards PETA.
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Lol would that fly though?
I thought Italians were already white in 'merica.
So the dominant culture gets to decide how we label ourselves? The culture that exercised its privilege and lynched Italians because they were considered other than white now gets to exercise that same privilege by saying, “hey, you get to call yourselves white now. Congratulations!” And black people, who were never enslaved by Italians, get to call Italians crackers and white supremacists. It’s a win-win.
See. That’s how you play their game.
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For sure. I just watched a mini-documentary on a guy that did “extreme kayaking” that was eaten by a Nile Crocodile on his last adventure.
pushups, bench press, OHP etc are problematic.
Everything is problematic for me based on the day 
I’m nowhere near as educated as you when it comes to EDS, so it’s hard for me to describe my exact symptoms. Some days my shoulder blades eel fine, but other days I’m like a rolled up bug. On those days, me doing what looks like a normal ROM pushing or pulling motion is actually me flaring my arms out as much as I can. Otherwise, my ROM will be tiny.
The positioning of my hips actually seems to have the biggest impact on my shoulder blade motion and ROM, even when I’m sitting. Which is why I’m hoping fixing this left hip issue will get me functional.
My left hip labrum was apparently so torn that my surgeon made it point to show my parents and wife how much worse it was than my right labrum. This current round of PT is getting my body to put more weight on my left leg and “shorten it,” and it basically feels like an extra 100lbs put on my left hip 24/7 haha.
You need to find a physiotherapist who understands and treats patients with EDS
I actually did, which is a big relief. He’s treated a bunch of EDS patients before.
He won’t tell me “you can’t go back to XYZ”. He will tell me “you have a disease, and must plan accordingly. We can use strategies to mitigate damage, but injury may set you back regardless”.
He told me to stop lower body just for a few months so I don’t keep training bad habits. But he knows about me wanting to lift intensely like a normal person and train MMA in the future.
Labrum of both left and right hips were apparently mirror images of one another lol (equally torn)
That labral reconstruction was the best decision i’ve made in terms of surgery. It was wildly successful.
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Have you thought about BJJ
I ask because grappling comes with high injury risk
But the pace of the grappling in BJJ is slower than the grappling in MMA
BJJ also favors flexibility
Either that or do boxing provided you can get shoulders stabilised.
Boxing and BJJ separately (think BJJ twice a week and boxing twice a week) creates a well rounded fighter.
We have similar goals
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Same here. A quarter squat used to result in so much pinching and pain deep inside the hip. But now I get deep without pain (though I obviously still have the other issues I’m dealing with).
And I did a bit of wrestling and only a tiny bit of BJJ before my surgeries, but it was too painful/causing too much inflammation for me to continue. But obviously I intend to continue once I’m done with this bullshit since grappling is necessary to learn.
The goal is to learn all aspects of fighting, right?
Yes
But grappling has a steeper learning curve
You can learn striking fundamentals in as little as six months. You can hone motor recruitment patterns independently… whereas with grappling you need an expensive grappling dummy if you don’t have a partner.
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It’s very hard for someone to learn how to properly throw a punch once they are an adult. Have you ever seen how someone who never threw a ball before, throws anything? They look physically disabled.
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Really?
I’ll always have the motor recruitment patterns down. Did striking arts for perhaps 8 years cumulatively.
In Karate I was one stripe off shodan when I quit at age 15. Also dabbled in boxing, muay thai and kickboxing. I suppose striking may seem ‘easy’ because I am familiar with the movement patterns whereas grappling seems unintuitive because I am not familiar with grappling.
I know how to sprawl, I know a few takedowns (single leg and variations, double leg and a few variations, firemans carry, one foot sweep that I’d never be able to apply to a resisting opponent etc) and I know how to apply 1-2 joint locks and 1 choke.
I’ve heard that becoming skilled in grappling can take a very long time, but I don’t have the experience to say (yet). Boxing footwork and fluidity were definitely hard for me since they was so different than my prior sports (lacrosse and track and field). I mean, I had the “fundamentals” of boxing down, but I was so stiff and tense for it to count haha. And childhood Karate didn’t prepare me at all.
It also doesn’t help that BJJ is so hard to grasp for someone who isn’t a natural grappler. Anyone can throw a punch with some weight behind it, but grappling can be so counter-intuitive at first. I felt like Art Jimmerson in the first UFC.
Depends on what type of karate you do
The mcdojo stuff won’t prepare you. But some styles of karate have full contact (not point) sparring, and resemble ‘kickboxing in a gi’ with more emphasis on sparring and less emphasis on kata/point sparring.
Karate like that has some decent carryover.
Yes, provided they know how to punch using torque and drive through hips/legs + integrating a seamless snapping motion with the punch as opposed to throwing a punch as a stiff pushing motion like many gym bros do (a punch is not a bench press…)
BJJ is hard to grasp, but it’s also one of those martial arts where ‘knowing’ BJJ is like a superpower because BJJ can nullify striking, and if you have OK takedown defence and/or work takedowns it can also nullify wrestling
This is coming from someone who has only done maybe 20-30 hours of BJJ… Those BJJ guys could tie me up into a pretzel. Perhaps 5-10% of the time i’d theoretically be able to land a few shots that’d stop someone in their tracks provided the individual is within 20lbs of me. 90-95% of the time the BJJ guy or wrestler would have gotten me to the ground and tied me up into a pretzel.
A wrestlers blast double with head on outside positioning when taking the shot leaves one susceptible to a guillotine. BJJ and Wrestling should be described as “I can’t punch, but I can stop you from doing what you know how to do if you don’t know how to do what I do”.
You don’t need to be super skilled either. II stripe white belt skill + a year of boxing or a year of wrestling + boxing with some solid sparring will give most a huge advantage in an unarmed self altercation.
Striking is heavily dependent on form, and unlike grappling it’s much harder to "brute force’’ through striking. That’s why small guys can still hit REALLY hard. Grappling favor’s strength more provided two people are of equal skill, but unlike striking… smaller guys can overpower bigger guys in BJJ tournaments through skill discrepancy
Same can be done in boxing… but very, very dangerous for a big guy to spar full throttle with a small guy.
After I get my shoulders fixed I intend to try out BJJ and boxing again. But after the age of 30 I intend to give up most athletic endeavors.
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