I have decided to become a half guard guy, on account of my advanced age and also it's fun, too.

Going to a Gianni Grippo/ Brianna Ste-Marie seminar, BRB 😎

It doesn't really come through in the drawing, but you're supposed to trap the underhooking arm with your arm and upper body in step 3.

Yesterday a guy at the gym asked me if I had any good tips for escaping side control. Told him sorry bud, I suck at that too. Two rounds later he spiral fractured his own femur while attempting a buggy choke. It sounded exactly like someone breaking a plastic spoon 😓

Had some stickers made

I like my spreadsheets and check lists, what can I say

It only took four years of training and exposure to countless social media posts strongly suggesting it, but I have finally decided to drop the "collect techniques like Pokémon" approach to BJJ in favor of a "build an actual game plan" approach (Evolve yr fav Pokémon, maybe? Never played the games)

You know what, I think I'm good

Oh wow really

TAke a look, y'all:

Tripod sweep followed by guard passing to north/south

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Sharing a gym with a gaggle of 19 year olds who spend every waking hour on the mats is going to be the end of me. First they tap me out seven times in four minutes, then they're in the locker room talking about "if you shoot a gorilla in the head it will keep fighting you for ten seconds"

remember to leave bullet casings out for ashli babbitt tonight ❤️❤️✝️

Other people have pointed this out, but it rules how BJJ is a sport where you can show up on a regular Tuesday and train with some of the best in the game. Our main instructor just won gold at IBJJF no gi worlds. Same dude who has to deal with the feeble guard passing attempts of yours truly

We don't need to cede fitness and martial arts to the far-right. We can create our own training programs and learn how to fight for a better world.

Sweet Science, Savage Art@sweetscisavart.bsky.social · last yr.

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Today I finally hit one of the very first submissions I learned, three years ago. A sort of arm Americana (?) from the scarf hold. Although it's not in the drawing, I think you're supposed to lock your feet together at the end there, to keep the arm from wriggling out.

I'm so tired of reading about how much the tesla stock is falling or how public opinion is turning against musk or whatever. It's not enough! I don't know what that means! I want to see that man in a barrel and suspenders. I want to see him Qaddafi'd

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 9mo ago

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

This was for my birthday. Nice, round number, so they couldn't say no.

I've had mixed results from trying to bring my friends to BJJ class, so I changed tactics: I booked a room at a local community center and invited a whole bunch of people to come try to kick my ass

I really like this armbar entry

LMAO JACOBIN RAN WITH THE CHARLIE KIRK'S DEATH IS A TRAGEDY FOLKS FOLKS

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

My girlfriend doesn't care about bjj and generally won't let me show her any techniques, but she makes up for it in other ways. For example, she headbutted some asshole who tried to grope her at a bar yesterday

Anyway, death to the IDF

As prophesied, got two triangles in one roll yesterday (can't even take credit for either one, the other guy practically threw himself into them)

Jesper@anarkopappa.bsky.social · last yr.

In my almost 3 years of doing bjj I've only really hit three triangles (a fourth one was too shitty to count), but two of them were this week 😎

they tried to bring a therapy dog into my room when i was recovering from surgery but i was high as balls and thought the nurse was asking if she could just stash a random dog in my room like maybe a dog she'd found outside? i yelled THIS IS NOT A ZOO at her

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