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Verisimilidude posted:I have a gear question that can hopefully be answered in this thread. I'm interested in picking up wrestling and I'm looking for a decent pair of wrestling shoes. I'm wondering if I'm better off going with a snugger fit or going for maximum comfort right out of the box. I went for a snug fit on my taekwondo shoes per the suggestion of the person who sold them to me, but I'd like to hear some other opinions on the matter. Thanks! they should be pretty tight and theyll stretch a little as you wear them in.
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I want to follow UFC, learn stuff about fighters in general. Other than reading the UFC thread what is the best news source? A kind of vague question I know, but assume I won't get to watch most PPVs and still want to know what's happening day to day
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Valeyard posted:I want to follow UFC, learn stuff about fighters in general. Other than reading the UFC thread what is the best news source? A kind of vague question I know, but assume I won't get to watch most PPVs and still want to know what's happening day to day Twitter and Ariel Helwani's MMA hour show have basically everything covered. Ariel's show is online and he does intereviews and then talks about the big stories. Somebody compliled a big list of who to follow for news in an MMA twitter thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3613870 Really you only need to follow BJ Penn though if you want the basics. His account steals news from around the web and puts it up really quick.
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Valeyard posted:I want to follow UFC, learn stuff about fighters in general. Other than reading the UFC thread what is the best news source? A kind of vague question I know, but assume I won't get to watch most PPVs and still want to know what's happening day to day twitter p much you follow a few journalists + @FrontRowBrian and you'll be on the cutting edge of news or w/e
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Yuriy posted:twitter p much If you follow Front Row Brian you'll also be on the cutting edge of random bullshit that isn't true, especially now that Chael is out of MMA. Anderson is back so maybe we'll get more borderline libelous stuff about him too!
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MassRafTer posted:If you follow Front Row Brian you'll also be on the cutting edge of random bullshit that isn't true, especially now that Chael is out of MMA. youre right i should just quote meltzer a lot and pass of his thoughts and opinions as my own FRB has been more accurate than not lately sry you're wrong or w/e
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Yuriy posted:FRB has been more accurate than not lately Nope.
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Yuriy posted:youre right i should just quote meltzer a lot and pass of his thoughts and opinions as my own Still waiting on the major fight that was added to the Vegas show last Monday. Still waiting for Anderson Silva to be fired or for proof of any of his BS about Anderson too.
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Seltzer posted:Twitter and Ariel Helwani's MMA hour show have basically everything covered. Ariel's show is online and he does intereviews and then talks about the big stories. Somebody compliled a big list of who to follow for news in an MMA twitter thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3613870 Yuriy posted:twitter p much Thank you for these!
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Yuriy posted:twitter p much as this quote signifies, listen to every other thing Yuiry might say
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Don't listen to what Yuriy says he's unapologetically racist but doesn't think he is not even the worst poster in this thread lol
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I understand we don't see more knees to the body from side control because it gives the guy on bottom space and opportunity to escape or scramble to a better position, but we don't we see more elbows during triangle attempts? Is it because it's just that harrowing to throw a short power strike so close to your balls?
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Bluedeanie posted:I understand we don't see more knees to the body from side control because it gives the guy on bottom space and opportunity to escape or scramble to a better position, but we don't we see more elbows during triangle attempts? Is it because it's just that harrowing to throw a short power strike so close to your balls? 1. They're concentrating on locking up the triangle. 2. I feel like I actually see people do this all the time
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Dangersim posted:1. They're concentrating on locking up the triangle. 3. It's cooler to flex and flip double birds than throw 'bows
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Really if you have a triangle properly locked up there is no point in throwing elbows, he's either tapping or going to sleep. Guys do throw elbows to loosen a guy up while trying to get it cinched in.
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I'm not saying it never happens as obviously it does as do the occasional knee from side control, I was just curious why it didn't happen more. It seems more triangles in MMA don't feature strikes during the setup than those that do. Explanations make sense though!
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Bluedeanie posted:I'm not saying it never happens as obviously it does as do the occasional knee from side control, I was just curious why it didn't happen more. It seems more triangles in MMA don't feature strikes during the setup than those that do. Explanations make sense though! There can be a thin line between a locked in triangle and the guy on top passing to side control so usually fighters are worried more about position than trying to strike. Anderson used them well against Lutter.
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There was a fight recently I want to say on the Australia card where a dude with the last name Hooker had a nasty finish with elbow strikes from a triangle he couldn't quite finish due to the other guy having both hands in. Yeah, it was Dan Hooker vs Ian Entwistle. It was pretty brutal. Edit: Sorry. Misremembered it. He actually finished him with elbows from 50/50 guard lol world b lee fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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You'd be giving them a little bit of force backwards, might actually help them slide their head out. Genki Sudo used to do them and I think Sotiropoulos used to do them back when he was winning fights.
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world b lee posted:There was a fight recently I want to say on the Australia card where a dude with the last name Hooker had a nasty finish with elbow strikes from a triangle he couldn't quite finish due to the other guy having both hands in. how
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iirc one guy was going for a stupid leglock and would not let got as the other guy hit him in the face over and over.
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I was looking at Oleksiy Oliynik's record this morning and saw that he RNC'd Monson in Oplot. Was this one of those cases where someone gets stunned or knocked down, then subbed while their brain is still jangling, or did Oliynik really outgrapple Monson?
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Grifter posted:I was looking at Oleksiy Oliynik's record this morning and saw that he RNC'd Monson in Oplot. Was this one of those cases where someone gets stunned or knocked down, then subbed while their brain is still jangling, or did Oliynik really outgrapple Monson? Oliynick dropped him like three times in the minute before RNCing him and then punched him in the brain like twenty times; the RNC was purely a formality
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Yuriy posted:FRB has been more accurate than not lately sry you're wrong or w/e
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Yuiry why do you even defend posting his tweets, and really why would you pretend to care if it was accurate. You've followed his feed and reposted everything he ever said every day even when it was 100% wrong. It didnt stop you then and it wouldn't now.
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John Cena posted:i swear you claim this every week and yet it gets only less and less true its been like 20 days guy, let it go
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Yuriy posted:its been like 20 days guy, let it go 
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Putting this here because it's something I mention a fair amount - fatherdog posted:
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You might want to edit that into one of the first posts because it'll get buried in random yuriy-bashing and people asking pro wrestling questions soonish.
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Zwachro posted:You might want to edit that into one of the first posts because it'll get buried in random yuriy-bashing and people asking pro wrestling questions soonish. also weird posts about elbows
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Speaking of pro wrestling questions, I'm pretty familiar with Sakuraba, but did he have any background besides not realizing pro wrestling is fake?
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LvK posted:Speaking of pro wrestling questions, I'm pretty familiar with Sakuraba, but did he have any background besides not realizing pro wrestling is fake? Google it son quote:Sakuraba began his career in amateur wrestling at the age of 15. A high school stand-out, he finished as high as second in the nation before joining the wrestling squad of Chuo University, a team which had counted Olympic gold medalists Shozo Sasahara and Osamu Watanabe amongst its ranks. He won the East Japan Freshman championship in his first year and served as their team captain thereafter. In his senior year, he finished fourth place in the All-Japan tournament. Amongst his notable wins was a defeat of future Olympic bronze medalist Kat Ota.
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Sakuraba is an All-Japan and a New Japan wrestler
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LvK posted:Speaking of pro wrestling questions, I'm pretty familiar with Sakuraba, but did he have any background besides not realizing pro wrestling is fake? Sakuraba was a once-in-a-lifetime genius, and about 90% of PRIDE booking was trying to reproduce him.
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LobsterMobster posted:Sakuraba is an All-Japan and a New Japan wrestler I know you're going for the AJPW/All-Japan joke, but I can't let his UWFi work go unnoticed here. fatherdog posted:Sakuraba was a once-in-a-lifetime genius, and about 90% of PRIDE booking was trying to reproduce him. That and seeing if he could survive getting hit by trucks, apparently.
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Here's an interesting interview where Chael Sonnen explains why he thinks Greco-Roman wrestling is a better base for MMA than international, olympic freestyle. http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/3/9/4081332/technique-talk-chael-sonnen-mma-wrestling-interview-takedowns-ufc-news
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Phyzzle posted:Here's an interesting interview where Chael Sonnen explains why he thinks Greco-Roman wrestling is a better base for MMA than international, olympic freestyle. This is timely: "If Henry Cejudo was a stock, I would invest heavily in the stock." --Chael Sonnen, March 2013
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Bundt Cake posted:Sonnen linked to shady investment plan hahaha. It's going to turn out that Cejudo was a pump-and-dump scam all along. Sonnen talking him up, getting Dana to sign him, then he shorted all his stock in Cejudo right before the close of business today. Get ready for Sonnen's second conviction. Anyway in that interview Sonnen talks a little about why he thinks Greco is better for MMA, and he says maybe it's because the upright posture is better for striking. That might be part of it, but I would go more specific and say that the clinch is very important and guys with good Greco tend to be very strong there. People tend to get a lot of credit for their striking and for their wrestling or ground work, and the clinch doesn't get that attention because it's like an intermediate position. But a lot of fights are won and lost right there. You can look at Ronda, Randy, Jon Jones. You can even go all the way back to Jack Johnson, really. Standing hugs: very important.
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