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Recently went and got some bloodwork done and waiting on results just for a baseline. I’m 90% positive my levels are in the toilet. I want to go about it “the right way” and I’m pretty sure if I do the TRTnation thing I’m basically guaranteed a prescript. I’ve just been so ungodly tired, moody, no sex drive and have hit a massive plateau in my weight loss/muscle gain.

Info:
Age - 25
Height/Weight - 6’ 190lbs
Workout - MMA/BJJ 8 times a week

I’m moderately freaking out, she’s got a crazy shiner and I’ve gotten some pretty crazy looks. I’m afraid I’m gonna like have someone talk to me or something 😂

My gym has a local fuji tournament coming up and 3-4 of our guys are competing. Our neighbor gym is also competing, our two the gyms are pretty cordial in terms of all the students know each other and get along but the egos of the two instructors clash fairly regularly…. Recently one of our white belts signed up and got put against a member of the neighbor gym, no biggy so someone would think. Well, this is the one white belts first comp and he asked in my gyms group chat if anyone knew his opponent and what he should work on to get the upper hand (which is perfectly reasonable as a team), a fellow teammate mentioned that he had competed against the opponent before and could give the WB some tips. Well, a member of the opponents gym was in the GC and apparently told his coach…. A few days go by and last weekend the teammate who offered the tips went into the neighbor gym for an open mat and the coach kicked him out, made a massive deal about it there was yelling and cussing etc then continued to harass my teammate on instagram calling him a “rat”.

Well my coach heard about this and is rightfully pissed and now they are trying to schedule a coach v coach match and I’m honestly stoked 😂

Recently, my grandfather passed away and left me his High Standard target revolver (22lr) from the early 50s. Now I have very vivid memories and pictures to prove the accuracy of this pistol from 15 or so years ago. It was nothing for me to squirrel hunt, groundhog hunt or pluck walnuts out of trees with this gun. Now my family wasn’t well off but every couple of weeks my grandpa would buy me a brick of Remington green/yellow box 22lr ammo, the most generic bulk ammo you could possibly find. Between the revolver and my little 22 cricket the feats of accuracy I could pull off were shocking. Well….i recently took this old revolver out of the safe and made a special trip to the LGS to buy some green/yellow box Remingtons, and when I tell you I couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn I mean it. I couldn’t hold an 8” group at 25 yards for the life of me. So I tried everything from gold metal match to wildcats to stingers and the only way I could hold any similar group to what I had when I was a kid was with $15 a box gold metal match by federal.

Now, I’m sure “premium” ammo was a thing when I was a kid but we never seemed to need it. A “zeroed” gun for us when I was a kid was 3 shots in a quarter at 100 yards….like that was the minimum standard. Why is it if I want MOA or sub MOA accuracy I have to buy the most premium of premium ammunition. When 10-15 years ago we were pulling off MOA at least, with the cheapest bulk ammo you could buy?

Just as the title says. I was in a foot lock shootout, I thought I was safe and I wasn’t. He panicked and ripped it. Nothing torn (that I know of) but I’ve been icing it for 2-3 weeks at this point.

I told him it’s no big deal shit happens. Dude shows up for 1 more class after that, obviously avoids me then cancels his membership and disappears. It’s not like the guy was brand new to the gym, he had been there for 3-4 months at this point.

I’m not sure if he thought I was going to retaliate on him, or if he felt bad or what…. but he was always a good roll. I usually always got the better of him and the one time I let myself get out of a position of control he spazzes, injures me then drops off the face of the earth….wtf.

Guy walks in wearing a well known brand, brown belt ranked rashguard…. Cool, new brown belt!….round starts, slap bump, he’s got good stance nothing out of the ordinary. I hit a dummy sweep and rather hastily secure top position and anchor down and start hunting.

My first thought “no way I just dummy swept a brown belt and no way he’s letting me have this head and arm….hes gotta be letting me work” when I sank in the head and arm I just kinda chilled there waiting for him to fight out of it and do some crazy brown belt crap, take my back and choke tf out of me. He doesn’t, he taps and we reset. So I casually asked “hey man how long have you been training” dude goes “oh this is my 3rd class”.

So I told him what a ranked rashguard was, he then informs me he bought it because he liked the color and was wondering why all the other rashguard for sale corresponded with the bjj belt colors….

I recently just helped coach with the kids class, I paid more attention during the kids class than I ever do in the adult classes….because I didn’t want to seem like an idiot if a kid had a question or was doing the technique wrong.

I feel like sometimes the ability to ask questions can be taken for granted but when you’re the one being asked questions you want to set a good example by knowing the answers which means you have to watch every tiny detail. Really cool stuff.

I recently just helped coach with the kids class, I paid more attention during the kids class than I ever do in the adult classes….because I didn’t want to seem like an idiot if a kid had a question or was doing the technique wrong.

I feel like sometimes the ability to ask questions can be taken for granted but when you’re the one being asked questions you want to set a good example by knowing the answers which means you have to watch every tiny detail. Really cool stuff.

I’ve been really studying Danaher and something that he really stresses is to focus on a few subs, immerse yourself in them and master them. But the issue is my coach has like ADHD and kind of bounces around a lot. One day is darce, one day is ankle lock, one day is bolos….what should I do? Just work my moves during live rolls?

Call everyday and ask for a status update. Eventually the service advisor will get frustrated and bump you further up the line to get you to stop calling. Part on backorder? 3 week delay because of the shear amount if business? Doesn’t matter…. call, call, call the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The service advisor likely doesn’t have the authority to tell you to f*** off, and the manager is going to side with you 100% of the time and move the job up the list. If the part is backordered find one from eBay or the junk yard and have them install it.

Technicians love being pulled off of jobs they are on to soothe your whining….yes people ahead of you waited patiently for weeks to have their vehicle worked on but that’s their problem. You come first, you are more important than them. Us as dealership staff prefer to reward bad behavior instead of correct it so take advantage of it. Thanks!

I’ve trained at 4 different schools just do to either moving or the gyms closing and they all do bjj a bit different. I think it speaks to the vast diversity of this sport.

Gym 1 (my first gym): Coach was a big DLR and K-Guard player, so obviously all of the students started to adopt that game. That’s what was primarily taught.

Gym 2: Heavy on the Gracie fundamentals. Super self defense oriented and very early 2000s’ish style (I got really good at basic stuff that I missed at the first school, armbar, kimura, triangle etc) . Mainly a gi school, I remember it was notoriously hard to get promoted, I trained there for almost a year and never saw anyone get so much as a stripe.

Gym 3: MMA gym but very striking and wrestling focused. This is the school that taught me standup, pretty much the only submission any of those guys knew was a guillotine and Kimura from closed guard because that was their main defense to the double legs getting spammed constantly by the wrestlers. So going into that school with ANY somewhat advanced knowledge of bjj made me feel like a god

Gym 4 (current gym): I really don’t know how to describe it besides saying I get submitted with the craziest sneakiest subs that I’ve never encountered before….ive never been buggy choked, baseball bat choked, toe holded, calf sliced or teepee choked more in my life. I thought my triangle defense was top notch. The funny thing is the coach (now a brown belt was a purple belt) is like the master of all these.

I’ve trained at 4 different schools just do to either moving or the gyms closing and they all do bjj a bit different. I think it speaks to the vast diversity of this sport.

Gym 1 (my first gym): Coach was a big DLR and K-Guard player, so obviously all of the students started to adopt that game. That’s what was primarily taught.

Gym 2: Heavy on the Gracie fundamentals. Super self defense oriented and very early 2000s’ish style (I got really good at basic stuff that I missed at the first school, armbar, kimura, triangle etc) . Mainly a gi school, I remember it was notoriously hard to get promoted, I trained there for almost a year and never saw anyone get so much as a stripe.

Gym 3: MMA gym but very striking and wrestling focused. This is the school that taught me standup, pretty much the only submission any of those guys knew was a guillotine and Kimura from closed guard because that was their main defense to the double legs getting spammed constantly by the wrestlers. So going into that school with ANY somewhat advanced knowledge of bjj made me feel like a god

Gym 4 (current gym): I really don’t know how to describe it besides saying I get submitted with the craziest sneakiest subs that I’ve never encountered before….ive never been buggy choked, baseball bat choked, toe holded, calf sliced or teepee choked more in my life. I thought my triangle defense was top notch. The funny thing is the coach (now a brown belt was a purple belt) is like the master of all these.

Had the first class Monday morning. New gym is really good, good location, lots of energy, more mat space, some bags for mma stuff and even a cage!
Our purple belt coach also got promoted to brown belt before the big move which was pretty cool.

Status update on the sour old black belt who wouldn’t go with us to the new gym: I’m in the group chat andddd it’s not going well….several classes have been announced with little to no attendance. So do with that info as you please.

I want to track my metrics would an Apple Watch be too much to wear during rolling?