"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
Mma And Ufc Thread.
- Thread starter lookyoung
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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNsSqlAVbsA
He fought a weight class up, and the other guy had 15-20 pounds on him. He got thrown all over the cage in the first round. And then round two started...
www.uwcmma.com
2nd fight from the top in the results listings.
First of all I would like to say anyone who steps into that cage I give him alot of respect. Your friend showed that he has heavy hands. What rank in bjj does he have? If he is going to take it to the next level he really needs to work on everything. Even his boxing looked sloppy. One think he showed is he is heavy handed.Bible_Belt said:
I did not like his guard work. He wasn't active enough in there and let the guy posture up on him too many times. If he was in against probably even a solid blue belt he may have been in trouble. He really made alot of mistakes but I am sure he will get better. I did not like the advice they were giving him either. At the 240 mark they were telling him to hit the guy with body shots when he was in sidecontrol. They should have said put your shoulder against his chin and flatten him out.
Than again I probably sound like a monday morning quarterback, but I seen alot of common mistakes. Who is your brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor. What rank is he? And who gave him his rank?
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
bmxcetera said:
What, no video? You got my hopes up. There were some serious fighters on that card. I'm sure the level of competition was very high.
Matt Hughes' Hit Squad facility is not too far from us, so we have been getting a few Hit Squad fighters. Robbie Lawler was at our last fight working the corner of Kyle Watson, who won pretty easily. However, our heavyweight did beat a guy from the Hit Squad. He got his back, and then picked him up and suplexed him, WWF-style, getting the loudest cheers of the night.
Brad is going to be in a heap of trouble if he doesn't improve his bjj skills. Even at this level.He even had a chance to lock the guillotine from the guard. I talked to the brown belts at my school and they say to fight at the UFC level you have to at the very least be a purple belt. Brad has some talent but he would be so much better with bjj, especially at this level.Bible_Belt said:
Are you still planning on getting in there?
I created an account and posted the fight. That's everything up until the final armbar.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Yeah, Lookyoung, my first fight will probably be this fall. I'm a little busy this summer; will keep training five times a week, though. If we have a bjj submission grappling tournament before then, I'll enter that, too.
"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
I have not been training that much lately. I am kind of busy. I also weightlift and I am weaker with weights because of training in bjj. I also noticed I lose muscle mass when I am training strictly bjj. Have you noticed the same thing bible belt. My school is also about 15 miles from me. I tell you if I didn't have to work I would be doing doubles. Weights and bjj everyday.Bible_Belt said:
bjj is great. It gives you functional strenght, but there is nothing like weights for your body as far as appearance goes. Do you weight train also?
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
I am thinking of trying to make weight at 145; that would be cutting 20 pounds. The fighters I have seen at that weight seem really little to me; maybe I am just thinking that because I am 6'1" but I hope anyone that weight should seem like they weigh nothing after training with a bunch of 200+ pound guys. Most of them are significantly better than me, but occasionally we get a new guy in, and I have been able to out-wrestle guys who are 230+ pounds. Within a few seconds, I am sitting on their chest in mount and coaching them on escapes. It is obviously not that I am good, it is simply that the art of bjj is very good. I know a tiny amount, but a new guy knows nothing, and just that difference is enough to trump a large weight difference. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is powerful stuff.
And now I want to go to Brazil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zm2yzeBI8I&feature=related
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
http://www.nagafighter.com/chicago05-08_home.asp
NAGA COMES BACK TO CHICAGO!
The North American Grappling Association (NAGA) is America's largest mixed grappling tournament circuit! On Saturday May 24, 2008 the NAGA comes back to Chicago, Illinois for the largest grappling tournament in the Midwest
One of our female fighters is planning on competing. Are you going?
Yes I will be there for sure. I am not ready to compete however. have not been training as much. If I was going to compete I would need at least 6-12 weeks of competition training. If you go let me know maybe we could talk mma and grappling at the tournament. Quite a few people from my school are competing. I would say at least 10-30 guys.Bible_Belt said:
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Do most guys enter both the gi and no-gi?
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Well alot of guys enter both, but more guys do strictly no-gi from what I hear. that means there are more guys in the no-gi divisions. Some purple belts at my school were saying that they are going to enter only one division. By the time your done with the gi or no gi and have to fight again your pretty worn down. I would personally do both. You may get knocked out early in one. and than can go to the next one. Plus each match is a valuable learning experience.Bible_Belt said:
Since your in the masters division you will probably have to win 2-4 matches to take first. I heard in the menns division you have to win up to 6 matches to win first. Alot of guys at my school that compete say its a different game than rolling in the gym. Your more likely to get gassed out. Alot of adrenaline in competing.
Also make sure you look at the way points are scored and have a strategy on wether you want to play top game or bottom game.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Do I need fight shorts for the no-gi competition? It said no pockets, which sounds like fight shorts. It did not say a shirt is required. It also said anything you wear may be used against you. The super hero spandex looks ridiculous, but I can understand not wanting to give the other guy a convenient handle on your hips.
As far as strategy, my best game is to wrap up a guy in full guard and tire him out, then work submissions after he is tired and frustrated. I have a very difficult guard to pass, at least relative to my overall skill level. However, I am not good at passing anyone else's guard, and I get swept a lot. It stinks that I am tall (I hope wutangfinancial is reading this); my center of gravity is too high.
The NAGA site says that I get a four-minute match. I wish they were longer, but I know it will seem much longer when it is happening. I think my own conditioning should be pretty good compared to a bunch of 30-something y/o guys. Training with the cage fighters helps a lot. I can tell that I am in better cardiovascular shape than most of my jiu-jitsu class. In the mma training, we will sometimes lightly spar with boxing gloves for 20-30 minutes and then submission grapple in 5-minute periods for another twenty or thirty minutes. It's intense, and part of the point of training that way is to teach guys how to fight while exerting very little energy. Before I started training, I would watch UFC fights and see the Brazilians fight like they were half-asleep. Now in training with mma fighters, our best guys tend to train the same way, learning to conserve energy yet fight effectively.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
Which one and where? I tried to look and I could find dates, but no location.armadon said:
Sandbagging is horrible. It happens frequently. There are many guys that are bluebelts that fight in the whitebelt division. Even guys at my school will fight in the intermediate nogi division and they have trained for 7 years. One of our guys is a purple belt and fought in the bluebelt division and took second place.
I heard naga is getting a little stricter with sandbagging now. I will pm you some youtube videos were I think there is no way this guy is at whitebelt level.
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.