Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
I'm not so sure about that. Bruce Lee trained hard, for hours, EVERY single day. All that training is worth something. It wasn't just a sport, martial arts was his entire life. I don't know about a Bruce Lee vs. BJ Penn fight, but Bruce Lee versus someone in the UFC of his same weight class would probably be a damn good fight. No one can deny that Lee was one hell of a striker and accurate as f*ck. Plus you look at the physique he had and the dude was in incredible shape. If he was alive today, he'd get some BJJ under his belt, and I think he'd do hella damage in the cage.lookyoung said:Bruce lee himself was a phony. He was all myth. Get a guy like bj penn and he would kill bruce lee.
lookyoung said:I am 5"11 190 pounds and a blue belt in brazilian jiu-jitsu. I bet you a 100,000 dollars I would crack his fvcking head.
Do you think these karate, kung-fu idiots could take on a real mma fighter.
No way.
I would take a highschool football linebacker to embarass him. He is just a punk bully.
Bruce lee himself was a phony. He was all myth. Get a guy like bj penn and he would kill bruce lee.
The gracie family has revolutionized martial arts. Bruce lee did not do anything for martial arts he was a conman.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Did anyone here actually see bruce lee fight? Post some footage. I am skeptical about a guy who has never fought anyone. Bruce lee was great in katas and breaking boards, hitting a heavy bag. But until your in a real fight you can't say someone is a champion.speakeasy said:I'm not so sure about that. Bruce Lee trained hard, for hours, EVERY single day. All that training is worth something. It wasn't just a sport, martial arts was his entire life. I don't know about a Bruce Lee vs. BJ Penn fight, but Bruce Lee versus someone in the UFC of his same weight class would probably be a damn good fight. No one can deny that Lee was one hell of a striker and accurate as f*ck. Plus you look at the physique he had and the dude was in incredible shape. If he was alive today, he'd get some BJJ under his belt, and I think he'd do hella damage in the cage.
You will not find any one in the UFC who claims one style as his own. Chuck Liddell has a black belt in Karate. I'm sure he has incorporated some of that Karate training into his overall style when he throws his occasional kick. As for TKD, I've seen the reverse back kick work in the UFC and that is taken from TKD. Pretty much every martial art has at least some moves that would be effective in the cage.lookyoung said:Did anyone here actually see bruce lee fight? Post some footage. I am skeptical about a guy who has never fought anyone. Bruce lee was great in katas and breaking boards, hitting a heavy bag. But until your in a real fight you can't say someone is a champion.
That being said I agree that bruce lee would have had bjj in his disposal if he was around today. I am not sure how well he would have done in the cage. I feel that muythai is a stronger standup style than wing chun.
If karate, kungfu and all those other arts were so good than how come there is not even one UFC fighter who uses that garbage.
JOE rogan who was a US national champion in TKD said it himseld that it is a useless martial art.
Uh, where do you think all of those techniques came from? The Gracies didn't invent any of them. You'll see them all in traditional Jujutsu ryh-ha that came along hundred of years before the Gracies.lookyoung said:I am 5"11 190 pounds and a blue belt in brazilian jiu-jitsu. I bet you a 100,000 dollars I would crack his fvcking head.
Do you think these karate, kung-fu idiots could take on a real mma fighter.
No way.
I would take a highschool football linebacker to embarass him. He is just a punk bully.
Bruce lee himself was a phony. He was all myth. Get a guy like bj penn and he would kill bruce lee.
The gracie family has revolutionized martial arts. Bruce lee did not do anything for martial arts he was a conman.
Pretty much. MMA has become a "style" all its own. And no one "style" can dominate all other "styles", although that's what many martial artists would have you believe. Saying you can beat someone because you have a better fighting style than them is like saying you can draw better than someone because you have a sharper pencil.Suicide said:That said, you obviously know nothing about real martial arts or the UFC. MMA is designed to conform to UFC rules, period. Take it out of the octagon and it's a whole different story.
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.
Not the gun crap again. I mean unless you routinely go fighting gangbangers, what's the chance of seeing someone pull out a gun in a normal first fight? And even still, I wouldn't consider it "winning" to shoot somebody in a fight, unless winning means going to jail and getting ass raped in prision.squirrels said:Not to mention that in any street fight, the person who wins is the first one with a gun.![]()
Depends on what kind of "fight" you're talking about.speakeasy said:Not the gun crap again. I mean unless you routinely go fighting gangbangers, what's the chance of seeing someone pull out a gun in a normal first fight? And even still, I wouldn't consider it "winning" to shoot somebody in a fight, unless winning means going to jail and getting ass raped in prision.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
UFC is boring as hell. For 2 guys who know their sh!t, all the UFC is is a race to see who can get the other guy on the mat and wrestling until one can choke off the other's air supply.lookyoung said:If karate, kungfu and all those other arts were so good than how come there is not even one UFC fighter who uses that garbage.
@Rudra - QUANOUYF! ICBPWUALTAATUTI.Rudra said:@squirrels - QFT!
I guess that explains all the pools of blood you see on a octagon floor. Did you see the Couture/Gonzaga fight? That wasn't enough action for you???Rollo Tomassi said:UFC is boring as hell. For 2 guys who know their sh!t, all the UFC is is a race to see who can get the other guy on the mat and wrestling until one can choke off the other's air supply.
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.