Unless trump wins.

Hmmm possibly. I will check it out, thank you

I mean it can take decades to learn any given martial art completely, but sure some more broad stroke stuff

Don’t under estimate anyone or over estimate yourself

A technique is only realistically useful to you if you’ve drilled it over, and over, and over. You have to be able to act on muscle memory alone.

Counterintuitively, the most talented and dangerous fighters will almost always use the simplest, day one kind of moves- but perfectly, every time because of the above.

If you haven’t trained to kick don’t kick, you’re just giving up your balance

The only way to win a knife fight is to run away from a knife fight

With grappling in particular, most techniques will revolve around position yourself so that your larger muscles-thing legs, core, shoulders-are working against your opponents smaller muscles- arms, calves/ankles, hands, neck, etc. that’s why technique can make all the difference if you’re at a size disadvantage

But size is still an advantage. If someone has got 150lbs on you, be faster

I’m not saying aggregated feeds like that be the default, just an option available for someone like me who is neutral about what instance are community that content surrounding a given subject comes from. It would be a handy way to put them in one feed and interact with all of those communities

Uhhh, I mean the only tool I’ve used have been indeed and LinkedIn. I have a baller resume though- not in the sense that it has lotsa good qualifications and work history on it, it does have some, but the automated filters and shit love it

Yeah, I wonder if there would be a way to combine the duplicate posts into like a thread type of thing? Idk. Tough challenge to deal with, smarter people than I haven’t found a solution yet

Flip flop 🩴

What will be great is if/when there’s a multi-Reddit style feature that will aggregate similar communities across instances into one feed. Not sure how you’d deal with duplicate posts though.

And that water wars are looming…

I wonder if that has to do with them demographically having a ton of kids on average? I can see how taking a big group to the movies would be better than trying to wrangle everyone in the living room

Bluffing as in saying you’ve had training? That’s a bad idea.

A huge portion of martial arts is learning how not to use martial arts. De-escalating, removing yourself from the situation, choosing your battles. If you feel the need to bluff you’re almost always better off just walking away.

One of the big lessons in Krav is that every confrontation is deadly. Not could be. Not might be. Is. In the real world it can only take one lucky punch to kill someone, even if the person throwing that punch is completely untrained. Every opponent on the street is armed, dangerous, and actively trying to kill you if you’re being attacked- that’s the mentality

You avoid fighting in every capacity possible, it’s an absolute worst case scenario. But if you have to fight? You be incredibly violent, dirty, and lethal. You aim to maim your opponent and get to safety- because assholes that start fights tend to run in packs. From that perspective them thinking that you’re untrained in an advantage because they won’t expect it.

Tl;Dr, I would rather bluff that I can’t fight than let them know I can

To answer your second question, yes it’s worth it for everyone to learn some degree of self defense skills, if only for the physical benefits

Idk someone acknowledging the privilege that comes with fake is validating