#Dojo Talk Podcast

[cerealsensei]

This PPV was way too crazy for us not to talk about it so @theanticool and I got back in the Dojo to talk about all of the moments from UFC 300.

We start off briefly poking some fun at PFL audio issues before diving right into UFC 300. We go over the monstrous left hook that Pereira wrecked Hill with, the weirdness of Zhang Vs Yan, Max Holloway's all time violent performance and so much more.

Thank you guys for listening!

[judahlux]

And Billy's like: "Stop talking, stop talking. My whole life is in front of me right now" (Ralph talking about Billy and their chemistry)

[arkanis-englishupdates]

SUMMARY OF ALL ARKANIS POVS

DAY 66 & DAY 67 — 08/11/2024 & 09/11/2024

DAY 66 — 08/11/2024

The day in Valigma begins with an electoral atmosphere, the city's new mayor will finally be elected!

Before the debate, JVNQ and Pac meet to talk. JVNQ asks Pac about being taken twice by Bia Raux, but Pac respond by saying he made a promise to Jota not ally with Bia.

JVNQ asks if Pac would be willing to team up with Bia Raux for Milo. Pac says no. The two then begin a debate, which is promptly interrupted by Jota, who tells them to save their arguments for the real debate.

While Pac, JVNQ and Jota were talking, Jota says "Just step on these stairs and Araldo will die, try it", Pac then steps on the stairs and the phrase "Araldo Died!" Appears in the view of all awake specialists. Everyone (except the trio) was shocked, but they didn't believe it.

In an act of showing that he was not an ally of Bia Raux, Pac burns/explodes the mask that Bia gave him.

Another discussion begins between Pac, JVNQ and Jota. The mayor tells them that if they don't stop debating among themselves, they will receive a fine. Both end up receiving a fine.

While Gabepeixe and AuAu were talking, the half-fish was taken by AuAu to a building protected by a dome. A sign written "You're not ready yet, Gabe-kun." could be found in front of the dome.

Pac is invited to Guhzera's studio to participate in his Podcast, "Podzhera".

Now, what everyone expected:

Everyone is called to the place where the debate will take place. Hugo himself (and without a mask) goes up to the stage to announce the start of the debate, revealing that he will be the presenter and facilitator. He tells the rules of the event and then lets both Pac and JVNQ give a speech before it all starts.

The debate then begins heatedly between all the candidates, so heated that a fight almost broke out in the audience between Gabepeixe and Moonkase (They were just joking lol).

Each audience member had the opportunity to ask the candidates something. Between lots of laughter, strange questions and moments of seriousness, the debate ends.

After a short break for all citizens and experts to vote, Hugo announces the winners:

JVNQ (& Guaxinim) = 12 votes.

Pac (& Himaru) = 8 votes and 1 popular vote (9 in total).

JVNQ wins the political dispute and becomes the eighteenth (18th) Mayor of Valigma's City.

He and Guaxim will take up the position permanently on 01/01/2025. Until then, Jota is still Mayor.

When the result was announced, JVNQ cried with emotion and thanked everyone. The entire audience, even Pac and Himaru, hugged him in comfort, making the moment something heart-warming.

While they were celebrating, someone or something launches a nuclear bomb at the debate site, killing some specialists and even Jota (fortunately everyone is fine).

After the explosive incident, some specialists meet Hugo at city hall to talk (Hugo's full surname is revealed: "Hugo Stozzo").

After talking to Hugo, some specialists meet. While they were talking, a enigma-phrase appears on the wall for everyone.

[Unfortunately there is little information about this enigma, but as soon as I get it, I will edit this part of the summary!]

Himaru is teleported by FEAR, who seeks to bargain with him. It is not known what happened to him after that.

Quel and Choke meet with Bagi, Gabepeixe and other specialists to talk about their disagreements about Bia Raux, more specifically how the bear and the amphibian are disappointed with Bia.

Beatriz calls the specialists to her house and shows them messages supposedly made by Milo by naming animals and insects.

[Again, when I manage to transcribe the messages, I will edit this part of the summary!]

Gabepeixe is teleported by Senpai to the dojo, where Senpai finally shows his physical appearance to the half-fish.

Monah appears to Bagi, Gabepeixe, Beatriz, Quel and Choke in a new form and tells them about what happened to Himaru. She says she thinks Himaru died too.

Suddenly, Monah is teleported by a white beam, being taken in the middle of everyone.

Quel and Choke say they found FEAR and they say the bargain price to find out about Himaru would be two and a half weeks with Tucupi or Gris.

DAY 67 — 09/11/2024

JVNQ wakes up early to start fulfilling its election promises. He dries the entire City Hall's lake using countless sponges.

Gabepeixe returns to the place protected by the dome, starting an event that Senpai made for him. At the beginning of the event, Gabepeixe will be guided by a warrior turtle, cousin of the Master Oogway from Kung fu panda (according to him).

Gabepeixe's first challenge is to face Master Turtle using only his Obstinate Sword, beating the turtle after two rounds.

Gabepeixe heads to the second floor of his challenge and comes across a room full of illustrations of flowers. By relating the number of petals to letters of the alphabet, Gabepeixe found the phrase "Owner of Eritategoromo" and, after some research, he discovered that the answer to his enigma was "Sōjōbō".

For his next challenge, Gabepeixe faces Master Turtle again. Now the turtle is stronger and has more obstacles on the way. He can easily defeat him, but the challenge is not over yet, now Gabepeixe has to defeat countless blazers.

Gabepeixe completes his challenge against the blazes and comes across a room full of "Unique Numbers", a new enigma. With the help of the admins, Gabepeixe discovers that the answer is "Alma".

After completing the puzzle, Gabepeixe battles Turtle Master once again using his Obstinate Sword. After defeating him, the half-fish needs to defeat a Warden.

Once Gabepeixe defeats the Warden, he is taken to a room where his only information is some illustrations on a white board. After a long time, Gabepeixe discovers that the answer to the enigma is "Jimmu". After that, Gabepeixe again needs to defeat a monster, this time he must face a guardian.

Gabe finds himself in a room with an illustration that shows a pink tree with some flowers and dots. After some time again, Gabepeixe discovers that the answer is "Emishi". Once he completed the puzzle, Gabepeixe has to defeat Turtle Master for the last time.

Once Gabepeixe defeats the turtle again, the last challenge begins:

Gabepeixe must defeat an enemy monster called "Obstinate" e then defeat a great and powerful samurai.

After defeating the two bosses, Gabepeixe finally gets his reward, a new Obstinate Sword. Gabepeixe's new sword takes him to an Astral Plane made of Arkanya whose, during the 5 seconds he is there, he becomes invunerable. When leaving the plane, an explosion is made and the damage will be returned to the enemy.

Himaru appears again, now dressed entirely in black. He reveals to Beatriz and Gabepeixe that FEAR took him after a desperate situation.

[theanticool]

Jose 'Shorty' Torres vs Izzeddine Al Derbani | BRAVE CF 65

UFC alum and, more importantly, the only fighter we ever interviewed for the Dojo Talk Podcast - Jose 'Shorty' Torres became the BRAVE CF champion after leaving the UFC. But he dropped two rematches. So now he has moved on from BRAVE CF. He is heading to Japan. Torres joins the RIZIN flyweight division for their big year end event.

Torres will face off with Makoto Shinryu (18-3-1) at RIZIN 49: Decade this Tuesday (Dec. 31).

[historicalfightingguide]

"Knights and wealthy urban citizens competed in a wide variety of knightly games, which ranged from barely restrained simulated warfare to those whose purpose was pure spectacle. Understanding the nature of these competitions, from their rules and cultures to the kinds of specialty equipment necessary for them, helps us better understand the wide utility of fencing skills, and can make us better understand and comprehend our sources. This lecture was recorded at the Ars Gladii Open in May, 2023."

Folks may or may not understand how tournaments of the time are relevant to modern HEMA, but the fact is that anyone taking part in tournaments and doing well would have to possess skills useful whether one is duelling, fueding or taking part in wars. And these things would at times even overlap. Furthermore they're an expression of the culture of the time and related to more general motivations and ways of thinking that influenced folks doing 'real fighting'. And on top of all that, various manuals we study do talk about or at least reference tournaments, or certain of their aspects, while others merely see them as another situation in which you can express the art you learn. This lecture has some but definitely not full overlap with the 'murderhobos' podcast episodes on William Marshall, if you enjoyed it,I do suggest checking them out.

For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:

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Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts

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Remember to check out  A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.Check out their curriculum too.

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Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by   Kajetan Sadowski   may be relevant as well.

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“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills”  by Rob Gray  as well as this post that goes over the basics of his constraints lead, ecological approach.

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Another useful book to check out is  The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).

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Trauma informed coaching and why it matters

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Look at the previous posts in relation to running and cardio to learn how that relates to historical fencing.

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Why having a systematic approach to training can be beneficial

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Why we may not want one attack 10 000 times, nor 10 000 attacks done once, but a third option.

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How consent and opting in function and why it matters.

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More on tactics in fencing

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Open vs closed skills

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The three primary factors to safety within historical fencing

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Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.

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And if you train any weapon based form of historical fencing check out the ‘HEMA game archive’ where you can find a plethora of different drills, focused sparring and game options to use for effective, useful and fun training.

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Check out the cool hemabookshelf facsimile project.

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For more on how to use youtube content for learning historical fencing I suggest checking out these older posts on the concept of video study of sparring and tournament footage.

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Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.

[alexisgentry]

Come join me and Kim in our Mojo Dojo Casa House where we're talking all about the Barbie movie, men throwing tantrums online, self-aware casting, movie marketing, and more in this episode of the Whatcha Watchin podcast.

[kudosmyhero]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) #21: City Fall: Prologue

Read Date: January 22, 2023 Cover Date: April 2013 ● Writer: Kevin Eastman ◦ Tom Waltz ● Art: Kevin Eastman ● Colorist: Ronda Pattison ● Letterer: Shawn Lee ● Editor: Bobby Curnow ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: ● (pg 1) the boys ready to head back home for the night; talking about how tense the city has felt lately ● (pg 2-3 splash) uh, hello? who's this then ● (pg 5) this mutant uses a Filipino art called Kali. kind of hands the turtles' asses to them, then insults Splinter's (not by name) having poorly taught them ● (pg 6) oh wait, he does know about Splinter… ● (pg 7) Donnie is mad that his staff is broken ● (meh the pages aren't numbered and I'm having trouble keeping track, so I'm gonna shelve relaying the page numbers) ● they follow him down into the sewers and say he moves like the Savate Ninjas (he does seem to be French, too) ● he seems to mostly be playing with them?

● the attacker switches to Wing Chun ● his parting words: "It seems I was mistaken, hm? You four do possess great skill. You have mastered the art of failing. I am neither Foot nor Savate. I lurk in the shadows, the unknown foe. You do not know me yet… but you will. And so, I have defeated the students. Now it is my right to face the sensei in his dojo. Farewell." ● they meet him a short time later at the church. this time, he breaks Leo's katana ● (I'm trying to figure out what sort of animal he is… maybe a rabbit? going by the legs?) ● O_O ● Splinter, you sneaky bastard. I love you. ● meanwhile in Japan, Shredder and Karai are looking for something with a Dr. Miller. Foot Ninjas are digging up the floor in some old building ● they dig up a body in pristine condition--someone called Kitsune ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: The Turtles are finishing up a patrol one night when a masked man appears out of nowhere and begins to fight them. The masked man taunts them relentlessly, showing them up with ease and using many different styles of martial arts. The masked man even knows about their hideout and their master, Splinter. The masked man leads them on a chase throughout the city, all the way back to the abandoned church. The masked man says that the Turtles are no match for him and he will now face their master. The Turtles say they would die before letting him pass. The masked man says this honors him, and takes off his mask, revealing himself to be Master Splinter in disguise. Splinter explains that he needed to do something drastic in order to show the Turtles how important training was with the increased warring between criminal factions.

The scene switches to Japan, where Dr. Miller has led the Shredder and the Foot to a derelict temple. Shredder orders some Foot ninja to start digging. They unearth a casket and open it, finding a still-living woman sleeping inside. Thus, the Shredder is reunited with Kitsune.

(https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/City_Fall:_Prologue)

Fan Art: Tmnt by StalePretzels

Accompanying Podcast: ● Shellheads - episode 46

[tastydregs]

Tesla Heading to 100X AI Progress and OpenAI Moment for RealWorld AI

The limitations for Tesla AI development are programming resources, AI architecture, compute resources, training data and financial resources.

Tesla has started operating its Dojo AI training supercomputer and this will scale to over 100 Exaflops by the end of 2024. Tesla will likely continue to expands its AI supercomputing datacenters and cloud. Tesla continuing its AI computing resource expansion would head to a zettaflop (1000 Exaflops) in another year or two after hitting 100 Exaflops in 2024.

Over a year ago, the Tesla Dojo ExaPod system was to have 120 tiles in ten cabinets and have over 1 exaflops of compute. If these systems were not improved then it would only take 10000 Cabinets to reach 1000 Exaflops.

354 computing cores per D1 chip 25 D1 chips per Training Tile (8,850 cores) 6 Training Tiles per System Tray (53,100 cores, along with host interface hardware) 2 System Trays per Cabinet (106,200 cores, 300 D1 chips) 10 Cabinets per ExaPOD (1,062,000 cores, 3,000 D1 chips)

Each tray consists of six training tiles. Each 135kg tray offers 54 petaflops (BF16/CFP8) and requires 100kW+ of power. An Exapod, would ned 2 MW of energy. 100 Exaflops would need 200 WW of energy.

The Tesla AI team gave technical talks which give strong indications that FSD is close and strong progress is being made on Teslabot. The rate of improvement with a more solid software foundation, more programmers, more data and more compute should enable 10X-100X improvements if various aspects of AI development.

Tesla is hiring many developers and has billions of dollars of annual research budget.

Tesla has 4.5 million cars gathering data. Tesla will have over 10 million cars gathering data by 2025 and 20 million by the end of 2026 and over 100 million by 2030. If Tesla starts mass producing the Teslabot, they could make 50 Teslabot for the cost of each Model Y.

Tesla is making General foundational AI which is unifying the FSD and Teslabot AI neural networks.

Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.

Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.

A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts.  He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.

[whistlekick]

Episode 830 - Mr. Dean Franco

Mr. Dean Franco is a Martial Arts instructor, practitioner, and host for the FMA Discussion Podcast.

I had no way of advertising it or releasing it or showing it to the masses. So I just continued developed it around my training partners and students. So what is Blade Tech today? It was very defensive initially and it’s now comprehensive.

Mr. Dean Franco - Episode 830

Learning martial arts before the internet was challenging, especially if you were looking for convenient ways to learn, such as video tutorials. Fortunately, Mr. Dean Franco was able to take advantage of modern technologies for his system. He discussed the impact of the early internet and DVD lessons on martial arts training, which he considers a crucial time for those looking to learn and study martial arts outside of traditional dojo settings.

Mr. Dean Franco shares how he discovered and fell in love with Filipino martial arts, which he now considers his major. He also produced the FMA Discussion podcast, creating a virtual library for the Filipino martial arts community.

In this episode, Mr. Dean Franco talks about his journey in martial arts. He emphasizes the importance of his TaeKwonDo background in his martial arts journey, which helped him appreciate the JKD philosophy and kickboxing techniques he later studied.

Show notes

You can follow Mr. Dean Franco on the following social media platforms: Facebook - Dean Franco Instagram- @dean.8553 Youtube channel - FMA Discussion

Check out this episode!

[thesportssoundoff]

@theanticool and I tried to help @cerealsensei get through this Moncton card. 

I have no idea what we just recorded other than that it’s must listen. 

[cerealsensei]

Shout outs to everybody who still tunes in to the pod when me and @theanticool drop. It's good to know some folks are still out there listening to us yell about this wacky sport.

[imdoingaokay]

Fallout 4 companions as Youtubers

A/N: Personally, I think the only ones that would actually make a channel and post to it would be Deacon and Hancock, so I guess this is sort of OOC, but hey, why not?

Cait

Self defense youtuber, not like the ones everyone makes fun of, she actually gives solid advice.

Ends up running a dojo or something, makes a lot of videos inside it.

Her merch is all self-defense related, ranging from knuckles to some cute accessories that she made (with Sole, of course). Her items are expensive, but they are totally worth every penny.

She ends up opening up about her drug use later on, once she grows a following, but telling people about it isn’t a separate video. Like she says “yeah I used to do drugs a lot” and then proceeds to drop kick a training dummy or her sparring partner. 

Weirdly enough, it ends up being memed quite often. People take screenshots from her videos and they end up exploding. She never really discusses it nor capitalizes on it, but she does once mention how stupid she thinks they are when someone asks.

Curie

ASMR youtuber. No, I will not be taking questions.

Totally, 100% has the voice for it.

She starts off with low quality videos of her messing around, but she likes the tingles ASMR gives her so she keeps doing it.

Ends up growing her channel and gets new equipment, her production value skyrockets.

Green screen? We don’t know her. Curie makes sets, and they’re always beautiful. (Think Latte ASMR)

People lowkey get caught off guard when she does her “Medical Examination” ASMR video and she’s like… really educated? Then she kinda just drops the fact that she’s basically a doctor??? 

No merch or a patreon. She never shows her face too, nor does she do collabs. She just drops a bomb video and dips.

Danse

Initially starts out with some really cool metalworking/restoration videos. Like, he cleans old objects of rust and then restores it to its “former glory”

Has a very small following while he keeps uploading, and his uploads are few and far between. His editing sucks too, but he learns as he goes along.

Eventually drops a video or community post describing the fact that his entire life has changed and he’s thrown in for a loop. Shows his face in the video for the first time and it BLOWS UP.

He ends up moving out to a more rural area and definitely becomes a cowboy. Makes videos in his free time when he’s restoring old items or taking care of the animals on the farm (because of course he does)

Deacon

COMMENTARY CHANNEL

He makes REALLY funny videos.

Like, the rewatch value of each of them is phenomenal. 

He edits really well, and has a very loyal following that he names the “Dust Bunnies” for no reason, just cuz he wants to.

Most popular videos are the ones that, out of context, make NO SENSE.

Goes on rants often. Like, hardcore rants over something stupid, but he still makes the video funny. 

Has a series of him playing bad mobile games and rating them

Gage

You know that guy that shows up on a lot of videos, makes a comment that’s pretty funny, and then dips?

That’s Gage.

Don’t get me wrong, he has 0 videos.

He just comments.

And everyone comes to expect him on videos.

Nobody knows who he is behind the screen. And Gage doesn’t want anyone to know.

Channel name is probably “Steve” or something.

Hancock

Also a commentary YouTube channel.

Does a hotbox once or twice with Fahrenheit, it’s really funny.

Absolute ally. Drinks his respect women/LGBTQ+ juice EVERY DAY.

Has said more than once “Of the Trans, for the Trans” when he streams

Did I mention he streams?

He streams. All the time.

His Twitch Channel is really funny, actually.

Ends up doing a collaboration with Deacon, and everyone freaks out. Think Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden.

They end up making a podcast together, it’s called “Two Dumbasses Talk” and it’s really popular.

They do make a video where they read fanfiction of each other.

MacCready

GAMING CHANNEL

Absolute KING of almost every video game, but he excels at shooters.

Refuses to play Fortnite because he doesn’t want to engage with a younger audience. Even though his videos are fairly clean

Streams rather than records and edits videos, which leads to some really funny encounters.

Once Duncan walked in while he was streaming because he was thirsty.

10/10 dad stopped playing and got his son a drink. 

After gaining a shit ton of money and ends up living in his dream house with his family, he does a lot of charity streams. Most of them are geared towards helping children. He has a soft spot for childhood cancer since his son nearly died.

Nick Valentine

You guys see those “Lawyer Reacts” videos? That’s Nick. Except he’s a “Detective Reacts” instead. 

Wholesome Old Man.

His videos are few and far between, and normally he reacts to whatever someone sends him. Tells people about shit he’s seen in life, and rates the accuracy of shows and movies.

His most popular series is him going through crime shows like Law and Order, NCIS, etc.

Wholesome Old Man becomes Annoyed Old Man.

“Why the hell aren’t they wearing gloves?” Becomes his catchphrase, that and “What the-” In the most frustrated/incredulous voice.

Old Longfellow

Fishing channel.

Old man chilling on a boat, catching fish.

ALL OF HIS VIDEOS ARE EDITED THROUGH IMOVIE.

Wholesome Old Man 2.0 (sort of)

Has some videos of him just sitting down and drinking, chatting about random shit.

Gets popular for how much of a grandpa he is.

Like, seriously. People ask him to make a video where he says “I’m proud of you”

AND HE DOES IT. Albeit, he’s confused, but why not? A couple shots of whiskey, and he’s good to go.

Piper

Becomes her own news channel. Kind of like All Gas, No Brakes… not as funny though.

Every crazy thing that has happened around the country, she was there. Interviewing people. Cult meeting? She’s there. Major death of a celebrity? She’s there. Raiding of Area 51? She’s there.

She ends up becoming more political as current events get a bit more serious. 

Ends up getting a pretty good following who support her on patreon.

Probably starts a podcast.

Preston

His videos are weird. Like, they aren’t for an audience, they’re for him.

A lot of them are short, vertically filmed videos of him outside in nature and experiencing life.

His most popular video is one where he lowkey becomes a Disney princess and pets a baby deer.

X6-88

He doesn’t have one.

Sorry.

[theanticool]

Me and @cerealsensei talked about this briefly on the Dojo Talk Podcast. The UFC has a matching clause but I don’t think they’re going to match $2 million flat fee for Ngannou. Also, yeah Lewis and the team would be crazy not to use this as a way to drive up the price for the UFC if he really wants to come back. Lewis is the biggest name in MMA free agency right now. He’s coming off a big finish win with another post fight that got shared around a lot. And even if he doesn’t go to PFL, he can leverage that into a better deal from the UFC.

The real question is Ray Sefo desperate enough to pay Derrick Lewis $2 million to have a rematch of one of the worst fights in MMA history.

[historicalfightingguide]

"Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin, Psychologist and Fencing Parent, on Impostor Syndrome and Upping a Fencer’s Mental Game"

"EPISODE SUMMARY

Today we're diving into the mental side of the sport, focusing on a common yet often overlooked struggle: impostor syndrome. We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Lisa Orbe-Austin, a licensed psychologist and renowned executive coach, who's made tremendous strides in tackling impostor syndrome, diversity, equity and inclusion, and effective communication within various organizations and educational institutions.

EPISODE NOTES

Today we're diving into the mental side of the sport, focusing on a common yet often overlooked struggle: impostor syndrome.

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Lisa Orbe-Austin, a licensed psychologist and renowned executive coach, who's made tremendous strides in tackling impostor syndrome, diversity, equity and inclusion, and effective communication within various organizations and educational institutions.

The author of two insightful books, 'Own Your Greatness' and 'Your Unstoppable Greatness,' she’s an expert in overcoming impostor syndrome and navigating toxic or unsupportive work cultures.

In addition to her professional accomplishments, Dr. Orbe-Austin also brings a unique perspective to our discussion today - she's a parent to two budding fencers. Let's delve into her rich professional insights and her firsthand experiences from the fencing world. 

Visit Dr. Orbe-Austin's site 

Read a transcript for this episode"

"In each episode, we’ll talk to someone interesting within the fencing world, including young fencers just learning the sport, coaches, experts from outside of fencing, fencing parents, referees, Olympians and Paralympians, and many more. Ready? Set? Fence!"

So while this podcast is obviously geared directly towards olympic fencers the fact is that there's plenty of folks in historical fencing that deal with imposter syndrome, parenting and similar related issues and that pretty much every fencer out there can keep working on their mental game.

For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:

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Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts

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Remember to check out  A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.Check out their curriculum too.

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Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by   Kajetan Sadowski   may be relevant as well.

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“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills”  by Rob Gray  as well as this post that goes over the basics of his constraints lead, ecological approach.

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Another useful book to check out is  The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).

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Trauma informed coaching and why it matters

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Look at the previous posts in relation to running and cardio to learn how that relates to historical fencing.

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Why having a systematic approach to training can be beneficial

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Why we may not want one attack 10 000 times, nor 10 000 attacks done once, but a third option.

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How consent and opting in function and why it matters.

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More on tactics in fencing

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Open vs closed skills

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The three primary factors to safety within historical fencing

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.

Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.

.

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And if you train any weapon based form of historical fencing check out the ‘HEMA game archive’ where you can find a plethora of different drills, focused sparring and game options to use for effective, useful and fun training.

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Check out the cool hemabookshelf facsimile project.

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For more on how to use youtube content for learning historical fencing I suggest checking out these older posts on the concept of video study of sparring and tournament footage.

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Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.

[sugar-coated-prat-dragon]

The more and more you talk about Miguel and Robby and Xolo Mariduena and Tanner Buchanan, the more I realize that yeah….. Xolo does sorta suck and Miguel is somewhat of a problematic main character as well lol. Anyways… what other projects will Tanner be in?

I just saw this in my box because for some reason, it only showed up once I had log out and than back into my account.

So, I apologize for not answering it sooner, but I it wasn't showing up.

I'm definitely not a fan of Xolo, because the way he treated Tanner on his birthday was just just mean and than he had the audacity to laugh about the whole thing later on his podcast as if it was funny.

I don't care if Xolo didn't think Tanner was the height he claimed to be or not. You don't continually mock someone about it to the point that they get so uncomfterable that they literally leave the room to get away from you and than laugh about it later.

I mean Tanner was so uncomfterable that he literally left the room and went to stay in his own room with Lizze at the hotel where they were all crashing, because he doesn't like conflict and decided to spend the rest of his birthday away from everyone else, rather than be that uncomfterable.

That's just messed up! And than Xolo did a whole podcast about it later and laughed about it as if the whole situation was funny. Even worse, during the podcast Xolo mentioned that Jacob and Mary saw Tanner was getting upset (and tried to tell him to stop), but he just kept bothering him.

I can't stand bullies like that.

As far as Miguel as a character, he was somewhat nicer in season 5 and I could actually see them getting along in the future.

However, I will never agree with the way he treated Robby in the past (especially since Miguel never got called out for targeting Robby for literally no reason).

Robby had never done anything to make him believe he was going to pursue a relationship with Sam. Once Robby learned she had a boyfriend, he backed off and then remained only friends until Sam herself made the first move after the break up (and even then he was hesitant to begin a relationship with her).

That is not the behavior of someone who steals your girlfriend. Which is why it annoyed me in season 5 when Hawk tried to start shit about Robby talking to Sam at the dojo. Like they're friends? Why do all the other boys have such extreme jealousy issues? Sam can't talk to other guys? It's beyond ridiculous.

So I don't like season 1-4 version of Miguel at all.

But I might be able to tolerate the season 5 version as long as he gets his head out of his ass and doesn't start shit for no reason that puts Robby in the crossfire.

[spectober]

Here is the Spectober 2022 writing prompt list! Don’t feel pressured to do every prompt, but you’re welcome to plan ahead for the month.

The prompts are also rewritten beneath the cut:

Spectrals know the veil between worlds is thin, but it’s still difficult to comprehend the alternate universe colliding with theirs right now. 

Spender notices that largely exaggerated stories of the West Hill Horror are hurting his students’ morale. How will he fix this dilemma? 

Every year the Jang has a “friendly” competition to collect the most candy.

Isaac will never admit it, but horror movies always leave him with nightmares.

Mayview isn’t big enough for two Agent Days, so which one’s the fake?

Max hasn’t been afraid of the dark for years, but being a spectral gives new meaning to the shadows in his vision.

Lisa invests in some uncomfortably squirmy decorations for the School Store that also serve to keep out unwanted patrons.

Isabel thought she knew Mayview like the back of her hand, but her path seems to melt into the fog every time she looks away.

Cody refuses to let his dad’s authority ruin the one night a year he can run around with his friends.

Violet has been saving her Starchman Stars for the ultimate Halloween prize until Mr. Starchman makes a dreaded announcement.

There are a surprising amount of sleepwalkers in Mayview. PJ and Lefty have made it their mission to make sure all of them get back home safely.

For Halloween, Max’s dad decides to sell loads of fake blood. The results are what one would expect.

Forge has seen the death of countless humans, yet this death is somehow different.

Agent Walker heard “pentacle” instead of “tentacle” and shows up woefully unprepared to deal with the spirit in question.

When a wisp is given the opportunity to hide away in something, the Activity Club has to get the coveted object out of the hands of non-spectrals.

The lake in the center of Mayview was never the cleanest, but now Dr. Zarei needs to find out why it’s currently pitch black.

Boss Leader has been speechless out of shock or anger many times. This is the first time it happens out of happiness.

DJ Mothman and Professor Bigfoot’s podcast always talks about Mayview’s secret cryptid on Halloween night.

Dimitri has always known that being medium to Peekaboo changed his bones but this is just absurd.

Jean Garcia has seen many types of footprints as a Cousinhood member, though none quite like these.

Just as citizens of Mayview are preparing for the spookiest day of the year, the entire town’s supply of candy disappears!

Stephen can hear something under his front yard, and tonight he’s going to find out what it is.

Death cultists are a very superstitious sort, but in some cases, definitely justified in their caution.

Even though the sense of wrong permeating the building sends shivers down Suzy’s spine, she’s determined to get to the bottom of this Halloween mystery.

Jeff has no impulse control, which is why he sticks his hand in the glowing ooze.

Zoey’s dad accidentally leaves her on the wrong hill and now she has to walk home alone.

Due to Francisco Guerra’s strict “No Guests Allowed in the Dojo” policy, Isabel and Ed have to be very sneaky about planning their spooky sleepover.

Paige’s favorite part of being a vampire is the excuse to sleep in a coffin.

When all the lights in Mayview are snuffed out, only the moonlight can protect the Activity Club from the now emboldened night lamps.

Hijack has always wanted to go trick-or-treating, and this year, he will, even if he has to possess the whole town to do it.

Mayview doesn’t do small festivals, it’s go big or go home.