#brazilian Jiu Jitsu

[tomhardymyking]

I was planning to upload something different today but...

I DIDN'T EXPECT WHAT I SAW TODAY IN 𝗧𝗢𝗠'S STORIES 💥

He reposted one of my videos, via 𝗥𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲, who also reposted it in his stories 🤯!!!

Along with the selfie he took when he was filming in Alicante this year 💖 I wish it was a wink because I'm from Spain 🥹

So... He also knows about my existence (if he didn't already know about it thanks to posts in which I have mentioned him) and he knows about this fan page to which I dedicate so much love every day sharing things about him because I love him too much 😍❤️!

What a beautiful day, this will be pinned forever 🤍

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Tenía pensado subir otra cosa hoy pero es que...

NO ME ESPERABA LO QUE VI HOY EN LAS HISTORIAS DE 𝗧𝗢𝗠 💥

¡¡¡Republicó uno de mis vídeos, a través de 𝗥𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲, quien también lo republicó en sus historias 🤯!!!

Junto a la selfie que se hizo cuando estuvo rodando en Alicante este año 💖 Ojalá fuera un guiño por ser yo de España 🥹

Así que... ¡También sabe de mi existencia (si es que no la sabía ya de antes por publicaciones en las que le he mencionado) y sabe de esta página fan a la que dedico tanto amor cada día compartiendo cosas de él porque lo amo demasiado 😍❤️!

Qué día tan bonito, va a quedar esto fijado para siempre 🤍

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[tjkl895]

Coach Edgington (https://www.instagram.com/p/Btb6PJHg9kR/)

[dragonslut69]

honestly, i want to bring my girl to jiu jitsu so i can sit on top of her and get choked by her

[duckcruz]

Snapdown to Rear Naked Choke

[trivalentlinks]

mostly academic discussion of kink (specifically choking/strangulation) below cut

so i saw (and just reblogged) this post going around about how consensual (erotic) choking/strangulation is always edgeplay, because it's extremely dangerous

and I'm honestly a bit confused: I've never done erotic choking, but I have consensually choked people and been choked a lot--it's kind of a major part of BJJ (the grappling part of MMA)

blood chokes, air chokes, on the giving end and the receiving end, I must have done this dozens if not hundreds of times in the past year alone

and I mean, you're meant to tap early and trust your partner to do the same ("tap early, tap often" as the saying goes), but I've never heard of chokes being particularly dangerous--

in fact people will often say things like "tap early especially for joint locks" (most submissions are either joint locks or chokes, so this statement is basically implying that chokes are the less dangerous of the two, so it's okay to fight them a little more before giving in)

also my gym has bjj classes for like 8 year olds, and I'm pretty sure they also learn chokes? (though admittedly I've never watched the kids classes; I've only ever seen them from a distance while in a different class myself)

(and anyway, kink also has a culture of tapping early (or safewording as it's called in that context), so I don't really see how the culture of tapping early would make the bjj version safer than the kink version?)

is this entire sport just massively downplaying the risks of one major aspect of it? what's going on here? (Also MMA people do talk about the dangers of concussions and stuff, so it's not like people just don't care health/danger etc)

I'm just surprised I've never heard of choking/strangulation being particularly dangerous

[indieyuugure]

Wait, you do jiu jitsu?

I do yes! Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! I also do Muay Thai, but not as much. BJJ is how I get the vast majority of my exercise, I train roughly 9 hours a week and have been doing it for the past few years. I’m currently a blue belt as you probably saw in this accurate picture of me at Jiu Jitsu.

I have a bit of a reputation there of being “tiny but vicious.” I don’t mean to go so hard but when the average height difference between you and the other guys is 8 inches and the average weight difference is probably 50+ pounds, I guess you gotta make up for it somewhere lol 😂

To be fair though most of it comes from me asking literally anyone to fight me. I don’t really see bigger people as intimidating(probably bad) since I’ve got enough cobbled together skills and muscle to mostly get around their size(granted their usually not going 100% on me). I’ve been shooed away by the coaches a few times cause I’ll ask a newbie to roll with me, lol

I enjoy it, though! I have lots of friends, some are much older than me, some are a little younger. Everyone is very nice and supportive of each other and it’s overall a very fun way to get exercise and martial arts training! :]

[azimachra]

You know what’s annoying? The fact that people are right about exercise. For years and years I told myself that I wasn’t an athlete. I’d tried more sports than I could count on my fingers and I was bad or disliked all of them. I’m slow so track didn’t work. Ice skating was fun but everyone started so much younger than I did and I felt like I would never catch up. My hand eye coordination and reaction time are actually terrible so tennis was a disaster. The list goes on.

Eventually I convinced myself that sports just weren’t for me. Everyone told me that being active in some way or another would improve my mood and help me get better sleep. I knew from experience that sports and being active would do nothing but make me (more) miserable. I relegated myself to the position of the eternal nerd. I didn’t need *sports* to live a fulfilled life or to feel good in my body.

Cut to a year and a half ago. I had some childhood experience with martial arts (I stopped in middle school because it wasn’t feminine enough or something like that) and decided after some of the quarantine restrictions lifted that I wanted to try again. the place I trained when I was younger went under during the height of covid and that sport was pretty rare so there was nowhere else to train. I chose a martial art I’d heard about at random - Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - and tried it.

I’d like to say that I was a prodigy, that I understood the sport instinctually, that I was praised by my coaches for my natural talent. That, unfortunately, would be a lie. I was downright terrible when I started. Everything was so difficult. Other people understood the principles and applications in a way that I couldn’t. It seemed like everyone was either way more advanced than me or twice my size. The first few months, I was learning techniques and training but I still didn’t get it. My coach told me that the instinct would come with time. I was worried that this would just be another piece of proof that I’m not athletic, that I don’t have the body or mental fortitude. I was scared of failing, but I loved the sport. Since then, I’ve massively improved. Some things that I struggled with before have fallen into place and I’ve found new things to struggle with. I’m competent for my level and I even competed in a tournament. Has it been easy? No. Do I always feel confident in my ability? Absolutely not. But BJJ has undeniably changed my life for the better. I feel more comfortable in my body, I’ve gotten stronger and more resilient, found a new community, and yes it totally has helped with my sleep schedule and emotional wellbeing.

While I love BJJ I am not promising that you will too (although it is amazing for self defense, a skill everyone benefits from but is extra useful to women and femme presenting folks in our current society). What I’m trying to say is that despite my years of disbelief it turns out that everyone was in fact correct about physical activity/sports being good for you. It also turns out that I was wrong about my belief that I was inherently un-athletic. I also want to say that you can do this on your terms. There are so many more ways to move your body than just hitting a ball with a stick or running in circles. Don’t let yourself stay trapped in a cage with fictional bars; in an 80’s movie trope where you can only be a jock or a nerd; in a mindset that limits you from being happy and healthy. Find something that makes you excited to do because I promise, it is out there.

[novaauster]

self portrait

[zefyyrcanfly]

Made this collage for Instagram, but Tumblr can have it too, I guess.

As a treat.

[tomhardymyking]

How I knew 𝗧𝗼𝗺 was going to appear or give us content today, how I know him and how I love him (thanks for this, 𝗧𝗼𝗺) 😏

“Back at it in London” ; “Thrudark No Gi” ����

I don't know how I do it, really, but just yesterday I was thinking: “it's been a while since we've had a photoshoot, there should have been one for 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒎: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆...” And today we have these photos 😍! How handsome he is and looks, I can't 🥴 How sexy ❤️‍🔥!

Will we have a new photoshoot soon? 🙏🏻

And, yes, I will have to do more important things more often so that we have more of 𝗧𝗼𝗺 🤭 It's not the first time it happens 👀

Stay tuned for the next post to see more of what he uploaded today! 🙌🏻

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Cómo sabía que hoy 𝗧𝗼𝗺 iba a aparecer o darnos contenido, cómo lo conozco y cómo lo quiero (gracias por esto, 𝗧𝗼𝗺) 😏

“De vuelta en Londres” ; “Thrudark No Gi” 💓

No sé cómo lo hago, de verdad, pero es que justo ayer pensaba: “hace tiempo que no tenemos una sesión de fotos, tenía que haber habido por 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒎: 𝑬𝒍 Ú𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒐 𝑩𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒆...” ¡Y hoy tenemos estas fotos 😍! Qué guapo está y se ve, no puedo 🥴 ¡Qué sexy ❤️‍🔥!

¿Tendremos nueva sesión de fotos pronto? 🙏🏻

Y, sí, tendré que hacer más cosas importantes más a menudo para que tengamos más de 𝗧𝗼𝗺 🤭 No es la primera vez que pasa 👀

¡Atento/a a la siguiente publicación para ver más de lo que ha subido hoy! 🙌🏻

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[tjkl895]

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Coach Gruhn (https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct3rQEBg78Z/)

[the-ghost-bird]

My toxic trait is that when I'm sparring someone in my jiu-jitsu class, if I'm very close to forcing a submission out of them but they're struggling and resisting a lot, I'll shush them and whisper "Come on. Shh shh shh, come on." like an absolute demon coaxing them to give in.

[jamandstone]

Season 3... Maybe? Hopefully? Anyways, here's some bjj.