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It can sometimes work wonders on your form though. There is that part.

I've been working out all my life, I mean, before I was even in middle school and I find his videos interesting. I think its just one of those things where different people are gonna find different stuff compelling. I couldn't exactly explain why. I think because I've spent so much of my life in...

Yeah, filming in the locker room is annoying. One of my boys got caught in a bodybuilders flexing photo in the locker room and people on the bodybuilder's Facebook were ragging on my buddy like he was checking the bodybuilder out...it was pretty obnoxious.

Yeah, I definitely see what you're saying, but then I think some of the videos are relatively benign--like where someone walks by a video and the influencer briefly bemoans it--relative to the hardcore backlash they receive. I remember a woman was filming herself and a guy approached her pretty...

Yes, but he has a 2006 join date. Hard to get around that.

Yeah, that's kinda what I think. Lynch mob-type things seem to always eventually turn on the people that instigated them.

I watch his videos, in part because I sit in front of a computer at work and get bored and also because they are interesting and also because he often does make good points about respecting people, etc. and often seems to be giving people their just deserts for obnoxious, bullying actions. But...

There's definitely also a whole generation of guys connected to catch who swore by them and still do. It was a huge influence on Shooto and Pancrase and no shortage of guys beyond that as well. Sayama and Fujiwara both propagated his conditioning methods and then you have guys like Barnett as...

Not sure. A lot of people theorize as much; I mean, I guess there was at least some influence, since you had Indian wrestlers and Western catch-wrestlers engaging in matches with one another, Gama being the most famous example. And of course, Pehlwani conditioning methods were a primary...

We used to call it the "Great Man Theory" of history. I do agree that it seems likely that every civilization had some sort of systematic approach to fighting. If they didn't, then they must have been awesome natural fighters, if they didn't think there was anything about their approach that...

There's definitely people who argue that. And certainly, they are home to many ancient martial arts that have most likely had influences on other arts that came to practiced worldwide. And you have the whole Bodhidharma kung fu thing as well.

They're the originals. Other nations can talk about being the birthplace of modern freestyle wrestling, but the ones who have a clearly documented continuous tradition are the Indians. I will always root for Indian wrestling because of this. They were wrestling on the ground when a lot of the...

There is a book on Chin Na that I have, it is fascinating, its from early 20th century and apparently, from a point in time where a certain version of Chin Na, which, according to my translation, favored live rolling, had basically become marginalized and almost erased by wushu's popularity. The...

I feel like you're leaving Oklahoma State out of your equation. Definitely a different approach than the Iowa "grind 'em down and bully 'em until they break" style. Although Iowa always did have a lot of technique and precision to back up their toughness. But Oklahoma State, in general, had a...

I'm not trying to bash on you man, honestly, just thinking of some people that I've trained with or coached. Some of them definitely never really learned the fundamentals of grappling. But to be fair, making a one to one comparison between people like some of the guys I'm thinking of and sport...

The Sakuraba highlight is basically my all-time favorite MMA highlight. In a sense, its what sold me on Sakuraba as a super-fan. Before that, he was kinda that guy that I found interesting, but was sort of annoyed by the super-fandom of some of my Japanese friends regarding him. The Sakurai...

You're a great poster but I think its unfair to label a guy out as a "hobbyist" without knowing his background, especially when your only frame of reference for him was an impressive performance where he submitted a decorated UFC fighter.

Ben Henderson is an absolute beast at grappling. He beat one of my favorite grapplers, Leozado Nogueira, who is highly decorate and who qualified for the ADCC in which they met with guillotine submissions in every match.

I don't know that I agree with this. I think if you're talking the top 10 in the UFC or even top 20 maybe, that's one thing and you might be right. But people who compete or have competed in the UFC...? There are certainly fighters who have competed in the UFC and qualify as "UFC fighters" that...

Hahahaha...! Okay, at least I'm not alone!