jabrd [he/him]

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Cake day: August 3rd, 2020

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  • Zelensky just removed Zaluzhny from heading the military because Zaluzhny was getting too popular and becoming a political threat. Important to point out that Zelensky has called off the elections that should be happening right now and that there’s growing dissent for his administration due to how poorly the war is going. Also worth pointing out that Zaluzhny has ties to the far right militias of the Ukrainian armed forces and flaunted this fact when Zelensky first tried to have him removed. It would be very easy for NATO to back Zaluzhny and his right wing thugs (the same ones that took part in the maidan coup) against Zelensky if Zelensky breaks with the West’s wishes. US intelligence agencies are very good at pulling at threads of existing dissent to create chaos and oust difficult political leaders



















  • A cool thing about coming into multidisciplinary martial arts later is discovering cross over between the styles on the same move. The different names for it, slight stylistic differences on when and how to implement it, and the general perception of the move. All that kind of stuff. Well anyway today I discovered I’m a master of “the most dangerous throw in judo,” the tani otoshi or as we call it in wrestling “kind of a heel stomp sit back or whatever.” Like just a basic mat return I favored because I never felt strong enough to consistently hit the lift on a forward mat return so I’d fake forward then sit to their hip and step on their far side heel to trip them backwards. Allegedly this is a very dangerous movement that threatens to destroy your opponents near side knee if they go down incorrectly and is banned in many top BJJ gyms, but I used it my entire wrestling career without injuring anyone so idk 🤷‍♂️

    The more I roll with jiu jitsu guys the more I get why wrestling is the “violent art” counterpart to jiu jitsu’s “gentle art.” Someone asked me why I do a specific move when wrestling since it doesn’t move me closer to a takedown or to pin and I dumbfoundedly just responded “because it hurts him” not understanding that that wasn’t a clear goal in and of itself