I dunno about a NEW level, we’ve seen Guida win like this before. And that’s without all the sub attempts too. Hell I’d like to see scoring change so that you could at least CONSIDER Pettis winning that first round, since he was clearly more active.
Also, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0WEA28HL9I
why is ben askren talkin shit bout dat lay n pray tactic…has he seen his own fights?
Is it me or do the judges not care about submission attempts like they do takedowns?
Damnit Ramsey
With that said, Torres/Johnson is one of my favorite fights of the year, by far. Torres’ work from the guard was brilliant, he never let Demetrious get complacent…too bad he lost.
I really thought it was weird/douchey for Guida to carry a cut out of himself.
But the whole takedown gets you big points needs to change, especially if you get a takedown and dont do shit with it.
I honestly thought Pettis would have way better takedown defense since hes working with Askren on straight up wrestling. But I agree that wrestlers need to learn how to go for subs. Seeing Pettis go for sub after sub after sub made me realize that Guida wouldnt be able to hang with Edgar/Maynard.
And did anyone else give a crap about the TUF final? I honestly didnt give a fuck about the fight, this season was too terrible to care.
If Hendo gets past Miller without injury, I can see Guida/Hendo for #1 contender spot since Dana said Miller is still in a higher chance of getting a title shot than Guida is.
People are complaining way too much about the fight. Guida stayed busy, always trying to improve position and take away options from Pettis, and he got away from every sub Pettis tried.
I wanna give those of you who train or thinking about training a heads up.
One of my buddies texted me this morning to tell me he’s in the hospital - he overdid it at the gym so much that his muscular system was traumatized and is now releasing massive amounts of creatine and various other substances in his bloodstream. It’s called Rhabdomyolysis. His creatine levels are currently at about 60,000 - normal levels are ~30-150 - and he’s in danger of kidney failure. He felt fine/good after the session, the next day he couldn’t move and was in insane pain. On Friday he managed to drive himself to the ER and they’ve been pumping him full of painkillers and fluids ever since. By the sound of it, he won’t be out for at least another couple days - his creatine levels have to get below 5000, and so far they’re going up instead of down.
Doctors have ruled out any supplements he was taking, the trainer/coach just pushed him too damn far.
thats fucked up, tell him to sue.
that is terrible. sorry about your friend.
thanks for posting this. alot of times i work out to the point of throwing up and then i’m all “fuck this i dont want to throw up”. and then i wonder if im just being a pansy and if some way some how i could just man up and keep going. im a pretty weak guy with no cardio, so i always wonder if im not trying hard enough or mentally not there. i dont know. i think i will definitely keep listening to my body after reading that…
“Bigger” how?
Athletes are also trained to listen to their coaches and push themselves. Yea I think my buddy is a bit stupid for overdoing it, but the so-called expert (who is his coach at our university) came up with this shit, and you tend to wanna trust the “expert”. Plus anyone who’s trained before has hit that “wall” where the endorphins kick in and you don’t really feel it anymore - once you hit that point it’s easy to keep going.
The training was supposed to be a boot-camp type “shock the system” thing. 3 mile run warm-up, then pushups, pullups, situps, run more, pushups, pullups, situps, goal of 160 each. Buddy said he ran about 7-8 miles total along with the exercises.
Well, so far the docs haven’t pointed out anything else. And of course, “maxing out” or “not being used to a certain level” is generally the definition of an instance of overdoing it.
no they award attempts in naga and grapplers quest. near subs might not be a point but its called sumtin else…gotta check the rules though.
It’s called an “advantage”.
They only come into effect if there is not a clear winner (either by base points, or by submission)
E.G., if we both have 6 points, but I have 2 advantages for attempted subs, and you have 0, I win.
oh so it is about ties ok. i havent done a tourny in a year…and i just loled hard when i got an email bout the kid i usually grind the hell out of from my class got third place. im sittin here like…wtf that nigga gets burnt out rollin wit me or we just give up after 15-20 min of stright rollin. makes me curious how id do now since he did so well. he went to naga championships for it.
:mad:
Since the merger of UFC and SF, UFC is the only game in town, I think Zuffa needs to just dissolve SF and make the…
Ultimate Hugging Championship.
Randy Cotoure, King Mo, Antonio Mckee, GSP, Lay Guida
Their roster is looking solid so far.
160 pullups is alot. the rest doesn’t sound like much, not that would be considering over doing it.
also i have a hard time believe his problems came from working out to hard. i’m no doctor, but i’m going to say he’s got some other problems.
Seriously - he’s not a coke addict, doesn’t take meth, not an alcoholic, not an old lady, wasn’t in a car accident, didn’t have a stroke, blood clot, or embolysm, not on medication, didn’t have a heart attack, and his potassium, phosphates, thyroid and calcium levels are normal (they gave him the test results) so unless Dr. House comes swooping in with some off-the-wall reason, maybe you should google “exercise induced rhabdomyolysis” instead and just accept that if you push your body too hard it can fuck you up.
Seems logical, right? I don’t know why telling people to “be careful” is so fucking hard these days.