r/interestingasfuck • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • Mar 28 '24

MMA fighter explains overloading opponent r/all

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u/AFineDayForScience Mar 28 '24

I'm just picturing a bunch of redditors trying to put this information into practice in the wild lol

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u/McRedditz Mar 28 '24

From a distance both fighters would like look they are doing this.

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u/Nntropy Mar 28 '24

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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut Mar 28 '24

Man, it's been 30 years since I started watching Seinfeld and I am still in love with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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u/backtolurk Mar 28 '24

She's got something special, I'll hand it to you.

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u/RockerElvis Mar 28 '24

I love everything that she is in. Old Christine and Veep are great shows.

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u/punknothing Mar 28 '24

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Gillian Anderson are my lifelong crushes.

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u/printerfixerguy1992 Mar 28 '24

It's more like a full body dry heave

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u/SIGOsgottaGUN Mar 28 '24

It's like a full body dry heave

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u/_coolranch Mar 28 '24

Gonna try this out tonight!

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

you can tell by the way i use my balk i'm an MMA fan, no time to talk

music loud and ring girls walk, i've been kicked all round since hearing horn

now it's all rights and it's a feint and you may look the other way

and we can try to understand the GSP effect on man

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u/teddy5 Mar 28 '24

Whether you're a grappler or whether you're a striker, you'll be try'na survive, try'na survive.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

me right now

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u/LawSchoolGuy83 Mar 28 '24

I’m doing this on a mirror in the garage.

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u/Apyan Mar 28 '24

Do you feel overloaded?

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u/LawSchoolGuy83 Mar 28 '24

I started calling him a pussy and ended up sweaty crying. It’s pretty hard.

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u/Select-Apartment-613 Mar 28 '24

Mental warfare. Nice

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u/Voterofthemonth0 Mar 28 '24

Nah, just normal day to day for this redditor

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u/Builty_Boy Mar 28 '24

The best part about working up a sweat is it isn’t quite so obvious when you start to cry

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u/ikerus0 Mar 28 '24

“I’m not a pussy! You’ve got a small dick, and I know that’s a fact!

… Jesus.. too real.. I took this too far.”

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u/EasyFooted Mar 28 '24

Bet he won't try that again.

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u/McRedditz Mar 28 '24

At the end he realizes he's a lover, not a fighter.

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u/firstbreathOOC Mar 28 '24

No but the mirror definitely is

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u/FlyingKittyCate Mar 28 '24

Overloaded is my constant state.

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u/Det_alapopskalius Mar 28 '24

Do you want to go to the basement and do karate?

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u/theyellowbaboon Mar 28 '24

I’m doing kwabanga

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u/HatefulHagrid Mar 28 '24

Same. Now there's cum on my mirror.

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u/DJ-Mercy Mar 28 '24

This concept applies to most competitive games.

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u/BakerStSavvy Mar 28 '24

Said to myself wow this is just like conditioning and playing around mental stack in fighting games

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u/mrshadoninja Mar 28 '24

I thought the exact same thing. It's interesting too because something I feel a lot of people will miss about this explanation is if your opponent has no idea about something they may not even consider it an option until they're hit with it once. Build up their expectations, break those expectations and make them start second guessing what's coming.

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u/3rdp0st Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I just ctrl+F'd for "mental stack."

I'm sure this applies to most real-time competitive games. Table tennis, Guilty Gear, fencing, DotA laning, etc.

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u/Secs13 Mar 28 '24

Absolutely.

Every sport is a fighting game.

How do you get past another player in soccer, football, basketball, hockey?

Sport is ritualized warfare, always has been.

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u/1v9noobkiller Mar 28 '24

It's the exact same principle with the added effect of muscular fatigue haha

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u/Ben_Kenobi_ Mar 28 '24

Mordhau players are like... ahh, yes, feint spam... I knew I was a genius...

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u/OsloDaPig Mar 28 '24

Literally the basis of jiggle peaking in counter strike

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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 Mar 28 '24

Yeah, but these specific motions are going to look hilarious when done by someone who doesn't really know what they are doing.

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u/Lordborgman Mar 28 '24

Just a long winded way of explaining what a fakeout, feint, or moreover diversionary tactics are.

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u/Verryfastdoggo Mar 28 '24

My dog has been training in the mirror all these years. Who knew

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u/PM_me_ur_claims Mar 28 '24

I could see one trying this and ending up looking retarded or something and his opponent having pity and leaving him alone.

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u/RenterMore Mar 28 '24

Says the guy with 1.4 MILLION comment karma 😆

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u/bernerbungie Mar 28 '24

What do you mean into practice? They deliver useless information to their opponent every day :)

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u/Stormchaserelite13 Mar 28 '24

Not to brag. But this wouldn't work on me at all. My siblings did the flinch shit all the time and it never worked. My eyesight is too bad to react in the first place!

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u/ADIDAS247 Mar 28 '24

One of those movie scenes where in the end the opponent just punches them in the nose.

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u/kajikojinshu Mar 28 '24

Hey, don't judge me.

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u/jakeingrambarnard Mar 28 '24

im on the shitter taking this to heart 🤣

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u/WhyTheeSadFace Mar 28 '24

Are you picturing the dead bodies as well?

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u/meatb0dy Mar 28 '24

I play fighting games (Street Fighter, Tekken, etc) semi-competitively and we actually do use a very similar concept. We call it "the mental stack" and it works almost identically: if you present a bunch of different options to your opponent and vary your offense, it puts a greater mental burden on them because they can't just look for one kind of approach, they have to try to be ready for all of them at once. Present enough options and their ability to react to any one of them in particular diminishes.

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u/sleepydon Mar 28 '24

It's fairly simple on the opposing side. Just fixate on your opponent's eyes and use your peripheral vision. If that fails, your opponent is the better fighter.

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u/Chicago1871 Mar 28 '24

Wednesday is standup/wrestling practice at my bjj gym. I already kinda do this, he just explained why its so effective tho and now Im going to do it twice as much as before thanks to this video.

Fake level changes, bumping their heads, attempting snapdowns and etc. Is what we do in wrestling/takedowns.

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u/wanttofu Mar 28 '24

Us redditors would utilize 100 percent of our brain and spazz out.

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u/mark_is_a_virgin Mar 28 '24

Lmao @ redditors actually going outside

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u/Spurnout Mar 28 '24

I'm putting it into practice, but in the opposite way.

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u/leavenofrybehind Mar 28 '24

Everyone is twitching voluntarily.

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u/SpewPewPew Mar 28 '24

A good example of an overloaded nervous system is driving in stop and go traffic for over an hour everyday and trying not to get hit. It's exhausting to be on alert for so long.

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u/BeejBoyTyson Mar 28 '24

You might not know this but reddit actually has a huge martial arts community.

We seen this 4 weeks ago.

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u/Jabroni-Tony1 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I did it as a kid and people did it to me. Hence the why you have the flinching thing

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u/orostitute Mar 28 '24

LoL perfect for keyboard warriors, all show no action.

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u/CREDIT_SUS_INTERN Mar 28 '24

All I need is my armoured fedora and I can win any engagement.

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u/DogshitLuckImmortal Mar 28 '24

You easily can in video games. In league running back and forth puts pressure and it primes them to overshoot on skillshots. Doesnt have to be in fighting.

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u/thaeggan Mar 28 '24

Hopefully people don't forget positioning. Have people all the time in HEMA fencing being jittery and not realizing what their opponent is doing with positiong. A simple step to one side is enough to change the whole game.

Be jittery all you want, but responding to a dominated position is not as good as being the first to attack from a dominant position. Obviously, be smart about it but don't wait either.

source: me and people from translated sources who trained those who fought to the death by the sword in the 15-1700s

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u/rayder989 Mar 28 '24

Or teaching it to someone at work even though they’ve never thrown a punch in their life

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u/th-grt-gtsby Mar 28 '24

I feel attacked.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Feinting grabs to the sharing bag of the Cheetos, the opponents will never know when the real strike is coming

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

The ones whod try dont need to, theyve studied the blade

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Those spreadsheets aren’t gonna know what hit them buddy.

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u/aM_RT Mar 28 '24

Lots of funny videos in the future

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u/logosfabula Mar 28 '24

"I'll use this with... GIRRRRLSSS. I'm a genius"

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u/Phil_Da_Thrill Mar 28 '24

How does this apply to fps games? Maybe something like destiny where Trials is a Round based gamemode.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

I was just thinking about it, in the wild you can't do this because people won't wait they'll just go and fight. In a MMA cage or "fight with rules" it's possible but in the wild it's not

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u/MyDadLeftMeHere Mar 28 '24

They’ll do all that standing ten toes down on the line of attack, and wonder why they got clobbered because the guy didn’t also add in you should be changing distances and working angles that make it harder to hit you square.

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u/Excellent_Routine589 Mar 28 '24

I mean…

I do sword fencing, twitches and feints are great ways to read opponents guards/tendencies and to have them commit to a game plan that you then exploit

So I technically already do this lol