/xs/ is a place to discuss all types of extreme sports and similar physical activities, which include (but are not limited to) skydiving, surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, climbing, rafting, bungee-jumping, parkour, BMX & mountain biking, airsoft, paintball, etc.
Riding season started above the equator EditionFAQ on buying a bike that nobody reads anyway:> What good bike can I get for under $500?a stolen bike. Possibly a newer used entry level hardtail but don't expect it to survive rock gardens, jumps, or drops. Or an older mtb which won't be as good as newer ones and will still have a front derailleur, but it'll be good enough.> What good bike can I get for under $1000Good used hardtail, new entry level hardtail> What good bike can I get for under $2000?New Hardtail, decent used full suspension> What good bike can I get for under $3000?https://www.yt-industries.com/fr/produits/velos/capra/uncaged-10-al/602/capra-mx-uncaged-10/Used full suspension, decent entry level full suspension but prepared to put more money into it.> What are the excellent value brands?Marin, Commencal, Canyon, Polygon, YT, Propain, Kona, and many more. Sometimes the expensive brands have an excellent alue bike>> What are the differences between an XC, Trail, Enduro, and Downhill bikes?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>195404>5'9">121 lbsHoly shit
>>195371>34 bike park seems to have a cult following, you'd think they'd keep it aliveThis is something I don't believe. It's ass for it's sole purpose, bike park. The casing is just too soft. Look how easily it folds, the sidewall collapses with just one finger doing pressure on the sideknob! You can't fold racingline tires like that at all, impossible. I took it off after the 5th ride. Several rim strikes on the by the 3rd ride and one probably caused the snake bite. I also had to use incredibly high pressure, it felt just aweful. I think that if you order them yurop it might be cheaper. Check Bikeinn, bike24, bike componenets,bike discount
>>195311The Michelin Power Gravel >>194332are good tires if you want to go fast without the trail getting too rough. They're like the Schwalbe G-Ones but with taller side knobs so they're still really fast on all surfaces, but they can handle cornering on singletrack better.I just put the Wild AM2 and Force AM2 on my trail bike and took the Wild Enduros off my enduro bike for the summer. I'm a big fan of Michelin tires, I have them on my car and I had them on my previous motorcycle and I'll likely replace the Pirelli Diablo Rosso 4 tires with the equivalent Michelin tire when they wear through.
How bad is it to get a medium sized bike when I'm 6' 170lb and I wear 32-34" jeans? Seems like only manlets are selling bikes, will a medium be too uncomfortable? Seems like I need a M/L or L
>>195574>How bad is it to get a medium sized bike when I'm 6'This is pretty subjective - different manufacturers will have different sizing, and you may prefer smaller or larger frames. The only real way to find out what would be best for you is to try different sizes yourself. You should see if there are any mtb events coming up near you soon. Usually bike brands will show up with demo fleets to let you try the bikes on nearby trails for free to get a feel for their handling/sizing.
Does anyone else think that this was fake? There's a 0% chance that Johnson actually beat this dude. The only possible explanations are that they aren't truly the same belts and are on different levels. Otherwise, the only other explanation is that it was faked/big guy didn't try.
>>195480>tiny skilled guy beats big guy with shit skills>bjj isn’t effective Fascinating logic
>>195514the big guy had bjj skills, DJ was a generalist with a highschool level wrestling baseif that's enough of an X factor to overcome such a massive size difference it shows BJJ is worthlessit shows you're better off being a terminal manlet that can wrestle than a giant with BJJ
>>195448How are fatfags so good at mental gymnastics?
>>195528It's the only gymnastics they're capable of
>>195448>There's a 0% chance that Johnson actually beat this dudeNormally yes but people like Johnson are 1 in a milion.
5'7 guy here. Gimme the best martial arts to effectively beat someone twice my size, if they have little to no experience.
>>194449Nta, but I am small enough to crawl inside your asshole
>>194449Nice attempt at trying to blackpill me. I VILL beat Chad. I VILL smash stacy's tight pussy.
>>194244This. 3 years ago a BJJ black belt got shot and killed in a club in Brazil by an off-duty cop (go figure) and I remembered all the YouTube MMA influencers releasing videos discussing how firearms should be illegal and banned since they're so unfair. 'The Fight Bible' did a 15 minute long video just bitching and moaning about how overpowered firearms are.
just shank a nigga
>>194236Gun-in-hand kata
Power rankings edition>Schedule:https://www.sumo.or.jp/EnTicket/year_schedule/>Banzuke:http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Banzuke.aspx>All the sumo links and how to watch live:https://rentry.org/uwbgc88dPrevious thread: >>191535
>>195538>>195540>Chris mindreads the wrestlers and makes some shit up>Schizo Chris REEEEE>Chris states when he's quoting a newspaper source, just not in the way I like it>NO Chris you HAVE to make shit up all the time otherwise I can't call you a schizo REEEEE
RoboCop with RoboCop
>>195558What the fuck are you talking about? He would be doing a service if he were just translating articles for an English-speaking audience and nothing else, and identifying himself with such a role. Go into his comments if you think people aren't deceived.
>>195563I agree with you on principle, but unless we're prepared to say he's an outright liar and fantasist, he does attend numerous events and has personal (albeit fairly casual) relationships with multiple active and former rikishi. He's not solely a translator and aggregator. Given that the commuity of sumo followers outside of Japan is so small, I think you're doing yourself a disservice if you completely write off a prominent and well-known source of sumo news.
>>195563His YouTube comments are the perfect example of why we didn't gatekeep sumo hard enough. Chris is the face of western sumo to those few coaches etc. who don't tell him to fuck off so it's no wonder we didn't get anything until SPT.
As a small but mighty board, /xs/ has their own Soccer (not an extreme sport, I know,) team that fights other boards. This is done by making a computer play pro evolution soccer. Most recently, our former boardmates over at /pw/ won. Our roster is largely unchanged from the early days of the board: so I'm putting it up here for people to give feedback on. If there is a meme or shitpost you like from your threads (especially you guys, fight bros,) please hit me with it and what you think no longer represents the board. This is all autistic as fuck, I know.
Here's the current players. Notably:-411 #16 finally got deleted and no longer autoplays on the catalog-some of the skating reps are lame-not a lot of concrete martial arts shitposts
>>191035>players that should be onACK>players that should be offAggressive Inline, Tendonitis
>>191036Add "Gun" as a goalkeeper.
>>191036Turn Hakuho into PUNISHED Hakuho
Oh shit, didn't see this before, change Hakuho to Terunofuji and call it "Exploding Knees"
Old thread: >>191222
just took a week off and had a skate session today. felt great.
>>195566How many heeflips did you land?
>>1955670. Im working on ollie height, leveling out my kick flips and 5050s on a round rail. I tried some noseslides too, but it moves too much. I set it up next to a fence so I can catch myself if I fall off the rail. Pretty much figured it out, stay low, nose grind first to get my back truck on easy instead of just ollieing on and cross lock, but I have to work on dismounting. And my kick flips, I usually point my toe and flick sort of towards the pocket for a quick one, but now I keep it sideways and just flick straight forward. I just have to get my back leg up high enough to catch the tail.
>>195568>0You fucking BITCH.
>>195572Ive only been skating for like 6 months after a 20 year break . I never had any flip tricks under my belt. I can probably commit to landing a heel flip but this is the year of getting a kickflip i like
>Here's your professional MMA fighter bro...
>>190060Ali had dozens of exhibition matches.
>>190048He has the worst technique in the history of the world.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGMDVPvimwA
>>190108>Floyd took it easy on MayweatherWat
>>190051Why are you?
>>190108What do you mean that Tyson took it easy on Ngannou??You mean to tell me that he purposefully ruined his legacy?
A new comfy F1 general now that the old one has gone off the rails latelyNo AnimeNo TwitterpostingNo RedditpostingNo posting literal shitStrawposting and Gimiposting welcomeAlso reminder that F1 has had more deaths than many of the sports on this board, therefore extreme
>2 years old threadgimi
>>191968gimi
>>164331nothing
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So I've been trying to get the balls to attend a gym that does freestyle and Greco wrestling. It took a lot to go to it as I know it's the toughest sport, and I'm not "young". Twice now I have managed to gather up all my strength and start making my way to the gym, only for freak occurances (train literally going straight past the station, train being delayed for an hour) which left me unable to get there on timeI'm just wondering if any of you had the same sort of issues when you started training. Was the universe basically telling you to stay away but you persisted? Feel like im pushing my luck trying to go a third time lmaoThank you for reading
Im a girl btw
I take signs from God as they comeLike I have a few cars needing repairs laying around so my drive way is full and I have to park one on the street at night next to a hydrantBeen doing this for almost a year a this point and then 2 days ago a guy randomly comes to the front door and says "I see there's no plates on that jeep in the drive way, I'll give you $400" for itSo I sold it to him and now I can park in the drive way Then last night wouldn't you know it ther was something going on at the neighbors house and the fire department came and needed to use that hydrant which I had been blocking for months
>>195556Wow that's lucky. it's weird the universe didn't stop me from going to judo or BJJ even though I did not enjoy those and only went for three sessions yet wrestling it just seems to not even want to let me go once very weird. Maybe I'll get suplexed and dieded
TIRED OF DUMB DOGS ACTING LIKE HOTSHOT CHAMPIONS? WANT TO TALK TO REAL DEAL FIGHTERS? JOIN THE DCORD RIGHT HERE: /GWUDseqQ
this dudes in a wheelchair
>>195547Imagine using discord lmao
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu GeneralI only do it because it's trendy editionSmoothcomphttps://smoothcomp.comBelt Checkerhttps://www.beltchecker.comPrevious thread>>178342Thread question: What kind of amenities should a gym have?I think there should always be a bowl of oranges on the front desk for anyone to have
>>195441Nothing you wrote indicates you did anything wrong. I would try to give her space to get over whatever's going on in her woman brain so you don't become the target of any nonsense. >is she just salty that she couldn't beat me?Could be that, could be she's got issues she's trying to work through regarding physical contact with men.
>>195441Just proves the only reason we even allow women on the mat is to show off their fussyThey aren't real competitors
just thinking about the time when I'm stuffing a shot by pushing down on the back of the head, and for context I'm just a stuff master like unless your wrestling level is legitimately good, not just bjj good but wrestling good, don't even try it because you aint getting my legsanyway so I stuff a shot and then a crusty middle aged TRT juice junky black belt with coffee breath tells me my completely successful stuff was wrong "you gotta do it like this" and he proceeds to show a C grip on the back of the neck to push the head downobjectively he's wrong, but gotta be respectful and not argue "ok thank you"then I stuff another shot later on and he's in the peanut gallery HEY YOU'RE NOT DOING WHAT I TOLD YOU! ok..so then for the rest of class I had to do it the wrong shitty way he insisted upon and wouldn't you know it, I wasn't stopping the singles anymoreabolish belts
This is what happens when Judo faces against pure BJJ but scooting faggotryPotteryI think she even ended it with a kimura I thinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Gz6GutqIg
>>195519It's hard to find matches online now because there's a whole bjj youtuber sphere with uppity blue belts thinking they're worth something BJJ VS JUDO EXPERT ROLLING COMMENTARY
Looking to start Judo pretty soon, but I have a major concern - not worried about bodily injuries as I know that sort of thing is expected in full contact martial arts. But how common are head/brain injuries, even if they are light? I’m talking concussions or any significant bumps to the head.Anyone have any experience of this, or know how common head injuries are in Judo?t. Physicist, need my brain for work
>>193965Yet if everyone thought like you no one would let anyone do anything because of muh dangerous
>>1936472 years judoka. Ironically judo is the only thing that hasn't given me a concussion. (I had 3 prior to starting judo from other sports and skateboarding.) You hit your head every once in a while but not as hard as you'd think. Just a little bump here and there. Worst I ever got was a black eye. The real concern with judo is the MANY other injuries you inevitably accumulate. People regularly tear tendons, break bones, get cut or scraped, etc. in my club. I've busted my knee and arm a million times. You'll get choked so hard that you won't be able to swallow right for a week after. But this, to me, is part of the fun. There's no excitement in doing something if it's totally risk free. My advice here is that judo is an exercise not only of the body, but of the heart--you learn to tolerate pain, to stop worrying about "a study said [x]!", to check your ego, and eventually start to deeply enjoy fighting. I used to be afraid of sparring-- now it is the highlight of my day. The other thing people don't tell you is that judo actually helps you learn how to prevent concussions by learning how to fall properly. My sparring partner got hit by a car and only saved his head from hitting the ground by falling like we do in judo.
One of the guys at my Judo club has been practicing since the 1960's.He told me he never got injured with Judo but always gets injured when he does some other sport.
>>193647Very low. Two of the first things you learn is Judo is how to fall safely and how to do a move in a way your opponent can fall safely. Unless you constantly compete and do crazy acrobatics without breaking your fall, you most likely won't suffer any major injury, to your body or head.
>>195136>You'll get choked so hard that you won't be able to swallow right for a week after. But this, to me, is part of the fun. There's no excitement in doing something if it's totally risk free.Find a better club, retard
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>>195401based as fuck
>>195401Based. I remember how I travelled to Japan and got lost in forest at night on my way to the inn, found some road and met the bell with sign "In case of bear attack ring the bell". Damn that was scary. It was like 10 km from the inn and I walked this road, cheked mail (because previously I emailed inn owner that I will be very late because I'm walking along a path through the forest) and inn owner mailed me back something like "Be careful because there are bears in the forests" and it scared me again. Finally I found bigger highway and a car stopped and some kind woman offered to give me a ride to the nearest city. I used some mix of japanese and english and said something like "kuma no mori, scary!" and she laughed and started nodding. It was near Nagiso
>>195447>kuma no mori, scary!https://youtu.be/ZAbPaQuvjIE?si=2HHHWtLM5IeMldBQOn that day mankind received a grim reminderhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident
Karate peaked in the K-1 years when kyokushin tried it's best to be kickboxing
Does anyone else compete, or want to compete? I train at the dojo three times a week, but my Shihan says to get truly in fighting shape, I need to train much more often, I already do weights and bodyweight exercises at lunch time in my work gym, but he says I need to find some more time on the heavy bag, even if it means training until late at night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJCjyYB2I9cI was at this tournament last year, but in a different category, here are some highlights.>>195032It depends on the ruleset, the problem is with the timelimit, the size of tournaments, and the nature of tournaments themselves. People like Valeri win tournaments because they favour very economical movements that minimise effort, are extremely efficient, and highly effective. Valeri is boring as hell to watch but he's a scientist of Kyokushin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aeVb_J2Wsthis fight is probably the most fluid kyokushin fight I can think of, but there are others. The last IKO tournament had some more springy fighters, but with the big tournaments very few early fights will go beyond the first round, so you have to get in there and go as hard and as fast as you can so the judges choose you. Perhaps one day there should be a more drawn out kyokushin tournament, no round limits, over a few days instead of just two.
What are the best nutrients/supplements for bonemaxxing?>bone composition>precursors to bone creation and repair>hormones that give denser bones>things that boost those hormonesUnbreakable bones are useful for extreme sports, so any help is appreciated.
>>195444From the linked study.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621629/>Measures of eBMD (bone mineral density) derived from ultrasound are highly heritable (in the order of 50% to 80%), are independently associated with fracture risk, and are moderately correlated with DXA (scan) derived BMD at the hip and spine (r = 0.4 to 0.6)So dna results account for 50% of density.
>>195444i have nebula also i think its broken cuz i have a lot of stuff that is 100 percentile and 0 percentile also but its not statistically possible
>>195495I cherry picked those ones.
Research Botox in water. Great source of boron and increases bone density. Take tamarind, it increases the amount of fluoride leaving body, prevents it from being absorbed, and helps keep minerals like magnesium and zinc stay in system, increasing bone density.Get wooden pole and firmly wack your entire body before bed will help.Take empower supplement
>>195532>Borox*Stupid fucking tablet autocorrects
