Victor Manwell

Martial Artist and Amateur poet.

[Victor Manwell @AuthenticPleb]

@YLdarwin I guess her product isn’t that good lol

[Victor Manwell @AuthenticPleb]

@DrunkDividends Go the way of the cyberpunk and start hardware hacking

[Canadian Dividend Investing @CDInewsletter]

- Find good companies that you enjoy owning
- Be patient and buy 'em cheap
- Go and live your life
- Repeat often

I really don't think it needs to be much more complicated than that.

[Victor Manwell @AuthenticPleb]

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[Victor Manwell @AuthenticPleb]

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[Electra @Electrarythm]

You can brainwash yourself into liking the gym, and the work you keep putting off. The people who do these things every day aren't forcing it. It feels easy to them, and you can do the same.

The thing stopping you usually isn't laziness. It's that the action feels heavy before you start. Your brain guesses how bad something will feel, and it guesses high, so the dread shows up before the gym does. But the dread isn't about the gym. It's about your brain's guess, and a guess can be changed. You change it by running the whole thing in your head first, in detail, before you do it for real. Walk through the action in your mind enough times, paired with a light and easy feeling, and your brain stops expecting misery.

There's a physical reason this works. When you vividly imagine moving, the same brain circuits that fire during real movement fire too, the signal travels almost all the way to your muscles, then gets cut off right before it moves them. Those circuits get stronger with repetition whether the reps are real or imagined. People who only imagined practicing piano ended up with nearly the same brain changes as the ones who actually played. So when you finally do the thing, it isn't foreign. You've done it before, in a way, so it's easier to do for real.

Here's how to actually do it.

Get in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Pick a trigger that already happens every day, like your alarm going off or closing your laptop at the end of a shift. Tying the new behavior to something that's already there is the part that matters most. Once the link is built, the alarm fires the behavior automatically, the same way a smell can drop you into a memory before you've decided anything.

Then run the action from inside your own eyes, not watching yourself from across the room.

For the gym: hear the alarm, feel yourself getting up before you can talk yourself out of it, your clothes going on, walking out to the car in the cold, the drive there, the gym door, the smell of the place. Then the weight in your hands, the bar, your breathing picking up, the burn in the middle of a set, and you just keep going.

For work: feel yourself sitting down at your desk, your coffee next to you, looking at the task without it feeling like too much, picking the first small piece, and starting it instead of reaching for your phone.

By the time you actually go, you've already done it in your head dozens of times, so it doesn't feel like starting from zero. The first move gets easier the more you run it.

[The Neo Cossack @The_Neo_Cossack]

@JimEagleUC @MrLeadslinger He's arguably one of the best coaches in the sport
https://t.co/3OX45xUgLY

[Jim Eagle @JimEagleUC]

Funny you should mention this!

I’ve been doing jujutsu and MMA for 14 years now on and off and have been watching and involved as a fan for that entire time consistently

Brazilians will threaten to “send me to the dentist” for this, but this is admittedly, mostly a true take. Grappling in jujutsu in real self-defense situations are extremely brief in their use. It’s good for throwing someone getting somebody off you or getting someone to the ground, WITHOUT FOLLOWING THEM DOWN!

My key issue with jiu-jitsu in a street fighter self-defense situation is one being on the ground doesn’t allow you mobility and limits your situational awareness. Also when you have a gun you want as much distance from your opponent as possible so they can’t grab it. Guns are a distance weapon- don’t compromise that lol.

I do think it has good use grappling in general that is, and I would specifically say judo. Anyone who’s trained judo knows that it’s very difficult to throw someone on the ground or take someone down or tie them up if that person is good at hand fighting their harai game is good (that’s foot sweeps.) and judo prioritizes throwing someone on the ground, which isn’t huge on a soft mat, but on concrete it’s a totally different story in self-defense judo in my opinion is a top-tier martial art because it compliments well with weapons specifically guns in my opinion. Break their hole and get distance or throw them on the ground and pull your gun out. It’s very noncommittal compared to other forms of grappling.

Pair this with some good Muay Thai distance management techniques like a push kick and you have a good martial arts. Space that’s focused more on managing distance and getting somebody off of you so that you can use your firearms.

Grappling with somebody who man who genuinely wants to hurt or kill you is a terrible idea if they have a knife you’re gonna wind up feeling that if they have a gun, you’re gonna feel that if you have a gun, you probably shouldn’t be letting someone be within arms each of it! And if neither of you have a weapon and you’re on the ground tangled up with this guy, any bystander can come over and kick you in the head or stomp on you. You always see this in street fights where some jiu-jitsu guy is absolutely messing up a dude until their buddy comes in and ends it for him.

Look jujutsu is really good at manhandling people and maintaining control without having to hurt them or if needed, tearing a limb out or putting them to sleep, but the second that weapons or other attackers are involved. It really goes back to needing a gun.

[spor @sporadica]

i still haven't fully processed that this random German guy came to the US as a tourist for the World Cup, was simply so genuinely excited about the country that he live-tweeted himself into mega-virality and now every org in America is giving him free stuff, tours, housing, etc

never doubt the power of social media

[Victor Manwell @AuthenticPleb]

He smoked a pack while smoking the other guy

[Local 12/WKRC-TV @Local12]

An 85-year-old man was arrested after allegedly street racing at over 100 miles per hour in a sports car while smoking a cigarillo.

When confronted, he reportedly told police he was just "having a little ride in my favorite car."

READ MORE: https://t.co/MOjcD6i0sn

[Victor Manwell @AuthenticPleb]

@Johan__511 @anabology Does milk nullify cipro?

[Jason skeesick @Jason_skeesick]

@ultimape @pigshitsonballs https://t.co/APNVM3eZsp

I bought the ingredients on Amazon

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

The "glory days" of the sub-$50k dirt-cheap rural house seem to be swiftly coming to a close.

Market is tighter than ever.

Quite sad to see -- looks like Blackrock and various yuppies made their moves. Would've preferred to see red-blooded American youth get in here... alas

[Victor Manwell @AuthenticPleb]

@sporadica It’s not even entirely a wealth issue either, how much are you willing to go to remote areas to find under appreciated views? You got to endure long travels and physical exhaustion to do so.

[spor @sporadica]

you want access to some of the most beautiful spots on Earth?? with no one else around???

okay, how much are you willing to pay SURPRISE not enough

[spor @sporadica]

Everyone's consistently getting mad that this is happening, but it's only because the world has gotten immensely richer. And too many of these travel-obsessed types are middle-class ppl cosplaying as wealthy bc they can "travel the world" now.

You are just not rich enough to /actually/ escape the crowds anymore - that's why you're upset. You've been clocked as middle class, you are getting a middle class experience, and surprise, you don't like it.

[RÈBELs RÄÎDÈRs @Rebels_Raiders]

Reinforcing the laser-cut MOLLE was one of the first things I did on every piece of laser-cut we make.

We use a reinforced nylon backer sheet behind the laminate + bonded thread running vertically through the slots. Keeps the low-profile laser-cut aesthetic but gives it actual pull-out resistance.

[Josh Brooks @F530Josh]

Y'all are out here spending 14 hours talking about the viability of vertical forward grips on the internet.

This guy is in the streets one handing a draco and doing an internet after action report of his shoot out that he got into from the back of a stolen Hellcat.

NGMI.

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

this technology is going to hit LATAM like a fucking nuclear bomb

[Harvey's Pistol & Pawn @harveyspistols]

Heard that, my friend. Went on a relatively strenuous hike about it this past weekend. Good stuff.