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[Ciryl Gane @ciryl_gane]

Mission accomplie 💯 On ramène la ceinture à la maison 🇫🇷
#ufc #freedom250

[Tamale @256Rootyherman]

At work coz l was hate watching Morocco at 3am in world cup

[BROTHER LOBO 🐺⚔️ @ellobosalvaje]

Cardio is mostly mental. I’ve believed this for years but I’m finally able to articulate why.

Watch some of the best wrestlers in the world right now. Bo Bassett. Mitchell Messenbrink. Jax Forrest. These guys look like they have unlimited gas. People assume it’s some elite VO2 max, some superior aerobic engine. That’s not what’s happening.

Pay attention to how they move. They’re playing.

Every shot isn’t life or death. Every scramble is an opportunity rather than a life or death crisis. They attack from bad positions. They back out and reset without hesitation if the feeling isn’t there. There’s a looseness to everything they do that looks almost casual, but on the other side of that casual posture is devastating effectiveness.

That looseness isn’t a technique quirk. It’s a performance state. It’s the reason their cardio looks supernatural.

Here’s what I think is actually going on:

Tightness is metabolically expensive. When you’re stressed aka afraid, afraid of giving up position, afraid of losing, afraid of looking bad, your body begins to brace for impact. Muscles that shouldn’t be working are working overtime. Your breathing changes. Your movement loses fluidity. Every action costs more than it should. You’re not gassing because your lungs are small. You’re gassing because fear has a fuel cost.

The playful athlete doesn’t have that overhead. Their nervous system isn’t running a threat response in the background. This makes movement much cheaper. It makes decisions come faster. They can sustain a pace that looks impossible because for them, it actually is easier.

This is why you can’t just coach someone to “attack more.” Coaches can tell their guys to go out and attack. That’s good solid advice. But if the athlete isn’t in a playful state, if they’re tight, if every offensive sequence feels like a high stakes gamble, the instruction won’t translate. The body can’t cooperate. The mind will second guess everything they do. They’ll gas early with no idea as to why.

The fighters that seem to have infinite endurance have trained themselves, or were born with a different relationship to competition. They reduce competition from a high stakes battle to a simple game.

I’ve watched this in myself for years doing jiu jitsu and boxing. The only time I get tired is when I leave that state. When I’m loose, playing, experimenting, being creative, my energy expenditure is different. I do things I didn’t know I could do. Time moves differently. The round ends and I’m surprised it’s over. The moment I get tight, whether it’s ego, whether it’s fear, bad position, someone catching me off guard, my gas disappears almost immediately.

That’s not a coincidence. That’s the mechanism.

And here’s where it gets deeper: some athletes have to almost die to find that state. You’ve seen it in fights. A guy gets badly hurt, nearly finished, he survives and then something releases. The fear burns off. The body stops bracing. And suddenly the guy who looked dead comes back to life and starts performing at a level he couldn’t access before getting dropped.

That state was available the whole time. He didn��t need to get hurt to find it. He just needed to let go of what was costing him.

The best athletes don’t need the near death experience. They walk out already there.

Ali boxed like Ali talked, light, taunting, dancing, impossible to hold. Tyson boxed like Tyson looked, coiled, explosive, total predator. The ring doesn’t create a new person. It reveals the one that’s already there.

Which means the real question isn’t “how do I build more cardio.” It’s “who am I when I compete, and is that person loose enough to play?”

The future of grappling and combat sports belongs to the athletes who figured out play is the highest performance state. Not getting hyped up. Not being ultra aggression. Not discipline grinding through pain.

Play. Loose. Passionate. Present.

Train your nervous system to live there and your “cardio” will take care of itself.

[Akal Simba @HonAkalSimba]

"usiguze Hio", "usiuze Hio", "usibomoe Hio", "usilete ugonjwa", "usiue hao", "usiongee hivyo"…

We are parenting a president.

[Okong' Okuna @XivTroy]

In short, practical interests and material realities drive human affairs more fundamentally than moral principles. And these interests, as Xunzi proclaimed (forget Mencius; he's a romantic), remain selfish and profiteering even in their noblest manifestations.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 Explained

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[khaleesi🧍🏽‍♀️ @shelovesore]

Lmao I have 2.
Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.

Mother Teresa let dying patients be treated with blunt reused needles, had a mortality rate about 40% in her clinics and when she was confronted about the conditions, said there’s something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, and to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. Doctors called her facilities “homes for the dying”. And cancer patients were given aspirin for pain.

Gandhi too, the face of universal peace, the person that said “be the change you wish to see”, spent years in South Africa describing Black Africans as “savage”, “dirty” and living like animals. He campaigned actively to prove to British rulers that Indians were superior to native Black Africans. He also organized a brigade to help suppress a Zulu uprising. His defenders say he evolved. Maybe.

Nobody likes to talk about the entire sides of history.

And these are their summarized versions btw.

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

Felista Mugo makes history as first Kenyan Mixed Martial Arts champion

[Kigonyi Wa Nduthi 🏍 @rex_maina]

Rex from Kenya, this is my art

[Wow, He’s Tsonga! @_aboihasnoname]

That cocaine era was a hell of a time.

The time when every german engineer snorted a massive line and said "Klaus! Vhat if ve put ze biggest engine ve have in ze smallest car?"

[RANDOM FREAKS @random_freaks]

I’m Marco from Portugal, this is my art

[Camibus 💎 @camibus_]

I'm Cami from Transylvania, this is my art

[kei @arrogantkei]

I’m Kei from Atlanta, this is my Art.

[Axstone ✨ @axstonee]

I'm Selin from Turkey, this is my art✨

[Cozmonika @cozmonika_art]

I’m Cozmonika from Serbia, this is my art

[Paul Reid @Minotaur_Man]

I’m Paul from Scotland, this is my art

[thais silva @blackcollage_]

i'm thais from brazil, this is my art.

[Ian Wafula @Ian_Wafula]

THREAD: Over 400 young Kenyans-some as young as 15-are facing terrorism charges for protesting. They’ve been charged under the same law meant to stop violent extremism. My documentary 'I Am Not a Terrorist' draws the line between a patriot and a terrorist. https://t.co/6180WL2XKQ

[George T. Diano @georgediano]

Did you know that according to the anti-social media bill, when you are summoned by the police, you are not supposed to tell anyone! If you tell someone, you'll be jailed for 2 years! They want to deal with people in Nyayo style, thousands will be tortured & go missing for good!

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

There are two agendas being pushed at the same time and what amazes me is how most people don’t see it.

The first agenda: the viral videos and photos mocking Raila Odinga Jnr.

At face value, it looks like people being insensitive or childish online. But if you look closer, it’s a calculated psychological operation meant to prepare you, to soften your resistance, for the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime (Amendment) Bill, 2024.

They want you to be outraged enough to say, “Take those videos down!”

They want you to willingly call for censorship, to beg for regulation, to cry for control. That is how manufactured consent works.

They make you feel like you’re making a moral choice, when in reality, you’re giving them permission to police your speech, your thoughts, your digital space.
It is shameful to mock anyone with a disability. Society has always known that.

Long before government bills and online outrage, that punishment existed naturally and socially.

Nature has its own way of punishing cruelty — often by giving the cruel something equally heavy to carry.

And socially, such mockery has always been taboo. But now, in the age of moral decay and shallow trends, you’ve baptized mockery as “dark humor.”

There was a time when even our art corrected us:

“Ukiona mtu ni kilema, baba,
Ukiona mtu ni kilema, mama,
Wacha kucheka, kesho ni kwako,
Wacha kucheka, utazaa kilema.”

That song was not just a melody. It was a mirror of conscience.

Now, that conscience is being manipulated — your compassion being used as a tool of control.

The goal is to amplify outrage so that there’s no resistance when new laws, quietly designed to silence dissent, are passed.

You’ll think you’re defending decency, but you’ll be defending tyranny in disguise.

The second agenda: Governor Mutahi Kahiga’s remarks.

Here again, you all know what’s going on, but many will still pretend not to.

His utterance was despicable, yes, but the intent behind the timing and amplification is even worse.

Ask yourself: Who benefits most from this kind of ethnic provocation?

If you pay attention, you’ll see a familiar pattern. A rift is being engineered, deliberately, to prevent two major communities from ever sitting at the same table.
The irony is that many in the political class from both sides have intermarried, dine together, and laugh at your outrage.

The architects of division know that if Kenyans unite on class and conscience, if you ever decide to speak with one voice, their empires crumble overnight.

So they light a fire between tribes, feed you anger, and then hide behind the smoke while signing new laws and sealing new deals.

You’ll spend weeks debating the words of one misguided messenger, while the real enemies of progress keep cashing in on your distractions.

This isn’t new anything new. It’s Divide and Rule 101.

You think you’re reacting to events, but they’re designing your reactions.

You think you’re watching coincidences, but you’re witnessing choreography.

As for me, I see it clearly. Langu huwa jicho ila nawaona kabisa.

And until you start listening, really listening, Kenyan politics will keep repeating the same script, just with different actors.

The system survives not because it’s powerful, but because the people are divided and distracted. Wake up before the smoke becomes your reality.