Karpal
1mo ago
BJJ gets tougher as we age. I don't know how old you are, but there will come a time when you shouldn't feel comfortable tying up with someone standing unless you know them well. And for fitness alone I'd recommend almost anything else if you're mid thirties or over.
Karpal
7mo ago
Wouldn't trade-offs being everywhere in evolutionary biology count? I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, if intelligence were a 'free lunch' wouldn't we expect to see far less variation in intelligence in humans? Natural selection having already optimised it?
Karpal
9mo ago
I didn't watch the video, so this is more of a general question: Doesn't the guy having a gun change this? If a guy tackles you and there isn't a huge skill/strength disparity it'll probably take him at least a minute to beat you to death. If you have a visible gun, it takes him seconds to take it and kill you. At the very least you need to secure your gun (taking away from your ability to defend against strikes) at which point he reacts to you reaching for your gun and the two of you are fighting for control of a gun. What am I missing?
For me (and I think I'm not unusual amongst older guys) it has a negative effect on my physical fitness.
It's enough of a pleasure that the risk of injury and the physical wear-and-tear is something I'm happy to mitigate by lifting and calisthenics (which I don't enjoy). The cardio benefits that were amazing when I started have diminished since I got good enough to be lazy and injury adverse enough to avoid going all out.
I love it, it's a mental escape at the end of a day and it's an attractively simple social group, but there are less destructive activities that I might have developed a taste for.
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