Anthony Knox charged with assault

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2 hours ago, Not the Real Scribe said:

It's a High School fight for God's sake.  I got in fights, know a million others that got in fights.  Not once was anyone charged with assault.  Seriously?

IIRC, it was mostly adults involved (and not just talking about 18+ year old HS students)

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13 hours ago, juniorvarsity said:

BJJ is low impact? So many of the old men who've had a black belt for 15 or 20 years have spinal fusions.

I'd say it's worse than wrestling because most people don't wrestle as long as people do BJJ.

 

I think BJJ is much lower impact.  Maybe they take it easy on me because I'm the oldest guy in the room. I know even the mild calisthenics at the beginning of practice nearly wipes me out, I'm in such bad shape! The folks are super nice as befits practitioners of "the gentle art". 

My first BJJ practice I had to borrow an ill-fitting gi and everybody thought it was weird I was wearing wrestling shoes. I had to get permission to wear them because everybody else was barefoot. After the calisthenics the instructor started demonstrating a triangle choke (headlock to wrestlers) and choked out his partner! I couldn't believe it! I never saw a guy get choked out in wrestling practice (although I did choke out a guy with a perfectly legal headlock in HS on two different occasions). Also in BJJ you don't have to worry about back points! Like prostitutes, Jujitsuka do their best work on their backs. 

Oh yeah, the best part is I'm better at taking people down than anybody in the room, even as a 60 year old! Seriously, didn't you just take to BJJ like a duck to water? I already know 90% of what they are teaching, just by different names. 

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13 hours ago, juniorvarsity said:

BJJ is low impact? So many of the old men who've had a black belt for 15 or 20 years have spinal fusions.

I'd say it's worse than wrestling because most people don't wrestle as long as people do BJJ.

 

It just seems soft based on the videos I see. They'll show someone who...is clearly a Wrestler and talk about what a "bad sport" he is because he's trying to handfight and...then gets choked out. 

That and then the scooting on their rear like a dog with worms.

But I do know a lot of people still doing it when their 40. That wouldn't make it...not low impact. 

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22 hours ago, alex1fly said:

I have family that does traveling softball for their teen… 15k/year per kid just to participate. Then travel and lodging costs plus enough job flexibility to work remotely and/or not work. Their team is dang good but wow that’s a huge barrier for entry. 

You have to reckon the family is planning on their kid getting a scholarship to pay for it all someday. The sport I've seen the most about, regarding parents traveling so their kids can train, is probably gymnastics. I've heard of parents driving hundreds of miles a few times a week so their kids can be coached up by famous coaches. 

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15 hours ago, lisa morales said:

Kirk is Chris's grandfather.  

Wow. Thanks for clarifying that. 

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16 hours ago, lisa morales said:

Kirk is Chris's grandfather.  

1 hour ago, Boring said:

Wow. Thanks for clarifying that. 

Not sure if there was any sarcasm here but 
Kirk

Chris

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2 hours ago, gimpeltf said:

Not sure if there was any sarcasm here but 
Kirk

Chris

No sarcasm. I believed Lisa, thought she might know something the rest of us don't. Why the picture, Kirk looks nothing like Chris or something? 

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4 minutes ago, Boring said:

No sarcasm. I believed Lisa, thought she might know something the rest of us don't. Why the picture, Kirk looks nothing like Chris or something? 

By sarcasm, I meant on Lisa's part- not yours.

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On 3/6/2025 at 8:55 AM, Fletcher said:

Watch the Allen Iverson 30 for 30 on the bowling alley fight incident when he was in HS.

 

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On 5/2/2025 at 8:15 AM, Boring said:

You have to reckon the family is planning on their kid getting a scholarship to pay for it all someday. 

At 15K a year for 7 years (of MS and HS travel sports) is 105k plus interest .... better hope you are getting a nice scholarship to break even. Sometimes parents don't get it... we have 15k a year for softball but suddenly when you get to college we won't have it and you better get a scholarship. 

On the gymnastics front, I had a girl in my class a long time ago who did Gym 6 days a week - cost them $350 per month for just practice - early 2000's prices. Add in the costs of travel, etc. and practice since she was 5 and you have a very large amount of money saved with interest. She told me she did it to get a college scholarship...uh...okay, did someone do the math with your parents? She quite gym by 10th grade because she was burned out and tired of not having a life.