Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
FIGHTING At a private conference this week, I was asked what I think of Mark Zuckerberg’s recent MMA training, Elon Musk’s challenge to a cage fight, and public reports that a Zuckerberg/Musk MMA fight may well happen later this year, perhaps in the actual Roman Colosseum... https://pmarca.substack.com/p/fighting
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I read this earlier today, have boxed/wrestled/MMA/BJJ/combatives/etc all my life, and am pretty ambivalent about your reasoning. I'm a huge advocate for people feeling confident in their ability to utilize their body, but framing it as protection for yourself and others feels like wishful thinking at best...
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Ross Shuel
@shuel.eth
How often do you train?
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
So unfortunately I’ve mostly stopped combat sports because I have already had too many TBI’s and need my brain to keep working 😬 But it used to be a 2-3x a week deal depending on the phase of life.
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Ross Shuel
@shuel.eth
Gotcha, sounds like BJJ is the thing for you - combatives without the head trauma. There’s a vast chasm between being prepared and capable to defend yourself & your loved ones when needed and recklessly committing to unnecessary violent confrontations. Marc advocated the former, not the latter.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I’ve cracked my head too many times while rolling on the mat to really be pumped to risk it again lol And I think that is a reasonable thing to write out online, but is much harder to execute in practice when again it’s just much safer to exit the situation as quickly as possible rather than “defend”
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Ross Shuel
@shuel.eth
Not sure what kind of BJJ gym you were in to injure your head multiple times while rolling… def not a normal occurrence. It’s a reasonable thing to write out online to ‘just exit the situation’ until you find yourself in a real-life situation that you can’t exit or someone you care about can’t exit.
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