BJJ Clubes is good!

Pretty stoked. I'm less than $100 from the fundraising goal for this year's Global Day of Grappling to raise money for a slew of cancer research and support charities in the USA.

I'd like to go one decade in my life without my country starting another needless war for profit while people at home are starving and dying from lack of Healthcare access.

We are back with another episode of Punchsport Pagoda, this time Neal, Carl, and Jessica sit down and take a walk down #MMA memory lane to talk about guys and guys we may have forgotten about. www.fightis.land/p/episode-7-...

I've been on vacation for a bit but wanted to give an update, we are 1/4 of the way to the fundraising goal to support cancer charities and support organizations via Tap Cancer Out and the #jiujitsu community. 😀😀

The fact that the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" can just pack up and go home is some of the most insane shit I've ever seen in the history of genocide studies. Mercenaries hired from an explicitly racist American biker gang openly slaughter hundreds, participate in the deaths of tens of thousands.

Korea is on a whole other level of naming conventions.

Hey all #jiujitsu folks (and anyone who wants to help out) I'm raising money as part of Tap Cancer Out's Global Grappling Day for a bunch of cancer charities in the USA. It'd be super cool if you could help me reach the goal of $400 raised. Cheers! wecan.tapcancerout.org/fundraiser/6...

I have no (functioning) back, but I must wrestle.

This is the only response that should be given when people are asked about competing on the "UFC White House" card.

But remember, its the socialists and communists who are destroying the working class according to Schumer et al.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Aljamain Sterling dropping islamophobic dogwhistles about how NYC just elected its first ever muslim mayor and then going "not everything this political" is probably the funniest "I'm apolitical dude" kind of tail tucks I've ever seen.

Hearing all this hubub about Dr. Mike Israetel's PhD thesis being bad. The video by Solomon Nelson does a good job breaking down why the thesis is bad but its almost less of an indictment against Israetel, and more so on his advisors, assessors, and the Uni itself. Like...a good advisor would (cont)

Catching up on Polaris and yeah, Team Europe just dominated Team Asia & Oceania. 35 pts to 12 pts is a pretty one sided affair. Lotta ankle locks too.

MMA has become a sport where people go "yeah so what if I get blinded by a blatant foul? I have honor and need to also feed my starving family (because we're not paid a good wage still)" and nobody seems to really care about what that says about the "sport" itself.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Tax the billionaires

2025 is starting to wrap up, with Polaris 34 serving as one of the last big cards of the year outside of ADCC Trials. Two women's titles are on the line, as well as the Polaris Squads World Tournament finale. grapplers.win/p/scrambling...

I don't know what I'm watching but this is far better entertainment value for an MMA organization than the UFC has been able to muster and we're only at the opening band.

For some reason, legendary rikishi Hakuho is at a South Korean MMA event.

A pair of South Korean jiu jitsu competitors trying to qualify for the Asian games did the "Ole switcheroo" at a comp and got caught a few months later.

He said he couldn't continue and took the first ever Championship win via DQ after a major foul. But thinks that Aspinall was faking having a finger knuckles deep in his eye was making him unable to see. MMA is full of geniuses.

Anyway, QUINTET.5 was...interesting on a rewatch. Nakamura doing a Noguiera "looking at broken arm in disbelief" impression in front of Noguiera was kind of funny in a morbid way.

The UFC commentator desk implying that Aspinall should have kept fighting despite being blinded by a blatant foul sure gives the impression that the Unified Rules of MMA are less rules and just suggestions to the organization.

stop sharing ai videos for any reason challenge

A small selection of the cat art I do with a spooky theme for the season. These as well as my sovcat posters, painting prints, and more can be found on my Etsy nathannunart.etsy.com page. I'm doing a daily drawing challenge through October so please check those out and give a follow to see more!

Thanks so much, Cats of Yore! I draw all kinds of pop culture stuff, and here's my most recent: Space Cats! thejoshshop.etsy.com

Connor finding god not after he was convicted of sexual assault, but because he really wants to get onto a fascism themed UFC card is very on brand for the sport of MMA. www.mmamania.com/ufc-white-ho...

Team Noguiera somehow beating Team BangTao Thailand and then Team Sakuraba in the finals is a pretty "wtf just happened" moment to me.

Hey. if you do the work, you can divorce your passion for MMA from whatever the fuck degenerative hellscape the UFC has become. It’s not easy & requires self-reflection and a commitment to reject the noise propagated by parasites & desperate content creators. But, with work, your love can persist.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

QUINTET. QUINTET. QUINTET. QUINTET. QUINTET.

I had a nearly fatal encounter with a drop bear this morning walking between campus buildings. We are built on natural habitat and there is a population that lives both on campus and at a connected forest nearby.

There are a lot of black belts in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (and MMA) who like to use their rank to grant them a status of "expertise" on subjects they simply are not knowledgeable in. I like to call this "Mythologizing of Black Belts" and that's what today's piece is about. grapplers.win/p/the-mythol...

This is, like all gambling, so gross and insane.

It sure is weird how the "keep politics out of sports" crowd keeps trying to use sports as political props. /s

ONE Championship is putting on a great grappling match just because.

"The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires." Damn...he's on to me

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Gordon is a good example of something I'm talking about in an upcoming article. He is a black belt and a phenomenal grappler, but he has a very limited understanding on virtually every other topic in existence. Yet people think he's "smart" and should be listened to on non-grappling topics.

This is my last Tim Kennedy post. I just want to say: Holy shit, what a psychopathic piece of shit.

Apparently being a "real man", like how former UFC fighter turned manosphere grifter Tim Kennedy wants you to be, does not include being honest. Nor taking care of your kids. From www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

“Kennedy took you for an idiot that would believe anything he told you,” Worlock told me. “Narcissist. You and every American that read his book, he sized you up to be dumb enough to believe him.”

As part of the team of @fightisland.bsky.social staff, I'll be raising money for Tap Cancer Out (a jiu jitsu based charity organizer) on December 13th as part of the Global Grappling Day. More info here: grapplers.win/p/global-gra...

Merab is, simply put, the best grappler in MMA at the moment.

It really is funny how a convicted rapist and a guy who assaults people habitually is somehow someone people think is worth hearing the opinions of.

In the second part of this discussion on curriculum design, I talk about how to make sure your jiu jitsu curriculum is designed around your students' needs. grapplers.win/p/curriculum... #bjj #jiujitsu

The rosters for the first two teams at Quintet 5 have been announced, and they hold a good range of talented jiu jitsu competitors.