Strikeforce Diaz vs Daley Betting Results

[SPX]

And this is a half squat that this guy deems "parallel":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEekE_5zmwg

I don't get the whole "parallel" thing but I get the impression that you do really deep squats. Do you?

[poopoo333]

I don't get the whole "parallel" thing but I get the impression that you do really deep squats. Do you?

Well yeah I have to. Gotta break parallel in competition or else it doesn't count. Besides that, I honestly don't get why people squat high at all except to boost their egos. It's bad for your knees and doesn't do shit to get your legs jacked and tan like mine.

[SPX]

Well yeah I have to. Gotta break parallel in competition or else it doesn't count. Besides that, I honestly don't get why people squat high at all except to boost their egos. It's bad for your knees and doesn't do shit to get your legs jacked and tan like mine.

LOL

First off, what's your obsession with tanning?

Second, I would probably need a video camera to know for sure how deep I go. I think I go parallel. I know I feel like I do.

[poopoo333]

LOL

First off, what's your obsession with tanning?

Second, I would probably need a video camera to know for sure how deep I go. I think I go parallel. I know I feel like I do.

I am not tan at all. It's just a funny phrase people throw around because of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M

[MMA_scientist]

That could largely be because you've never done it. I think that anyone who has ever had just the right amount of drinks to where they enter that "golden glow" and feel like all is right with the world would definitely understand the "why."

Maybe... I feel pretty good most of the time though, I am pretty happy-go-lucky...

Like Luke said though, you really do sound like a control freak. You kind of sound like you live your life like you're in the military. Maybe you are lying to yourself when you say you are laid back and don't get wound up. Let me ask you this: Would you get wound up if you WERE in debt, had no retirement fund, and your kids were total little shits?

My kids are 2 and 4... I need then to go to bed so that I can get at least 5 hours of sleep... it is not a control thing. They wake up at 530 whether they go to bed at 730 or midnight. I don't get upset when they stay up or anything and lol at the military... I definitely do not rule with an iron fist. I just try to make the right decisions for me and for them. My personal belief is that a lot of your life is luck, but you can definitely push the odds in your favor by making the right decisions on a daily basis. If not going into debt and making sure my kids are in bed makes me military, then ok, I guess I am military. But in truth that is like the opposite of reality...

Lying to myself... well, I have always been this way. I just don't have what you would call anxiety at all. I just don't worry very much about stuff and I don't get that upset when things go off track. I almost immediately go to "ok that happened, nothing I can do about that. What's next."

Would I be upset if I were in debt and kids were demons? Well, I wouldn't be upset in the way you probably mean it. Like I wouldn't get all worked up or angry or depressed or anything. I would just try to change it. I mean, shit goes awry in my life all the time. I have had several failed business attempts, sick people, unavoidable medical expenses, etc. I make a ton of mistakes. That is what I mean, I don't really give a shit if the stuff I do works out or not. If it doesn't, I just try again, all is not lost. It never is... I guess it is just my perspective. It is never that bad.

[MMA_scientist]

Good question .

I also notice that when everything is going fine and according plan in betting you're just fine but as soon as you lose some units you go into panic mode and want to go all in because you've lost control of your bankroll

I talked about making a kamikaze bet one time, after an extended losing streak... not like I push all in every time I lose. If I did, I wouldn't be here 18 months after I started posting my plays. But at the time, I was thinking about retiring. My view on this is that if I can win, great I will keep doing it, it is fun and I make money. But if I can't beat the books, I am not doing it... I actually don't like to gamble at all. So at the time, it felt like I was just gambling, and I was going to get out and turn my attention elsewhere. If that makes me a control freak, ok.

I mean, I don't take any offense to being a control freak, most of the greatest men in our history were massive control freaks. It is just that I don't think that is accurate on any level... Nor do I take any pride in being laid back, I just am, it is just how I am wired. It actually pisses most of the people in my life off because I get the comment a lot that I don't care about anything and nothing motivates me...

But if you guys want to think I am control freak that cannot break routine or have alcohol so I don't lose control, that's fine. If I have the choice of control or no control, I admit that I definitely choose control.

Maybe I am a control freak. Maybe that is why I don't like working for other people. But I also don't tell other people what to do very much... I think the term control freak implies that you want to control everything around you, which I definitely do not do. But I do liek being in control of my own life, so i don't know, maybe you are on to something.

[MMA_scientist]

Financial security is actually pretty big on my list. I really hate worrying about money and wondering if I'll have enough to pay my rent the next month.

Yeah, I would not like that feeling either... but if I had no money at all, I would get a job and then build my empire part time. Or I would cut my expenses or move home or live in a tent or something (if I was single).

[Mr. IWS]

I don't really give a shit if the stuff I do works out or not. If it doesn't, I just try again, all is not lost. It never is... I guess it is just my perspective. It is never that bad.

I lost my job like 3 years ago, and adopted this policy to my life. I am a much happier person now. I focus on the good shit in my life now, its just healthier that way. I used to walk around mad as shit all the time, would fly off the handle for the littlest thing, and for what? I got two great kids, a hot wife who worships me. Fuck everything else, that is all I need.

[MMA_scientist]

All in all, Scientist, I hear what you're saying. I was more than happy to quit my job and to quit punching someone's time clock.

My hope is that in a few years I'll be successful at a number of things, all of which are projects of my own creation. I'd like to be a writer and filmmaker, as you know. I also have considered really buckling down when it comes to my bodybuilding interest and going for a personal trainer cert. And believe it or not, I even have an idea for a non-profit that I'd like to start.

I could see myself working for someone else and being fulfilled doing it though, provided that the work is in fact fulfilling and that I like the people I work for.

I have respect for what you are trying to do... not the way I would do it, but still, you are trying to make some shit happen, and for that I have nothing but applause.

As for your bodybuilding... it is going to be funny when you spend a couple years bulking up, and then lose interest/find a girl/get a job, and forget to shed the weight. I look forward to calling you fat.

Seriously though, I make fun of bodybuilding, but I am just giving you shit... good for you.

[MMA_scientist]

I lost my job like 3 years ago, and adopted this policy to my life. I am a much happier person now. I focus on the good shit in my life now, its just healthier that way. I used to walk around mad as shit all the time, would fly off the handle for the littlest thing, and for what? I got two great kids, a hot wife who worships me. Fuck everything else, that is all I need.

That's more or less the way I feel about it. Out of 1000 people, I probably have more good fortune than 999 of them. I just find it small to get all worked up about stupid shit... I really can't ask for a more stacked deck in my favor. I am a totally healthy white male in America, I have my wits about me, and I have people that care about me. If some small shit happens to me along the way, well, that is life. But if you put into perspective, what is there to be pissed about? Poor me, I was born into literally the most advantageous position in the history of time. So I got fired (which I have), I will get another job.

The only thing that would absolutely wreck me is if one of my kids died. I don't know if I could pull it together after that.

[Mr. IWS]

The only thing that would absolutely wreck me is if one of my kids died. I don't know if I could pull it together after that.

I think the only thing that would make me pull through is if I still had one of them. If they both died, I think Me and my wife would just kill ourselves. At that point, what is there really to live for?

[MMA_scientist]

I think the only thing that would make me pull through is if I still had one of them. If they both died, I think Me and my wife would just kill ourselves. At that point, what is there really to live for?

If either one of my kids died... in my mind I know that life goes on, you have to be there for the other kid, but I think it is the only thing that would seriously off-balance me.

On a related note, I have friend who's kid killed himself in highschool. That has got to be the worst fate imaginable. If my kid killed himself, I would just be lost... I would probably jump off a bridge. It is my worst fear.

[poopoo333]

I am a totally healthy white male in America

[MMA_scientist]

I don't get it.

[poopoo333]

I just thought it was funny when I read you mentioned you were white. I don't have any opinions about that statement, I just think it was funny