Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Joe Rogan Experience #607 - Joe Schilling" video.

  1. ***** But then they'd dehydrate themselves right up until the fight. The weight they regain after the weightins is mostly fluids. Your brain uses fluids inside the cranium to cushion impacts. You sure you want people fighting with less protection in their brain?
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  2. I know right? People should fight at the weight they walk around, and whenever they want to move up or down they do it slowly and not in under a week.
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  3. ***** It's also stupid to cut and regain. It's a cheap trick but it also carries dangers. The only surefire way I can think of requires more than one weigh in, so that people actually make weight instead of becoming dry as a raisin.
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  4. @ Aaron (mobile is a bitch to add replies to people with common names), I agree that it would be stupid. But the sports world has it's share of nutters everywhere. American football is a glaring example. People supergluing teeth, 70% of players go broke after retirement, mouthguard company getting a slap in the wrist because they made unsubstiated claims about their mouth guard preventing concussions. Armstrong was caught with steroids but nearly everyone in the cycling world is doing them. Bodybuilders getting calf implants because they can't grow muscle there. Fighters are also on steroids on so many different leagues. Pride basically pushed roids to it's fighter rooster. Fighters going back to hard sparring sessions right after losing by knockout. Taking painkillers when their body is begging them to stop. I'm not the kind of person who wants to "protect others from themselves" - they have the right to be stupid - but the UFC (and many other leagues/fighting sports) needs to control their fighters' stupidity or else the sport may be ruined for everyone because I'd bet at least 10% of fighters would show up to same day weighins dehydrated.
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  5. Well, I'm not American so I don't know much about their football either but I came across a ton of info when researching concussions. Basically the concussion awareness exploded and everyone is after the gear that protects players (no gear is ever going to stop the brain from rattling when there's two 200lb guys sprinting at each other) which lead to this bs broscience related to gear, coaches sending concussed/injured players back into the game, athletic commissions trying to hide the facts about concussions, etc. In a perfect world the athletes and coaches would be educates in sports science. Promoters too. If the NFL is willing to chew up and spit out superstar athletes while widtholding the facts, I have no reason to believe coaches and promoters won't take a few risks just to get a payday - after all, the consequences of fighting with low cerebrospinal fluid may only appear a decade or two later so unless people drop dead on the mat I doubt they're going to lose their sleep over it. I have good coaches who always tell our team's fighters to not starve and never deprivate themselves of fluids, and they tell us that because they know some of us might do it. I'll be the first to say it, sometimes people get the superhero complex of fighting through adversity like it's a Rocky movie and I'm guilty of it too.
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  6. I'll concede that point about them being different sports, but not that long ago Bermane Stiverne had to be hospitalized after boxing dehydrated. And a study found out 39% of MMA fighters are still dehydrated two hours before the fight, 11% seriously dehydrated. Gaining back weight doesn't necessarily mean the body is using those fluids for hydration. It's stupid, but people are doing it. Maybe same day weighins would solve it but my money is on more than one weigh in.
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  7. The percentages were 2hr before the fight, not at weighin. This means that the weight regain doesn't necessarily rehydrate anyone. Being mildly dehydrated in any given day can be fixed - but it's serious if you're competing. This of course for day before weighins. Same day weigh ins would involve different kinds of stupidity. Maybe inducing bowel movements, I can guarantee they'll come up with something.
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  8. Aaron >39% >small percentage Their bodies are soaking up water without even using it to rehydrate and unless they want to piss themselves after getting clocked in the fight there's no way they can rehydrate in two hours.
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  9. Aaron "Results demonstrated that 39% of the MMA fighters presented with a Usg of >1.021 immediately before competition indicating significant or serious dehydration. The MMA fighters undergo significant dehydration and fluctuations in body mass (4.4% avg.) in the 24-hour period before competition. Urinary measures of hydration status indicate that a significant proportion of MMA fighters are not successfully rehydrating before competition and subsequently are competing in a dehydrated state." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23439336 Don't take other people's words and give them other meaning. In a competition, "slightly" dehydrated is serious. Those 39% have levels of dehydration which are "significant" or "serious", those were the words the study used - which makes it even worse considering we're talking about sports competition. The 11% are acutely dehydrated two hours before a fight, which is asking for kidney damage.
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