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Nirel
Profile Joined September 2011
Israel1526 Posts
August 18 2014 14:39 GMT
#81
Nice read! however false advertising, both life and mma are very good sc2 players yet you only mention them in the title.
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gullberg
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Sweden1301 Posts
August 18 2014 15:19 GMT
#82
On August 18 2014 22:26 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
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On August 18 2014 19:07 gullberg wrote:
So your coach wanted you to cut a little bit over 10 kg (about 25 pounds) before every fight even though you're still gaining weight? That sounds like absolute hell to be honest. I agree with you that it's better to aim for lightweight right now. GL in your upcoming bout man, I really enjoyed following your SC2 career.

No just he said that should be my pro-weight, amateur weighins are the same day so they are different than pro.

I assumed that he meant pro-weight. Still seems a bit much to me. But hey, atleast it won't be as crazy as the cut Hendricks makes.
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-18 15:59:15
August 18 2014 15:55 GMT
#83
On August 19 2014 00:19 gullberg wrote:
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On August 18 2014 22:26 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On August 18 2014 19:07 gullberg wrote:
So your coach wanted you to cut a little bit over 10 kg (about 25 pounds) before every fight even though you're still gaining weight? That sounds like absolute hell to be honest. I agree with you that it's better to aim for lightweight right now. GL in your upcoming bout man, I really enjoyed following your SC2 career.

No just he said that should be my pro-weight, amateur weighins are the same day so they are different than pro.

I assumed that he meant pro-weight. Still seems a bit much to me. But hey, atleast it won't be as crazy as the cut Hendricks makes.

I'm going to try to add some weight and convince him I should be at lightweight... I feel sort of frail and slow when I walk around at 76-77 :/

And yeah, Hendricks was actually an example he used when he told me I should be at FW ;d
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10332 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-18 18:13:48
August 18 2014 18:09 GMT
#84
Whoa, researching and keeping stats like that is pretty awesome.

Also 2011 GSL Jinro vs MC ... will always remember that.


Would be cool to see you playing again. Even if it's streaming or online or smaller tournies for fun and nothing committing. It's amazing to still be playing KR GMs and so fast already considering you took a break that long.

Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
Mithriel
Profile Joined November 2010
Netherlands2969 Posts
August 18 2014 18:23 GMT
#85
Very nice read! Good to hear you're doing fine!

Good luck with anything you do!
There is no shame in defeat so long as the spirit is unconquered. | Cheering for Maru, Innovation and MMA!
dala
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden477 Posts
August 18 2014 18:42 GMT
#86
Love it! Keep em comin.
Garemie
Profile Joined April 2011
United States248 Posts
August 18 2014 20:48 GMT
#87
Miss seeing Jinro in the big names.

Glad to have you around.
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Phizzik
Profile Joined November 2010
United States77 Posts
August 18 2014 22:27 GMT
#88
<3 Jinro

Enjoyed the blog - thanks for taking the time to share.

We crossed paths at MLG Providence - was fun chatting with you then. Def miss seeing you stream and play but its all good life goes on

GLHF.
"Live free or die."
Silentness
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2821 Posts
August 19 2014 00:44 GMT
#89
On August 18 2014 11:47 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
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On August 18 2014 04:55 sotaporo wrote:
i have to ask, do you actually have to deposit 20,000$ or more to get apartment in korea? i am just baffled how can average person get apartment?

Depends, the 1room was 5k deposit/450 a month. The house before that was 30k deposit as I said. You can find some older 2 bedroom/kitchen places for 10k deposit as well... but yeah, their system is pretty expensive.

In the past, the "Jeonse" system was even more popular, where you pay a HUGE deposit and no rent (so for this place I'd be paying like 150-200k and then not pay rent, then get the money back when I choose to end the contract)... as I understand it, it was more common your family would have money saved up.

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On August 18 2014 10:52 ToT)OjKa( wrote:
Hi Jinro,

Is it possible to get tickets for your fight in September? I assume it'll be in Seoul?

By the way, can I ask what visa you're on? F2? Or something else? I plan to move to Seoul after my contract ends in December and try for a non-teaching job. I'd also like to start training MMA. I really should have started a lot sooner but haven't done so yet.

I'll check out a local place next month and see how I go.

Oh and also, have you taken the TOPIK test?

No visa since poker doesn't qualify as work, I'm perpetual tourist

I could get a working holiday visa but have to go back to sweden to get it so its a bit of a hassle.

Not taken any tests, I dont study Korean in any official capacity.

Yes, Im not sure if entrance is free or not (I know its like 40$ for the people fighting). It's at Korean Top Team in Seoul (you can check the Top FC facebook page and they always post their info in Korean and English).


Hey Jinro!

I was in Korea from Dec 1st 2007 to Jan 31st 2012! I'll be flying back to Korea this December to work for several more years! I'll be working/living in the center of Seoul this time instead of out in the boonies.

Does Korean Top Team have mainly grappling days? I have mainly been focused on doing Muay Thai in the past. I love the striking aspect of martial arts. How's KTT when it comes to stand-up practice? I know eventually I'd have to pick up on grappling. I'll most likely come check KTT out when I move back to Seoul. I probably wont be able to attend regularly until I get settled in from the move. Also my wife is due for our 2nd kid around January so I'll probably be fucked until me and the wife get adjusted to the baby life again in Korea.

My Korean sucks, but I I'm still trying to spend more time learning it. My wife is Korean so she does all the talking Any more information about foreigner friendly Korean MMA and/or kickboxing gyms would be NICE!
GL HF... YOLO..lololollol.
mdamda
Profile Joined November 2011
63 Posts
August 19 2014 01:27 GMT
#90
One of the first Terrans I've watched and whose builds I studied.

The other was sksYen or something (when he used to be one of the first Koreans to stream). Hope to see you making a comeback
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
August 19 2014 02:32 GMT
#91
On August 19 2014 09:44 Silentness wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2014 11:47 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On August 18 2014 04:55 sotaporo wrote:
i have to ask, do you actually have to deposit 20,000$ or more to get apartment in korea? i am just baffled how can average person get apartment?

Depends, the 1room was 5k deposit/450 a month. The house before that was 30k deposit as I said. You can find some older 2 bedroom/kitchen places for 10k deposit as well... but yeah, their system is pretty expensive.

In the past, the "Jeonse" system was even more popular, where you pay a HUGE deposit and no rent (so for this place I'd be paying like 150-200k and then not pay rent, then get the money back when I choose to end the contract)... as I understand it, it was more common your family would have money saved up.

On August 18 2014 10:52 ToT)OjKa( wrote:
Hi Jinro,

Is it possible to get tickets for your fight in September? I assume it'll be in Seoul?

By the way, can I ask what visa you're on? F2? Or something else? I plan to move to Seoul after my contract ends in December and try for a non-teaching job. I'd also like to start training MMA. I really should have started a lot sooner but haven't done so yet.

I'll check out a local place next month and see how I go.

Oh and also, have you taken the TOPIK test?

No visa since poker doesn't qualify as work, I'm perpetual tourist

I could get a working holiday visa but have to go back to sweden to get it so its a bit of a hassle.

Not taken any tests, I dont study Korean in any official capacity.

Yes, Im not sure if entrance is free or not (I know its like 40$ for the people fighting). It's at Korean Top Team in Seoul (you can check the Top FC facebook page and they always post their info in Korean and English).


Hey Jinro!

I was in Korea from Dec 1st 2007 to Jan 31st 2012! I'll be flying back to Korea this December to work for several more years! I'll be working/living in the center of Seoul this time instead of out in the boonies.

Does Korean Top Team have mainly grappling days? I have mainly been focused on doing Muay Thai in the past. I love the striking aspect of martial arts. How's KTT when it comes to stand-up practice? I know eventually I'd have to pick up on grappling. I'll most likely come check KTT out when I move back to Seoul. I probably wont be able to attend regularly until I get settled in from the move. Also my wife is due for our 2nd kid around January so I'll probably be fucked until me and the wife get adjusted to the baby life again in Korea.

My Korean sucks, but I I'm still trying to spend more time learning it. My wife is Korean so she does all the talking Any more information about foreigner friendly Korean MMA and/or kickboxing gyms would be NICE!

Never trained there, but I'd imagine they do. KTT is probably the best place to train in Korea (alongside Team MAD I guess) for MMA.

English wise, not sure, but I'd bet there's someone who speaks it since they do a lot of traveling.

There was 1 gym, Body and Soul or something that had a lot of foreigners competing last event I went to --- the guy who cornered them spoke fluent english, and he did the translating for Top FC (like the pro events) when they had foreigners fighting. Not sure if he was part of KTT or body and soul tbh.
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
HoZBlooddrop
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Italy324 Posts
August 19 2014 02:41 GMT
#92
lol when i saw the name of the blog i tought it was about acer.MMA and startale.life.

anyway it was an awsome read :D
slytown
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Korea (South)1411 Posts
August 19 2014 03:39 GMT
#93
My Terran hero playing Starcraft again. Can only be good.
The best Flash meme ever: http://imgur.com/zquoK
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
August 19 2014 04:33 GMT
#94
I definitely relate to your blog posts. I moved to vegas about 5 years ago and played poker until black friday. I never thought I could do math, but I started to get into game theory with poker which helped me realize that math is a cool way to solve some problems. I'm going back to school and majoring in math now.

Fighting is hard. Cutting weight sucks. I respect people who do mma, but performance enhancing drugs are so rampant that there's no way I would want to fight. It was medical costs that always prevented me from fighting before, but if I knew then what I knew now and I had free medical care for life, then I wouldn't fight for the head trauma and because everyone is on peds.

You can still improve training, but I also get people who want to fight at an organized event.

I love the blog, and good luck with everything!
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
Marou
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany1371 Posts
August 19 2014 05:15 GMT
#95
MMhh to bad you dont want to talk about Poker im really curious about it since it appears to be your main source of income. Would be really fun to see you show up at a Code A qualifier :D
twitter@RickyMarou
igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
August 19 2014 09:52 GMT
#96
Siked to hear things are going so well.
MVP <3 MKP <3 DRG <3
Emerson_H
Profile Joined March 2014
United States460 Posts
August 19 2014 18:15 GMT
#97
thought blog was gonna be about (T)MMA and (Z)Life lol
Silentness
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2821 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-20 00:54:18
August 20 2014 00:52 GMT
#98
On August 19 2014 13:33 guitarizt wrote:
I definitely relate to your blog posts. I moved to vegas about 5 years ago and played poker until black friday. I never thought I could do math, but I started to get into game theory with poker which helped me realize that math is a cool way to solve some problems. I'm going back to school and majoring in math now.

Fighting is hard. Cutting weight sucks. I respect people who do mma, but performance enhancing drugs are so rampant that there's no way I would want to fight. It was medical costs that always prevented me from fighting before, but if I knew then what I knew now and I had free medical care for life, then I wouldn't fight for the head trauma and because everyone is on peds.

You can still improve training, but I also get people who want to fight at an organized event.

I love the blog, and good luck with everything!


Are PEDs that common in the amateur level? That sounds wild that people not getting paid to fight would go to extreme levels to win. I know a lot of pros use PEDs, but that's pretty sad if majority of the amateur fighters are doing it too.
GL HF... YOLO..lololollol.
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
August 20 2014 07:46 GMT
#99
On August 20 2014 09:52 Silentness wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2014 13:33 guitarizt wrote:
I definitely relate to your blog posts. I moved to vegas about 5 years ago and played poker until black friday. I never thought I could do math, but I started to get into game theory with poker which helped me realize that math is a cool way to solve some problems. I'm going back to school and majoring in math now.

Fighting is hard. Cutting weight sucks. I respect people who do mma, but performance enhancing drugs are so rampant that there's no way I would want to fight. It was medical costs that always prevented me from fighting before, but if I knew then what I knew now and I had free medical care for life, then I wouldn't fight for the head trauma and because everyone is on peds.

You can still improve training, but I also get people who want to fight at an organized event.

I love the blog, and good luck with everything!


Are PEDs that common in the amateur level? That sounds wild that people not getting paid to fight would go to extreme levels to win. I know a lot of pros use PEDs, but that's pretty sad if majority of the amateur fighters are doing it too.

I think he meant pro level, but in the US the amateur scene seems different, might be lots of PEDs there too.
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
Hider
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Denmark9376 Posts
August 20 2014 11:55 GMT
#100
Hey Jinro

Awesome blog with some cool stories.

Anyway, I remember reading or hearing from someone back in early 2011 when your results started to get worse that you didn't practice enough/went out to clubbing.

Would you enlighten a bit more on how your overall motivation was after your semifinals and how your training routine looked like?
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