Goodbye Kai?
The seemingly unshakeable friendship between Kai Lenny, the daring multi-discipline surfer with skin the colour of buttered cocoa, and Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s fifth richest man and founder of Facebook, appears to’ve floundered after Lenny’s former tow-buddy shared a video of himself training MMA with UFC debutante Kha “The Shadow” Wu, even calling it “the best sport.”
In the video, Zuckerberg, whose foil-boarding escapades along Kauai’s Ne Pali coast with Lenny had become the stuff of legend, rolls easily through the various disciplines of mixed martial arts, kickboxing, wrestling, jiujitsu, and at one point even arm-bars his quarry.
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Two-div UFC king Conor McGregor put aside his usually corrosive manner to write, “Yo!!! Fucking awesome Mark!”
On a podcast with Joe Rogan last week, Zuckerberg explained the pivot away from surfing.
“From the very first session that I did, like five minutes in, I was like, ‘Where has this been my whole life?’ All right. My mom made me do three varsity sports and my life took a wrong turn when I chose to do fencing competitively instead of wrestling in high school or something…
“There’s just something that’s so primal about it… Since then, I’ve just introduced a bunch of my friends to it. That’s been really fun, because now it’s like we train together and wrestle together. There’s a certain intensity to it that I like. Maybe there’s this cultural thing where a lot of people haven’t considered it. I’ve had 100 percent hit rate of introducing friends to it and converting them to people who now train. Every single person who I’ve shown it to is like, ‘This is amazing. This is obviously how I should be training and working out.’”
No word yet from Lenny who must be reconsidering his comments from a Wired interview just eight months ago where he described his former BFF as “super cool, super into water sport, really active. Super fit. Like … strong, strong strong. Physically strong.”
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Zuck training for Kalihiwai maybe.. He looks fit! Probably most jealous of he probably eats really good!
How Zuckerberg Stole Facebook
http://www.truthinourtime.c…
Why oh why zuck you didn’t take up wrestling instead. Get a few knocks on the head, become a stupid jock, fuck a few bimbos – and basically no facebook, no meta, nothing. Just another high school idiot.
Wait till all these Fucktards just start fighting in the metaverse and start suing Zuck for injuries sustained
He’ll prolly sack his minders now that he’s a tough cunt.
I’d love his sparring partners to give him a solid crack and see what he’d do … not that that will ever happen.
Surfing is obliviously the best sport- theres no argument, but fighting wrestling etc ya is indeed fun. Since surfing also has the most difficult learning curve of any activity known to exist it just makes the hook a bit far out of reach for most people. Fighting on the other hand has any easy introductory hook. However, if one did not have nearly as friendly of a beginners entry as there is with cushy welcoming fighting gyms obliviously the learning curve would increase. Put people in raw mad max style open earth element pits and Zuck’s %100 hit rate would be .01% like surfing.
while we all transition from risk-taking endeavors (Dr. Darwin)…we also transition thru our jobs and careers (Dr. Smith)…much talk of science and scientists on BG over the years…(BG Doctors):
here’s a prime example of one man’s transitions and why we should be worried…”Is this man also on Zuck’s payroll?”
https://img.izismile.com/im…
His mother made him do sports? Proof a person can have all the money in the world and still be the same old soft cock you knew in high school.
Do not mess with zuck, the beast. He’s gonna armlock you and put you to sleep.
Does wearing RVCA instantly make you a bad ass?
That’s definitely the white person I would enjoy beating to a wheel chair!
NonJohn had a dream that he punched Zuck in the face, then Zucks head exploded along with all of the finance people that made him possible. The world was a little bit better.
“Break the wrist and walk away.”
Discipline your image, too. Do you think anybody wants a roundhouse kick to the face when I’m wearing my RVCA shorts?
No more flying solo, either. You need somebody watching your back at all times!
Easier to learn than surfing possibly? Is this the beginning of the VAL retreat?
MMA and Zuck are high on the list of extremely fucked things that I’m constantly exposed to against my will.
But I was gonna jump on Facebook and send you a pic of my RVCA gym shorts. You just blew my plans for this fine day.
Handbags at dawn!!!
Jonah has made his intentions clear
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Can Zuck stand up to the challenge ?
Will the winner challenge Derek’s dual title ?
Does BJJ stand for ‘Blow Job, Jewish’ ?
Jonah is a God.
I just watched him in a movie with River Phoenix younger brother that was quite good..
Sounds like he had a lot of friends, lol!
Better than it looks!
Still at the old BJJ? You haven’t posted five BJJ articles in one week for some time!
I got plenty if you want it.
The world we now live in could most adequately be described as ‘Revenge of the Nerds’
‘With lots of money.’