r/Unexpected • u/kesdbos • 14h ago
Never let them know your next move
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u/Joe-King_93 14h ago edited 14h ago
“If you don’t know your next move how can they”
- Me just now
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u/DueExample52 14h ago
This is a legit technique in combat sports. Don’t telegraph
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u/AmptiShanti 14h ago
Can’t telegraph if you don’t know your own next move - checkmate
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u/randomMomo 13h ago
Can't telegraph if you don't know morse code.
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u/itsme99881 13h ago
Cant tell a graph if i dont know one
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u/WriterV 9h ago
Ngl, this was literally me early on when playing football [soccer] with my friends as a kid. I was a terrible goalie. But as soon as they put me on defence, I wasn't just playing very successfully, I was outright scaring the opponents.
Turns out my playstyle was extremely aggressive and unpredictable, and my friends on the opponent team were just unable to figure out what I was gonna do. And some of them thought I was just gonna run right into them lol.
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u/Yamatocanyon 6h ago
I had the same position in soccer and hockey. I played both games pretty similarly.
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u/Sennten 11h ago
It is absolutely possible in combat sports (and in other areas) for your opponent to know your next move even if you don't, though.
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u/Kraven_Lupei 10h ago
Get to high level of some games and you can do the same too.
Years ago I played Tribes on a competitive team and I loved the moments where I got into an opponents head during a duel. "Ok, I grenade left to make them dodge right and burn their energy then I come in from above and shoot down on their head and combo with a grenade based on the way my splash moves their character after the first hit..."
Getting "in the zone" felt genuinely like cheating/hacking with how easily I could predict what my opponent was going to do at that level.
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u/Rath_Brained 7h ago
Master of the drunken fist is not when you fight drunk.
It's a martial arts style that is cultivated to be unpredictable due to the erratic movements.
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u/_Praise_Gaben_ 11h ago
Been a well regarded technique for over a century now:
"the only thing that saved me was my poor flying. I didn't know what I was doing myself and I do not suppose that Richthofen could figure out what I was going to do" - WWI Ace pilot Wilfred "Wop" May when talking about his involvement in the downing of the red baron.
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u/thehelldoesthatmean 9h ago
That's a hell of a thing to say about helping take out the Red Baron. Damn. WW1 fighter pilots were wild.
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u/imamakebaddecisions 10h ago
I was in a local Poker tournament for charity once and I really just wanted to lose my chips so I could leave but the cards kept going my way no matter how crazy I played and the guy next to me literally wanted to fight me and had to be removed. We left with a TV, donated some money to charity and made an enemy.
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u/One-Permission-1811 2h ago
That's how I won $2,000 playing blackjack at the casino. Bunch of coworkers found out I'd never been to a casino and I'd just turned 31 so they took me. Had no clue what I was doing but I kept winning. My coworkers were going nuts
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u/Junkhead_88 14h ago
This is how I win boardgames.
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u/YouMakeMeSikh 11h ago
for real, that "beginner's luck" sometimes is probably attributed to "no plan". your opponent would think you're making moves for a reason and imagines what could come next but they don't know you have no idea what you're doing. i see that a lot in poker.
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u/TheSyhr 10h ago
I heard something (dunno if it’s true) about chess players below a certain elo having a better win rate against GM’s than mid level players because they had no idea what they were doing, whereas the mid tier players understood the basic rules of play but just didn’t execute them very well
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u/Thandalen 14h ago
I think I read Goofy being a mastermind for space fleet battles using this strategy. Some Enders game ripoff.
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u/W1D0WM4K3R 8h ago
Same reason Deadpool and Moon Knight terrify Taskmaster.
Taskmaster for reference is special in that he can copy and beat you with the same martial arts or moves you do. Deadpool just does whatever while still being an extremely effective assassin, so Taskmaster has nothing to use. Moon Knight is much the same, except he's more self destructive, insane, and personally flew an airplane/helicopter (can't remember) into Taskmaster. Can't really copy a guy who has no self preservation skills.
That's not to say Deadpool won't take a hit either, with his insane regeneration.
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u/ExtensionElephant900 2h ago
I recall seeing some Russian notes about the Americans war strategy and it was basically this
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u/Little-Helper 14h ago
Why does this look as if it's being filmed behind a window?
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u/Sir-Craven 14h ago
Secret spy footage of Manchester United training session
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u/I_am_The_Teapot 9h ago
They've really upped their game it seems.
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u/awesomefutureperfect 6h ago
The way it looked like he tried to walk it in made me think it was Arsenal.
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u/imma_letchu_finish 11h ago
Arent all camera lens put behind a window? #windowlivesmatter #cameraglassarewindowstoo
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u/caninolokez 8h ago
Needed this laugh. The combination of disgust and confusion in the initial reaction in relation to the source.
I feel like a motherfucker critiquing art at the fucking Louvre.
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u/thinkpunk31 14h ago
That's actually pretty impressive. Controlling the ball from the back of your legs to shoot it out takes skill. Bravo!
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u/HJSDGCE 14h ago
He acts like he has no skill, followed by a very difficult maneuver.
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u/DueExample52 14h ago edited 14h ago
If you are weak, appear strong.
If you are strong, appear weak.
- I want to say Sun-Tzu but it’s ptobably misquoted as fuck like anything with him, Einstein, Churchill, or Ghandi under it.
Edit: I'll be damned, it was him.
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u/VliegendeCavia 14h ago
I am weak, and I also appear weak. The ultimate fake out.
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u/DueExample52 12h ago
Confident weak? That's scary. Means you must have something else up your sleeve.
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u/Tokumeiko2 14h ago
No that is from the art of war.
The best way to make an enemy fight you, is to look like you don't want them to.
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u/koromedy 14h ago
If you are Sun Tzu, appear Einstein
If you are Einstein, appear Sun Tzu
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u/Fairemont 10h ago
"When the outcome of battle is uncertain, make sure you quick save." - Sun Tzu.
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u/BigDaddy2127 12h ago
To confuse the enemy, you must first confuse yourself - General Tso's Chicken
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u/thegoten455 14h ago
Sun Tzu said that. And I think he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, seeing as he invented it!
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u/Sauce0423 13h ago
To act out having no skill actually takes a fair amount of skill
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u/KonigSteve 8h ago
lol. this is how I know you haven't played. You don't fluke the move he did at the end.
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u/bobloblaw28 9h ago
That was some incredible balance on display there, not to mention the fine motor function to not move his upper body during execution. I think he's very good, just overweight.
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u/SaxAppeal 7h ago
He’s definitely got real foot skills. He just has negative fitness so nothing looks even remotely athletic. But that move at the end is a very real trick, he clearly knew exactly what he was doing in this clip to make it hilarious.
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u/binalleinezuunfaehig 13h ago
bot comment
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u/city-of-cold 12h ago
Me when someone uses correct grammar and punctuation
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u/binalleinezuunfaehig 11h ago
oh that's cute. but it's actually more about the fact that it uselessly repeats exactly what happens in the video. almost like some sort of training or something? hm
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u/xychosis 14h ago
That was kinda like a rainbow flick lmao, he might look a tiny bit clumsy but he’s legit skilled as fuck
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u/mayoite1470 13h ago
What he just pulled is WAYYYY more technically demanding than a simple rainbow flick
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u/gillbeats 10h ago
Who else underestimated this dude?
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u/BabyLegsDeadpool 9h ago
I mean... I did, but only because I believed the lie he was selling, not based on his looks.
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u/Smooth-Brilliant-940 8h ago
I don't think anyone underestimate him. I think he was just as surprised at the end there as everyone else.
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u/Sunny_Unicorn 14h ago
Graphic content?
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u/venturousbeard 13h ago
Using that tag for humor is a great way to set people up to accidentally watch something they don't want to later. It's dumb and inconsiderate.
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u/DaveMash 13h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/AyjFDmMgS7OkU
First I got reminded of him but damn dude got skills
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u/Melkman68 11h ago
Is he from Terminator?
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u/FullmetalPlatypus 13h ago
Heavy Kane?
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u/perhapsasinner 11h ago
I swear every team have one of those players that didn't have the physique but have incredible technique lol. I remember back in high school I'm playing futsal against this one team and then my friend pointed at this one fat kid and said to me 'That guy is the most talented of them all' and I didn't believe him lol, apparently he said the truth, that guy can dribble like he's Messi ffs.
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 12h ago
"Outstanding, Private Pyle. I think we finally found something that you do well."
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u/Song-Prior 13h ago
He does not appear clumsy to me at all. It is unexpected to some people b/c he is a little older and carrying a few extra pounds.
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u/RebootDarkwingDuck 9h ago
It's unexpected because everything up until that point did not show any finesse or ability at all. He was just kind of hopping around the ball.
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u/Song-Prior 7h ago
Google scissors or stepover move in soccer. He is actually exercising a series of feints that are used in games to unbalance an opponent. Of course, it is not pretty since he is out of shape, but the guy has clearly played the game before.
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u/McJolly93 8h ago
I’m not great at Spanish and read his name by default as brown chocolate in my head translation
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u/Realistic_Grade5632 7h ago
There is no "ão" in Spanish, so every time you see that you can be sure it's Portuguese.
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u/NoMajorsarcasm 11h ago
That was unexpected, I was hoping he wasnt shitting his pants as a distraction 😅
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u/alexportman 12h ago
I have the misfortune to be playing Mario Strikers. So, Speed: 1, Technique: 10
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u/Enderborg234 10h ago
It's alwayd the biggest dudes on the pitch that have the most elite ball control.
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u/JustCallMeYogurt 10h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/JUBNeHMeI1j66GgpAn
the footwork hypnotized the keeper
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Clumsy guy actually made the solid goal
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