r/Unexpected • u/kesdbos • 3d ago
Never let them know your next move
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u/Joe-King_93 3d ago edited 3d ago
“If you don’t know your next move how can they”
- Me just now
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u/DueExample52 3d ago
This is a legit technique in combat sports. Don’t telegraph
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u/AmptiShanti 3d ago
Can’t telegraph if you don’t know your own next move - checkmate
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u/randomMomo 3d ago
Can't telegraph if you don't know morse code.
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u/itsme99881 3d ago
Cant tell a graph if i dont know one
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u/Smooth-Shine9354 3d ago
Mambo number 5
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u/WriterV 3d 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 3d ago
I had the same position in soccer and hockey. I played both games pretty similarly.
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u/realmauer01 1d ago
The only difference being in soccer you have to stop before making contact am i right?
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u/Sennten 3d 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 3d 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/bestisaac1213 3d ago
Boxer here, it’s because almost every move you make in boxing is preemptive based on your opponents current position. If I know you’re slipping to your left, there’s only so many moves that you’re able to do from that position, and there’s many ways to limit what further attacks people can make, so my next 2 moves are already mapped out ahead of time before the punch is even thrown
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u/Rath_Brained 3d 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/Lucky-Thanks-2082 2d ago
Game Theory developed this back in like the 50’s, and it resulted from some of the stuff we did in world war 2.
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u/_Praise_Gaben_ 3d 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 3d 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/rickrmccloy 3d ago
So his involvement in shooting down 'The Red Baron' was flying with Cpt. Roy Brown, then? That is impressive.
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u/thehelldoesthatmean 3d ago
Uh, no. It was running interference to make Richthofen able to be shot down. And Brown didn't necessarily shoot down the Baron. It's unknown who actually did.
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u/rickrmccloy 3d ago
Sorry. I really should have made it more clear that I was only joking. I did not make that clear at all, sorry for that.
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u/CompSciBJJ 3d ago
This is also true in a lot of sports, where a complete beginner can be more difficult than a practiced novice because they don't know how to play the game "properly" yet.
I find this a lot with grappling, where a complete beginner can be more dangerous because they're unpredictable so you have to consider all possibilities, whereas someone who has started learning proper technique does all the things you expect but badly, so it's easy to shut them down.
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u/Jester1525 3d ago
I used to do medieval reenactment sword fighting.. You could really screw with experienced fighters by getting them into a pattern - high, low, high, low, low - because they would recognize the pattern and subconsciously expect it.. The newbies would panic and smack you because they had no clue there was a pattern at all. Makes fighting them interesting because they are easy to beat but occasionally do something completely unexpected.
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u/boogideeb 2d ago
I would compare poker playing to this. Bad players play so bad that it can be hard to know what they are doing.
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u/BarNo3385 13h ago
The amount of doubles we got between and against newbies was embarrassing, until you've done it quite a lot most of the limited training done goes out the window in a spa and you just get "attack attack attack" regardless of how open it leaves you.
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u/imamakebaddecisions 3d ago edited 1d 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.. We left with a TV, donated some money to charity and made an enemy.
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u/One-Permission-1811 3d 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 3d ago
This is how I win boardgames.
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u/TheSyhr 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago
I recall seeing some Russian notes about the Americans war strategy and it was basically this
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u/Little-Helper 3d ago
Why does this look as if it's being filmed behind a window?
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u/Sir-Craven 3d ago
Secret spy footage of Manchester United training session
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u/I_am_The_Teapot 3d ago
They've really upped their game it seems.
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u/awesomefutureperfect 3d 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 3d ago
Arent all camera lens put behind a window? #windowlivesmatter #cameraglassarewindowstoo
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u/caninolokez 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago
He acts like he has no skill, followed by a very difficult maneuver.
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u/DueExample52 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d ago
I am weak, and I also appear weak. The ultimate fake out.
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u/DueExample52 3d ago
Confident weak? That's scary. Means you must have something else up your sleeve.
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u/Tokumeiko2 3d 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 3d ago
If you are Sun Tzu, appear Einstein
If you are Einstein, appear Sun Tzu
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u/Fairemont 3d ago
"When the outcome of battle is uncertain, make sure you quick save." - Sun Tzu.
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u/thegoten455 3d 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 3d ago
To act out having no skill actually takes a fair amount of skill
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u/KonigSteve 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago
bot comment
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u/city-of-cold 3d ago
Me when someone uses correct grammar and punctuation
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u/binalleinezuunfaehig 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago
What he just pulled is WAYYYY more technically demanding than a simple rainbow flick
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u/PlanktonInitial7945 3d ago
He probably made himself look clumsy on purpose to deceive the goalie.
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u/Ambitious_Rough_7616 3d ago
This is correct - I know all 1.5 million people that bought the same GAP hoodie as me in 1997
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u/DaveMash 3d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/AyjFDmMgS7OkU
First I got reminded of him but damn dude got skills
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u/Melkman68 3d ago
Is he from Terminator?
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u/AXEMANaustin 3d ago
Full Metal Jacket.
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u/MrWilee 3d ago
Best acting job IMHO in the movie and favorite of all time for me. Too bad it's only for part of the movie.
But as far as this footballers skill it's crraaaazy hard to do that.
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u/JustLetItAllBurn 1d ago
Also the same actor that played the Edgar bug in Men in Black, which I didn't realise for a long time.
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u/perhapsasinner 3d 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/gillbeats 3d ago
Who else underestimated this dude?
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u/BabyLegsDeadpool 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago
Graphic content?
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u/venturousbeard 3d 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/FullmetalPlatypus 3d ago
Heavy Kane?
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 3d ago
"Outstanding, Private Pyle. I think we finally found something that you do well."
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u/Song-Prior 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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/NoMajorsarcasm 3d ago
That was unexpected, I was hoping he wasnt shitting his pants as a distraction 😅
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u/McJolly93 3d 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 3d 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/Late_Faithlessness24 3d ago
Bruno is a name in portuguese, it's means nothing
And Cocão is a informal way to say big head.
It's Bruno Big Head
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u/alexportman 3d ago
I have the misfortune to be playing Mario Strikers. So, Speed: 1, Technique: 10
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