Techniques · Evasions
The pull counter
Lean back out of a punch and come straight back with the rear hand.
Where it stands
| Technique | Teacher kept | In the student | Own runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| pull counter | pull1-209.7M24 October 2026 | 300.0M31 October 2026 | 1 |
The pull counter is from my motion capture, Muay Thai 02, take_01, 16.90–18.45 s. From the guard I lean back out of range, the hips dropping about 9 cm and the head going about 20 cm back, with the right fist wound back. Then I come forward into a rear straight to the head at chin height, and back to the guard. Neither foot steps. I checked the motion on the fighter’s body and approved it on 24 October.
Its teacher was cloned from the newest student at the time, distill1-282.5M, a newer and better model than the guard14 and guard18 the earlier teachers came from (work log). Four vast.ai machines in a row never loaded, so it went to RunPod, and trained to its two-hour cap. It needed one run. The kept snapshot, pull1-209.7M, lands 8 of 8 in the air (4.6 cm, 4.7 m/s) and 8 of 8 at the bag. In the side view at quarter speed the trunk tilts back with the right fist wound back, then drives forward into the straight: the lean is there, not a plain cross.
Bringing it back into the fighter was the hard part. In distill6 the student learnt it at the bag (6 of 6) but not in the air (1–2 of 6, about 10 cm short), and none of distill6’s snapshots beat distill4 overall, so distill6 wasn’t kept (distillation). As I wrote in the shadow clones post, the experience doesn’t arrive whole. The two distillations after it, distill7 and distill8, left the pull counter out. distill9 brought it back, with the high kicks and the dash. Of its snapshots only distill9-196.6M hits it in the air, 5 of 6, and 6 of 6 at the bag. I kept it on the videos on 28 October: “Looks good, keep it.”
Every attempt
Every run that trained it on its own, in order.
| Run | Outcome | Machines | Hours | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pull1-2026102424 October · pull counter · kept pull1-209.7M · Teacher: the pull counter | Kept | 8 | 3.1 | $3.45 |
| 1 training runs | 8 | 3.1 | $3.45 |
Shared training
Runs that trained it together with other techniques: a base model, a retrain onto a new stance, a distillation into the student. Their whole cost is counted once, in the shared figure above, not split.
How the models descend
Its own runs, each with an arrow from the run it started from; faded boxes are models from elsewhere it started from or learnt from. Tap a run for its details. The whole history is on the lineage page.