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Originally Posted by Gambatte Karate 
So I wouldn't ever be competitive in combat sports?  Now I'm depressed. I guess there are no other combat sports competitions except for MMA? Of course there are. I have competed in them and done quite well in fact. Try telling a boxer that he doesn't do a "real" combat sport. I have competed in martial arts competitions for the last 12 years and done quite well. The difference is, I'm there at the comptitions to LEARN, not just to compete and win. As long as you go into the competition with a learning mind, you will learn, and even if you loose the fight, you win because you learned. |
If you don't consider strategy a part of your training for competition then you are not training correctly. That's the point I was trying to make.
And I think I have made myself clear in the past, I think Boxing is a necessary tool for anyone to know to be called a Martial Artist.