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Originally Posted by Sake Sipper  The most successful boxers don't balk at cutting weight to fight in the class most advantageous to them.
As for the rest...yeah, yeah, learning and growing as an individual and achieving self actualization and all the rest is nice talk to make people feel good about something they shouldn't. If you enter a competition it is logically for the purpose of winning. Losing sucks and there's no way of talking around it. People sometimes try to give themselves disclaimers like, "I'm just in it for the experience" to buffer the sting and ease the bile, but deep down inside everyone knows... |
Well, I've won more than I've lost, so my record speaks for it's self.
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Originally Posted by Joemoplata 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. |
I would agree to a point. If the only competition you are training for is on the street, then how do you know when to cut weight?
If I ever have a student train for MMA, I'll have to evaluate his goals and skills, and go from there.
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Originally Posted by Joemoplata This is EXACTLY the response I expected!
In my world, not being willing to engage on the ground is stalling and means you're scared. That's not what I call fighting, I call it running.
But in MMA, the rules are that if you stand up and I stay down...I have to stand up. Crap rule, if you ask me....why not come down to where I want? |
Why not come back up to where
I want? I agree it's not perfect, but it's what you have. In MY world(real world, not competition), if you oponent is down, and you can get away, you better do it or you risk going to jail for using excessive force. If you don't get up, you're beaten or wish to stay down.
