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So it is a mental thing then?
more than half of fighting is mental. in the "street" people will never take a fight when they dont have a advantage.
So it is a mental thing then?
Hmm... havent though about it in this perspective.more than half of fighting is mental. in the "street" people will never take a fight when they dont have a advantage.
Hmm... havent though about it in this perspective.
I have been thinking about something the coach said once "you need to get your game going". What is my is hard to explain it to myself. But now looking for the perspective that people fight on street only when they have the advantage, makes me think that this is very important - to get your game going in order to win, be it spars or fights or any kind of competition. Basically putting your frame of how the fight will go and dictating it to that place.
See now this is a hard thing to do. My spar partners are ...
SP jabing him looks pointless as he just hooks around it. I do the same to be honest. It is not that we fear jabbing each other but there is a respect and fear of the hook counter. So it is hard to establish a jab.
The other guys are bigger and taller. Especially one of the guys is like 20 cm higher. How the heck do you establish a jab?
One of.the guys is good in slipping in to counter jab against my jab. But I have.figured out a way to step to my left and jab in order.to nulify his preferred.
I am mostly able to pressure most of.these guys, but my SP guy due to pure will. They are afraid because I am not afraid to take punishment when advancing. And heck I take some good shots often. Way too often for my liking in order to corner them and do some damage. I am quite decent actually in cutting the.ring and getting people on their backfoot, however I take lots of damage to get there.
Lastly I am unhappy about my counters and exchanges when put on defence. Like I suck at punishing people for mistakes and attacks.
So two major problems - entries and counters. I figured I can work on my entries to make them safer by drilling the whole package and not just the single and combo punches but I have no guidance in that...
Take 1-2-slip out-2 for example. It does not work for me. If they counter with a jab okay. But if they counter with 1-2 I land on their cross. So I stopped using it... and lots of fucking questions ...
more than half of fighting is mental. in the "street" people will never take a fight when they dont have a advantage.
QFT.
Most criminals do so. Something most RBSD teachers never address and train students for.
I dont know what qft and rbsd mean? I would say you are right that most criminals do though. Thats because if we take a look at human nature, the criminal/gang lifestyle, is much like warrior tribe lifestyle, its human nature, its humans behaving the way humans do outside of modern day domesticated society and how things were back in the day with no rules/laws. Take some of the native american tribes for example, young men had the ambition to grow up to be strong warriors. The more men you killed and scalps you took the "better" you were. Take a look at the viking lifestyle, the mongols lifestyle, samurai, maori, so on and so forth. I lived the criminal lifestyle as a youth up into my early 20's.
Damn shin you a G.
it starts out like that, it ends being addicted to drugs, usually meth, dead, in prison, or homeless. I can honestly say at 14 I did not think I would be alive by 20. Anyways your from NJ so Im sure you see it around. Most the guys in jail/prison are there for drugs and are on drugs, they are felons so they cant get jobs when they get out so the only thing they can do is sell drugs. And when you sell drugs, if you want to rob someone for his drugs you can because he cant run to the cops and say he stole my drugs. Its a dog eat dog lifestyle, no one wins, everyone dies.
Yeah, a lot of them still get jobs, but I definitely don't want to be no gangster, some of them still get jobs after because they know one guy who can get them that job and they voucher for them or they just lie on their application. In new jersey they have a strict self defense law, which I really hate, its if you punch someone once you have the right to punch them once, if you knock them out then you go to jail, if you somehow kill them then you get prison time. And the gun laws are strict, the bow and arrow laws. Basically I hate new jersey because of that shit, I wanted to move to philly but really, who am i going to hang with in philly and i have so many friends In new jersey that would miss me and the drive from philly to north jersey is like 3 or 4 hours I forgot. But God forbid if I ever resort to the life of a gangster, I don't die or anything, right now my aspirations is to become a cop or just go into the military for a while and get a degree, and I figured next year once the law enforcement exam comes out I can take it and just become a CO, for the time being. I still want to be a fighter but shit is hard. I bet you understand shin. You know what the life of a g is like lol.
I dont know what qft and rbsd mean?
Oh I think I just found out your problem, when your sparring, do you have a good gameplan? Do you think of a good gameplan in sparring before you spar? Or do you just go in their to do whatever comes to mind?
Well my game plan is according to my opponent.
Again examples
My SP friend
- pin down jab,
-use left hook as an oppener
- counter with left hook as much as possible - try to make it a 3-2 at least not just left hooks
- body straight or hook when ever it is possible
- use lots of bobs and weaving as he goes head chasing with his left hand more often
My giant friend
- pressure and pressure and keep pressure, because the only time I am able to do damage to him is during pressure and in in fighting or mid range
- try to fake range with lead hand, or try not to get touched at all from his lead hand (he likes to probe the distance)
- lots of body jabs
- lots of body shots
- lots of slips, bobying and weaving
My weakeness against these guys is mainly that I expose my left side a lot and I eat goot right hand uppercuts and body hooks or straights to the body. Trying to stay less bladed for that but my weaving and slips suck ass.
The other guy
- he is good at countering my jab by slipping inside and jabbing or hooking, so I just double or tripple jab going to the left
- he has good offence but poor defence, so I try to be as active as possible and corner him, keeping him on the backfoot
- I struggle the most against him when we are on long range and if I do not initiate an attack before him, so I try to move a lot and find the proper position for initiating
- by the end of the round I get super exosted against him, as I have to be 2-3 times more active in order to get the round
Perhaps an odd question.. What does winning (or losing) in sparring mean? Isn't it suppose to be a way for both the fighters to get better? Sparring is not a match, right?
Thats what it should be, but the idea of it being practice is lost to some.Perhaps an odd question.. What does winning (or losing) in sparring mean? Isn't it suppose to be a way for both the fighters to get better? Sparring is not a match, right?