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what are some Confindence Boosters? (pg. 7)
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| PHALPAX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
the confident people who took a style of fighting and have never actually been in a fight which means they cant fight, and finally- the 1% of people who are confident, have trained, and have fought. The odds of running into this person (or being one) are pretty ... ing ... low. |
This is why people who do martial arts spar and usually train like there is no tomorrow, and for those who are like me, instigate fights to turn practice into practicality. |
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| nrjizer |
Whenever I need the confidence to do something I just get a hold of my good friend Jack Daniels - and I think Ima need him tonight!
"Hello Jack? Oh hi Mrs Daniels, is Jack in? He what? Oh my god! Oh god im so so sorry... How'd it happen? The wheat thresher? Oh Jack, always playing with that wheat thresher! Why?!?" |
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| Spad |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
ok i obviously offended you.
sorry. |
You couldn't if you tried :D
I was actually refering to the fact that anybody who's been here more than 12 months will remember that moaning and bitching about what a bad hand they were dealt was all you actually used to do.
I'm very glad you've found happiness in your life however, I just find it slightly annoying that you seem to think you're something special for doing so. |
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| LiveTheDream |
The main problem with depression, is you see your self alot warse then everone around you see you. This is down to you thinking you cant do anything which you could if you just throw your self into the sicuwation, Just think you can do it, and you will do better then you think you would, ie going up to girls and chatting to them. Just do it, if you balls it up, just think why you did and dont make the same mistake, and try agein, eventaly you will get it right, and when you do you will get the biggist rush. It works
I myself dont do well with girls and the last month a godess of a woman has being coming into my work (i work in a pub) and i thort ad be the last person she would liked at my work, but she justed phoned me up asking if i whant to watch a movie
GO ME |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spad
You couldn't if you tried :D
I was actually refering to the fact that anybody who's been here more than 12 months will remember that moaning and bitching about what a bad hand they were dealt was all you actually used to do.
I'm very glad you've found happiness in your life however, I just find it slightly annoying that you seem to think you're something special for doing so. |
funny, you remember that and I don’t. what’s with the hard feelings? you seem like you’re annoyed by me... |
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| Floorfiller |
i think the whole martial arts thing is a little over rated. i mean its important to know how to fight. i studied different forms while i was younger (until i got into weight lifting and basketball hehehe...and then eventually just weight lifting). i'd go to the competitions...i'd win my trophies, but i knew kids that were at my school (high school, not martial arts school) that competed on national levels and , but i garauntee i could beat the out of them because they're like 5'6" 120lbs. i'm sorry, but you need a combination of both, and i'm sure anyone serious in martial arts for the long hall is doing just that.
if there is a misconception on the part of weight lifters in thinking they can beat up anyone, then there is also a misconception on the part of martial artists that big guys are just bumbling idiots. |
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| Turbonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
look in the mirror and repeat after me....
"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough...and GOSH DARNIT, people like me!" |
Reminds me of Cool Runnings....
"I see pride, I see power, I see a bad ass mother____, who don't take no crap off of nobody!"
lol |
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| Floorfiller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Turbonium
Reminds me of Cool Runnings....
"I see pride, I see power, I see a bad ass mother____, who don't take no crap off of nobody!"
lol |
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue:
sanka...ya dead? |
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| Orbax |
Sequential response:
Nico: No I dont start fights. Unless a guy is slapping a girl or something I usually just hang out. Although I feel that abusing a woman in public (or private but especially public) is saying "someone kick my ass, PLEASE" Other than that im a pretty mellow dude.
Phalpax: Sparring helps a LOT. My *only* problem with it is like if your sparring against people who are in karate, all youre doing is learning how to fight someone who knows karate.
I think to be a more well-rounded fighter you have to (duh ;) ) take many different styles. My boxing got better after I fenced. Because its such a mental game out there you learn patterns and how to break them SO much faster fencing and it translates rapidly into using your jab as a pattern machine.
Force = Mass X Acceleration. Its simple. Big people who have trained on a speed bag or a body bag for snap specifically are going to kick ass. Thats why heavy weight and super heavy weight (and all divisions) exist. 20lbs will YOU UP. The division has to be so small because each person is training for snap to the max. So theyll by definition have much more force.
Weight lifters only train for pushing. Rather slow pushing at that. I have boxed and fought multiple football players and heavy weight lifters and won by such ridiculous margins (usually unscathed). My friend took some football player out of a video store cuz the dude was being an ass. 5 of his buddies came out too to watch. What happened next was an asswhooping of biblical proportions. He didnt even get 1 punch in. Admittedly my friend is one of the scariest boxers ive ever known (used to go through bags every couple of weeks, like, he needed new ones, he broke them).
Martial arts provides a weak person with a very unreal perception of power. They put the huge ripped people in the same class with a 110 lb woman. Then every does the technique to eachother and it works! Most of the sparring ive done has been kind of halfassed, and I always got in trouble for actually producing pain.
Its this little club where reality doesnt matter.
Now, given, there are people (sounds like youre one of them) who have the physical constitution and the mental perception to be able to utilize the techniques effectively WHILE producing a lot of force thus pain. My sensei in Nihon Goshin Aiki-Jujitsu (AKA the school of pain!) had been doing it for 30 years, was 5 foot 2 130 lbs and I wouldnt NEVER EVEN THINK OF ATTACKING HIM. He was insane! he had stories where he had beat the out of dudes with knives. He was one of like 5 people in the US at his level. He had to get a Sensei from Japan to come over to get his next degree.
I asked him what do you do against boxers like my brother and I. He told us that later on we will learn strikes and kicks and thats all you can do. The wrist bends and stuff wont work and its impossible to "deflect" a hook or an uppercut. It was the fact that we knew, and everyone else knew, that the only people in the room with more fighting experience and meaner skills were the sensei and the assistant teacher.
Problem is it took them THIRTY YEARS to reach that point!!
Most of your fights happen in your early teens through early 30s. thats a 15 year span of which youll be an effective martial artist (against people who know how to fight) for only about 5 years (maybe!). If you do a combination of punching bag and submission wrestling you can be insane in less than a year. Never AS insane as the other dudes, but you top out so fast it seems like it sometimes.
the age old debate of boxer vs martial artist...they did that. the MA jabbed a thumb in the boxers eye and ended the fight. I guess it depends on what kind of fights gonna happen. Be prepared for everything, realize most fights will end up in wrestling in about 5 seconds and you better be able to 1) wrestle and 2) punch from close range. WHerever you learn how to do that, I dont care, but thats fighting. There are very few fight ending punches in fights.
If you dont knock them out adrenaline will get them going and fighting really really fast. They wont feel pain, they wont realize theyre bleeding. Fights are brutal. I dont like it. But I do like being able to end them as quickly and painlessly as possible (for me at least).
Point: Fighting is a combination of acquired skill, actual application, and mental fortitude. Anyone who has been in a fight will see changes in their style. Theyll stop using certain moves or blocking poses because they simply dont work. You will narrow your band of operable moves and techniques to a very effective routine pretty quick. In the end, it pretty much comes down to punching and wrestling, sometimes a few kicks while they are on the ground. Martial arts is fun and stuff, and ive used arm bars and shoulder locks on a few people who rushed me, thus putting their nose in the dirt, and it was good. Easy way to stop a fight. As soon as that doesnt work you gotta know what youre doin.
I think that covers everything |
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| Floorfiller |
orbax...you've become one of the best TA posters hehehe...always lots of thought put into responses
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by PHALPAX
Thats the logic for most people, esspecially guys. A majority of men think all they need to do is lift weights and rely on strength, power and adrenaline to win a fight. I just hope they keep thinking that way, it keeps fights short and sweet :toothless ;) |
For the average joe, I think that logic is correct. I witnessed a fight in high school between this popular baseball jock, and an introverted grunge kid (little guy). I guess the jock pushed one too many buttons cuz that little kid went ape ...threw a chair at him and everything. It was pure adrenaline, and you could tell the jock was surprised. It got broken up before any real damage was done, but that kid was ready to fight. Unless you are in some sort of competition or wrestling match, fights really don’t take that long and don’t really require TOO much endurance. I mean you just start swinging and doing whatever it takes to bring the other person down. I’m talking about street fights between every day people.
I, myself have never been in a fight, because my mother always stressed to me that girls do not fight. I’ve gotten into a few verbal altercations, but nothing serious. However, I have a nasty temper when I get to that point (takes a lot), and I’m pretty confident that if I was ever pushed to the point where I had to either defend myself, or put someone in their place, I’d have little trouble doing so. I think mental confidence helps in fighting too.
generally speaking, I am against violence and ignorant fighting, but I do believe in sticking up for yourself or what you believe in...and if that means you have to throw a few punches in the midst of doing just that, then so be it. |
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