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[NoOneMan]

37. Fight training is better actually

Training creates muscle memory, strengthens bones from constant impacts (http://medind.nic.in/jau/t11/i2/jaut11i2p103.pdf), allows a body to more efficiently handle a fight or flight response, as I've learned during my 20 years of training in a physical, combat related sport.

Fight training also allows one to understand their bodies limits, capabilities, and gives people the opportunity to practice awareness and cognition in a physically demanding scenario.

It's not the training that makes them victorious in a real life fight. It's the aggressiveness.

That's just absolute absurdity and competely ludicrous.

In street fights, pure aggression wins.

Pure aggression gets you hurt. Real life isn't a Dwayne Johnson movie.

Most of these MA gyms are for people who want to get in shape.

No, spin classes are for people that want to get in shape. MMA are for people who enjoy physical contact, hanging out with their meathead friends and who want to increase their ability to handle themselves in physical confrontations.


Oh, and BTW, "fight training" doesn't just mean going through the motions. I've been in these places. I've done this stuff. We fight. We beat the hell out of each other for practice. You get contusions and breaks before you ever go live. Your head looks like it went through a meat grinder. You do it for fun sometimes before practice. Sometimes after. The only difference is that your fighting is constrained, and you must exercise mental discipline to make it so (which is crucial in a live situation to have command of your body and mind). MMA isn't karate. Its fun. Its brutal. And showing up at the gym 3 times a week isn't a walk in the park.

There is little chance a street fighter can fight enough to train their muscles and mind to be absolutely effective, without at some point being locked up. OTOH, a MMA figher gets to legally train their combat skills whenever they want. Thats why I put my money on a MMA fighter over a "street fighter", who is a guy who beat up a few guys in front of his friends, but not enough to get locked up and really train himself.