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Im just back in to training
But Ive got a cheap shot at some dirt/ball fighting this weekend
I look at it,as win lose or draw,ring time
Sparring with money on the line
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BTW/This sounds like the lowest end of the boxing totem pole,below even Rough And Rowdys
Do you know what kind of match you're likely to get?
When you say cheap shot do you mean inexperienced opponent?
I guess there's no shame in it - your opponent's trainer should throw the towel in if his boy is getting hurt too bad.
I would decide based on how your feel physically - no chance of rolling the ankle or anything? It there's a risk you might be set back due to reaggrivating an injury because you need to go hard when you might otherwise go easy then I'd leave it a bit longer.
You might be POed if you roll your ankle in a fight that otherwise wouldn't mean much to you or be very fulfilling.
Actually,thats a very valid point
If something goes wrong(its the ring, s happens) Id be setting back training for a fight I want in November for essentially a charity gig on short notice
Thinking...............
Yeah. Don't batter him round the ring too badly :)
Go for it... you're just as likely to injure yourself sparring or training in the long term any way. It'll give you a refresher of what it's like on fight day/the night before...
I though when you first joined here, you said you were a trainer for a woman fighter? Do you fight as well?
And thats all I was,for a long time,but all the time around the ring again,especially as she got closer to fighting,inspired me to use the last few years I have in my 30s to get back in the ring myself.Nothing big,just small time stuff locally.If for no other reason,to see what I still have left in the tank.Quote:
Originally Posted by X
Call Stallone,I gotta an idea for a film ;D ;D ;D
You strike me as the kinda guy that can't mess about round the outside of the ring for too long. Its like too tempting for you. You just wanna be inside that ring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey
I had to cc that,kinda nailed me to the wallQuote:
Originally Posted by Munky
Ive gone from Philly trained boxer,to Ed Parker Ken-Po,to Midevil Live Martial Arts,to Training,to thinking,Im not that old am I?I mean I taught them how to do all that crap.
I view it all as chess,with bruises
I love chess
I love outhinking my opponent
The only non martial sport I was ever any good at,was baseball.I pitched,where its not just ability,youve got to outhink the guy at the plate
Just my nature I suppose
Welp thats that,too short notice,no babysitter
Another fight will come along - you've got some time to get it in before November :)
Well if nothing else,I have a better understanding about what Feur's been going throughQuote:
Originally Posted by Sharla
The fights on,the fights on,a new fights on,its off
Damnit
Nice thing about martial arts is,when you go to a tournament
Someone is going to be there
i have making weight for a fight just to have it called off,
Other times you make weight and then your opponent doesn't anyway.
I had an opponent weigh in 5 kg overweight and her trainer told my coach it was just because she was "on her monthlys" in a hushed voice.
My trainer fell for it but I was POed. It was just after my birthday and I had missed out on celebration food etc and I told her that - she said she ate chocolate cake on the plane which flew her in from interstate for the fight!
I won in the end but was soooooo annoyed. For all the trainers of female fighters don't ever believe a period accounts for more than 2 kg weight max. Someone my size it's more like 1 kg - never 5kg.
If nothing else,it made me jump up my training,I supposeQuote:
Originally Posted by Sharla
Ask Feur to tell you about "Quarter tons of fun"
Quarter tonnes? is that a serious weight class?!? Or some wkind of extreme weright training technique?!?! I'm very very afraid! :)
There was this chick last time she fought,labeled as a heavyweightQuote:
Originally Posted by Sharla
She was literaly snorking down hot dogs before she fought
I'm still very, very afraid! :)
Oh, man! Quarter-Ton-O'-Fun!!
She was one of the girls who showed up for the Toughman Contest that I fought in. She was this great big obese woman whose workouts were most likely soley lifting grocery bags. I honestly have no idea what made her think entering was a good idea. She was not in any kind of shape.
So any way, what really grabbed my attention what while I was warming up in the fighters' corral and getting ready for my first fight, I catch this big ole' whiff of onions. I'm thinking to myself, 'What the f***!? Whose eatin' fraggin' onions back here??'
I turn and there's Quarter-Ton-O'-Fun sitting on a chair stuffing a hot dog slathered in onions in her mouth. Now I know for a fact that she has not had her fight yet and here she is stuffing her face right there in the fighters' corral! I was thankful that I wasn't the one who'd have to fight her since I really did not like the idea of having a half-digested onion hot dog puked up all over me in the ring. I didn't stick around long enough to see her fight, but I was told that while she didn't puke, it was pretty sad to watch.
CC for the story - really should be illegal for people in that condition to fight - what happened to the pre fight doctors check - no doc?