datguy Posted June 5, 2011 Posted June 5, 2011 Hi. I have a question: Does anybody else other than me feel the urge to spar or just to fight? I recently tried out kickboxing and I really enjoyed it. I know this is probably a bad thing, but ever since I tried it I've just been wanting to fight. I'm a peaceful person and I wouldn't ever pick a fight but I do like fighting...is this normal? Does anybody else feel the same way? “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
MasterPain Posted June 5, 2011 Posted June 5, 2011 Every animal species has an inborn drive to compete for dominance. Within a given species these fights are usually not death matches, but ritualized things with unspoken rules. (Death matches and written established rules are a human thing with our so-called superiority.) There is nothing morally wrong with having a drive to fight. Sure it's part of the harsher aspects of human nature, but I would refer you to the words of Carl Jung "The Shadow aspect is much deeper and darker when not recognized in conscious thought" Well, that was a paraphrase but conveys the proper meaning. Although many of the physical effects of a sport fight are similar to a fight, it's more sport than fight. It does take courage, something that truly violent people tend to lack. Few bullies and wife beaters want to fight a trained person in a fair contest.Philosophical junk aside, ask an experienced fighter to go a few hard rounds with you in the gym first. You don't want the first time you experience a good fighter trying to beat the ever-loving crap out of you to be in front of 1,000 people. My fists bleed death. -Akuma
JusticeZero Posted June 5, 2011 Posted June 5, 2011 Well, you're in the right art for it.It's worrisome to see "peaceful people" in very pacifistic arts; they have a tendency to become very wierdly passive-aggressive with their violence. "Your chi pulled my body into pushing you down the stairs. Then when I tripped you, I was protecting the women in the class from your aura. Then I slashed your tires in the parking lot to help you understand the peaceful philosophy of Moo Cau Do. After all, I am the most humble person in our class, I bow two centimeters lower than anyone else. I measured it. I even outsubmissived Linda. Booyah! Take that! Oh yeah, oh yeah, I am the greatest!"People will have some competitive, fighting urges. Best to recognize them and have somewhere to focus them than to stuff it away just to have them pop up in ways that sabotage you. "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." - Baleia
Groinstrike Posted June 6, 2011 Posted June 6, 2011 This is totally normal, find some guys at your dojo, make sure you can trust their control, and ask them if they would like to pick up the intensity in sparring. That should give you the buzz your looking for.
sensei8 Posted June 6, 2011 Posted June 6, 2011 Want to fight? OK...competition fighting or a real fight?Competition fighting has pads and rules. Real fighting has no pads and no rules. Having said that, one would have to be prepared for the consequences that would follow either.Many say that they want to be in a real fight...well...that's until that person realizes the raw reality of it. To want to do it is not the same as actually doing it. **Proof is on the floor!!!
MasterPain Posted June 6, 2011 Posted June 6, 2011 Want to fight? OK...competition fighting or a real fight?Competition fighting has pads and rules. Real fighting has no pads and no rules. Having said that, one would have to be prepared for the consequences that would follow either.Many say that they want to be in a real fight...well...that's until that person realizes the raw reality of it. To want to do it is not the same as actually doing it. A real fight never occurred to me in this post. Violence is dumb and dangerous and should be avoided. My fists bleed death. -Akuma
datguy Posted June 7, 2011 Author Posted June 7, 2011 No, of course not a real fight. I've been in a "real fight" and it's nothing to be proud of. Those who WANT a real fight are often those who have mental illnesses and/or end up in prison. I mean like competition. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
bushido_man96 Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 No, of course not a real fight. I've been in a "real fight" and it's nothing to be proud of. Those who WANT a real fight are often those who have mental illnesses and/or end up in prison. I mean like competition.I don't think there is anything wrong with padding up and throwing down with other like minded individuals in a controlled setting. Some people like this kind of contact, and some not so much. I've got a brother who used to be like that. He probably still is, but just can't do it as much now. I think its healthy and normal. https://www.haysgym.comhttp://www.sunyis.com/https://www.aikidoofnorthwestkansas.com
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