Voicing My Thoughts 1
Seen two Tiktok pages that really stood out to me. One a amateur with lost of fire and another that shadowboxes a lot, seemingly very experienced. The First, to me, seem to brute strength in what fights they shared on their page. Using their psychical stature and strength to not feel weak in the beginner stages of learning martial arts. I'll expound - Many people tend to skip steps when learning a martial art, at least those that are connected to a sport. Within 4 months of training they are already fighting.
"And I think many of us are going to rush to skip over these levels and get into the uh um into the fight for and why that is is perhaps a deeper a deeper uh issue than u I study Shaolin or I study Tai Chi or I study um uh arise. It's more like there's a fear of seeming weak and a fear of losing. Yes. And the greatest philosophies of of mankind tell us to to confront this fear and know it and not to deny it." ~ Roberto Sharpe
So even though the person mention above post articles or graphs that depict accurate knowledge a fighter should focus on, but their fights and training show otherwise. The hit the pads and fight with so much power, not realizing you can get x times the amount of reps in hitting soft, burning those techniques into your muscles. But this is also a focus on philosophy and how that person sees what is necessary to win a fight. Do they see it as "I'm a dog! Ima go in there and knock them out!!!" or do they say "Let's approach this fight & training in a intelligent manner." So does the person reinforce what they learn in the gym through drills, language, film study, philosophy, conversations etc. It's one thing to talk about it's another to drill it.
Onto the second person. They post many clips of them shadow boxing or teaching these "elaborate" techniques so to most they can seem like a "great" fighter. But Roberto Sharpe had a great quote:
"You can go to the a boxing gym and see a wonderful shadow boxer. But is he the champion of the gym?"
Reinforcing what you learn is a important aspect to "unlearn what you've you learned" and to also hammer into your head your philosophy and what you study.
