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[JowGaWolf]

 

[windwalker099]

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Missed the point

"Fighters" train according to their attributes...
In most cases weight, reach and fight records are matched...
BB weighed in at 300lb / 136 kg... lot of mass for someone to contend with.
Most of his adversaries weighing in at 220 and 250

Professional fighter's train to fight other fighters of equal attributes..

 

[JowGaWolf]

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I actually have found it to be the other way around. People who don't look atheletic often surprise people how atheletic they are.

My biggest inspiration and why I wanted to play basketball better was due to a guy in his mid 50's taking us teenagers to school on the court. Dude was highly skilled and very grey. He struggled but he still beat the brakes off us. lol. He had an unstoppable hook shot.

 

[windwalker099]

Fighters do not condition for "health"
they condition for fighting, regardless of health concerns...

CMA of old was much the same,
fighting was the primary concern, not health.

Of course losing could be said to be very un-healthy...

In front of Hai Tung Monastery, Wong set up an elevated stage known as a leitai to accept challenges from any and all comers. Over the course of eighteen days, he defeated over one hundred and fifty challengers. “Either the challenger was maimed or killed,” noted Chin. “He never let one challenger leave his school without injury.

 

[JowGaWolf]

People will always amaze me and shift my reality on what I thought I knew. Things that we thing are the exception are often shown to be more common than we thought.

 

[JowGaWolf]

Do you think. fighting is a healthy sport ?
Fighters condition for "health"

No and yes.

So fighting is not healthy. The purpose is to damage the other person without being damage. The only health part about fighting is being able to avoid the damage and stop the other person from attacking you.

Fighter's conditioning is something different. This can be done without the damage. Sparring can be done without the damage. Actually if I had the guts I would make a sparring fitness class. But because people don't know how to act I won't be doing it. One of most physically enjoyable workouts I have is sparring. But you have to do this with someone who isn't about winning. Your sparring partner has to be the type of person who will tell you to take a break when you reach your cardio limit. Tired punches are sloppy punches and only rest will improve them.

CMA of old was much the same,
fighting was the primary concern, not health.

For the most part it's still the same. It's just people focus more on the training aspects and not the fighting aspects. It's like training boxing and doing everything a boxer does except the sparring and fighting. That is still health activity.