Do martial arts make you a better fighter?

[Hemp6473]

Look I Have Been Taking It For Six Years The Whole Time That I Have Been In The Army. Shi T The Only Thing That Is On Our Uniform Is Army Nothing Else I Have Never Seen It Spelled

[hittman]

This may seem like a naive question, but today the question popped in my head.

Sure they make you more disciplined and give you a techinque, but can they build on what's is or isn't there?

A person is born with an inherent fighting ability that grows and matures based on their experiences, is it wrong to believe that a terrible fighter can take up Muay Thai, Wrestling, and BJJ and suddenly become the greatest fighter ever? Sure the techniques there, but it's how you use it right?

I'm posing this question because, well I've honestly been thinking about it and I'd like to get some other views.

It's my belief that superior technique can truimph over a good fighter on occassion, but if you put the best natural fighter in the world against the guy with the best fighting technique but with a "wimpy" mentality, who wins?

mentality > fitness > technique > ability

anyone who disagrees is a ****wit.

[poolshark472]

mentality > fitness > technique > ability

anyone who disagrees is a ****wit.

I don't know, in my opinion fitness and technique go hand in hand. Today i grappled with a kid who's been out of it for over 6 months but has been training for the past 4 years, and has been smoking and eating fast food for the past half a year, and I only started training almost 2 months ago, and I'm in excellent shape. He submitted me 3 times over the course of 5 minutes.

[hittman]

I don't know, in my opinion fitness and technique go hand in hand. Today i grappled with a kid who's been out of it for over 6 months but has been training for the past 4 years, and has been smoking and eating fast food for the past half a year, and I only started training almost 2 months ago, and I'm in excellent shape. He submitted me 3 times over the course of 5 minutes.

which means he's learned the mental part.

that or you're not as fit as you think

[poolshark472]

which means he's learned the mental part.

that or you're not as fit as you think

well what do you mean by mentality, actual knowledge of the game or just the mental will to keep goin after it during a fight?

[hittman]

well what do you mean by mentality, actual knowledge of the game or just the mental will to keep goin after it during a fight?

he has developed that mentality of heart

1. quit
2. push through

trust me, it's so much easier to quit. but people with experience often only have that 2nd option because they know what it takes to win. the other night i did 12 minutes straight of flat out punching/uppercuts/hooks, normal rounds, and grappling with no break. halfway thru i was like oh god **** this **** is hard... but then i thought of my opponent who could be training harder and got a second wind and ended up finishing strong. if you can unlock your potential you can go so much further.

[Chett]

There are two 5th-grade boys. One is very small, wimpy, etc. The other is almost a head taller, muscular, "hard as a rock", even works out, and so on. They are friends. When they wrestle, the bigger one always wins. When they put on boxing gloves and sparred, the bigger one almost knocked out the smaller one. The question is, can it be said with 100% certainty that somehow the smaller kid could find a way to physically hurt the bigger kid? And how?

why the **** did you resurrect this ****ing thread?

[delta9]

why the **** did you resurrect this ****ing thread?

hahaha