Why I can't fight like I train?

Keep on fighting! Don't worry about it so much, its only an amauter fight, you do them to gain experience and get better. Record doesn't matter in the ams, just learn, have fun gain experience and you will improve. Winning will then become more of a habit.

I also would go to other gyms for sparring if you can. This is similar to fighting because your in an unfamilar place with a new person.

 

What do you think about while you train? While hitting the heavy bag, for example, or while shadow boxing? A lot of times, while training, a guy's mind gets to wandering and his body is going through the routines by rote. Then, when he fights, and his mind has to focus, it focuses on the wrong things. This will paralyze you.
You train your mind like you do your body. When you are hitting the heavy bag, you aren't just throwing punches, you are fighting the bag. You visualize an opponent throwing a punch at you, you avoid it, counter get out, etc...And all the time you are talking to yourself in your head, what 'he' is trying to do to you, what you are doing in return. Same thing when you are shadowboxing, or hitting any other bag. Or on the mitts; your coach should not be leading you through planned out routines, but through scenarios where you have to think.
That is how you get your mind to focus and to let you fight your fight.

 

It's funny, when I say to people the same thing you said here, I get ignored. Why? I guess it's because I box against a robot and not humans.

For years and years I hit speed bags, heavy bags, DE bags, weights, etc, and I can't complain because it sure helped me in street fights. But street and ring, although they have some things the same, are actually quite different. And I admit, so is a robot compared to a human. That being said, a robot can teach things in a way a human can't, and vise versa.

In regard to focus, back to what you mentioned here, just hitting bags, mitts, etc, is extremely different from hitting something that hits back at random. Your thoughts make all the difference. In an environment such as boxing, there is constant adapting to changes. Your mind can think what it's about to do, and sometimes it can, sometimes only part of it can, or sometimes things changed a moment before where none of it can.

Just hitting bags, etc, only trains your mind for what IT'S going to do.

If ANY other thoughts get in the way of your focus, then a lesser opponent who stays mainly focused can beat you.

 

:scaredas: plz show us sparring against robot, plz!!! i want to see that, i cant believe it exists..

or i figured something wrong :huh

 

That is exactly right, you train your mind for what it is going to do. And that is also how you teach it, or begin to teach your mind, to react in a positive way to what an opponent does, or might do.
And nothing/nobody hits back at random; over time you find out that boxing can be fairly predictable in its actions and reactions. Unless dealing with a very raw boxer, which is why you'll sometimes see a real skilled guy have a rough round or two with somebody that doesn't know what they are doing.

 

And where does one acquire a boxing robot?

I heard of fighters sparring with kangaroos. Either that, or the Thai man sitting beside me during a recent flight was totally BSing me.

But a robot?

 

Nevermind, I found one...lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FedXZvRK4-M&feature=player_embedded

...carry on then.....

 

I joined this forum to learn and contribute in an honest way. In joining, my goal is not to promote my device. If you want, I will do a video and send you the link in a PM.

If you're looking for what I said it is, it is. If you're looking for what a human does exactly, it isn't.

To give you the concept of what it does in relationship to a human punch, this vid shows that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYDo7ziAws

 

Highly agree. But, I also agree with Micheal J. White when he says that most people are taught to throw a flawed punch. They have no regard on how much of a tel' they are giving, nor do they seem to care.

It should not be that predictable and I often see reactions slower than what they should be.

 

The good news is, you're not "losing your mind". It's just that your mind is losing its focus. Your skills are still there.

I am NO expert at controlling how I feel. At times I feel confident and brave, and other times about frozen with fear and doubt. Call me nuts, but what I've learned, they're just feelings, and the MOST important thing is though it all, just force your brain to focus.

Your brain can only think one thing at a time. You can "trick" your brain into doing that despite what your feelings are.

 

C'mon man you can't be a boxer if you don't even believe in yourself. Gain some confidence by conquering some of your fears whether it be heights, darkness and isolation, or insects. Fill a bathtub with insects and go inside, go into middle of a dark forest in the night, go ride in a hot air balloon. If you can conquer some of your fears you won't be afraid to box.

 

sorry man but this is shitty advice..

dark forest in the night? or some mother****er who wanna take your head off...

you think that pro boxer is not scared sometimes?

this is nice! give us more