Why I can't fight like I train?

Thanks. To steal a phrase from the movie Deer Hunter, "This is this. This ain't something else. This is THIS."

"This" throws real speed punches and can adjust to throwing superman speed punches for over-speed training.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaLu7M_7h7o

Keeping to the subject of this thread, whenever I box against the robots being tired, angry, happy, over-loaded with bad news, etc, and I dwell at all with that affecting my focus, I can tell immediately because I am getting hit too much and I'm not hitting accurately. The robots didn't change, I did. My MIND did. As soon as I just focus leaving out any other thoughts, it becomes obvious how much less I'm getting hit and hitting the robots much more accurately.

rwarwa, it seems to me, proved to himself has the skill, but let other thoughts break his focus, and that's what he needs to get back. "Simply" focus. All other thoughts are screwing that up.

 

http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=477442

 

There are World Champions that cannot even control their minds. You have to be able to control your mind and that is done outside of the gym. Many people can get into the zone when they are in a comfortable place, its easy. You dont freakout when your at home sweet home reason being is because you feel comfort. You have to train your mind and this is done in confinement and on your own time. You can try to tame your mind at the gym but youre doing so many different things that you will never give 110% focus to the problems you have INSIDE of yourself. People seem to never care about the psychological part, the MOST IMPORTANT part of our lives. Let your last fight be a lesson, which is "If i cant control my mind, there is no way i can control his" if hes not going to give up, no matter how hard your right or left hands are or how big you are, you are going to lose. You keep your worth measured by your physical attributes and that my friend is why you beat yourself before the bell rings. Our physical capabilities are measured and limited but our mind and our spirit arent.

 

I think what you're struggling from is preparing mentally just b4 fights. You putting too much pressure on yourself to perform well. You burn a lot of energy worrying about the fight that when u come to the fight your mentally drained and jus want it over with. Your best bet is to figure out how u can get your mind off thinking too much about the fight. B4 fights u could sleep? Lists to music and zone out when your thoughts get intense? Have a friend with you that jus gives u constant encouragement leading up to fight time? Reassure yourself by shadow boxing technique drills? Going over drills in your mind keeping it counters and strategy and off winning or loosing. You could offer to spar sum1 in advance and leading up to the session jus think ov it as an competition. But tbh once you've had enough fights you'll be confident In your abilities and staying calm b4 fights jus becomes natural.

 

Ask yourself what is different with your beliefs, self talk, and overall attitude in sparring as opposed to competing. Do you think all day about sparring or not? Do you take yourself too seriously in general? For you is it the fear of losing, performing in front of people, what does "feel smaller" mean?

I work with anxieties all day long in my practice, some dealing with performance anxiety. It is difficult to assess what is happening over just a forum post.

Here is something very counterintuitive to what others will tell you, but I know I'm right. Fear is very common with fighters, this I know. The worst thing you can do is to deny it, and the best thing you can do is say "yeah I'm afraid, oh well," or (whatever you would say similar.) Cope with the fear is the optimal word, not fix.

 

I didn't see this. I think this is sound advice.:good

 

Haha I always wanted something just like that, but now that I see it, it so much suckier than I imagined... That guy was getting hit consistently by a goddamn robot throwing the same punches over and over again, and very slowly at that.... He needs to re evaluate his tactics... hahahahabbababaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

And to address the op: Just think to yourself "what is the worst thing that could happen"? What, you get knocked down, get knocked out? You lose a decision? Your identity shouldnt be wrapped up in this fight so much that its devastating if you lose...

Know that you've prepared appropriately, and there's no reason to think you won't do well. If you lose while doing your best, then you have no shame, nothing to be ashamed of. If you feel you should have pushed harder or tried harder or you didn't give 100%, you shouls feel bad.

There's no shame in losing and going out trying your hardest. You aren't really a "loser" then. You win your own lesson; you learned.

If you lose because you froze or you didn't prepare properly, shame on you. Learn from it.

I'll never forget the words of Mayweather's corner when Jr fought Corrales: "It ain't nothin but another day in the gym".... They had thw attitude that this was just another day at the gym sparring some guy... Nothing more. They clearly took it seriously, but not too seriously- this wasn't anything they haven't done before... A million times.

You've prepared, you have a right to win- this ain't nothin but but another day of training, and this dude wants to punk you....

Go.

 

Experience is key, and you're over thinking it.

You may feel 100% confident that you're going to win a fight when you're beating the **** out of a heavy bag with all your mates around you, but when it comes down to it you're going to be thrown into a situation you're not used to, that's enough to throw even top level fighters off.

The only way to get used to this is to put yourself into the situation repeatedly i.e have as many fights as you can until it just becomes another day. You need to get to the point that you don't even think about the fight at all. You seem to think of a fight as a major part of your life when really it means **** all.

 

As a robotics engineer, that **** is genius

May need to take up my own project. Real Steel anyone?