Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Art and Science of Professional Fighting

The look in his eyes is one of primal rage. Unbridled testosterone and adrenaline surge and make your body light. Your heartbeat increases, your breathing is shallow and fast, and non essesntial processes such as digestive systems are shut down.

Your heartrate increases and blood courses through your veins, your stomache is filled with butterflies and your legs feel like jelly. You have a prepared feeling mixed with nervousness and anticipation. As sweat drips down your face, you look across at a man who wants to hurt you, injure you, maim you. His only goal is to cause your defeat at his hands. As he flexes his muscles and prepares to attack you, all you can think about is: have I trained hard enough, have I increased my skill since the last time we fought?

These are the thoughts racing through your head if you are a professional fighter about to engage in a rematch against a bitter rival.

Pitted against another human for prize money, you are encouraged to defeat, submit, knockout or even maim the other opponent on your way to victory. Winning means money, fame, glory, women. Losing could mean means bruises, black eyes, broken bones, torn ligaments.

Since the beginning of time, man has attempted to assert his dominance over other males by means of grappling, fighting and competitions. The oldest sport fighting was called pancreas, and actually had its own games in the original Olympics of ancient Greece. Nowadays, modern fighting has turned into an absolute science.

With million of dollars in prize money, sponsorships and advertising, sport fighting has moved from the cave floors to arenas packed with thousands of admiring fans.

Make no mistake, professional fighting has moved past its caveman beginnings and turned into a professional sport, raking in millions of dollars each year and exponentially increasing in popularity.

Training camps are designed and fighters go through every necessary preparation to make sure that they are prepared for battle. A small fraction of skill can decide outcome of one of the matches that can change a career, drop a contract, and be the difference of thousands or even millions of dollars. Fighters, coaches and camps have a vested interest in improving their skill in not just a rudimentary or lackadaisical fashion. Skill must be improved as a science. That's what we do, at science of Skill.

Source: http://leisure.ezinemark.com/the-art-and-science-of-professional-fighting-18dccfeb95b.html

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