WAYS IN WHICH FIGHT CLUB IMPROVES KICKBOXING

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Fight club though an old concept, still has the thrills and chills of yester years not to mention the macho tag it seems to inflict into any one’s head! Imagine standing on a fight mat facing an opponent who may or may not be larger or faster or stronger or even more conditioned than you!!!!

The Bangalore fight club is hosted by the Koromangala branch of Independent Shootfighters Inc. Here many fighters of different calibres and different martial art forms and styles gather to test out their ability and metal. All are welcome however, if they have the true heart of a warrior. It has never been said that only a martial artist knows how to fight. The true fighters are actually those who’d have the courage to stand up even after getting knocked down…

The only way to know how true a fighter you are is to try out what you know with different styles of fighters to know where your lacking and therefore to develop an all round fighting style.

There are many ways in which fight club helps, some of them are:-

• When in fight club you get to experience different fight styles so when attacked even by a martial artist you tend to understand the way an attack has been used to render it effective.
• Since losing can be disheartening, you get to understand how to lose gracefully and also understanding that losing is the stepping stone to winning, when you lose gracefully you will also understand how you lost as opposed to getting angry over losing and getting the ego involved.
• The human ego is the biggest one can find but it’s divided into the male ego and the female ego. The male ego is a lot larger than the female ego- as the female ego has been subdued for centuries!! Here you will learn to leave your ego out of a fight as it helps to not get all rattled up during a fight.
• When calm and collected one can think of a hundred different things to do in case one is attacked. It helps you understand that every time you panic, you have lost the battle then and there. Though, it has been told in all classes and seminars conducted by shootfighters, that the key to any successful fight is to stay calm – you understand the true meaning of staying calm only after a couple of fights.
• MEN ARE STRONGER THAN WOMEN as the age old yarn is spun even today, at the fight club many a woman has vanquished the “stronger” sex! So we disperse a lot of myths built over the centuries!
• To learn is to falter, to falter is to try… in fight club every one fights, there is no winner or loser in the fight club, it is your spirit that tells you whether you have won or lost- in other words everyone wins no one loses.
• As I’ve stressed time and again that fight club is a learning experience, therefore all fights are video recorded and uploaded on you tube for the fighters to watch, observe and understand how they were overcome and so learn to adapt moves differently so as not to commit the same mistake in a real life situation.
• Of course there is the fun side to it as well, where friends come together to fight, and there is also the bit where one can make a whole bunch of new friends who share the same passion. So you actually open up your social circle.
• Practise makes perfect, but the question arises: “on whom can I practise these sometimes lethal moves on??” that is where fight club helps as well!!

To be a true martial artist does not mean one looks for a fight but a true martial artist means one never having to look for one as one has the means to get by it! Of course I can go on and on about the fight club but it is something that has to be experienced 1^st hand so come on over and fight to never fight again!!