9 lessons to learn from a fight club cage

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

By joining a fight club, you will not only fight and improve as a fighter, but you will also receive lessons that can be applied to any kind of fight and in life in general.

Most often, finding a fight club is easy. I once scored “fight club in Minsk” in a search engine, looked through the reviews, looked for what was better and closer to home. I went to a trial workout and after that I didn't look for anything. Yes, not everywhere will be the same octagon (an octagonal cage in which fights take place according to the rules of mixed martial arts), but the main thing is that there are guys who love and know how to fight, are ready to learn something and teach what they can do themselves. These are the guys who taught me the following lessons.

1. There really is no limit to perfection

I came to fight club when I was already in shape and did not feel progress in my first beloved Street Workout. On my first visit, I had one wish: that all this would be over as soon as possible. Everyone around me was doing some incredible things that I, in principle, could repeat, but did not understand how one could not get tired of so many repetitions. I was exhausted after the warm-up.

Over time, I have seen the same reaction from all newbies. Admirable glances were already falling on me as well. At the fight club, I at least got what I came for - progress and improvement. Progress that truly has no boundaries.

2. Wherever you are, you have to show your worth and earn respect

I came there alone. Six months passed before I was able to communicate on equal terms with the best fighters of the club, with these veterans, whom in the first days it was even necessary to approach with caution. It also took them time to understand what I am capable of, to see the potential in me and to accept me into their “circle”.

Regardless of where you find yourself, you have to position yourself correctly, force yourself to be treated with respect.

3. Learn to adapt to the situation, rather than memorize scripts

The fact that you are fighting one on one with a professional fighter is already a non-standard situation. At least for the first time. Fight Club teaches you how to find solutions to problems that need to be dealt with faster than they have time to appear. At the same time, standard schemes and scenarios do not work here: it will not be possible to come to an agreement in the cage, and each new fighter offers you new tactics, to which you have to adapt your own skills.

4. You will have to start over many times

New techniques, new opponents, new circumstances, numerous injuries and recovery, weight loss and weight gain, unfamiliar tactics of warfare - these are the novelties that you come across during a fight even when it seems that you will not learn anything new.

5. We are not who we seem

There are really different people coming to fight club. From neat office clerks to morose freaks. In a fight club, a person discovers those traits of his personality that do not appear in everyday life. Outwardly vicious and frightening "monsters" of fighting without rules sometimes turned out to be tactful and courteous people, and puny programmers turned into ruthless warriors before our very eyes.

Any soufflé can call itself pumped up.

Tyler Durden x / f "Fight Club"

Often, guys with big biceps who have just come to the club get a good beat from outwardly much less impressive fighters. You look at all this and you understand how deceiving the appearance can be.

6. Learn to take a punch

Mohammed Ali missed the blows. Missed Mike Tyson. Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor missed. You will be missing too.

And it's not just the fight. Things can't go smoothly. You will fall, break limbs, lose. It is an essential element of growth. So learn to take a punch. Are you beaten and there is no way to stop it? Be patient. Do your friends betray you? Be patient. Problems at work? Be patient and keep looking for a solution.

7. You are able to change yourself

Fight club changed me. This was noticed by all my relatives. The way of life has changed, the attitude towards people and things, towards food, towards oneself has changed. These changes affected my relationships and my success at work. I have changed - and changed for the better. This is the only way to understand that it is really possible.

Plus, I've become more productive. I got involved in all this and could no longer give up. I’ll say more: I’m hooked on it. In addition to fights, I needed to keep up with work, I had a personal life and some plans for the future. I had to become more efficient. I just had no choice.

8. Go for more

You underestimate yourself too often. I know this because I have experienced the same. “I’m not fit for this”, “fighting is not for me”, “this opponent is too strong”, “this technique is too difficult” - this will constantly pop up in the mind. It's the same at work, in long-term plans, in personal life. My advice: try it. And when you start to succeed, and it will definitely start, you will realize that you have in vain underestimated yourself.

I am the same as you. I just believed in myself a little more.

9. There is no perfect moment

If I hadn’t realized this, I wouldn’t be fighting in fight club now. Why? Because now I have study, work, family and "I am very busy." There is simply no better moment than right now. His existence is nothing more than another illusion.

Joining a fight club is one of those decisions that will change your life once and for all. It happened to me. This happened to many of my acquaintances.

Here I have shared the lessons I learned from this decision for myself. You can have your own.