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Originally Posted by scors77
I believe all what you have said. I was thinking about that the other day too... about being scared or tense and you won't be fast. That cripples me in fighting then. Because I get shaky and tense when I get scared. It's almost not normal to stay relaxed in a street fight with a stranger unless you are fighting with a friend or you've had lots of experience and learned to control it quickly. I've asked my doctor about this, the tense and shaky's. He says that's just the way I'm built. So I guess I'm crippled in this area of fighting, damn.
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Scors, if your doctor is not a fighter, you shouldn't believe his comment about that just being the way you're built.
Everyone is scared and tense in the ring (or fighting) at first, it is unnatural to be relaxed when someone else is trying to hit you, and even more unnatural to stay relaxed even after you've been hit! In a way you have to completely re-train your reptilian brain, the one that's evolved for millions of years to dump "I'm scared, save me" messages onto you, to instead learn that it will stay safer it if backs off and lets you do you thing ... and that takes a little time and experience. You are starting exactly where every single one of us starts, and you
can train your way out of that. I'm not a doctor, but I'm right and your doctor is wrong. Just getting time doing alive-style drills and, more importantly, sparring will get you there, little by little. Eventually, when you step in the ring it won't be a scary place, it will be a place you've spent hours and hours, it will be your office, and you will be comfortable there and just go to work when it's time. If you're a beginner, skill work and sparring time (assuming you're at a level where you can spar, otherwise work towards that) are 90% of what will speed up your reflexes, anything you do outside of that will be noise and, as I said, that outside speed work won't even show up in the ring or in a fight if you're not also working the other important skills.