How well would a "weekend warrior" do in a MT tournament?

[koto_ryu]

Just remember a good saying by Floyd Patterson: "90% of fighting is conditioning." If you're not properly conditioned for it, you're probably going to get beat up.

[MuayThaiFighter]

QUOTE=mma_fan81]Hahahahahahahha! This is why people say Taekwondo sucks. You can get killed and still win on points somehow. For example, your opponent may land a hard side kick and crack your ribs (2 points). You pay him back by landing 3 weak pussy punches to his ribs (3 points)! So you're winning!! HAHAHAHA

Yep,so true.

Well why not? might as well be like that since they can become a master of TKD after only 2yrs.which is stupid in itself so why not look stupid in tournaments by winning by stupid points that mean shit? What's the difference really for them.Competitions or not they think they're hot shit with their fancy black belt when it took such a short time to get it and really means nothing.

Getting a black belt in 2yrs.is like saying to others " see I'm better then you guys because I got my black belt in a shorter time" What a freaking joke and then they want to go open their own school,to me that is lame.

They're supposed to use the concept of "trembling shock" for the strikes but in tournament you never see it used.[/QUOTE]

Yep,so true.

Most styles never really use much of what they learn in class when it comes to tournaments.That is why I like Muay Thai,what we learn in class we also use in competitions and can use in a real situation if we have to.

[koto_ryu]

Even with broken bones and nasty injuries fighters have still won fights, so it's not like you crack his ribs and it's over. Remember, Jess Willard got knocked down seven times by Dempsey in the first round alone and had tons of broken bones, but he still managed to last into the fourth round. Bob Fitzsimmons covered his hand wraps in plaster and shredded Jim Jeffries' face to pieces with it (a flap of skin even hanging over Jeffries' left eye) but Jeffries still won that fight by KOing Fitz.

[academian]

nice

[Infinite1]

It's funny how some people expect that if they don't give it 100% they think they'll win....I don't think so....I'm kind of a weekend warrior myself...Since i travel for business quite often i tend to not make it to MT practice till the weekends...Even though i can only do that amount of practice IN THE GYM does not mean i don't practice at home, hotel room, hotel gym..i still do shadowboxing at the least or conditioning....I myself am not trying to join the tourneys b/c of lack of training time. One thing i can say is i do like martial arts so i do practice....and when i have time to practice 5-7 days a week i will join tourney's but for now it's not feasible...So dude if i were you don't even think about it....unless you're into being a human punching bag. What's the old saying? Ahhh yes...."Practice makes Perfect"

[swisscom]

mmm, I goto class 3 times a week. I think with a little more practice i'll be fine in tournaments.

[Enzo566]

yeah im in the gym about3-4 times a week, and i workout 6 days a week.....

but im new to MT, so it will be a while before i really see my true potential.

[medic06]

I have a question for you,why do MT or any martial arts at all if you are not going to take it serious?

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How about training for the joy of it?

[Timberwolf]

This is quite shocking!

Sometime in the far distant future I may decide to enter a tournament (just a small one). I don't take my MT very seriously, I don't train much at home and I only go once a week (sometimes not even that). I'd like to know how well you think I could do. I would only enter to test myself and because I would get a trophy to show off to people (I think you get one just for participating).

I almost look forward to seeing you in the ER soon. I sure hope your opponents who are serious about MT don't know you see training as not so important. I can almost guarantee a trophy will not be in your future in this case. testing yourself however is a good thing. I hope you see from testing yourself that training is a lot more important than you are taking it. As with anything I would advise taht if you don't take MT seriously then get out of the sport!

[BANG's Protégé]

I think that it depends on who your trainer is. I trained last summer for 3 months 5 or 6 days a week. Now I just train every weekend. Its been a while sense I have been on this forum and I don't know how many people are still a member to this forum sense I was last here but my last name was "MUAYTHAIGUY". I was probly a little cocky or probibly really cocky. But i am 16 now and my uncle has tought me so much sense then. I am only training on the weekends because I have school and I don't live with my unlce and there ain't a gym within a 20 mile radious. but i think that training with him makes up for the whole week or at least a few days out of the week that I miss training. I am still happy about his knockout in the UFC over Goulet and I am wonderung why they didn't give him the quickest ko in ufc history which was 4 seconds because that is when goulet was already on the ground and the ref inbeetween. But none the less 11 seconds is still quick.

[gabbah]

So you get to train with Duane Ludvig? Yeah that will probably make up for you only training on weekends, you lucky son of a...
But later on you will need to sparr against people on your own level. It's important to sparr different people, not just the same all the time.

And yeah that was an awesome knockout! You could clearly see the skill Duane has over his opponent in the stand up game as he moves diagonally backwards and the counter punches, very fun to see indeed!