Quote: (01-24-2018 01:27 AM)Quizzical_2 Wrote:
On one hand, I imagine serious weight lifting will make you feel stronger, fit, energetic, etc. but on the other, MA's give you confidence in knowing that you can beat up pretty much anyone and you're the toughest guy in the room.
In a hypothetical scenario, where you had to pick one or another, which would you choose?
Yes, every activity will boost your self esteem and confidence, also photography can do, indeed some activities in particular sports will help more.
Now I play both MMA and weightlifting/crossfit, and sometime swimming.
I played kick boxing, boxe, and BJJ.
Not all martial arts or combat sport are the same, they will develop different areas of your personality.
From my experience I can say kick boxing develops more aggressiveness, boxe aggressiveness too but also resistance and strategy. Kick boxing has less strategy than boxing.
Grappling or BJJ develop a strong mental resistance, since fighting like that is a torture, is like playing a chess game while suffering a lot. Roosh wrote my same considerations in his blogs...
As the other user wrote, boxing, MMA, kick boxing are very funny but while sprarring you may get a lot of head trauma, and yeah you can feel like after an hangover. With BJJ no head trauma, just a lot of body injuries... I can say they all make you feel stronger, 80% of combat sport is mental. A good fighter doesn't quit, I mean fighter like Joe Calzaghe (one of the best) or Tyson in his early years. I read the 2 books from Tyson, before becoming a champion he was a weak and low self esteem guy that was bullied, at the begging of his carrer he used to cry a lot before going in the ring. He made the same before his first professional boxing match, 1 year later he would win the world title... seems funny to imagine but was like that ..... so these sports with a good trainer can make you mentally stronger.