There are basically three kinds of people that entered the early UFC.
From weakest to most successful.
1. Martial Artists
2. Tough Guys
3. Athletes
A fun exercise would be to go back and look at the old school UFCs and categorize each fighter into the three types of martial artist, tough guy, and athlete.
A martial artist is a regular person that has martial art skills.
A martial artist can beat a regular person that has no martial arts skills.
A tough guy will beat a martial artist because a tough guy is not a regular person, on top of that they have street fighting skills.
So let's say that the street fighting skills and martial arts skills cancel each other out, all that's left is a tough guy versus a regular person.
This is why the tough guy wins.
Some people will say that martial arts skills are better than street fighting skills but they are underestimating street fighting skills.
Martial arts skills may encompass a larger wealth of knowledge but much of that may not directly affect the actual combat.
Martial artists learn things like philosophy, history, spirituality, health, and teaching skills.
At the end of the day the athlete reigns supreme because they are tough, have skills, and have a much higher work ethic and ability to perform than the others.
They are a small percentage of the population.
Just think of how difficult it is to become a professional.
1. High school athlete competing in state level
2. College athlete, competing in the national level
3. Olympic athlete, competing in the world level
4. Professional athlete
Now that tale doesn't end there, you have to consider what I'm about to say next.
Most people can do martial arts, it was designed for the average person.
Martial arts was made for everyone to learn and practice, that is the strength and it's weakness.
Let's talk about tough guys, not everyone is a tough guy, not everyone can be a tough guy.
This is a person that knows they are above the average person in someway shape or form.
This is like someone that can demonstrate feats of strength.
Professional wrestlers to me either are ex-athletes or tough guys, one things for sure they are not normal people.
Unlike a martial arts studio that is open to everyone, a gym is looking for someone that has the rare potential to become a successful competitor.
They are looking for the next star that is going to put their gym on the map.
So the lesson here is that you start as a regular person.
Learn martial arts and become a martial artist.
Then try to become tougher and tougher.
Then try to become as close as possible to an athlete as you can.
If you want to know how good you are, just compare yourself to what an athlete does everyday.
From weakest to most successful.
1. Martial Artists
2. Tough Guys
3. Athletes
A fun exercise would be to go back and look at the old school UFCs and categorize each fighter into the three types of martial artist, tough guy, and athlete.
A martial artist is a regular person that has martial art skills.
A martial artist can beat a regular person that has no martial arts skills.
A tough guy will beat a martial artist because a tough guy is not a regular person, on top of that they have street fighting skills.
So let's say that the street fighting skills and martial arts skills cancel each other out, all that's left is a tough guy versus a regular person.
This is why the tough guy wins.
Some people will say that martial arts skills are better than street fighting skills but they are underestimating street fighting skills.
Martial arts skills may encompass a larger wealth of knowledge but much of that may not directly affect the actual combat.
Martial artists learn things like philosophy, history, spirituality, health, and teaching skills.
At the end of the day the athlete reigns supreme because they are tough, have skills, and have a much higher work ethic and ability to perform than the others.
They are a small percentage of the population.
Just think of how difficult it is to become a professional.
1. High school athlete competing in state level
2. College athlete, competing in the national level
3. Olympic athlete, competing in the world level
4. Professional athlete
Now that tale doesn't end there, you have to consider what I'm about to say next.
Most people can do martial arts, it was designed for the average person.
Martial arts was made for everyone to learn and practice, that is the strength and it's weakness.
Let's talk about tough guys, not everyone is a tough guy, not everyone can be a tough guy.
This is a person that knows they are above the average person in someway shape or form.
This is like someone that can demonstrate feats of strength.
Professional wrestlers to me either are ex-athletes or tough guys, one things for sure they are not normal people.
Unlike a martial arts studio that is open to everyone, a gym is looking for someone that has the rare potential to become a successful competitor.
They are looking for the next star that is going to put their gym on the map.
Being an athlete is so difficult that most people can't be a life long athlete, or at the very least keep training at a high level for many years.
So the lesson here is that you start as a regular person.
Learn martial arts and become a martial artist.
Then try to become tougher and tougher.
Then try to become as close as possible to an athlete as you can.
If you want to know how good you are, just compare yourself to what an athlete does everyday.
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