GMMA Instructor,Student,Fighter.: Commitments

I was slightly heavier than usual at the beginning of this week.
Still having very busy schedule of work and training I have managed to make it for Fridays bout.
Dropped down even more than I supposed to.
I shouldn't leave it to the last minute,it might affect my performance and I suppose is not healthy too. I should have remain my weight around the boxing weight to get less stress for my body and mind.
This is something that I am still learning about and improving.

But one thing I know for sure is that if I have agreed to take a challenge, if I have said I will.

I do really mean it.

With all the respect to myself,my hard work,my family and friends, my coaches (who share with me their knowledge,time and great heart) as well as to my opponents who put some effort in preparation for fight.

Seeing effort and hard work of my team Mates I can tell that we all have very similar attitude when it comes to the training and fighting.

We are exchanging our experience, encouraging and supporting each other at the hard times.

And what's very important we all understand our commitments as a fighters.

One of our boys caught some bad flu at the beginning of last week,one got some wrist injury.

The other boy just recovered from over trained shins problem...

Everyone has been leaving their lives and having some obstacles.

Very rarely everything works as we wish.

But we got to remember what we are doing it for and respect ourselves and others.

We can't just come up with excuses for our faults, it is not going to explain nothing and is not going help us in our lives.

As I have said before, fighting is not only "kick and punch game",it is much more.

To be a good fighter you need to be a man of a word. To others as well as to your own self.

You need to understand your commitments and being able to sacrifice certain things to make it work.

I have trained to the last minute, and reduced food and liquid intake couple days before the fight,even thought that I was working long hours on top of that.

So I have made it.

Am I special?!

Not at all. Most of my team mates would do exactly this same.

Unfortunately my opponent and couple of other fighters from rivals camps wouldn't.

So few of our fights got cancelled.

Am I upset?

Surely I am not happy as I do wanna fight to improve and test myself.

But there is plenty of other fights for me coming up.

And as long as I have done everything to make it,I do have peace of mind and can move on with preparation for next bout.

Which is in two weeks time.