Last Saturday the 30th of April, nine of our GMMA Academy students from Gukwoone Martial arts classes as well as GuruMuayThai fighters have took part in great kickboxing show which took place in Tottenham / North London.
Event that had been organised by great and passionate instructors and promoters from "Martial Way" and "Scorpion Kickboxing " gyms also from London.
Event that had been organised by great and passionate instructors and promoters from "Martial Way" and "Scorpion Kickboxing " gyms also from London.
"A night of kickboxing" competition was dedicated to complete beginners and junior Martial artists mainly. It was a great, friendly and safe place to test the skills and to get the feeling of stepping into the ring for our young athletes.
We had some wins, we had some losses and we did get one draw.
It was great lesson for our fighters as well as for all the team and myself as a coach.
It was great lesson for our fighters as well as for all the team and myself as a coach.
At the end of yesterdays GuruMuayThai class we have asked those who were fighting at the show to present their trophies and share their experience with rest of the class.
All three of them have agreed that stepping into the ring is much different to what we are used to while training in the class.
It is much different even to intense sparring that we practise every now and then.
Bilal, one of the adult performers has said "My mind went completely blank".
And I think that was a very honest and accurate explanation to what happens when you step into the ring for the first few times in most of the cases.
Fighting with another skilled and hungry of glory individual in front of the crowd of people, possibly some of our friends and relatives, brings a lot of mind chatter and takes our nervous system to a whole new level.
It takes us while to learn how to control our emotions and to realise that our main opponent or saying more correctly obstacle is not the one standing in opposite corner. It is the one within our own selves in our minds.
That's why I would recommend to everyone who is practising martial arts to test themselves on a competition level.
I believe that; we can only achieve the full use of our physical skills when we learn how to control our mind. Only then, countless hours of training our technique is going to bring the best possible effect.
It is a big circle of abilities that comes with experience like the one we had last Saturday.
We slowly learn how to focus on our performance, on our opponents strengths and weaknesses, while looking for his mistakes that we can use to bring the outcome on our side. The communication and cooperation with our team and coaches and coaches becomes clearer. We begin to concentrate on our own strengths and abilities rather than what we are lacking of.
Our confidence and self esteem also grows. What is going to help us in every day's life situations. Especially when under the pressure, when being bullied or attacked.
It gives us supremacy of self control over those without that experience. What is going to help us make better decisions and stay calmer.
“Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.”
Mike Tyson
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Krystian Ozog
Fighter/Instructor, GMMA Academy       |
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