Expert: Jack Rose - 6/5/2006

Question
In a fight should you gt aggresive stay calm, or get angry?


Thanks,
Justin

Answer
Justin,   a great question!

It's really all about controlled aggression. You always want to be the aggressive fighter as it is very difficult to win any fight if your backing up. But there's two kinds of aggression: anger and intensity. You want the intensity but not the anger. Anger doesn't allow you to think about what your doing, your only performing on a natural gut reaction. If your under control then you can actually think about what your going to do DURING the fight. I would descibe it as a quiet confidence. YOU will keep the pressure on, YOU will make him move where you want him to go and YOU will dictate the pace of the fight by intiating the action, punching first and moving forward as you do. You want him to react to what you do and not the other way around.
Now, with that being said, I'm not implying a fight has never been won out of anger because it does happen. But those are always short fights. Anger is only good for a few seconds and if your lucky enough to catch the guy with a pissed off barrage of punches then you might take the fight but if you don't, your going to be in trouble the rest of the fight because you've drained yourself of energy, your punches have no more steam and you go quickly from being mad to being scared because you feel helpless.

thanks for the great question,
Jack "bnimble"
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