RE: Marginalized sports
August 1, 2019 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2019 at 7:06 pm by EgoDeath.)
You're just wrong. Combat doesn't only take one form. That you want to brag about being in a 'superior' or 'truer' form of combat doesn't stop fist-fighting from being combat. Even fist-fighting with gloves.
At the base of most, if not all competitions is a sort of aggression of wanting to defeat or dominate the other person or group of people. Basketball players display this aggression very openly. American Football players even more so. This aggression is, at it's base, that want, or possibly need, to dominate other people physically. If I beat you in a game of basketball one-on-one, I have physically out-performed you within the specific set of parameters of what performance means in basketball.
My point was that fighting is a much more direct way of expressing this aggression, and fighters have to overcome that fear of facing an opposer that is actually physically displaying that aggression toward them in a very direct way. You don't have to worry about getting 'dunked on,' you have to worry about getting knocked out or having your arm snapped or getting choked unconscious. In our civilized (debatable) society, the UFC , and organizations like it, are as close as we can get to a legally sanctioned form of something that's like (though a lot unlike) what used to occur in the days of gladiators fighting one another in an arena. It is legally sanctioned combat. Period. That's not something that's up for debate, and it's not overshadowed by the fact that you seem to want to get into a pissing contest about who REALLY knows what combat is.
Unlike you, I don't care about what it is that 'tough' people are doing. My point was that expressing that aggression through basketball or football is sort of beside the point, which is why I have much more respect for the direct expression of that aggression via physical combat. I think it's tough to get over that fear of being hit, though it's completely natural. Basketball or football seems like beating around the bush to me, which is part of why I have little interest in watching it.
I highly doubt you've ever been shot at or seen real combat. But, hey who knows? And if that's the story your sticking to..uh, cool? You wouldn't last a minute in a ring with even an amateur fighter.
At the base of most, if not all competitions is a sort of aggression of wanting to defeat or dominate the other person or group of people. Basketball players display this aggression very openly. American Football players even more so. This aggression is, at it's base, that want, or possibly need, to dominate other people physically. If I beat you in a game of basketball one-on-one, I have physically out-performed you within the specific set of parameters of what performance means in basketball.
My point was that fighting is a much more direct way of expressing this aggression, and fighters have to overcome that fear of facing an opposer that is actually physically displaying that aggression toward them in a very direct way. You don't have to worry about getting 'dunked on,' you have to worry about getting knocked out or having your arm snapped or getting choked unconscious. In our civilized (debatable) society, the UFC , and organizations like it, are as close as we can get to a legally sanctioned form of something that's like (though a lot unlike) what used to occur in the days of gladiators fighting one another in an arena. It is legally sanctioned combat. Period. That's not something that's up for debate, and it's not overshadowed by the fact that you seem to want to get into a pissing contest about who REALLY knows what combat is.
Unlike you, I don't care about what it is that 'tough' people are doing. My point was that expressing that aggression through basketball or football is sort of beside the point, which is why I have much more respect for the direct expression of that aggression via physical combat. I think it's tough to get over that fear of being hit, though it's completely natural. Basketball or football seems like beating around the bush to me, which is part of why I have little interest in watching it.
I highly doubt you've ever been shot at or seen real combat. But, hey who knows? And if that's the story your sticking to..uh, cool? You wouldn't last a minute in a ring with even an amateur fighter.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
