Would you rather have bad stamina with excellent skills

[davef]

to be first, first you have to finish

good stamina all day long

[GGG Gloveking]

Stamina all day

[DreamFighter]

without stamina, your excellent skills will drop to crap skills as soon and as often as you gass.

The guy with good skills but excellent stamina will capitalise by keeping away from you until you that moment and then crushing you.

[New England]

Well if you have bad stamina with excellent skills, you better have a lot of power so you can end the fight early.

Having skills doesn't mean **** if you can't last 6 rounds and you'll end up getting stopped by a less talented fighter.

this.

perfect example is mike tyson. sublimely skilled, ticking time bomb in terms of which round he'd slow down.


most fighters without freakish power would be much, much better suited to have a great gas tank. boxing is a hugely aerobic sport, one of the best workouts your heart and lungs can get. you can't even box if you're breathing too hard. your mouth opens up, your hands drop, your legs go, and you get your ass kicked.

[billeau2]

Or good stamina with decent skills?

Many combat people talk about this dilemna. General McCarthur famously said "Fatigue makes cowards of us all." Stamina is the very life blood of survival and fighting. I often hear other martial artists talk about skills, even guys who smoke cigarettes. I have to laugh because if you can't breathe you can't use skills. So to me you need stamina first and foremost.

[DreamFighter]

david beckham, one of the most skilled crossers of the ball in england, was at euro 2006, shyte beyond belief.

why, because he had all that skill, but a crocked stamina tank from inury, and he shouldnt have been there.


gazza at 40 was still one of the deadliest deadball specialists in the country - but noone would play him because his gas tank was busted. He was worthless in a 10 minute game, let alone 90.