Thinking During a Fight vs Everyday Thinking IRL

[GrandpaBernard]

How does thinking in a fight differ from everyday thinking

Mike Tyson once said fighting is spiritual, and he isn’t thinking.

On opposite end of the spectrum we have professors of boxing Mayweather, Marquez, etc who are always thinking inside the ring

[LoadedWraps]

It's both really.

The more cerebral fighters stay, or try to stay several steps ahead, chess moves.

But all disciplined fighters also fight subconsciously, muscle memory through repetition.

When I'm in heated exchanges I rely more on muscle memory than trying to rely on instant processing with such small time frames to react. Any time I'm bouncing on my toes or moving around the ring, or even jabbing and using ring generalship, I'm thinking. About what? What my opponent may do next, what has he done so far? What do we know? Do we feel he is limited and we can hit him with shots we haven't pulled out of the toolbox yet? Do we feel he is slow, and we can take more risks? Is he breathing heavy? Do we feel he will react slowly If I lunge, land and pivot?

Those are things that run through my mind and I'm just an amateur.

[boliodogs]

Much different. In everyday thinking you should think slowly and carefully. In a boxing match you must think and act quickly and do your slower more careful thinking in between rounds while listening to your trainer..

[PRINCEKOOL]

It's both really.

The more cerebral fighters stay, or try to stay several steps ahead, chess moves.

But all disciplined fighters also fight subconsciously, muscle memory through repetition.

When I'm in heated exchanges I rely more on muscle memory than trying to rely on instant processing with such small time frames to react. Any time I'm bouncing on my toes or moving around the ring, or even jabbing and using ring generalship, I'm thinking. About what? What my opponent may do next, what has he done so far? What do we know? Do we feel he is limited and we can hit him with shots we haven't pulled out of the toolbox yet? Do we feel he is slow, and we can take more risks? Is he breathing heavy? Do we feel he will react slowly If I lunge, land and pivot?

Those are things that run through my mind and I'm just an amateur.

All those things you are thinking about? Are most likely happening at speed, faster than the normal everyday person may be forced to do etc 'Because they have been taken out of that violent environment, as society has become more civilized people are no longer pushed to operate in certain ways'.

When a Lion is fighting in the wild, when it is hunting? It is still thinking. Is the Lion thinking in English? No.

But it is still thinking and com*****g 'That same instinct and inner technology exist still somewhere within humans'.

I once watched a Lion, pretend to run away from a herd of wilder-beast 'Slow down, spin itself around and then drop to the floor' In the process of this maneuver, it evaded a attack from a Wilder-beast then violently took it down to the floor.

There are three complexes to the human brain? The reptilian complex, mammalian brain and the cerebral cortex. Anyway, when I was watching that Lion 'I was convinced that it would of had to use information and the abilities of all those brain complexes' The Lion was not just instinctively reacting, it executed a highly artistic, coordinated and brave move AT SPEED, all while it's life was in danger.

Nature is amazing, but it does upset me.

Some fighters are more cerebral and mathematically, some more emotional, spontaneous and creative, and then you have reactive and extremely primal fighters.

Floyd Mayweather is a very cerebral and mathematically fighter, even during violent situations. I have describe Deontay Wilder & Chris Eubank Junior as very reactive fighters, VERY instinctual and primal 'There is not much creativity in what they do'. Roy Jones Junior & Prince Naseem Hamed were very emotional, creative and spontaneous fighters.

Note: There can also be a weakness with being too cerebral and mathematical in my opinion. Fighters like Floyd Mayweather & Wladimir Kiltschko appear to be very choreographed 'They look for patterns in behavior, sequences that they understand and they have seen before'.

What happens when they see something for the first time, that they have not seen before? Tyson Fury when he fought Wladimir Kiltschko, showed him something that he had not experienced before 'And Kiltschko could not adapt fast enough, to the NEW information that was being presented before him'.

But this was also one of the reasons why? 'I have always stated, Kiltschko would of beaten Fury in the rematch'. The first fight between Kiltschko and Fury 'Enriched Kiltschko new information, that would of been meticulously analysed and understood.

There was no way Fury was going to beat Kiltschko with that same game plan 'But would Fury fight him with that same style?'.