My ego hurts

[jimboob]

Sparred today for the third time in my life. Went up against two very experienced fighters and a friend of mine at about the same experience level. I was much smaller than them, but the same weight. I had to get inside to do anything, everyone had much superior reach on me.

Anyway I literally could not do **** against these guys. I felt sloppy, weak and like I was putting all the effort i could muster into landing a few god damn punches and would end up getting hit. It was embarrassing as hell, i felt pretty crushed...literally. My nose got busted up and I had to stop a bit early cause I was bleeding.

I am going back after thanks giving. Idk if I can spar with my nose all swollen and injured, but I have to go back. My ego was bruised more than anything today. I felt like I didn't belong there. I'm not unrealistic in that I thought I'd fair well against two really good boxers, but I didn't expect a performance that bad out of myself.

Feels bad man.

[nivek535]

Sparred today for the third time in my life. Went up against two very experienced fighters and a friend of mine at about the same experience level. I was much smaller than them, but the same weight. I had to get inside to do anything, everyone had much superior reach on me.

Anyway I literally could not do **** against these guys. I felt sloppy, weak and like I was putting all the effort i could muster into landing a few god damn punches and would end up getting hit. It was embarrassing as hell, i felt pretty crushed...literally. My nose got busted up and I had to stop a bit early cause I was bleeding.

I am going back after thanks giving. Idk if I can spar with my nose all swollen and injured, but I have to go back. My ego was bruised more than anything today. I felt like I didn't belong there. I'm not unrealistic in that I thought I'd fair well against two really good boxers, but I didn't expect a performance that bad out of myself.

Feels bad man.

how old are you? thats life not boxing lol.
wat did u expect?? level of a grade 5 math student trying to beat first year uni math student on a calculus exam? no doeeeeeee.
bad analogy, but u get the point lol.
u even stated it urself, very experienced fighters

[StillHereBro]

Sparred today for the third time in my life. Went up against two very experienced fighters and a friend of mine at about the same experience level. I was much smaller than them, but the same weight. I had to get inside to do anything, everyone had much superior reach on me.

Anyway I literally could not do **** against these guys. I felt sloppy, weak and like I was putting all the effort i could muster into landing a few god damn punches and would end up getting hit. It was embarrassing as hell, i felt pretty crushed...literally. My nose got busted up and I had to stop a bit early cause I was bleeding.

I am going back after thanks giving. Idk if I can spar with my nose all swollen and injured, but I have to go back. My ego was bruised more than anything today. I felt like I didn't belong there. I'm not unrealistic in that I thought I'd fair well against two really good boxers, but I didn't expect a performance that bad out of myself.

Feels bad man.

Well are you good at other sports? Are you athletic? Hate to say it but if your friends are better at Football, Basketball, soccer etc than you then they will most likely be a better fighter due to pure athleticism. Go watch shorter guys, work on bobbing and weaving, develop a far reaching jab(watch Gamboa) , and learn to stick it to the solar plexus < do this they won't be standing tall too long. Barrera -Morales = watch Barrera land bombs on the longer , faster Morales. Floyd was tiny compared to Corrales. Speed is key , not just in your hands , but in your upper body movement too. Best little guy was probably Tyson he just lacked intangibles. Duran is another great to watch who was usually shorter in height and arm length

[StillHereBro]

how old are you? thats life not boxing lol.
wat did u expect?? level of a grade 5 math student trying to beat first year uni math student on a calculus exam? no doeeeeeee.
bad analogy, but u get the point lol.
u even stated it urself, very experienced fighters

I've walked in to a gym and dominated "experienced" guys and destroyed them due to simply better coordination and athleticism . From what I can tell this is the guys biggest problem

[Butt stuff]

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty; I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Get training man.

[Biolink]

Boxing is life. It's the essence of winning with what you got.

Use your size as an advantage. Learn how to fight small so that you have these taller fighters reaching and punching down at you. Also learn to bob & weave and slip(Especially that first punch). Learn how to control the distance with your footwork. Once you get inside on the they are in your world.

But even you said it, they were more experienced. And the one that wasn't had physical advantages. Just keep working man.

[Ray Corso]

How did your trainer feel about your performance?
What were you working on?
How long have you been in that gym?
Ray.

[Facade]

It's one of those things you have to get over when you first start out. Especially when you are sparring against a friend it can sometimes feel humiliating if you 'lose'.

Try to change your mentality a bit. Realize that if you don't do well now it's not because you are inherently bad (ego), but it's because you have a lot that you can work on. Try to make it about finding tangible things to work on in stead of inherent flaws in your ability. Furthermore, even though I think you will probably realize this more as you progress, try to approach sparring as an exercise in which you can improve certain aspects not as a contest.

[AlexKid]

dude its like call of duty or any other online game, if u r noob u gonna loose fast and look bad, but as u get more and more experience u can start holding ur own and when u get more experience than most suddenly u start beating pretty much everyone u play,

its not about u, it doesn't mean u r dumb if u loose to more experienced players on COD, and it doesn't mean u r physically inferior if u loose at boxing, it just means u need more skill, which u learn OVER TIME, don't expect to jump in and whip everyone, it doesn't work like that

[Soju]

The only way to "win" at sparring is to go in with a technique you are working on and then practice it. Sparring is not a free for all competition, those are what bouts are for. If your ego hurts because you thought you were somehow naturally going to hold your own in a punch up against experienced boxers, your ego is a fcking idiot and not only does it need a bruising you should strive to kill it off completely to grow as a fighter and as a man.


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