People who spend hrs training per day but don't fight

**colonelpong2** · Posted On: 5/05/2007 3:42am

Originally Posted by Eldarbong

And if you only care about the "fitness" aspect and not fighting, why would you come to the dojo for hours every single day? It just doesn't make sense to me.

For fun?

**pauli** · Posted On: 5/05/2007 5:16am

no way dude. no way.

**Pandinha** · Posted On: 5/05/2007 6:10am

It's not as uncommon as you think. My Coach has mentioned to me that out of all the members of ATT, less than 1 percent will step in a Cage/Ring.

**MaverickZ** · Posted On: 5/05/2007 12:05pm

Originally Posted by Cassius

Whenever he feels like it, I guess.

Forgive me for being presumptive, but last I checked, you don't exactly like Aesopian, which makes me think you're asking this for a reason. If that's not the case, my apologies, I'm a douchebag, blah blah blah. If it is, keep this in mind: Aeso got promoted to purple belt partially because he demolished almost everyone he had a match with (including at least one purple belt in an open division) at Eduardo's last tournament. He dropped one match by points to a guy from his school, but also beat him in a different division that day.

I asked because I want to know more about the guy who is up on the pedestal right now. Not a hostile inquiry, but also not a purposeless one.

***Cassius*** · Posted On: 5/05/2007 12:55pm

Originally Posted by MaverickZ

I asked because I want to know more about the guy who is up on the pedestal right now. Not a hostile inquiry, but also not a purposeless one.

Fair enough. My bad then.

**colonelpong2** · Posted On: 5/06/2007 12:50am

Originally Posted by Alex

thats kind of a shitty analogy though. I would equate it to what I said earlier, it's like training at a rugby club and never actually playing a game. Maybe I have a different viewpoint on it but it just seems odd to me not to go the whole 9 yards

The way I would put it is like being a member of a rugby club that has members who participate in social matches or formal matches.

If that makes any sense

**biomed190** · Posted On: 5/06/2007 12:53am

I train 5 X a week 2 days a week of BJJ and 3 days a week of HKD and I don't compete. I mainly just do it for fun. I am thinking of doing an mma card in August though. One of my friends fought in one a while back and he said it was a blast.