Isn't that a big waste of time of people watching instead of training?
This is actually touches upon a very crucial question to ask with regards fight preparation;
how invested are other people in the gym in accommodating someone's success?
Are you simply another customer doing the same general training as everyone else? Do you have dedicated training partners willing to elide whatever else they might have been doing in order to focus their drilling, techniques, and counter-attacks to more specifically target (and thus refine)
your gameplan? Is your coach willing to structure
the whole gym around providing you with different training partners with different specializations to push aspects of your game higher, to do more things you need to do and work on things you need to work on?
Most people's experience is a range of answers to a range of degrees on this question, and it can change depending on context too (like for instance, someone in your gym getting ready for a big competition). It's not a trivial question either though obviously, the obvious reason basically coming down to a simple statement:
"why can't it be ME who the gym focuses on?"
A lot of possible issues tangled up with the topic; what degree of various person's desire to be more validated then they might be currently, how capable you are at telling and picking out who might more of a winner to focus on, how charitable/accommodating
you might feel in changing to suit other yous training, what people even want to get out of doing the sport the first place, and so on.
So often, the 'stable equilibrium' that gets settled upon from all the burning thymoses rattling around yearning is some form of arrangement where everyone always does the same training as everyone else. This is not necessarily an optimal arrangement with regards to performance; indeed, very often
suboptimal even (not simply for any one particular person, but for
most people in the gym in fact); but what it does do very well is massage the will-to-power of large groups of people, so that's why it tends to be pervasive.
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