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Hello, I'd like to introduce myself, I'm a 29 years old from South America
. I'd like to start saying that I'm not a tough guy, to be honest, I'm quite nerdy and I sucked at all sports when I was in high school. However now that I grew older when I put my mind to it I found that I have the will to improve, I ran for a couple of years, and lifted weights with some success (have a bigger body now).
I've started kickboxing about 4 months ago. The gym I go has a lot of emphasis on sparring, at first it was ok since we started light, I sucked up a lot of punches to my face. Now every now and then I'm taking quite a beating, once I got shook by a left hook to my temple. I was quite stunned, and had a really shitty week because of that, I got kinda scared of going back, really emotional about getting beaten up, but then I got better and more focused and had a couple of more training sessions where I could move easily even land a couple of interesting punches. Now we had a couple of days off and I lost a lot of the little technique I had (and started to close the eyes at incoming punches), today I've been tagged a couple of times in he nose and one in the eye quite hard (I got bruises around the eye), my eyes got all red ( dunno if I started crying, I didn't feel like crying) and got really embarassed.
The thing I notice is that: When I get more insecure I punch less, when I punch less I get attacked more, when I get attacked more (since my guard isn't perfect) I get more insecure (lol).
So to be honest it sucks, it also drains me emotionally, when I have good practice sessions I feel awesome, but on days like these I feel like quitting, and at the same time thinking about quitting makes me get mad at myself (because I know that I feel awesome after a good training session).
Outside of that (which is mostly emotional stuff). Should I add some training drills outside my regular kickboxing practice? Do you recommend me shadowboxing on my days off?
I don't know if this questions belong to this forum, if not feel free to delete this..
Thank you!
. I'd like to start saying that I'm not a tough guy, to be honest, I'm quite nerdy and I sucked at all sports when I was in high school. However now that I grew older when I put my mind to it I found that I have the will to improve, I ran for a couple of years, and lifted weights with some success (have a bigger body now).
I've started kickboxing about 4 months ago. The gym I go has a lot of emphasis on sparring, at first it was ok since we started light, I sucked up a lot of punches to my face. Now every now and then I'm taking quite a beating, once I got shook by a left hook to my temple. I was quite stunned, and had a really shitty week because of that, I got kinda scared of going back, really emotional about getting beaten up, but then I got better and more focused and had a couple of more training sessions where I could move easily even land a couple of interesting punches. Now we had a couple of days off and I lost a lot of the little technique I had (and started to close the eyes at incoming punches), today I've been tagged a couple of times in he nose and one in the eye quite hard (I got bruises around the eye), my eyes got all red ( dunno if I started crying, I didn't feel like crying) and got really embarassed.
The thing I notice is that: When I get more insecure I punch less, when I punch less I get attacked more, when I get attacked more (since my guard isn't perfect) I get more insecure (lol).
So to be honest it sucks, it also drains me emotionally, when I have good practice sessions I feel awesome, but on days like these I feel like quitting, and at the same time thinking about quitting makes me get mad at myself (because I know that I feel awesome after a good training session).
Outside of that (which is mostly emotional stuff). Should I add some training drills outside my regular kickboxing practice? Do you recommend me shadowboxing on my days off?
I don't know if this questions belong to this forum, if not feel free to delete this..
Thank you!