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How many dicks are you willing to suck to keep your gym in business? This is a very good barometer if you have the needed commitment.
Or like cock.
why do you say that?
How many dicks are you willing to suck to keep your gym in business? This is a very good barometer if you have the needed commitment.
Or like cock.
why do you say that?
It is representative of how willing someone is to make a business work. You could make the same analogy with eating a 50 lb bag of shit. Most people starting a business have an unwillingness to see the project through.
SOrry, I meant why do you say you need to kiss ass to make a gym successful? 'm not seeing the correlation, and Im interested in what your experiences are
It is a very bad idea to pursue MMA as a career. Fighters are fighters usually for two reasons:Hi guys,
I'm actually looking to make a living with MMA, and I'm young and healthy. Right now i think it is best for me to pursue an amateur fighting career to taste the water, and then to go pro if successful. My goal is to become a trainer but with having some fighting experience first and then to keep rolling until i die. Opening a gym will be fine too. What is your advice to achieve this objective ?
I will be absent here for a moment, better moving my ass right now or living with regret later on. I will re-post later on. And if i can't be the new P4P, at least i can be the best sherdoger on the planet, that achievement may speak for itself.
Hi guys,
I'm actually looking to make a living with MMA, and I'm young and healthy. Right now i think it is best for me to pursue an amateur fighting career to taste the water, and then to go pro if successful. My goal is to become a trainer but with having some fighting experience first and then to keep rolling until i die. Opening a gym will be fine too. What is your advice to achieve this objective ?
I will be absent here for a moment, better moving my ass right now or living with regret later on. I will re-post later on. And if i can't be the new P4P, at least i can be the best sherdoger on the planet, that achievement may speak for itself.
First piece of advice, DO NOT LISTEN TO THE CLOWNS TELLING YOU IT ISN’T POSSIBLE. It absolutely is, and there are successful fighters out there that make a living who have been in your shoes. Randy Couture started in his 30s and we all know how successful he was. In boxing Bernard Hopkins got started boxing in fucking prison of all places and was highly successful. Gabriel Rosado started late and was told repeatedly by trainers that he was too old until his current trainer gave him a chance.
May I also point out that in the cases of Couture and Hopkins, there starting late in the game actually helped them stick around competing at a high level when most people were beat to shit and burnt out on fighting. Think of it this way, starting late means you don’t have the years of wear and tear on your body that fighters who started in youth have. Listen to Couture or Hopkins talk. They don’t sound punch drunk like someone like James Toney does.
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Yup, people forget that there sister doing ballet for a few years is not the same as being an actual professional ballet dancer on stage in terms of conditioning or athletic abillity
If you're good enough the right people will find you. That's a fact. So while it is true that one needs to have connections in order to make big money in any combat sport. It is also true that if someone is good enough the "right" people will find them. Any potential world beaters out there always eventually get discovered.The problem is guys like TS have this starry eyed idea of being a pro and making hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars as a pro fighter, then starting a gym. But people usually only have this idea before they've trained. Once they start training the reality of it hits - Fighting hurts and is a lot harder than it looks on TV.
I competed in boxing and Muay Thai from the age of 12 until I was 28. But I was taught boxing from the age of 6. I realised at the age of 18. Being a pro and making millions was more who you knew not how good you were. so I never bothered pursuing it.
A lot of the problem is an actual base that is considered 'MMA' in todays vernacular is incredibly rare.
Fuck, Ballet is probably a better base for MMA than BJJ or wrestling.