Why Wouldn't A Good Athlete Be Good In The Martial Arts

[Sammy Naur]

Fully agree. How would the previous post Not consider the effect of increased friction and change in relative gravity when in the water. The 'freedom' felt when kicking out of the water should be exponentially faster.

That's kind of what I meant.

It's like the difference between beach volleyball and standard volleyball

Beach is harder. And those people will blow away anybody on an actual court

 

[Badhabits]

Yes, you did.

No. No I did not. Read my posts again.

 

[Sammy Naur]

No. No I did not. Read my posts again.

No, that's not my job.

And quite frankly I'm still waiting for some sort of evidence that anything you said is true, about training in water mentally conditioning you to be slow.

This whole line of reasoning, about training in water making people slower, is absurd, which is why I brought up surfing as a great example of how people who train in water sports tend to become very fit, physically athletic, and if they chose to, excel in martial arts.

Hence the topic "

Why Wouldn't A Good Athlete Be Good In The Martial Arts"​

 

[Badhabits]

No, that's not my job.

And quite frankly I'm still waiting for some sort of evidence that anything you said is true, about training in water mentally conditioning you to be slow.

This whole line of reasoning, about training in water making people slower, is absurd, which is why I brought up surfing as a great example of how people who train in water sports tend to become very fit, physically athletic, and if they chose to, excel in martial arts.

Hence the topic "

Why Wouldn't A Good Athlete Be Good In The Martial Arts"​

Once again, since you don't care to re read the posts you obviously somehow misunderstood. Someone else said that training in water makes you slow. Not me. I debated against that idea. The concession I gave, was that yes, it is possible for someone to unintentionally build a habit of being slow. That would be a mental thing, not physical. I never anywhere said that training in water makes you slow due to physicalities. If you can't even go back and re read the posts I made so that you can properly understand what you're arguing I'm done. I'm out.

 

[Sammy Naur]

Once again, since you don't care to re read the posts you obviously somehow misunderstood. Someone else said that training in water makes you slow. Not me. I debated against that idea. The concession I gave, was that yes, it is possible for someone to unintentionally build a habit of being slow. That would be a mental thing, not physical. I never anywhere said that training in water makes you slow due to physicalities. If you can't even go back and re read the posts I made so that you can properly understand what you're arguing I'm done. I'm out.

So now I have to "re read" your posts, even though I already read and disagreed once already.

It's pretty simple, you made some claims to couldn't back up. I specifically asked you to, and rather than try, you're backpedaling regarding the whole "brain conditioning" thing you threw out.

Ill say it again, there is no "mental thing", that's something to just threw out on a whim.