How the fuck do I afford to fight?

[bobby rivers]

Rational hesitation due to logical analysis. I would go ahead and label that 'fear'. No shame in it. What would you call it?

[Brian Debes]

I don’t know about your particular situation, but you should be prepared to take some time off of work after a fight. That said, every event in our area caries insurance. One of my guys got a torn ACL, MLC and more in an MMA fight (that he won) and the events insurance took care of everything. He wasn’t supporting a family that was relying on him to be working during that rehab though.

[Aaron Gustaveson]

well i suppose to me fear is an emotion. Even an emotionless robot could arrive at this conclusion if it was programmed with the same priorities. Say if the lottery had not only chance of reward but chance of idk poisoning (cause losing a dollar isnt enough counter-reward) but the odds of winning money were far greater than the odds of poisoning. Lots of people would still play the lottery. Those that dont are not avoiding doing so because they feel fear of poisoning. Its a simple risk reward calculation that a computer could do.

Even in saying "rational hesitation" the way we interpret the word hesitation is usually with a connotation of emotion. Hesitation also implies that you are tentative or balancing a choice for me there is not really the choice of punishing others for my fulfillment. Its more how can I responsibly mitigate risk to make going ahead a logical decision? Its pretty clear to me now that I simply have to have a little cash put aside and probably some insurance.

[Aaron Gustaveson]

I don’t know about your particular situation, but you should be prepared to take some time off of work after a fight. That said, every event in our area caries insurance. One of my guys got a torn ACL, MLC and more in an MMA fight (that he won) and the events insurance took care of everything. He wasn’t supporting a family that was relying on him to be working during that rehab though.

I could totally save enough to make it work with that situation. Now if I was a bit younger and a bit more naturally gifted and thought I could make a career out of it, I'd be looking to move to a area with insurance like that. Since my coach is also the promoter of our local fights maybe I can talk him and the casino into starting to provide this for our guys?

[Aaron Gustaveson]

I was re-reading the thread and I think maybe avoidance of shame is actually a factor for me. Not the shame of not fighting but the shame of not being a good provider.

Maybe you could call that fear of shame and get fear in there too? IDK, I dont "feel" fear though, that Im aware of, certainly not at the level of the actual fighting.

Amazing responses guys! Maybe we'll root out some fear here. I'd like to think I'm Im pretty open about admitting my shit.

[bobby rivers]

I'm not putting my arm or leg anywhere near that sadistic scary ass machine.

Yeah. I think the label is semantics. I don't touch the stove out of fear of being burned. Put a kevlar glove on and that fear vanishes. Confidence is your glove. Shame, guilt, fear. Irrelevant.

There is only one way to find out. I say go pick a fight.

[Aaron Gustaveson]

Yeah in common speaking we would say like you did "fear of being burned" but I would contend that almost none of us actually experience the emotion of fear in that situation. So your right its is semantics. I guess in this case the distinction is important because some people would actually feel the emotion of fear to fight.

In the way you're using it, yes Im afraid. You're a smart guy, bobby!

[bobby rivers]

I would get top of the line health insurance for life if I just insert my arm in the armbreaking machine? On second thought. Fuckit. I'm down.

Can it be my left arm? I enjoy masterbating.

[Aaron Gustaveson]

Of course, Marcelo said you dont have to master techniques on both sides.

[brianspinaltap]

Where's that "I just want to bang bro!" clip gone again?