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Power Program for Boxing: https://coachsaman.com/product/boxingprogram1/ Get Coached by me: https://coachsaman.com/ Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser In combat sports, and especially those of striking nature (such as boxing, kickboxing, and MMA), the stakes to your well-being are probably higher than any other sport. You may hear some figures preaching that fighting is ‘’just a sport’’, but it is just not that simple. Fighting is beyond sport; it is beyond competition—it is hand-to-hand combat. It’s not just like a game of chess; it is a violent game of chess with physical consequences on top of it. Make the wrong move with your pawn, and you may break your nose. Make the wrong move with your knight, and you may wake up to blinking lights. A loss here does not only affect your ego, but more importantly, it can affect your physical well-being—both in the short-term and the long-term. Therefore, preparation is of extreme importance in fighting. Nothing can be left for chance—all affectable parameters must be worked on. Every fighter that has ever stepped into a ring has made peace with the fact that something may go wrong, and he or she has in all likelihood contemplated on how to best mitigate the chance of this occurring; they want to be prepared in every possible way—consciously or unconsciously (survival is a biological principle). And one of those coping mechanisms is to construct a persona; similar to the facade of a building, or like a mask worn by a theatrical performer. But why you may ask? Why would you deliberately want to hide who you are fundamentally? And how does a persona prepare you for a fight? This will be the topic of this video.