Emotional Skills Required For Street Boxing

Emotions can make or break any street boxing men. It is best for them to settle whatever emotional
burden they have before training and competition. On the other hand, emotions that fire up
inspiration to win or conquer are essential.

A coach can do a good job at firing up a fighters emotions, but what is often
overlooked is the explicit encouragement from the boxers loved ones. While training for a
competition, an fighter will have a better emotional bearing if his loved ones (family members
and close friends) would be physically present to show support, more so during the fight.
Cheers from the audience can do some wonders to fighters in the ring, but this is just
supplemental to the foundational inspiration, which is given by loved ones. Audience applause
can do little compared to visible support from special people.

But the other emotional need boxers must have, and which must be dealt with
effectively, is the need to control emotions. Negative or positive, emotions run high during
boxing for the street fights. And whether positive or negative, too much emotion can have adverse effects on an fighters performance. Too much inspiration from loved ones and the audience may tend to
produce a strong and uncontrollable desire to win in the players and ruin everything. Inspiration
or positive emotion must be maintained to a manageable level and must be seen to it that such do
not transpose into an uncontrollable obsession. Inspiration should merely inspire, and
encouragement should merely encourage; when these things get out of hand and explode into an
obsession (to please the inspiration giver), objectivity is lost and judgment is impaired because
everything becomes a personal obsession, a mere strong emotion. The only thing you will have
in mind is to win. Then, the fear of defeat sets in and becomes a wrong motivation. Two things
can happen here:

1. If the boxer wins, he embraces his present win so much that he would opt to stop and
enjoy the victory and applause and make it a lasting memory. He might not compete
again for fear of losing his hard-earned pedestal—he is afraid of losing the admiration
of his inspiration givers.

2. If the boxer loses, humiliation drags him further down because everything has been
founded on emotions. He might not train again or compete again for a second try
because he could not afford a second round of humiliation.

Emotions of whatever kind, if not kept to a tolerable degree, will eventually result to a
fighters gross drawback.