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    Winning Matters: Formidable Fighter, #4
    Winning Matters: Formidable Fighter, #4
    Winning Matters: Formidable Fighter, #4
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    Winning Matters: Formidable Fighter, #4

    By Martina Sprague

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    The martial arts have a two-fold agenda: To prepare you to participate in tournaments (or sports), and to prepare you to participate in real life scenarios. This split focus might be the prime element that distinguishes the martial artist from other sports participants who are preparing to run a marathon, go to the Olympics, or win a hockey match but are not concerned with issues of life and death. So to those who say that winning and losing don’t matter, that your only competitor is yourself, and that you should strive to be the best that you can be, I say, Baloney! In struggles of life and death, winning matters. Winning is good for the spirit even in martial arts simulations not involving life and death. In competition, too, winning matters. A central theme of martial arts training is resolve, the spirit to win, which must shine not only in the real battle, competition, belt promotion, demonstration, or teaching endeavor, but in all the training that prepares you for this test. The techniques you learn are your backbone, your foundation for building greater skills. Your effectiveness is measured through a combination of theoretical knowledge of technique and ability to use these techniques. Formidable Fighter: The Complete Series, a compilation of all 14 books in this series, is available in both electronic and print format.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartina Sprague
    Release dateApr 11, 2018
    ISBN9781386393719
    Winning Matters: Formidable Fighter, #4
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    Martina Sprague

    Martina Sprague grew up in the Stockholm area of Sweden. She has a Master of Arts degree in Military History from Norwich University in Vermont and has studied a variety of combat arts since 1987. As an independent scholar, she writes primarily on subjects pertaining to military and general history, politics, and instructional books on the martial arts. For more information, please visit her website: www.modernfighter.com.

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      Winning Matters - Martina Sprague

      Preface

      The Formidable Fighter Series is a series of booklets for martial artists desiring to learn the concepts that create formidable fighters in the training hall, competition arena, and street. Each booklet is between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length and includes fighting scenarios, training tips, and illustrations. Winning Matters, the fourth booklet in the series, deals particularly with how to approach a scenario with the appropriate mindset that allows one to act rather than react and beat the opponent to the punch; in short, how to be first and understand that winning is more important than how one plays the game. Since the advice is not style specific but explores the underlying concepts of personal combat, it is applicable to students of most martial styles.

      We admire certain military leaders such as Napoleon Bonaparte not because he fought an ethical battle or because he had an admirable character, but because he knew how to win. If you follow the instruction and tips in the Formidable Fighter Series, you will learn how to develop your physical strength and mental tenacity and triumph as a fighter in the training hall, ring, and street.

      Experience is of more value in the Art of War than all philosophical truth.

      —Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian General and Military Strategist

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      Life is training. Training enables you to handle what life hands you better. Experience is what you get after you deal with what life gives you. Your experience gets put back into your training.

      —Damian Ross, Martial Artist

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      Any training that does not include the emotions, mind and body is incomplete; knowledge fades without feeling.

      —Anonymous

      The martial arts have a two-fold agenda: To prepare you to participate in tournaments (or sports), and to prepare you to participate in real life scenarios. This split focus might be the prime element that distinguishes the martial artist from other sports participants who are preparing to run a marathon, go to the Olympics, or win a hockey match but are not concerned with issues of life and death. So to those who say that winning and losing don’t matter, that your only competitor is yourself, and that you should strive to be the best that you can be, I say, Baloney! Since success in fighting depends on relative strength and skill, these sayings are rather meaningless. When there is no pressure to compete and win, then how do you know what it means to be the best that you can be? Why is the strife to be better than your peers (or enemies) often thought to be an unhealthy goal? In struggles of life and death, winning matters. Winning is good for the spirit even in martial arts simulations

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