The Golden One - Yes, Strength Matters in a Fight!

In this episode I discuss the benefits of being bigger and stronger in a fight and why you should train to be the best you can be in order to be a better fighter. This is not a debate you need to get into if you don't have the proper technique but rather if you have the correct technique already in place and the strength to enhance that technique then you will be in a much better position to win the fight.

00:00:00.000 Greetings, true friends. Today I want to elaborate on the picture I shared on my glorious Facebook

00:00:17.820 page the other day and it's regards to size and strength in a fight. And now keep in mind this

00:00:24.080 is something I've seen on the interwebs for quite some time. You know these guys constantly saying

00:00:29.840 like oh you know lifting weights won't make you better in a fight etc. This is not something I've

00:00:34.780 ever heard in real life so keep in mind this is not something anyone has told me in like any club

00:00:40.580 I've been in or etc. Any MMA gym I've been in. So let's first of all say that skill beats size any

00:00:47.220 day of the week. That is just how it is. However what I would like you to take with from this video

00:00:53.380 is an example and we're gonna take a guy we can call him the optimal lion of eternal testosterone

00:01:01.180 and we have two versions of this glorious individual one who weighs 80 kilo one who weighs 100 kilo

00:01:07.320 one who has a squat of 120 and one who has a squat of hopefully soon to be 240 at least. Now who do you

00:01:16.680 think can generate the most power in his kicks? A squat of 120 or a squat of 240? Now obviously the guy

00:01:25.460 who can squat 240 will have more power in his leg more power to generate a very strong kick or knee

00:01:32.260 more power to control an opponent with his legs. That is quite obvious. Furthermore in regards to pure

00:01:39.920 physics if you have if you can activate your whole body you get that twist of the hips and lean in with

00:01:45.560 100 kilo that will cause more damage than the same technique with 80 kilo. If you have more size and

00:01:53.000 strength you can do more with that technique. Keep in mind a sound technique will always win

00:01:58.040 but if you want to be the best version of yourself if you want to be the best warrior of the tribe or

00:02:05.800 protector of the people or just you know everything like that then you will be better served by being

00:02:12.500 stronger. Then there's also the case that when a guy gets strong enough there are certain things you

00:02:17.780 can't do to him. I'm gonna take my good friend the abelian bull for example say if he post heresy

00:02:24.660 turns on me he would never do that but if he does and then I try to take an arm bar on him that wouldn't

00:02:31.540 work. He's too strong and I know that. Now I put up a picture and you can't really see exactly how massive

00:02:37.140 is when you hug him you can't feel it and I know that that wouldn't work and sure as hell a lighter

00:02:42.660 guy a weaker guy then I wouldn't get an arm bar on him either. That's just physically impossible

00:02:47.620 because he's too strong. So even if you don't have any technique at all that strength can save you from

00:02:54.180 a lot of things. So my main point with this video is not to say that oh you know lift weights and get

00:03:01.780 strong as fuck and that will make you an excellent fighter. No that's not what I'm saying. What I'm 0.95

00:03:07.060 saying is that if you have a sound technique if you add strength to that you will get more out of it.

00:03:14.180 So if you have the technique already in place and then you have the strength to enhance that technique

00:03:20.020 then you're in a good position. And then also there are certain things that you know the more muscled

00:03:25.940 and the more strong you are and the stronger you are the better off you will fare in certain situations.

00:03:31.780 So you can take such a thing as having a good abdominal structure you will be able to take

00:03:36.180 harder punches. If you have a strong neck you will be able to take punches to the head also. And all

00:03:41.940 these kind of things if you get thrown on the street and if you're really well trained with good back

00:03:46.820 musculature you will be able to learn better. So you have all of these sort of benefits and you know

00:03:52.100 being fit and being strong will always be good in a physical confrontation. And also like a physical

00:03:59.060 altercation in the street or wherever. It doesn't exactly look like a UFC fight either. So you can

00:04:05.380 have like clothes on and then you have the grip strength can be extremely important. Just be able

00:04:10.340 to pull someone off. So if you have a gang of rape refugees attacking a woman or something you know 1.00

00:04:15.700 that strength will help you tremendously. But to conclude what I mean when I say this like that

00:04:21.380 you should train for strength as well is that you can utilize all your brilliant technique.

00:04:26.260 Like yes technique beats size and strength it does. But if you have technique and add strength and size

00:04:32.980 to that that will be very good indeed. So I hope that cleared up that at least and gave you something

00:04:40.660 to think about. In whom I and the glory's lion. XXO. Boom.

The Golden One - February 19, 2016

Yes, Strength Matters in a Fight!

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