my name is Marco Beltran
I'm a pro mixed martial arts fighter
I started because I liked to fight
anywhere
and I think that anyone who does this sport
started more or less like this
if you were not as an athlete since childhood
or had some basis in the sport
because I liked to fight
and contact sport caught my attention.
I wanted to be a boxer but that did not work
I became an MMA fighter
because boxing was taking me to meet other disciplines
until I found something that I liked and filled me, that was MMA.
at the beginning of my career
it was like, that I arrived at a gym to train and I knew some box,
the basics
then in the gym I get to train MMA for the first time
I had advantage in boxing
and I realized that I had more skills to develop
like BJJ, wrestling and muay thai too
and I went on to realize that
that I could do it and that I had advantage in my reach and in my stroke.
then like three months after I started training MMA
I asked for a fight, I already wanted to fight.
I did like 15 unbeaten fights
not the whole record is on Sherdog because the companies do not always upload the fights,
but I did like 15 fights like this,undefeated
I competed in grappling BJJ and always went well
I was always in first place, I was champion of the year in grappling in No Gi tournaments and so...
and then after the first defeat
the impact it does hit you
because you do not expect that,
you are always used to win, and I was use to win everything
I won in BJJ, in grappling, in MMA, in everything I did
so the first defeat was a pretty hard emotional blow to assimilate.
after the first defeat,
I made another fight and I lost again
and then another and lost again
lost 3 fights in a row,
so, then I felt, well, like shit,
all the time winning and suddenly, you fall three times.
it was hard
but after that I recovered and I won again
and I started to regain confidence and everything,
because yes, it is the mental game in the sport,
if you do not overlap with it
it is easy to hook you up
and take you down
then you always need to know how to overcome that,
because it is basic.
seen a lot of fighters who after they lose, they break easy,
it is easy to break them because it is in their memory
and it is difficult to overcome that
, and the important thing is that you work against that
and it is a very abstract mental game that you should know how to handle.
when the TUF came,
I was offered the idea of getting there
it was a short time call , it was not that I premeditated it,
and apart, it came after my losing streak,
so I was totally doing other things,
resuming in the school,
I made a career in physical education and I quit,
then begin a career in science education and I did 2 years there
and those two years in that career was after I lost.
because after I lost, I thought:
this already went to hell, I have to dedicate myself to something else,
something that I can make a living with
and I start listening to the people`s advice that mostly delay you,
mostly sent you back
they tell you to do something that take you somewhere, to start a career, to be a professional,
and I believe that in that sense, I, with my spirit down, and hearing that,
I started to stop doing what I really liked, that was fighting
and I left it for 2 years, and then it was that the TUF appeared,
and the TUF was like fighting with the camps I had only two years ago,
but obviously it was an opportunity ,
and opportunities are to be seize it because if they don`t they are gone.
and I just decided to take it, I had nothing to lose at that point.
I believe that I always had a positive mentality,
I have always been a person who seeks to outdo himself
and any adversity or any obstacle I do not see it as a high barrier,
I always see it as a minimum thing,
, I never let that go up more that where it should be.
I always see it as a medium or low level,
I never see it as more of me.
I have always been motivated by memories,
and I think they are hard memories of my life and from my childhood,
those are the ones that always push me
because when you come from difficult situations when you are a boy
and we had adversity with my family, with my mom and my brothers
we were alone for a long time,
I did not have my dad close at all,
but it was not like a reason.
we always fought a lot
my mom always instilled that to us and got us along
and was always there with us leaning on and giving us her shoulder.
and since that I lived it and I felt it
and I believe that , that is what keeps my flame alive,
the eye of the tiger.
All those memories I transformed them into my motivation.
and when I'm in the camp and in the previous moment,
I just remember all that and say to myself, there is no way that anything of all this could brake me
because the hardest thing we live did not break me and we're still here,
so all this is nothing but relative, is temporary and nothing else
I am going to do it and I will do it
it is nothing else you need to do but to transform those emotions into a positive ones.
is what I believe and it is what I apply.
because I think that motivating yourself with ,
money or material things is the least,
he real motivation is in yourself.
and that´s it, I just transform those emotions and that becomes my gasoline.
I think we have everything,
in the end in my experience
I have seen that
everything is based on the lack of good habits and good commitments,
we need to commit ourselves and see it as a way of life
because many see it as a hobbie
that is where the levels separates.
we all need to see it as a way of life
and within the commitment is that your discipline is 100%,
but 100 is 100,
because when you live with another culture that has a sports culture for years,
you realize that for them there is no margin of error
between your habits and your discipline, and your commitment
there is no margin of error,
it is not like you say: this FridayI let it pass this Friday I hang out...
as Latinos sometimes we do.
That happens a lot in Latin America.
this Friday there is no problem, this Friday we party.
not there is not a margin,
so people are totally disciplined because they see it in the most serious way possible
it has to be that way,
I think that within the commitment goes
that seriousness that we have to give to things and to the sport,
because it seems to me in those Margin of error is where they the advantage.
You have to prepare yourself mentally. as I said the mental part is basic,
I think, in my opinion can be stronger than the physical aspect.
the mental.
people break in training or in the fight,
and it's because of that part, just mentally
I've seen in the USA people physically, that when you see them...
you do not even want...
the time you see them very heavy very strong and you say "ok"
this is going to be good this looks well let's get it on
and when you start to test this people like that
and you realize that with a little punishment, a little pressure, they throw back, they break.
here is when you realize that physically they can be complete
but in the mental aspect they are not at a 100%,
it plays a important role
because if a fight is going to be defined by it,
so the mental part really takes a higher percentage than the physical one.
it cannot be a 50/50%
it takes more.
because the physical qualities go to 50% since you give a weight,
since you compete since you know that he recovers almost the same weight as you,
you are in similar physical qualities
but when you see the fight and in the fight those physical qualities decay,
you realize that the mental part was the one that took the highest percentage, right?
and put a 70% on the gym and the mind 30%
and in the fight you see exactly that,
hat the mind had 30 and the physical 70
and that's where things did not come out, so I think that the mental aspect is basic. all the time
I think for any level obviously
but I think the role that the mental coach has to do is to be on the person all the time.
in the end, the business in our case ends up being thus the blows.
I think you have to prepare for the worst,
you have to prepare for the best,
you have to prepare for any situation, right?
the preparation with the mental coach would be to take it to all those scenarios
where you realize that all that can happen and you know how to assimilate
how to cope with it,
because it will happen whether you want it or not.
inside the octagon there are dark, very dark moments.
and what you have to do is imagine the best possible scenario,
even if you are in the worst case scenario,
then, that is the part that has to be prepare by the mental coach.
and of course within that is the confidence,
how to override the mental part over the physical one,
that is the most difficult thing, because in the fight,
when you see reflected that, then you realize that that part was not prepared
and that physical part overlapped the mental.
Many times we stopped cause we gas out,
but you realize that it was something mental
because at the end of the round you are cool
but 10 seconds before the round ends you were in a mess
and you thought it was the physical part
but finishing the combat you say "no way" I could endured 5 more rounds
how I did not give it all,
I did not put it in.
it's too late now.
so in those moments is where the mental coach should enter,
so that you can see those aspects of the fight
and so that at the moment you are in the fight
that you know that you should apply here and what you shouldn't,
you have to dig deep, you have to know how to handle it. I think it's the basic part.
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I lived with the experience I know what it is and I know what I´m talking about
it is simply sharing a little of what I have experienced and nothing else.
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