Sting Evolution

“😂 I empathize deeply with facing a national level fighter while not quite being at that level. I am older and been around the block. When I am athletically gapped to that extent, wherein my opponent is throwing fucking anime jabs where the glove simply gets bigger for a millisecond before my head is snapping back… I’m older and been around a little and I understand that when it’s that kind of disadvantage at play, to fight reactively is to fight to survive and to lose. To play spoiler you just gotta give it to him. Short rounds with high volume make it kinda difficult to set traps, but you still kinda play it like that. Film review and identifying an opponents patterns to implement an intentionally proactive offense designed to bait out specific responses that you’re immediately able counter can net you great success. Judging by your posts, it seems like you’ve mostly got the technical basics and physical prerequisites down… the next evolution in your journey is mostly internal work. Studying specific opponents, slower, more methodical mirror shadow boxing to really “learn” your body, dedicated time for critical introspection, applying active adaptation during live sparring rounds… you’re going up against the dawgz now and it requires a very intentional pursuit of the craft, active refinement of strengths and improving upon ones’ weaknesses. Sorry if it just sounds like generic advice, but there’s not quite a magic pill to defeating someone better than you in almost every measure. Extremely difficult, but not quite impossible.”