MMA or Boxing too expensive?
No, I just want to bare-knuckle fight with strangers in a no-holds-barred match. No sarcasm there. Give me the waiver and sign me up, I’m good for a beatdown.
Fair enough
Although thinking about it, seems like you might do really well as a boxer. You’re strong and don’t mind getting hit. Maybe you’d be crazy successful!
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Per the rules, they’re tough to find.
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You could check with a promoter by looking at who runs the fights at local venues. My brother in law does this once every few months for some extra cash. He’s basically a soup can that gets his butt kicked on purpose as chum for the audience before the main event.
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Now, I’m just going to play devil’s advocate here.
How much you can lift has almost nothing to do with how much you know about lifting and training. Look at a lot of the ‘coaches’ and ‘experts’ online. A lot of them are actually pretty strong, have decent physiques and yet are pretty useless when it comes to technique or actually knowing how to train. Being good at lifting doesn’t automatically transfer to being good at knowing how to train.
In some years time, yes, you’ll have a body of experience that will make you more useful in respect of teaching training because you’re intelligent and you learn. At the moment, with maybe three years worth of training you still have a lot more to learn.
Absolutely keep writing, because that’s something that helps the learning process; but don’t be surprised or discouraged when someone says, hey, you’re a teenager writing about training how much can you actually know and how useful can what you write actually be?
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I’ll just go ahead and re-paste my reply to another person who said this exact thing on Reddit, because it explains where I was coming from when I decided to post the piece.
" Hey - all very true stuff, based on what everyone else can see as of right now. Here’s the story:
I wrote up a little piece on my own successes with touch-and-go vs. dead-stop deadlifting, and basically explained why I use both in my training. I even cited EliteFTS. I’m pretty sure the article was removed, but I don’t currently make ANY money off my fitness writing. At all. My blog isn’t monetized, I just want to spread what I deem useful information pertaining to lifting weights and getting stronger. I write because I enjoy doing it. I was speaking as an intermediate talking to other intermediates about deadlifting. These same intermediates validated my successes with their own stories. I wasn’t disseminating workout programs or anything of that nature, because that would better be handled by a coach or someone more qualified to disseminate training advice than myself. I thought my piece was well-received by the community, because it sparked lucrative discussion. I also didn’t link back to my website in the post. Just because I’d like the chance to eventually make a business out of what I do doesn’t make my information useless by any stretch of the imagination. Shit, I write anything. That’s what freelance writers do. I don’t need to write about fitness to make money.
I got banned and insulted by the mods because I didn’t realize that only high-level lifters should be posting any write-ups in the sub. I conceded that and said I wouldn’t be participating in that kind of stuff again, and they made my ban permanent because I called what I did a misunderstanding instead of a mistake. They wanted an apology that they didn’t get. If I can make money off fitness, great, but that certainly wasn’t my goal when I posted my writing to the subreddit, and I found it very disrespectful that the mods removed my post when there was no reason to do so, other than their subjective issues to my posting on other subreddits looking for a job. They assigned me malicious intentions when I had none without even giving me the chance to explain myself, because they also muted me.
Why is that kind of behavior okay, from anybody, much less the moderators of a subreddit with hundreds of thousands of followers? They could have told me to take the post down because I didn’t have enough experience to be writing on the topic. I would have obliged without a question.
This is a copy of my “conversation” with the mods, who reached out to ME to tell me I was a faking, lying fitness nobody after they removed my post. I was never disrespectful, but I wasn’t afforded the same courtesy by them. I’m pretty sure two of them decided to reach out to me, too, based on the sequence of messages I received.
All the mods from over there might gang up on this post, ensure that a huge PR I just hit receives no recognition, and call me a whiny bitch with a baby deadlift because I called them out or something, and they’re all probably deadlifting 800+, but my point still stands. Fuck. They were insulting and downright rude when they didn’t have to be, just for the sake of putting somebody they perceived as lesser than them (at least in weightlifting) in their place. I don’t appreciate that kind of treatment from the people in charge, and even if I hadn’t been permanently banned from the subreddit I wouldn’t go back there. I hope my post doesn’t come across as disrespectful to anybody, especially more experienced lifters because I always defer to them, but I stand by what I say. I don’t think it’s bad to add signal to the signal/noise ratio, especially since - as you pointed out, and this is something I agree with - the fitness industry is filled with useless fucking noise, and that’s the sad truth."
That’s all I have to say on the matter, really.
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Already checked this out, thanks for the helpful information though!
Maybe! I guess I’ll find out, I have a lot of old enemies to fight. Let’s see if they show up. I would find that incredibly vindicating.
Here’s a bad story about that, which many of mine are:
A kid on my old tree crew did kinda the same thing. Called out like 5 dudes at the same time. So they all showed up with bats and beat him to death.
None of them expected that to happen. They all thought it was going to be like a good ole ass kickin.
But uncontrolled violence is just that. Uncontrolled. One brick or baseball bat to the head and it could be lights out, or severely dimmed- for ever.
Take that for what ever you feel it’s worth.
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Listen, dude. Keep writing. It’s good for you.
But a few things:
You posted all over reddit that you’re a professional freelance writer. You’re not. By definition. That alone is going to rub people the wrong way.
You also posted that you’re trying to get hired, like 4 times all over reddit, which means you’re trying to become a professional one with virtually no experience. People write for years, and get degrees to do things like that, and still end up with no work. You can’t be upset at a forum mod for cutting your posts out, what other possible conclusion besides “this is sketchy” could anybody come to who looks at your week-old history? I don’t know a mod that wouldn’t have banned someone for that.
Finally, it’s a hop and a skip from your blog and reddit to here. So if you DO want to get hired as a fitness writer, and unless you think anybody is going to hire some writer off the internet without taking a look around, stop posting self-deprecating I-will-fight-the-world stuff here, and focus on your craft. Bare knuckle boxing is stupid, the bare knuckle fights I’ve seen or heard of were just untrained idiots fucking their hands up. If you wanna box, go join a boxing gym or take lessons, because you need discipline, not a free reign to act like an ass.
I really don’t know how you’ll react to me telling you all this, or if you care, but take it or leave it.
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Either way, it needed to be said.
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No, I am, by definition. That’s what I exploited in my posts. I get paid for the work I do (no, I haven’t written a fitness article for any money). That qualifies me to say I’m a professional, and my work is certainly good enough to keep five or six long-term clients paying me good money to do their writing jobs. I’ve written for multiple companies and individual clients.
Sure, I won’t even bother arguing there. My post history did look sketchy, and I can definitely see why somebody would have seen that as a red flag. But, I will stand by at least deserving to be given the benefit of the doubt in offering up my side of the story. Obviously, none of you guys see it that way, but that’s okay. I’ll continue to think what I think, because I know what my intentions were.
This is why I asked Chris to ban me here until I got my shit together mentally. I still haven’t. I’m more depressed than ever, I have anxiety attacks on a regular basis, my mom hasn’t spoken to me in 9 days after she told me I didn’t deserve to be her son, people at work are on my dick, everyone from Reddit is on my dick, and everyone from T-Nation is on my dick. Fuck it all if I don’t feel like just giving up. Because I also don’t have anybody in real life to talk to, I immediately zoom over here and post exactly what I’m thinking on a public online forum. Pretty stupid, huh? Yeah, I think so too. But, I’m a socially inept retard, and that’s something my clients should know about me. I think. I don’t give a fuck. Chris, if you’re reading this, do me a favor and help my career out by deleting all my insane posts and keeping me away from my log. Thanks!
If someone has been writing for years and hasn’t managed to find a client, that’s an advertising issue on their part. Work is plentiful in the industry, because if I, a college student with zero degrees, can keep a dentistry company, a pregnancy care clinic, an academic writer, and numerous individuals too lazy to write their own work shit satisfied and returning to me for my services; they, an English major with a Master’s degree, should be able to make my writing skills look like peanuts. I’m trying to get hired because as a writer you always need to be looking for other clients in case one of yours falls through on a project you cleared your entire schedule for. That’s how we make steady incomes. Why do you even think I’m doing this shit? I need fucking rent money because my parents can’t stand the sight of me. Fuck working, do you think I like pimping myself out and getting no sleep every single night just for an extra paycheck? No, but I do it because I need to be financially independent, and because I’m good at it I can make money off what I do.
I’m sorry, but what? 17, you’re in college? You’re writing for multiple companies, working during the day, going to college? This is…just difficult to believe. Sorry. It’s not impossible, and maybe you’re older than 17, only saw you type something about lifting 3x your BW at 17 earlier. But it’s unlikely, and I don’t have much of a “believe” mantra on the internet these days.
And people aren’t “on your dick”. I’m honestly past listening to this shit.
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Yeah, that’s exactly what the fuck I do. And then I come home to do chores and do more work until I go to bed, and THEN I wake up and do it all again the next day. Every. Single. Day. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t working, and that’s probably why my mental health sucks. I don’t have a choice, it’s my personal circumstance.
You just don’t believe it because you can’t comprehend it. That’s okay, I don’t need you to validate my life. With that being said, I work three days a week and have college classes three days a week, just like any other college student. I spend my spare time writing and making money with my efforts. I sleep 4 hours a night if I’m lucky, and I busted my ass to get to where I am today. That includes staying alive long enough to see myself become successful. You’re a veteran, I’m sure you can appreciate the value of ass-busting, gritty, nauseating work. Do you want an emailed copy of my college ID, pay stubs, government ID, and writing samples? Like…holy shit, dude. Calm the fuck down. I’m intentionally not being mean here, because I used to respect you, but I really don’t feel like you respect me. And why would you? After all, I’m just an internet liar. It’s not like I’ve told you anything in confidence before, right? It’s not like I considered you the closest thing I had to a friend or something. I thought I could trust you, but you obviously don’t trust me.
And I’m 17 (I put that I was 18 in my one post on Reddit because I had to be 18 to post to r/progresspics), I’ll be 18 in May. Why the fuck would I lie about my age to you guys, and what exactly are you insinuating? Nobody asked you to interject here. You asked me a question that I answered, and now you’re calling me a fucking liar? I thought we appreciated each other, I guess I was wrong. Either way, comments like yours (and people like you) are why I just offered to pay the forum director to get rid of my fucking account so I don’t have to read the bullshit you spew through your keyboard ever again.
@MarkKO really? You believe this garbage? I hope you don’t think I’m a liar too, because that would just break my heart.
Did I even hint at revealing what you told me in confidence? At all? No, I don’t believe this stuff, and I don’t need to hear anymore. You talk about buying glocks off the black market, and all sorts of conflicting things and if some of it is true, which I’m sure it is, I can’t filter through what’s not anymore. At least, not after you tell people who repeatedly try to help you that they’re “on your dick”, or go off on kd13, whom I do respect, or any of these things. It’s not that I don’t respect you, I just don’t know you.
Again, I didn’t drag kd into it, I didn’t tag him for that exact purpose.
I think stuffs bad for you. You’re angry. I see it. But I don’t have to argue about stories nobody can prove or disprove. It’s the internet.
And youre putting all sorts of words into my mouth about how I view you. That’s how you view yourself, not the other way around. My initial advice centered around, “stop that shit”.
Anyhow, I’m out, won’t be “on your dick” anymore.
No, you directly accused me of being a liar. Good riddance. Also, where’s all that happy talk about internet friends being real people now? Lol.
No, I don’t think you’re a liar.
I think you are a young man who has had a very, very rough road and is doing his best to survive and better himself. You are still a teenager, and with that comes ironclad conviction, passionate feelings and no life experience at all. It’s a hard load to balance. You experience the world viscerally, every last bit of it (I did, at any rate).
What you’re in the middle of learning through all these exchanges is that not everyone who chides you or questions you is against you, or your enemy. Quite a few are trying to help by giving you advice, or perspectives outside your own. Many of those people have been around longer than you by a stretch, and have also endured their fair share of shit.
So when I, or Flap, or Skyzks (excuse spelling) call you out it isn’t to put you down. We know you’re struggling with a LOT. Some of us have too. We learned from it. We see what you’re experiencing with the eyes of someone who has seen it before. What we’re mostly trying to do is help you smooth some edges of.
What happened on reddit was shitty for you, and I know you had no underhand intentions. The mods probably don’t know you as well as we do. While you, I suspect, are unused to experiencing criticism or challenge made without malice. This informs your reaction to it, and therefore influences your interlocutor’s response to your reaction.
For what it’s worth, I believe you are earning money writing for people. It doesn’t necessarily make you a professional writer. Yet. Keep it up for a few years, learn as you go, build a business out of it and then you’ll be a professional.
I know you’re angry. I know anger, believe me. I also know fear. The two are ugly companions.
Stay with it. Keep doing what you’re doing, which is working to get better. When someone says something to you, step back. Listen. Try to put yourself in their shoes. Listen from that position. Then respond.
Btw if you need to talk, Instagram direct me, I’ll get a phone notification and I check my phone pretty regularly.
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