Does anyone else get ridiculously stressed/nervous before a fight or comp?
If so, how do you deal with it/overcome it?
I’m not talking about an actual fear of being harmed or anything girly like that, but more ‘performance anxiety’, fear of failure that sort of thing.
I used to throw up before rugby matches and it’s that sort of thing - basically a massive adrenaline spike that seems to sap most of my cardio.
This is in the Chinese Martial Arts and Kung Fu Forum why?
Because he thinks we’re going to go softer on him than the big bad cage brawlers.
Which is wrong.
So to the OP… MAN UP! 
In all seriousness, to me, it’s a question of attitude, awareness, but mostly the ability to convince myself that if I’m not nervous, there’s no reason to be.
Geez, I don’t think that was very useful, but anyway.
Because he is a spammer who hasn’t yet realized his sock puppet account, pedro_9k6k, has already been banned and he cannot post the spam containing answer until he creates a new account.
Alternatively, he’s just an idiot.
Ha ha… He said sock puppet. :laughing1
I’m gonna start a band called Sock Puppet Akimbo. They will go to play the punk hippity hippity rock pop and puke before they do cause they gots the performance anxiety. Then they’ll hide like little girls waiting for Brit Brit to walk outa her L.A. home not realizing that the bald butchie butch that rode by on a dirt bike wearing a straight jacket and fishnets was actually her. When they’re done they will sing to the little old nun on 5th street who was once a hooker in Nazi Germany but you couldn’t tell. Well, except that she has a swastica tattoo on the bridge of her nose but truth be told she is pretty hot in her Hello Kitty thong. For an old lady that is. Well, gotta go, band practice is almost here and the dog meat in the oven is starting to catch fire. I knew I shoulda skinned it but it looks better with all that Collie hair attached and the neighborhood kids prefer it that way. Tootles.
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Lead Singer of
Sock Puppet Akimbo
CD’s on sale soon entitled
“I Was So Scared I Pissed Myself”
I find that it kinda goes away with experience. At least for me it has. Really it’s just the waiting to fight part that kills me. I have a bit of nervousness which makes me want to get in there and go, but I’ve gotta sit and chill until it’s go time… and then it’s time to put on the gloves! And wait more… and then! …more waiting…and then go! That shit is what kills me. It sort of makes for all these false adrenaline dumps that just get me irritated.
Kid, I’ll send you a tape of our last album called “Bitch Slap Contest: My Stomachs in Knots”. It has some good tracks that cure the pre-fight waiting nervousness like “Don’t Worry, Bitch Can’t Beat You She only Gots One Arm” and “Smoke that MoFo with the Hillary Clinton Mask”. Good stuff.
RE
Lead Singer of
Sock Puppet Akimbo
CD’s on sale soon entitled
“I Was So Scared I Pissed Myself”
I don’t generally like to listen to music before my fights because it gets me pumped up too soon and I like to just relax until it’s time to warm up, otherwise I get that too early adrenaline dump. But thanks, those sound like fun tracks 
Yah, I hear ya. We gots the mellow hooks too though too.
“Too Stoned to Fight” is a good mellow vibey track with a reggae feel and “Pass Me the Cheetos Holmes Cause I’m Too Stoned to Fight” is the follow up. Also got a good one called “Pants Around My Ankles and I’m Flyin’ on Robo” but it’s more of a techno trance song with some dodgy beats.
RE
Lead Singer of
Sock Puppet Akimbo
CD’s on sale soon entitled
“I Was So Scared I Pissed Myself”