Anybody else who was good enough for pro sport but blew it?
>Be me
>Naturally gifted athlete
>Captained any sports team I ever played with.
>Sort of burnt out and bored with sport.
>Lost drive and started chasing women and money.
>Always had it in the back of mind I would go back playing rugby and dominate.
>Joined MMA
>Progressed really fast.
>Never had time to go all in.
>Promised myself I would give it my all once I bought my house.
>Bought the house,
>In it everyday renovating it solo
>Telling myself I'll go back once I finish
>30th birthday rolls round.
>Still very athletic and strong.
>Tell myself I can debut heavyweight and still have a good years of my prime left.
Why do I this to myself? Can anyone relate to this moronic mindset?
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It's normal anon. To dedicate fully to a sport is not something a normal person would do
To be fair, it was boring as shit. I was travelling all over the country playing a fricking game with a ball. Managers were taking advantage of me in a way. Having me play and single game. I was playing with the senior teams but also the underage teams because I was eligible. In hindsight, it wasn't for me, it was so the teams could win and get funding. Basically killed all enjoyment.
ofc not
but what you do is dedicate 5-10 years to it and then retire before 30
it's better than wage salving for 40-50years just to end up pretty poor anyway
frick no i was trash at sports as a kid, and i expect i would be as an adult too despite being very fit now
I played college ball, coulda gone pro if I hadn't joined the navy.
At some cushy ivy league school.
I think I have it worse. Family raised me to be a nerd and abandon physical pursuits. Drank myself into a depression for 10 years. Now that I'm fit I wonder what I could have done in my youth had I actually tried at anything. I dont even have a clue.
I never really played sports seriously because my eastern euro mom always pushed me to pursue academics and accepted nothing less than straight As.
Around 14 or so I realized all the athletic guys were getting the girls while my doughy ass was getting ignored. So I started pushing myself into sports, with no real support from my mom and a looming threat of getting pulled out of sports if I didn't keep my grades up to par. So I never really fully invested beyond the minimum. But I picked up volleyball, soccer, and skiing within months of practice. Never even really learned to swim when I was young beyond doggy paddle, and I picked that up within weeks of watching 1 youtube video and trying it out at the local pool. Swimming instructors were even asking me if I swam competitively or would even use me as an example of proper form and technique for their students. Weightlifting is all I really do these days with soccer/volleyball/skiing coming in when given the opportunity.
And I just think to myself, if I had actually been pushed into sports early on, I may have gotten somewhere. Instead I'm a wage slave with a $95k engineering job that didn't even give a rat's ass about my grades and only my experience (which I had).
You woild be better off soending all the koney you have on lottery tickets than trying to make it in sports.
Even those lucky 0.001% who make it, have to end their career in their 30s, while left with huge health issues and no skills for the real life. In the best case, they get to coach others for half what you are getting now.
Your mom was a wise woman.
Just loom up how many kids go to football schools and how many actually vecome rich. And then on average they lose all they weath just 7 years after they retire. That's the sport that pays a lot due to income from advertising. Most sports pay peanuts.
Yeah, you're probably right.
My dad was playing professional soccer for a second string league back in eastern europe. Was even getting a salary from it, though he had to work a second job because it wasn't enough to survive on. He almost made it to the premier club level, but he was politicked out for not having the correct attitude they wanted.
Still though. I think I could have been a lot better off if I wasn't stuck on academics. I'll admit, it helped with getting into college effortlessly, but at the same time, they weren't ivy league schools and didn't really have a high barrier of entry. No employer ever asked to see my grades.
I'm happy I got into sports when I did though nonetheless. I can see the difference between me and my brother, who never cared to play sports.
30s is usually considered a wall in sports. Barely anyone competes at that age. So kinda pointless to think what could have happened or if you still can become a professional athlete (unless you take something like curling).
The main benefits from sports are psychological. Any ex athlete will be successful in any area if he translates everything he learned from sports there.
You could master many sports without any trainer or strong support from your damily. Not many can do that. I bet you can do the same with your own business. Get a side hustle. Eastern europe lacks a lot, that is in abundance in western europe. There is room for new businesses. Just choose something you like so it would be more of a hobby rather than a second job. And don't fprget that life is a number game and you can fail. Not a reason not to try and not to try again if you fail. Just consider it as an expensive hobby for the beginning. It will be more fun than spending all your saving to climb everest or something like that.
Congratulating anon on getting mature.
Sports is the dumbest thing one can ever do (moderate exercising is a must for the health. But exercising heals you, while sport kills you). Tye good take away from sports is discipline and dedication to your goal. You got it and focused on what really matters. That's the way to go!
Oh yeah you could have all been olympic medalists and astronauts and shieett
Going pro in mma is easy as frick. But you’ll make frick all money. You’ll have to sell tickets to make even make any money and end up on bumfrick cards fighting 500 to show 500 to win. Between the camps, supplements etc you usually lose money or at best break even.
>t. 31 year old MMA coach
>be me
>fat loser in hs
>have nice life now
>not fat
Everybody thinks they are good enough to go pro but they don't have a clue. If you actually applied yourself you would have reached a high enough level where you realized you aren't good enough and don't have what it takes. Frankly, you deserve to spend your life in regret and misery.
t. When I was a kid I wanted to play in the NBA. I worked hard, had some talent, played 4 years of college basketball which was enough to realize I wasn't good enough to play at the next level.
If I was you I would have quit in the 7th grade after winning player of the year in the city then spent the rest of my life deluding myself into thinking I had what it took to go pro.
You're better off holding onto the belief that it could've happened rather than being bitter and jaded like
Truth is you never really wanted it.
>oh nooo I cant put on the little gay gloves and hug other gay men in a cage oh noooooooooooooo
lmao
when i was a kid i was in a sucky soccer club called 1860 munich. one of the scouts wanted me to train with fc bayern munich because he saw talent.
i rather played vidya............
Yeah. I had ridiculously fast reflexes when I was younger. Never took advantage of it and Im now 28 and can still naturally push myself through most sports despite having no experience. I wasted my dads turbo chad genes
Given my training as an adult, I have to wonder how I would have been as a runner while I was a kid, I was just too self conscious about running because I was chubby and it was hard
>>30th birthday rolls round.
very athletic and strong.
>>Tell myself I can debut heavyweight and still have a good years of my prime left.
So, are you doing it now or is it going to be never?
idk if i was good enough for pro sport ever or would have been, think i was just naturally strong/big
excelled with long jumping, 200m dash, and high jumping, also with rugby and field hockey (when to D12 trials n shit, almost got championship clothes a few times)
when i was 10-14; horribly injured my left shoulder at 13 (severe SLAP tear), then again my right at 15, tried getting back into it for a while but then covid hit and i needed to focus on my marks for uni.
i was a good combination of strong, fast and flexible, that very arrogant worriless prideful playing still haunts me, shoulder aches in the cold and my progression on anything involving shoulders is slow.
i dont think id be pro, probably just early puberty and the advantages it gave me, but i would have liked to enjoy and play the sports i love without a care for longer.
ive tried club rugby a bit, but i cant get over the mental block of the doctor saying if i get another significant injury on my left shoulder i am fricked and will require a shoulder replacement.
used to get very angry about this, in school my entire social life was built around my athleticism and when i lost it i also lost all my friends and kinda became the sad depressed ostracized loser, still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
id like to get into boxing though... but i do remember my doctor telling me boxing would be pretty bad on my shoulder...
shoulder's decent, e1rm of 133-140kg barbell bench (45kg db bench for 9), can db seated shoulder press 40kg for 8, though its been a while, put in a lot of work for rehab and strengthening my shoulders.
maybe i will get into boxing, idk anons, id like to get some advice
DDP didn't start wrestling until he was 36.
You've got time.
Trained kickboxing "late" (early 20s)
Started training mma "late" (25 years old)
I wanted to be an mma pro so bad I said yes to a pro fight only 3 years into my training and only after 3 amateur fights (2-1-0, 3-1-0 if you count the time my opponent didnt show).
Result? I got my ass handed to me because I wanted to speed up the process.
Also, doing a single pro fight means I can no longer do amateur mma fights in my country (a fact I knew only a day before my pro fight). I can do "pseudo" mma fights like pancrace, karate mix, etc.
I'm also not a citizen of my country, so I can't fight in the country's non mma/kickboxing/karate mix/muay thai championships, so that's a lot of amateur doors closed.
I can only do the sparse amateur fights here and there. In the mean time the clock is ticking (I just turned 30) and I know mma is a young man's sport.
So now I keep training, keep dieting, but its getting hard to stay lean, to stay consistent, knowing its too late for me to seriously start my pro mma path. The sacrifices, ones that I gladly did before, starts to seem less and less worth it.
I guess my mistake was not starting sooner and wanted to speed up the process to "catch up" on lost time.
Thank you for listening to my TED talk. Please enjoy me doing a sick slip hook on my 1st amateur fight.
OP never had the makings of a varsity athlete.