Made sense to me... I like what you're getting at with focusing on a job at hand, not just the fight. Focusing on what you need to do as a fighter not on what theu're doing.

I think deffense will come from training (and offense). Zoning out on the guy and focusing on what hes doing and trying to deffend doesn't work well i think. If you can focus on your job while keeping a relaxed mind i think you can get to work and let your body do what its trained for.

Don't know if I explained that well...

I think zoning and tense focus on your opponent makes you blind. Its usually on how to kick your opponent not a holistic view on fighting.. You see fighters throw shot after shot without timing. I think relaxing your focus and focusing on just doing your thing allows you to see and react to more. Allows more timing in attack and deffense (something besides turtling beehind your hands and leg blocks). I think this is alot to do with the Thais saying 'good eyes'. Seeing whats happening and being able to react...getting out of the way of shots with out running from the situation and being able to respond. Being able to throw an attack with timing and land it because of an opening besides just throwing a combo and hoping something happens.

I think meditation is good for focus of course but i think you can sort of meditate, and certainly work on focus when running, weight training, doing anything that doesn't take alot of thought.

interesting..there are many different kinds of focus.. I think focusing on fighting has alot to do with letting go and not 'trying' to hit. the body and mind has been trained and think letting it do its thing and focusing on that and just doing it helps...

think so?