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Just trying to determine the turning point really.
The loosing fighter mentioned in a post fight interview that, a mistake he felt he made, was that he got carried away in looking for the win.
His exact words were.
"I wanted the win. I wanted to celebrate, I wanted to enjoy the fans".
His mistake was that he became overly eager, closed the distance too much while trying to force the pace, got taken down by the ground fighter, and submitted.
One of the commentators said and reiterated numerous times in his post fight analysis, that the composure of the winning fighter is what allowed him to take the win.
And I would guess myself, that that composure came in the form of focus on what he was doing, just like in the aforementioned exercise, the focus on relaxation bore the most effective results.
Where as the opposite is said for the loosing fighter.
He lost his focus on the present, considering to much the spoils of the win (became overcome by his ego, one could say).
I guess now the question is, the degree to which one can maintain their focus, their presence of mind, not allow themselves to be overcome by the ego; what is it that determines this?
Why did one fighter hold that focus, and what made the unsuccessful fighter loose it?
Perhaps simply a state of conscious focus and determination?
Stems from lifestyle/overall mentality perhaps?
