Saturday 16 July 2011

When is it time to throw in the towel?

Sometimes I am training these days, I feel I would be at my best now. Life without and marijauna, drinking and partying, other factors like a wife to be and baby on the way, an education, a steady place to live make a big difference. The shoulder is healed, I am 31, lifted weights for abit now.  While I am still a student of jiu jitsu, (about a year from purple belt) I feel I am well rounded. Some days I am in the limbo of retired and one more fight. I feel like calling someone out, putting on a show, with an entertaining ring/cage enterance, walking out with an old Gino Odjick Vancouver jersey, to 'Bad to the Bone', with an old hockey fight montage playing on a big screen.
I would have continued to fight if it wasn't for my parents dissaproval, my former trainer's disapproval. I suppose I should take some comfort in realizing that no one can take away the fights I been in, but every man is thier own biggest critic. I fought 4 years with a bad shoulder, all the fights on youtube are pre-surgery.
If I want to talk like this, I should walk the walk, wake up and run, instead of watch the news, check facebook and the internet. Even if its just for fitness. I know I have one more fight in me, I will save it to protect myself, and family if I ever need too.