Author: jasonn

So this was just an idea given to me from the class on monday. My group was talking about all of our ideas and i was glad that no one had an idea of what they wanted to talk about other than Dylan. So im just going to write what I had told my group. 

 What I told them was that I have been into combat sports for most of my life. I had actually had dreams of going to the big stage (as many others do) but that dream quickly died when I realized that there is an ungodly amount of work that has to be put into it. Other than me wanting to live my life and actually be able to eat pizza, its also a dangerous sport. The dangerous where you can become brain damaged or even die. So ill keep going for a 9-5. That doesn’t mean that I do not love all combat sports, I still practice them, my favorite of them all is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. You just learn alot about yourself when you are getting thrown around by a dude significantly smaller than you, its crazy but it also teaches you how to fight ( not promoting violence btw) and it teaches you to be more confident in yourself ( in the sense of fighting… I still very much get stage fright ). So you could say fighting is one of my hobbies ( again, not promoting random violence, but seeing 2 people battling it out is kinda awesome. You can really see who would survive in the gladiator days).  

So I wanted to write an opinion piece about this, but I had no where to really start and I was just like…  ”       ” yea.  So Dylan had told me an idea. Performance enhancing drugs… should they be allowed in fighting sports? Maybe, people love to see people push the limit.. obviously with notifying the ref that these men are juiced so the ref knows that they can kill each other a little easier. Or should they not be allowed because its.. wrong.. and dangerous, unethical to the fighting community bc maybe not everyone wants to be juiced… Great idea.. 

Another one that came to me was “Should head gear be required in the big stage”.. Some might say yes! It will protect our fighters from things like brain damage and getting killed. Some might say no.. that for wimps and that they want to see 2 people knock each other out cold. 2 different opinions both of them very valid. I am open to new ideas though.