Fight Club....

You aren't alive anywhere like you're alive at fight club.... Fight club isn't about winning or losing fights. Fight club isn't about words. You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself to handle anything. There's grunting and noise at fight club like at the gym, but fight club isn't about looking good. There's hysterical shouting in tongues like at church, and when you wake up Sunday afternoon you feel saved. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6

I've been doing an exra training session of Arnis every week, which is dedicated to sparring. It is essentially an hour of conditioning (doing situps and pushups) followed by a three round fight (soon to be two fights). I was looking around for a quote from Fight Club (book or movie) which I remember. This was the closes I could find to it.... Essentially Ed Norton is at work, reflecting on fight club and observes 'at some point it starts taking over your life, your at work, and you're thinking about fight club, you're thinking about your next fight'.

I'm getting to this point now, the day after sparring I seem to spend a lot of my day wandering down the corridors thinking about things I'd do differently, moves I'd try next time. I also find myself swinging my arms and imagining I'm holding a stick.... Don't worry, I'm perfectly safe, just a bit absorbed... Another consequence of this is that I'm usually wearing three weeks worth of bruises of different colours and shapes... all part of the fun.