By Josh Rosenblatt
When Josh Robenblatt obtained to the age of 32 and realised he wished to battle in an MMA match, he needed to confront quite a lot of bodily issues in addition to internal demons earlier than he set foot contained in the cage. Whereas the physicality of combating is explored, this ebook is generally about Josh’s inside struggles as a lifelong pacifist coming to phrases with the informal method to violence that MMA engenders. For many individuals Josh’s actual inside struggles wouldn’t exist (particularly his frequent reference to his Jewish ancestry), however in a basic sense they do exist in some type in all of us, and that’s what makes this ebook fascinating for anyone who trains in a martial artwork. It’s additionally a uncommon perception into the realities of coaching for an MMA battle – how a lot coaching is definitely required, coping with accidents, the way it impacts your relationships with family and friends and what the brutal realities of weight reducing are all about.
Josh writes nicely, notably relating to articulating his internal ideas as regards to coping with precise violence, both as a participant or an observer, and the transformative, virtually transcendent, energy that coming to phrases with it usually offers. I discovered he had managed to place into phrases one thing I’d felt earlier than in my very own life, however by no means stopped lengthy sufficient to essentially take into consideration and verbalise. As such ‘Why We Struggle’ stored my consideration continually till the tip, and also you do develop into drawn into his underdog story and intrigued to seek out out what occurs when he lastly will get into that MMA match. I received’t spoil it right here.