Hey Bro I think I understand where you are coming from. I started showing an interest in combat sports around 14 - 15, I am 17 now. I am mostly self-taught and did sparring with friends who were in MMA clubs. But every time I sparred I always overthink about getting hit and hurting myself, I was scared of it and it's natural. When doing striking sports, not getting hit is inevitable, but the amount of damage you take in the long term is in your control. I can propose a few ideas that could possibly help you. 1. Ask your sparring partner to keep it technical or 30 -40% power, this way you can not worry as much about getting hurt and try to find ways to improve your offense. 2. Train more, I know this might seem self-explanatory but the more you put into the art you are learning the better you become and are more comfortable with it, so don't quit. Make sure you set goals and tasks and complete them. 3. Prepare yourself: Take all precautions to make sure you will perform well or to your max the next session. This includes adequate sleep, a good diet, caffeine, warmup, proper equipment, etc. It is the small things that make the big difference.
For me when I first started getting hit into the head, the feeling was very scary. I had many times when I was a little that I hit my head against ice when falling. This kinda made the feeling of getting hit hard traumatizing and it was hard at first. Now I pretty much got used to it.
You are very strong because of sharing your problem, I'm training Bjj too for already a year or something. I had an experience of panic attack during sparring when I threw the guy in a wrong way and could potentially break his back, I was crying and saying sorry. He's doing good now and after an accident I took a week off yk concentrated on learning and on other things, and now I'm beginning my trainings again so I guess guess you can take a time off and then get back to it. I'm not an expert so idk. Hope everything will be great with you 🙏
Hey Bro I think I understand where you are coming from. I started showing an interest in combat sports around 14 - 15, I am 17 now. I am mostly self-taught and did sparring with friends who were in MMA clubs. But every time I sparred I always overthink about getting hit and hurting myself, I was scared of it and it's natural. When doing striking sports, not getting hit is inevitable, but the amount of damage you take in the long term is in your control. I can propose a few ideas that could possibly help you. 1. Ask your sparring partner to keep it technical or 30 -40% power, this way you can not worry as much about getting hurt and try to find ways to improve your offense. 2. Train more, I know this might seem self-explanatory but the more you put into the art you are learning the better you become and are more comfortable with it, so don't quit. Make sure you set goals and tasks and complete them. 3. Prepare yourself: Take all precautions to make sure you will perform well or to your max the next session. This includes adequate sleep, a good diet, caffeine, warmup, proper equipment, etc. It is the small things that make the big difference.
Point number one is definitely what I need to do more, problem is I don't have the balls to communicate to go light lol.
For me when I first started getting hit into the head, the feeling was very scary. I had many times when I was a little that I hit my head against ice when falling. This kinda made the feeling of getting hit hard traumatizing and it was hard at first. Now I pretty much got used to it.
You are very strong because of sharing your problem, I'm training Bjj too for already a year or something. I had an experience of panic attack during sparring when I threw the guy in a wrong way and could potentially break his back, I was crying and saying sorry. He's doing good now and after an accident I took a week off yk concentrated on learning and on other things, and now I'm beginning my trainings again so I guess guess you can take a time off and then get back to it. I'm not an expert so idk. Hope everything will be great with you 🙏
Damn hope he's okay, BJJ is difficult at first especially when you don't know what you're doing but you'll learn quick. Best of luck G
@DannyHaidar164 yeah thanks he's doing well now, but it'll definitely teach me a lesson