How To Adapt Different Fighting Styles to Your Style Rich Alten

The "charger" archetype mentality is a very common style in the UFC. The charger is defined as a extremely aggressive, explosive fighter who will dish out an infinite amount of punishment. A chargers common response traits to fight or fight is to put all their energy into locomoting towards their opponent with blinding speed. The charger is a relentless specialist who is looking to swarm you in every engagement as soon as possible. This archetype is extremely quick and looks to put their opponent on the defensive ASAP using forward momentum combined with a blitz of attacks. Chargers are effective in throwing machine gun or chaining strikes in combination, coupled with predator like footwork when they smell blood. Fighters who possess a the traits of a charger are known for being quick starters, fast finishers and their durability. The archetype

has traits and patterns they possess in their subconscious mind and nervous system, which will be activated once the fight or flight response has been triggered (the need to survive). Trying to identify an archetype fighter in sparring for fighting can be somewhat tricky at first when you're not looking for it. Checkout my YouTube channel on previous videos I've done on this topic which has created a big following. This section of combat is a very complex subject, however if its study frequently Fighters and coaches can benefit greatly from this, and save many hours of wasted sparring energy, ineffective techniques, guessing on what tactics to use in the ring, reduce injuries and maximize perception and combat strategy awareness. Fighters should know what Archetype they themselves are, and practice on perfecting it with as many strategies and tactics as possible. Secondly. they also Need to know what Archetype each of their opponents are as well as training partners. Third, fighters should practice on using their own Archetype, whatever you may be(slugger, charger, blocker, runner, synergist) to dominate each of the other types with different tactics in sparring and drills. Fourth, practice becoming all the other archetypes so you can eventually learn how to become the ultimate Archetype which is a "synergists". Becoming a synergist is the ultimate goal. A synergist is defined as any martial artist, or fire that can use any archetype coupled with any strategy and tactics and techniques to defeat anyone in any situation. In other words a synergist knows how to adapt to any person and scenario in front of them regardless of what archetype they originally may be. A synergistic is very diverse in strategies and tactics and knows how to modify the techniques according to the method they are trying to achieve.