Can aggression in sparring/fighting be trained or taught, or is it innate?

you can get brutalized into it, in my experience.
my coach would yell abuse at us and throw gloves at us if he thought we were too ''pussylike''. also, we'd have this sort of game of catch where we would run around the gym, and one guy would have to slap others on the back, and then the guy who got slapped did the chasing. Sounds fun but this would last for ever, he'd yell at us to slap really hard and urged those who got slapped to get revenge. and then sparring after that was always a bit more brutal. it wasn't fun at all.

i mean the game wasn't fun. sparring isn't supposed to be, obviously.

that's not what OP's asking tho. As you just said, people enter the ring without real aggression and then pride, adrenaline and maybe fear take over during the fight. it's not real I am going in and going to hurt someone attitude that some people are born with and OP's asking if that attitude can be learned.

I've been a martial artist for almost 5 years now. Most of the people who started training after me were not naturally aggressive and most had a mental block for actually engaging and/or hitting another person. Most people who didn't grow up in the hood or a trailer park have the same issue, societal conditioning to be non-violent. You can get over the block only through sparring.

you sound like a cool guy desu

instinct can not be trained.

HS wrestling coach
its a mix of both
you have kids who have innate aggression for good or bad and then its the job of the teacher to guide that

On the other hand you do have kids who are really passive and its frustaing but through enough nudging and guding through drilling and sparring you can have them develop the same amount of aggression and killer instinct

However its a tough balance depending on the athlete, some kids snap and quit after first practice, others hang it, people's motivations vary so much.

I have mentioned this in my other post on here , /asp/ and /heem/ but through the national regulatory board for wrestling there are clinics that coaches can go to, with sports psychologist that help train and drill, grit, toughness, and killer instinct to help developing youth

One nice thing about common core standards mixing in with martial arts systems like wrestling is that high school wrestling staffs have a huge resource to draw upon and premade curriculum for technique, meta strats, mental displinece

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Forgot to post the resources i was talking about

Sport psy lectures applied to HS wrestling
youtube.com/watch?v=XXG-yNNJKoM

youtube.com/watch?v=6eWPuVmmARQ

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USA wrestling common core curriculum for 6-12 grade wrestling

teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Coaches/Core-Curriculum/Folkstyle-Level-1

teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Coaches/Core-Curriculum/Folkstyle-Level-1
teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Coaches/Core-Curriculum/Folkstyle-Level-3

teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Coaches/Core-Curriculum/Wrestling-Drills-and-Games

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It can't, but it can be emulated through training, just as a perfectly calm dog can be trained to bear its teeth and growl

Wish I had one of those coaches growing up
I ask my track coach for shot put/discus what I can do to improve. The asshole simply said I’m too passive. And walked away. Talk about irony

This.
Person I used to spar with was very aggressive and would easily be baited into anger. Lost every fight because they never bothered to fix the holes in their defense and relied on aggression.
I used to be very scrappy in sparring but I learned how to read opponents and to direct the aggression to the moments when there's an actual opening.
It's a double edged sword and some aggression is good but you need to learn to control it.

Aggression is innate in all humans (bar mental disorders). However it is we heavily surpress this aggression due to modern life. Overcoming this supression when sparring will certainly come easier to some than others.

You can be brainwashed to be more aggressive through coaches yelling/blowing smoke up your ass, winning fights and spars, and everybody hyping you up.

Just end it, you’re clearly fucked in the head for life

I think Sakuraba is the ultimate example of a fighter who's very aggressive and completely cool headed at the same time
youtube.com/watch?v=BFh64kvxWtk
>those fucking cartwheels and Sub Zero slide kick lel

100% innate. Had a tough and successful military career. The Marine Corps even sent me around to spar at different bases because I got deep into their martial arts program. Awards for combat and general excellence and all that.
I'm still a raging fucking pussy. Idk how I faked it for 5 years

the most docile can turn into aggressive monsters under the right (or wrong, whatever) circumstances.

for instance; that one time where a plane crashed in the mountains and some survivors eat other humans.
There are most examples of situations where people had to become something .. else to survive. A lot of them do. People can do a lot more shit then they think.

and thats why you are not winning tournaments.

you dont train hard enough to become a winner. that way, you dont reach even 60% of your potential.

Yeah but it takes a lot more to get some people riled up.

everybody has it.

some people just need to dig a lot deeper.

very true.

but i believe everybody has a killer in them.
extreme examples; a woman who gets beat up by her husband hundreds of times.. till he beats their child a bit to hard.. killer mom stabs the father to death.

This happened a few years ago in my town. She had NO fighting spirit, till he beat the child, after that he couldn't handle her and her knife.

t. bullied manlet skelly

I have the same issue. I'm very defensive sparring but when I'm in an actual match I turn a switch and I'm the aggressor. All of that defensive sparring helps out in dodging and parrying and ducking and rolling and I get in there with the overhand.

>that one time where a plane crashed in the mountains and some survivors eat other humans.
They only ate the dead

It's innate but it can be learned if you apply yourself to learning it.

>Is being angry possible?

T. Fightless Fedora

Kinda hard to chew someone when they can chew back

the question is are you going to teach your son or daughter to be a limp wrist onions boy or you going to teach them to have aggersion like a chad?

I see myself as a pussy too.
I always try to avoid confrontation and have my fair share of running away from fights. however, on the two occasions where I had no option but fight, I did well.
I mean, I really enjoyed while I was at it, but felt crappy afterwards because I beat the shit of the guys (been doing MT and BJJ for 6 years)
I guess I was too conditioned in my early years into worrying about other people would think of me if I showed this primal side.
maybe my mom saw something she didn't like and tried to suppress that on me
all I know is that always avoid confrontation now during my sparring sessions I push the pace a lot, physically speaking, but I'm not aggressive, unless the other guy also is.

I always had a killer instinct. This is going to sound weird, but video games really were always my outlet. Growing up I loved ultra competitive games. I was always the best. Put my all into winning.
But when I started wrestling, being out there alone really tore into my ego because I would lose constantly. I *knew* I had the ability to just unleash that aggression. I would see it sometimes but I wouldn't know how to trigger it myself and get myself into the zone. It was always reactionary like if I saw my opponent talking shit about me. In those situations I cannot remember losing even if I was technically less skilled because I would just will myself into winning.
Once I learned to stop being nervous and afraid *AND* also removing competitive video games I became way more aggressive on the mat. I didn't have any sink for my aggression and it was always just below the surface.
Losing over and over again to people I should've won against because I was too nice really did something to my ego and hardened it. I knew what it was like to be a loser and never wanted to experience that again.

I use sparring to practice all the things I could try during a fight and because of that I'm always defending more, trying to time and laying traps so that I can land my punches and kicks
I have some aggressive partners that, if you watch them sparring, you would say they would beat the shit out me in fight
however we have an internal championship every quarter and in the 8 times we fought, I won them all

both. how it can be taught? simple, look at opponent like they just killed your family. there's your aggression

beat my kid
the more you spank them the more aggressive they are but they wont be niggers cause they be displine

What the fuck is this bullshit about

You scarred your siblings for life. Kys.

A one way ticket to concussionville desu.