Is it smart to let your anger instincts control you while in a street fight?

Is it smart to lose your temper during a street fight? Or should you keep control of your emotions? Because anger gives you more power.|||I would have to say that it is never smart to let an emotion control your actions. If you lose your temper in a street fight you have several problems. One is that you get too involved with the emotion and not the fight or your surroundings. Two you get carried away and you are likely to do something stupid that will cause injury to yourself and you may not be able to stop yourself when your opponent has had enough. Thus bringing me to Three- you get carried away and do something to your opponent that you regret for the rest of your life and can get you incarcerated.


Fighting with emotion my give you "More power.." as you put it in your question. But use the emotion to fuel your reactions not control them.


Hope this helps.|||you need to have anger i am a 3 year street fighter and iv only lost once always channel your anger into your punches but never loose control

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|||We learn martial arts to replace our base instincts. Our progenitors would have gotten angry and just thrown themselves at one another in a fight, fists and fur flying everywhere. Then our brains developed and we gained the ability to choose another course of action.





Martial arts should be drilled to the point that they are called as reactions to threatening situations. Again, we should have the ability to restrain ourselves from taking action but when we do it should be controlled and not angry.





Proper training will teach you to maximize the power in your own strikes as well as to target your opponent and avoid or mitigate damage from their attack. An angry fit of sloppy punches isn't as likely to hit a vital target as a controlled strike, so that "power" you mentioned is pointless if you can't hit the right target.|||Actually - in my opinion of course - loosing your temper just makes you do stupid thinks. It also makes you loose your train of thought, or other things like that. If you keep control, you can think a bit more clearly about what to do. You could also think of ways to STOP the fight, to avoid big trouble.





I hope I helped, and answered your question! ^^|||You're going to get more advice like the first answer.





That is obviously a child who knows nothing about martial arts and has never had a real physical fight... and I'm not talking about school fights.





Anger makes you do stupid things and loses lots of fights.|||In my opinion, there is a fine difference between anger and a competitive drive.





Letting anger instincts control you is one of the many reasons why people are scarred and have even died from violence.|||I would say its good to be angry, as long as you can direct that power intelligently in attacks. For some people, when they get angry they lose focus and become sloppy fighters.|||NO, yes, it does not.|||as an mma i channel my anger into a will to destroy my oponment. as long as you stay smart its fine to fight angry