the question about combat sports is to expose yourself to chaos, to uncertainty, to odin, how many can live in peace in not knowing? The obsessive suffers for not knowing and thus develops rituals to lessen the pain,
we are all a little like that, but the difference is that some flee from that shadow that is uncertainty while others embrace it, those who embrace it discover a hidden power that elevates them above the mass,
some call it getting out of your comfort zone, but it sounds so banal and trivial, in reality it is something much deeper, it is about going head on towards your own realization, it is about exposing yourself to life hitting you in the face and still go on!