Dear Steemians,
Today I am publishing my firts full blog in english after a while. I hope that you will understand that I have decided to write my latest blogs in German since I am now living in Bavaria for more than 3 Weeks now.
My blog today is related to a movie which was brought to movie theaters in 1985 or earlier. The movie is belonging to a Saga of Rocky movies. I liked to watch every part as I was a kid.
From the mixtape acompanying the movie, the sound of Rocky 4 is my favorite as it sounded very modern and adapted to Drago´s training.
I am going to dissecate, can we say that, the matter in different section.
1/ The Training:
One of the things I prefer most in the movie is the training. You can see that the trainings are similar and different at the same time.
Ivan Drago´s training: As you can see his training is made with the assistance of the most modern technique at that time. He practices very and and the guy becomes a machine. One of the interesting point is that he receives an injection to increase his performance. Well, already at that time we knew that Russian athletes were taking Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED´s).
Rocky Balboa´s training: Is based on very ancient method´s by using the available things offered by mother nature. He does not get the assistance of modern technique and his training proves to be practical. The effort is also more important and there is no little-helper to develop his performance.
****2/ Motivation****:
What is more motivating in training and improving you performance everyday. Are datas really helpful? What if someday you see that you got eroneous information? Ivan Drago´s training seems to be interesting but one thing can not be measured, this is the motivation. How motivated was the guy really. Was he hungry enough to win.
I guess, the best way to test motivation was lying in Rocky´s training. I am an absolute fan of his trainings in the different episodes, you know that meat bag he used to practive his boxing moves. Motivation is when you have your goal in front of you and you know exactly what you are practicing for and why you are doing this everyday, day after day without steadily complaining. Knowing that the outcome will change you life.
3/ Love:
In terms of Love this movie offers us two different worlds colliding with each other. On the one hand you see that Ivan Drago´s girlfriend or wife more seems concerned with her appearance than by supporting him. The fact that the guy is a cash-machine in addition to a boxing machine is way more important to her so she can get all the luxury she wants.
On the other hand, you have the legendary pair of Rocky and Adrian. What to say about them, that is love in its purest essence. I love the idea that Adrian went to Russia to support her man. It boosted him definitively to give additional percent in the training and the fight. I wish I could live something like that.
4/ Modern vs ancient:
Interestingly there will always be a debate between modern and ancient. This is no news to us. In our contemporary world we always tend to believe that the newest, most trending, further-developped and modern things are better than what was there before.
Never forget that a lot of objects that are existing or were invented a long time ago were steadily developped and redesigned in order to respond to the need for peoples convenience. Some products were not expected anyway and found there core before being spread out through the mass, as in example Internet,Television, Smartphones and so on. Further developments will come soon but does it mean that it will be better? Everyone will have an opinion on the question.
So obviously I tend to say that ancient is better, not always but a good part of the time. The practice like Rocky Balboa did will certainly always prove more efficient and demanding than the modern version of trainings.
Modernity also brings some benefits to people who are not capable to do some activities, I mean look at the senior people who barely road with a bicycle at a given time and now are using E-Bikes and are now making effort. So there is a Pro too.
I think by combining the best of both we can achieve a lot of things. You just need to see how many folks are now making more efforts than ever since they use their smartwatches. Modernity helps people to practice the good ol´ way. That is a perfect combination of both worlds in my sense.
Frankly Rocky IV is my favorite version of all the episodes for this reason. I am not talking about the political aspects behind since I am not keen talking about such matters.
You are kindly invited to share your thoughts through the comment section below. I will try to answer as much as I can. My replies can also become blogs at a given moment, don´t say I didn´t warn you ;-)
Wishing you a great evening or day depending on where you are on this world.
Yours
@joel0101