WELCOME BACK
Ok, well first let me just say, it's been about 11 months sense I last posted on here. Some of that was due to changes in my training location, training partners, and even attitude toward training.
Politics and people aside I needed to get back to blogging about training, as much as it helped me, nothing should get in the way of advancement.
I wanted to take a brief time to talk to you all about something that I am seeing in some of the new students I am training with. A lot of the white belts, anywhere from 1 week to 1 year for most of these guys are trying SO hard to win, they are losing dramatically. The art of losing and learning is more important in training than most people understand. This can be a difficult concept for a lot of people, and I don't mean not trying, or training poorly. I mean allowing yourself to try new things, experiment with your game, take chances. When you get so caught up in NOT tapping to anyone you severely limit yourself. You have to be ok with getting tapped.
When I roll now, I take chances; I put myself in bad position, to force creativity on my part. Hopefully I will be able to come up with an answer and escape or avoid the submission or sweep, but if not, I have still learned something that is taking me on the way to a stronger game.
This is a short blog, but just one to say, when you train, don't worry about winning or losing, worry about learning. Take some chances, pay attention to your details, your technique and you will go much further.
We will be post MUCH more often now that things are back in swing. Can't wait to talk to you all soon.
-Sean
Politics and people aside I needed to get back to blogging about training, as much as it helped me, nothing should get in the way of advancement.
I wanted to take a brief time to talk to you all about something that I am seeing in some of the new students I am training with. A lot of the white belts, anywhere from 1 week to 1 year for most of these guys are trying SO hard to win, they are losing dramatically. The art of losing and learning is more important in training than most people understand. This can be a difficult concept for a lot of people, and I don't mean not trying, or training poorly. I mean allowing yourself to try new things, experiment with your game, take chances. When you get so caught up in NOT tapping to anyone you severely limit yourself. You have to be ok with getting tapped.
When I roll now, I take chances; I put myself in bad position, to force creativity on my part. Hopefully I will be able to come up with an answer and escape or avoid the submission or sweep, but if not, I have still learned something that is taking me on the way to a stronger game.
This is a short blog, but just one to say, when you train, don't worry about winning or losing, worry about learning. Take some chances, pay attention to your details, your technique and you will go much further.
We will be post MUCH more often now that things are back in swing. Can't wait to talk to you all soon.
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-Sean
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