How important is it for you to tap your training partners out?
Is it more important than attempting new techniques and approaches to the game?
Well, if it is more important… Then you’re not going to keep improving as much as you’d like.
And you most certainly won’t be as successful in competition as you could be.
Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida explains why that’s the case, by sharing his own approach to training:
First thing I try to do is always try to put myself in every situation.
I don’t train hard every day, but some days I [approach it like]: “Okay, today is a competition day. I can’t do any mistakes, I can’t do what I wouldn’t do in competition.”
But most of the other days, I just go there and do whatever I want.
You know, lose my game, try new stuff. I get caught, tap, start over again… And keep trying, you know, that’s how I get better.
In other words, if you want to excel, then you need to put yourself in bad positions and try new stuff:
Because, if I put myself in every bad position during training, when I go to the competition – nothing is gonna surprise me.
Like, nothing is gonna [make me say]: “Oh my God, I’ve never been there.”
So, that’s why I have to risk everything in the gym.
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