Felipe “Preguica” Pena is a bjj black belt from Gracie Barra academy in Belo Horizone Brazil. For years he’s been considered one of the biggest rising stars in sport and he’s been steadily climbing to the top. Just last year he was one of the 8 chosen ones for the IBJJF Grand Prix and a chance to win 40.000$ reward.
Recently he had the opportunity to shine some light on the biggest mistakes players make in training while preparing for his sub only match against Gordon Ryan.
Pena recently talked to Graciemag and named top 2 mistakes most fighters make in training. To quote him:
1 – Run over your ego. This is one of the most important things for those who want to compete. Sometimes you are dead from training and there is a tough guy waiting to roll with you. There are people who avoid training with that guy, afraid of losing or getting squeezed. That is the silliest thing. What matters is the championship. The training is made for you to tap out, get run over and go through every type of complicated situation. So you have to seek out the toughtest guy to train with, to make the training as hard as possible.
2 – Overcome fatigue. When you are tired, you want to stop, you want to rest. Get over that tiredness. Think only of continuing on. I put it in my mind always that I’ll keep going. That makes me always explore my limits and reach my training goal.
