What is the best way to improve as fast as possible in Jiu-Jitsu? Is it to ask that highly-revered black belt about all of their “secrets”; their advice and tips, learning them as soon as possible and applying them in training?
Or is it to just go out there and have fun, as you make mistakes and learn from them?
Well, Kit Dale says it’s about the second option.
He shared a nice metaphor about it:
I would do the same thing when I used to paint pictures or draw pictures; I would sit there with this big canvas, and… It would take me, like, three days before I decided what I wanted to do.
That’s three complete days of wasted time, that I could have been practicing drawing.If I was to give you a bit of paper, right, and I said: “I want you to draw the best picture in the world…” Or I gave you a paper and I did a couple of lines and I said: “I want you to make something of this picture…”
It’d be so much easier for the one I made a couple of lines on.You would see things that would inspire ideas. You would say: “Oh, there’s a line there that looks like a master of a ship… Okay, I’m going to draw a ship.”
You know what I mean? Compared to sitting there [and thinking]: “What is the best picture I could draw…”
Dale continued to explain that most people come into BJJ the same way:
They think: “Okay, you’re a black belt, you’re one of the best – teach me exactly what you did, the way you do it, because I want to do everything perfect straight away.”
It doesn’t work like that. You’ve got to do what I did: you’ve got to go out there and make every single mistake I did, or you’re just going to be a terrible carbon copy of what I am.
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