How do you usually feel after training Jiu-Jitsu? Probably exhausted – physically…
But what are you thinking about after? More so, what do you think about during training itself? Because if your goal is to, quite simply, just push yourself and get the sweat in, you won’t progress nearly as much as you could otherwise.
Gordon Ryan has voiced his criticism of people who don’t think about & analyze their Jiu-Jitsu, but just “train hard”:
Everyone’s happy to come in and do the physical work. You know, hey come in, they train hard, they get a good sweat.
They’re sore.But the mental work is the hardest work. And nobody wants to do that.
You tell someone to come in and do, you know, three hard rounds and a hundred burpees. They’re, like: “Oh yeah, no problem.”
You tell them to sit down and figure out why this Armbar isn’t working. Why the mechanics aren’t right…
No one wants to do that.So, that’s the most important stuff.
It’s the mental work.
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So, what are you going to do with this information?
It might be the time to start applying it, slowly but surely beginning to train smart. Not just hard.
