I’m gearing up for another competition. One of those ‘one last time’ situations I keep finding myself in. And as I’ve been grinding through camp, I keep coming back to the same question: why am I doing this? Everyone has a why. There are books written about it, seminars built around it, entire coaching industries
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Mindset & Motivation
I’ve always been a writer. As far back as I can remember, I wrote short stories and poems. So when I came across a literary analogy for the BJJ belt system, it stuck with me. It described the ranks as levels of reading and writing comprehension: By this comparison, black belt is the poetry stage—the
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Mindset & Motivation
The first time I met Mike O’Dowd felt like the first time I’ve met many other military “operators”—a slang term used to describe members of elite special forces units. They always seem to be unassuming. The reality of these soldiers often differs drastically from the glorified heroes we see in movies or TV. Instead of
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Mindset & Motivation