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Expect to Win! Expect the Best... Get the Best.
Do you expect great health and fitness? Do you expect wealth and happiness?
Do you expect great friends and loving relationships? Do you expect the best of life?
You should. Because you deserve the best and you can have it, if you train yourself to expect the best in everything you do.
The Martial Arts teaches you to focus on a desired outcome. When you learn a new technique, a new form or a combination. You first review it step by step, then you repeat it over and over again, until you can perform it with flawless intensity and execution.
If you expect to perform well, and you have done your practice and repetitions, you will perform well. If you expect to bomb, you are planting the seeds of failure in your mind.
Not exactly the mind set or formula for success in anything.
However, if you tell yourself…I am a Champion…I am a Winner.
You are sending a message to yourself, that you are the best. You are a Champion and you deserve success. In a sense, you are giving yourself a pep talk to perform at your best level.
This is how Champions in the Martial Arts, in sports and in business talk to themselves.
They pick themselves up and never put themselves down.
To apply this principle, you should expect to be healthy, wealthy, happy and fit…with a fighting spirit that will never quit. Expect to get the things you want in life and expect to succeed. This attitude of positive expectancy, based on your total belief that you will succeed, will lead you to victory in all of your goals in life.
Training Tip: 5 Ways to be a Great Training Partner
I am sure you agree, training becomes better when you have a great training partner. You have heard me mention in the past, if you want to have a great partner, you must be a great partner. By the way, this is true in the dojo and in life outside the dojo as well.
Here are 5 ways you can be a great training partner:
#1> Safety - Be a safe partner to train with. Nobody wants to get banged up or injured.
When you work with someone, provide the proper level of resistance to make the drill or skill strong. If you are overly competitive or aggressive during drills, you may never really capture the skills.
#2> Hygiene - Safety and hygiene will put you toward the top of my list when it comes to choosing a partner. If you stink of body odor, bad breathe, smell like you have been bathing in garlic, or you are trying to get more mileage out of your Gi between washings :( Partner drills involve close contact with each other, be respectful and make hygiene a very high priority before, during and after class.
#3> Skill - It's important to listen to the instructor to understand the skill behind the drill. Always work to improve your skill so that you bring your best details to the game. Every serious Martial Artists wants to improve their skill, a great partner can influence that aspect tremendously.
#4> Conditioning - The better your conditioning, the better it is for you and the better it is for your partner. Your control and technique will be better, you will last longer and be able to transfer a positive energy level to your partner. If you are huffing and puffing early on, you aren't going to last very long and your technique will suffer. and
#5> Attitude - This should probably be number one on our list, because it really ties in all areas and qualities. A great training partner is respectful, positive, focused and enjoyable to train with and be with. Like a really good friend, a really good training partner is someone you like, you trust and you respect.
With over 40 years of training under my belt, I have been blessed with many great training partners. Sparring partners, grappling partners, lifting partners, running partners,etc...
Very much like in business and in life, the people we associate with, and the information we absorb, have a great influence on where we will be in the next five years. In training, the partners you train with and the skills you are exposed to, will have tremendous influence over where your Martial Art skills and fitness level will be in the next five years.
Special thanks to Sensei Chris Robinson for being a great training partner this past few days.
Chris was in town for the EFC Board Meeting in Miami and drove down to FTL to train with me and the rest of our team. He shared some great drills and skills on the mat. Besides having years of experience in traditional Martial Arts training, Chris has been a student of Royler Gracie for the past nine years and is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Chris and I also partnered up @ Pedro Valente's dojo @ Gracie Academy in Miami. Royce Gracie was in town as well and was great to see and talk with. Chris and I had the pleasure of having Gi Valente put us through a fantastic class and then I also had the pleasure of training with Shihan Moti Horenstein. How did I get so lucky?
Speaking of great training partners...check out this youtube of Sensei Ty Hafner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQpabNdM4o0
Finally, I hope you are ready for a great week of training and positive progress in all of your goals. The Martial Arts brought us together. Our training brought us even closer and strengthened our bond, it will keep us together and continue to make us stronger for the long haul.
Let's make great things happen this week!
Osu,
Kyoshi
Steve LaVallee
Chief Master Instructor
www.USABLACKBELTCHAMPIONS.com
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