I’ve always been active and training, pushing boundaries and testing myself. However, I’ve have never been tested so much as when I was battling cancer. Now, looking back I was training hard but, I was not sleeping enough, wasn’t eating as well as I could have, always on the go burning the candle at both ends and the middle was melting. The same mental and physical toughness that I developed to push my limits to become stronger may have played a part in my eventual cancer. However, that mental and physical toughness allowed me to never give up when I was at my weakest and frailest, crawling through the valley of death. Now, I am still training, but I sleep, eat healthy, do things to develop my energy and well being, focus on health and happiness, live life like I love it, with excitement and enthusiasm. Believe me, everything is easier after fighting for my life and now living a lifestyle to be energized, healthy, happy, have a positive mental outlook with overall well being.
Bob Burgee
Victory Favors The Tough & Trained
Pretty simple. The more you push yourself in realistic training the tougher you become. The tougher you become the more you push through in training. Victory favors the Tough and Trained!
Awesome Attitude Adjustment
Seems obvious, well it’s not! The problem is most people choose the easy choice, which often is the wrong choice. If you don’t know what to choose then you’re leaving it to chance, and that’s not a good choice. However, once you have chosen to do the work to build and develop your skill (in whatever area), you. start to choose the better choice more often. Keep choosing the better choice and pretty soon the better choice becomes the easy choice to choose. Life is change, growth is optional, choose wisely.
Choice
Seems obvious, well it’s not! The problem is most people choose the easy choice, which often is the wrong choice. If you don’t know what to choose then you’re leaving it to chance, and that’s not a good choice. However, once you have chosen to do the work to build and develop your skill (in whatever area), you. start to choose the better choice more often. Keep choosing the better choice and pretty soon the better choice becomes the easy choice to choose. Life is change, growth is optional, choose wisely.
Theory & Nonsense
There is so much theory and nonsense in the martial arts. Yeah, I get it, it’s physics, but is knowing all of the theories and understanding all of the equations behind your movements going to help you? Maybe, if you are a smarty pants that can kick ass. How about you prove or disprove your theories by actual physical testing in the laboratory of physical combat. Compute your numbers as fists and feet are flying at your face, and your bones and body parts are being bent and bounced off the mat. Sweet my college paid off to make a Frick’n Instagram post! No scars, no proof!
The Attack Game of BJJ / Grappling
That’s it, there’s the attack game of BJJ/Grappling. #1 you have to control position. Then either you initiate a set up or your opponent’s movement prompts a set up to either a submission or to transition to a more dominant position…which you control, then set up to….everything is so simple on paper or a white board. The whole there’s another person attempting to do the same to you, with entirely different abilities, attributes and skills, is hard to write out. But, just the same, in theory it is so simple. Then there is the whole defense and counter game…now, it’s getting more complicated, so let’s just drill, train and roll and enjoy the process. Now that is definitely simple!
In The Clinch – 014 – Being A Good Training Partner
Team Academy Coaches Greg, Nat, & Andy talk about being mindful of your partner in training. Topics include how to be a good sparring partner, perfecting your pad holding, going too rough and more.