Improve Your Game

We all train and practice jiu-jitsu for various reasons. Most of us love the art so much we don’t even care about promotions or anything else; we just want to learn, train and get better. One of the things that frustrated me in the early years was just that: “getting better.” Although I trained hard enough and often enough, I didn’t seem to progress as much as the next guy. Various factors influenced that, first and foremost, I was never especially athletic or gifted with abnormal strength, speed, size and/or flexibility, quite the opposite. Second, because I trained with the same partners regularly, we all progressed together and it was hard to notice any advancement on my part, and due to reason #1, it was actually frustrating as they all appeared to progress quicker than me. 

The frustration led me to search and research for ways to improve or speed up my progress. Luckily, because I had such great Masters, I was able to pick up some ideas and ways to get better, so I am going to share them with you. Mind you, none of these “secrets” are mind blowing, but they helped me tremendously to progress and get better.