So, I'm sitting here trying eat a turkey sammich and my giant golden retriever starts shoving his head into my lap and looking up at me with his soulful eyes. At the same time our Husky is laying in her crate amidst a pile of stuff she managed to latch onto through the hole she chewed in the metal crate and drag into it with her. Meanwhile our German Shepherd is making constant and incredibly annoying noises. CONSTANT.
What this initially made me think of was a captain planet style cartoon where my three dogs combined their powers and became Super Annoying Dog, so irritating that it could prevent nuclear apocalypse. It would go like this, "Thank you for saving the world Super Annoying Dog! Now will you please go somewhere else?" but then I had a followup thought, this is why I go to jiujitsu. Little daily annoyances, tiny things at work that get on my nerves, people that I can't punch in the face in wal-mart for bringing 900 items through the self checkout and trying to pay with a 5 gallon bucket of change.
Those things drive me to get out of the house, go to the gym, and try to strangle someone that I'm actually good friends with.
So, your homework assignment for this week is to make a list of five things that make you go to class. Not five things like "I want to be the best person I can be!" or "I want to get in great shape!" or whatever high and mighty ideals drive you forward. I mean the five things in your day to day life that get you to the gym THAT DAY. Some guy cuts you off in traffic and it makes you want to punch him? BINGO! You're gonna make the gym tonight for sure!
How will this help your jiujitsu you ask? Well, that's an excellent question. While thinking about this I realized that's a crappy attitude to be carrying into the gym with me. I should not be taking my irritation out on my classmates. If I acknowledge the cause of my annoyance and think about it, it helps me to avoid hulksmashing the whitebelts just because my boss gave me a complicated assignment with no background information and a deadline.
So, take note of those little irritations and don't carry them on to the mats with you. You'll be a better partner for it.
Bwahaha. I just had two today... but sadly could not go to class to exact revenge on some unsuspecting soul.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I tend to go straight for the bigger or higher-ranked guys when I know I'm coming in hot for some reason and let them smash me around for a while. They tend to catch my intensity and return it in kind until I expend that energy.
Which, in its own way, is just as bad as pwning noobs. You are risking injury and you are using time burning off irritation that you could be using to sharpen your game and work your techniques.
ReplyDeleteComing in hot (I like that phrase...) will distract you from your goals and reduce the amount of effective training time that you have.