How do I know if Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is right for me?
Martial Arts is about developing your ability to turn frustration into focus.
A common misconception is that training is about the number of techniques or moves you “know”, and how mean or aggressively you can apply them.
Martial Arts is physics, while under duress, with composure. It’s not more “mean”, it is more leverage. We can teach you how.
Becoming a martial artist means to understand the difference between fighting and beating someone up. Learning martial arts is about using composed skill, not blind rage,
Develop Your Practice
Jiu Jitsu can be thought of as an approach to discipline or a practice, not just a skill set alone.
Jiu Jitsu skill is developed through mindful, intentional practice in a high pressure environment. The better you get at being mindful and practicing with intent - the more nuance and subtlety you notice in technique, and thus you improve more with each visit.
Training is just developing focus under pressure. Every opportunity you get out of focus is an opportunity to practice bringing it back in.
Develop your practice
Good vs Perfect
Praxis means thought into action. Thoughts of what perfect training should be often interfere with aspirations to actually train. To develop skill.
Not every practice gets a ribbon. Some classes are just hard, and those are the dues you pay on the path to working towards something you want - more skill.
Jiu Jitsu is about overcoming adversity. We approach Jiu Jitsu from this stand point - The art is necessarily challenging.
The aim of training is to elevate you to that challenge, not to diminish the adversity. Winning isn’t the first goal of Jiu Jitsu, SURVIVING is.
When you know how to make yourself safe, and level headed in difficult positions, you naturally begin to look for ways to improve your position or get ahead. That is where winning comes from.
Accepting the bad, making it good, and working towards the perfect, but being just A-OK with survival if that is the card dealt!
Begin
Again, if necessary. As many times as needed.
Here is the secret of learning Jiu Jitsu. Just start. Don’t quit. Train often. Adapt and figure it out.
This way, the Jiu Jitsu you need will be ready when you need it - instead of the Jiu Jitsu you imagine remaining unrealized potential.
There will always be demands on your time - you may not always have the chance to train.
The best time for you to have started was when you were a kiddo, the second best time is today.
To get started just schedule a trial below.