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Jul
22
It amazes me how jiu-jitsu lessons are life’s lessons. The move to a bigger facility in Logan for my jiu-jitsu school is going bad fast. There are just some things that can’t be resolved, so it’s time to move on. That’s a lesson learned from jiu-jitsu—the moving on part—looking for other opportunities.
When you first start learning jiu-jitsu you are very limited in your scope of knowledge. When you start learning submissions, say for example the guillotine, that’s the only move you go for—simply because that’s the only move you know. So when you see the opportunity for the guillotine you go after it—hard. You force it, even if it’s not there. As a new student, you go for that guillotine until you have nothing left, until you’re exhausted, too tired to continue.
Once you‘ve been taking classes for awhile you realize you have options. You realize there are other opportunities to submit your opponent. You realize that you shouldn’t waste your time and energies on going for something that isn’t there. Why force the guillotine when going to the back is easier and more effective at the time?
It’s the same in Logan, I’m going for the metaphorical guillotine, but it’s just not there. I’m not going to waste my energies trying to secure a place that is proving too difficult to get, so it’s time to move on. It’s time to move to the back and go for rear naked choke.
Jiu-jitsu’s lessons are life’s lessons.
What a great way to compare your life with your sport. Very metaphorical. Try for another place somewhere else!