“Discipline and consistency. I owe these two factors all have attained
in my life. Things have never happened overnight. Results have appeared as a
consequence of decades long toil. It is necessary to persist” (Master Carlos Gracie Jr.)
“I drill techniques – my main techniques, my “A” move, my “A Game”
sweep, the guard pass and sub I hit the most, over and over again. I’ve drilled
them so many times, my body just reacts now. I can go out and let instinct take
over. Most of our training is drilling, based on our individual games and what
we do best. Before a big tournament I
stick to the stuff I’ve been doing, and just drill it to death….If you’re
thinking about what to do next, your competitor is already moving to his next
move. It’s best to just react and let your body take over” (Keenan Cornelius –
Gracie Mag)
“Dad reasoned that whether we were better than someone else should not
be focus because our position in relation to others was out of our control. We
could not control another’s performance nor could we control how we would be
ranked. All we could do was our
best…Instead he wanted us to try very hard to give the best possible effort to
become the best we could be and let the results take care of themselves” (Coach
John Wooden)
“The mountain-sea spirit that it is bad to repeat the same thing several
times several times when fighting the enemy. There may be no help but to do
something twice, but do not try it a third time. If you once make an attack and
fail, there is little chance of success if you use the same approach again. If
you attempt a technique which you have previously tried unsuccessfully and fail
yet again, then you must change your attacking method” (Miyamoto Musashi “A
Book of Five Rings”)
“One of the quotes that I use a lot – besides you’re only as good as the
guys you sweat and bleed with – is that iron sharpens iron. So that one man
sharpens another. I think that it is very true. If you are not in a training
environment where you are getting smacked in the head, you are getting tapped
out, you are getting challenged on a daily basis, and then you are not getting
any better. You’re not improving. Your workout partners are a very important
piece of your progression as an athlete and the character that you are building
as a person as well. Those are key components and finding that right place is a
piece of it” (Randy Couture “Wrestling for Fighting”)
“The most interesting aspect of jiu-jitsu is… of course the techniques
are great…but the sensibility of the opponent, sense of touch, the weight, the
momentum, the transition from one movement to another. That’s the amazing thing
about it. You must allow yourself to go as on auto pilot. You don’t know
exactly where you’re going until the movement happened because you cannot
anticipate what is going to happen. You must allow yourself to be in a zero
point; a neutral point. Be relaxed and connected with the variations. Flow with
the go” (Rickson Gracie – “Choke”)
“Time on the mat will eventually surpass talent and ability” (Gracie Mag)
“…look he carry all of my weight. That’s another theory of jiu-jitsu.
When I rest I should put him to work so I don’t get tired and he get tired. He
spends energy” (Demian Maia)
“At first repetition is what counts”, says Carlos Gracie Jr. “I teach my
students to repeat the moves to exhaustion, until it enters their subconscious
and they therefore can apply them automatically, without thinking. Later on,
once the combat situations have become complex I try and stimulate them to be
creative”(Master Carlos Gracie Jr.)
“It would be like asking a judo player to describe how he identifies the
split second, where the opponent is in the exact right position to be thrown
through the air. There are too many details for the conscious brain to observe
and register so pure intuition takes over” (Christian Graugart – The BJJ Globe
Trotter)
“In the fight, only one person can be comfortable. Your job is to
transfer the comfortable from your opponent to you” (Rickson Gracie)
“If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you
use strength, you tire. And if you tire, you die” (Saulo Ribeiro)
“A black belt only covers two inches of your as* – you have to cover the
rest” (Royce Gracie)
“I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people don’t know how to
swim” (Jean Jacques Machado)
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