Confidence....

Today will be the last day of conditioning followed by some light rolling just to maintain sharpness. I feel supremely confident. I have trained hard and fine tuned a lot of my game this past 30 days. I fly out to Los Angeles at 6:30am. I feel a lot less nervous than I thought I would. It feels just like another competition. And that mainly stems from the confidence I have in my instructors and the Jiu Jitsu they have bestowed upon me. I am eager to compete against the best in the world, I welcome the challenge.

Thank you to everyone that has been in my corner supporting me and best wishes to my teammates as we try to inscribe our names in history.

Staying Sharp........

After having a successful showing at the Bluegrass open last weekend, it is back to the grind stone in preparation for Worlds in a few weeks. Training has been going well for the entire team. Focusing on structure, connection and staying discipline. There are a lot of fancy things people are doing, and structure and connection are the antithesis to those fancy things.

A dull blade can still cut you, but a sharp blade can sever a limb. That truly is the difference between a good grappler and a great grappler. At some point you will have compiled an efficient amount of technique and only the details will separate the best from the rest. Connection, timing, sensitivity and how sharp you are will be the deciding factor in a lot of competition based scenarios. The right choice at the wrong time, still ends up being the wrong choice. Sharpness will be the deciding factor in what techniques are successful and what techniques are not.

The next week or so will be spent fine tuning everything and getting mentally focused.