This is a real test - the competition is a real test of how all the grappling skills come together. Under the stress of competition the true nature of your skills come out. There is no lie to you or anyone else about your abilities. It's just you, your opponent, and the mind, and it is up to you and the environment at that time to decide what you are going to do with it.
- How will you handle the crowd?
- How will you handle the butterflies in your stomach?
- How you are going to face the person in front of you who do not even know anything?
- Are you going to remember the techniques?
- Are you going to freeze, or are you going to stay calm and do what you do like at the gym and a victory for you?
These are just some of the test you must face the competition and it's nice to see how you would do. Competition helps to understand where you are in greater scheme of things, giving a realistic look at where you stand against other guys that have the same experience level as yourself.
The experience you will get - While the grappling competition is a test your skills against an opponent who is not accustomed to the environment, and you are not used, there is no such thing as
pass or no competition. One thing that always happens when the competition is the development, your skills and mental growth.
I've never entered a grappling competition and have not learned anything or had gain more grappling experience, but I was winning or losing. Every time I go out of the competition, I always go out with better grappling, a better person and a person who wants to work harder.
Now you can not feel what I feel, but I guarantee you will feel something. You may be angry because you lost, you can feel satisfied for having done better than you thought, or it can be pumped up because you have won. Either way you're walking by a feeling, and these feelings will allow you to analyze. A look at what is right and what went wrong. A look at what could have done, and what they should have done. They discussed how he felt, his conditioning, how people make you feel, and so on.
For all this, analyzing, to grow. Sometimes it is not quite the same practice. Learn how to exercise, but you do not really analyze that much, because it is something you do on a regular basis. Remember to warm up, do some exercise, learn some techniques and throw. You might think, but not a lot of analysis. After the race, but you can not help but to analyze what you did. This will make you much better then it has pumped imagine.You the next training and drill the things that you feel you need to work a result of the game and they will grow. You have been able to prove that you can not simulate in practice.
You can choose to compete even more, or you may not want to compete more, but you can not walk away from the grappling competition without learning something.
In all these great advice I can give to you is to HAVE FUN. If you are not having fun, then what you have crossed the contest is not really worth it. You need to have fun even when you try your hardest to win. You must be not only to win but to have fun and having a great learning experience. Pleasure in activities without turning the work.
