We’re not all on the same jiujitsu journey. We’re not all going to be the BEST. Some of us are older, some of us are less athletic, some of us are less strong, some of us are interested only in the sport, some of us never want to compete at all. But we’re all united in one thing - our love of jiujitsu and our own neverending journey in this art.
Lately I’ve been musing a lot about team camaraderie, competitiveness, and ego. Sometimes after training, there are always those people who brag about their particular conquests on the mat that day… sometimes even when those said conquests are sitting just across in the locker room.
Of course, we’re going to think about and perhaps even talk about our rolling successes, and of course this is okay on a personal level to monitor your progression and take notes on your improvements (or setbacks) as the case may be. WRITE IT IN YOUR (TRAINING) JOURNAL, but don’t broadcast it all over the locker room.
We support each other.
We learn from one another.
We are a team.
We are a family.
We don’t try to make ourselves look/feel better by putting other people down or making fun of their skills.
We keep looking within to continue to improve.
We teach and help each other to grow.
“Acknowledge your victories in your training journal, don't broadcast them across the locker room.”
We’re not all on the same jiujitsu journey. We’re not all going to be the BEST. Some of us are older, some of us are less athletic, some of us are less strong, some of us are interested only in the sport, some of us never want to compete at all. But we’re all united in one thing - our love of jiujitsu and our own neverending journey in this art.
It’s not all about being the best. Or the guy or girl who taps the most people. We can't all be that person. It’s about doing our own personal best. It’s about working/training hard and consistently, staying focused, setting goals. We don’t all have to have the same goals. We all have different strengths and weaknesses that we help each other learn about and learn from.
There is an I in team.. when that I is focused inwardly at one’s own game/attitude first and removes the ego from it to help others grow and learn and find their own strengths and help build them up.
Then the I’s come together to build the strongest team.
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