Summary of Today’s Email + Some Housekeeping Things
Today’s newsletter is influenced by a lot of my private lessons from the last week or so. It was a recurring theme so I kept hammering it.
Beginners LOVE to work harder and move INTO things.
Jiujitsu is a philosophy of efficiency; it is more efficient to move away from something
There is ALWAYS empty space. Find it and move into it.
Also, Frames!
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“Nature Abhors a Vacuum”
-Some philosopher a long time ago
[Ok so this quote gets attributed to Aristotle but I thought “some philosopher” would be more appropriate.]
Very few things in my jiu-jitsu journey have been completely mind-blowing.
Of course, I get “wow’d” from time to time but very few things have taken the top off of my understanding of jiu-jitsu and were completely game-changing. As a matter of fact, I can think of one single person and that’s Priit Mikhelson.
As a matter of fact, the next free post may be dedicated to things I’ve learned from him but I digress…
I first heard of Priit randomly in a discord group I created (RIP) and one of the anons mentioned his name. I’m always intrigued by people I’ve never heard of so naturally I looked into him. One video later and my mind was blown.
A lot of the concepts he taught were familiar but how he explained and troubleshot everything was remarkable. I dove deep into a lot of his defensive concepts and I kept trying them for myself.
While practicing, implementing, learning and finally teaching these concepts, I realized one critical theme.
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