RISK

If you are risk adverse in the ring, you will never surpass the level you are in.

“A coach create’s possibilities, the athlete actualizes the possibilities”- John Donaher

We train to learn skills….to learn what works well, what we are lacking. It hqs to be the kind of setting one can experiment in. I think of all the years I preached that skill but would end up correcting my boxers….so I wasn’t really living it.

You need a complete perspective shift. You need to embrace and thrive off of what you are weakest at. You have to love every minute of learning what you do and what you want to do. Risk has to be a tangible feeling that leads to attempt. To take the feedback from the sparring partner and/or corner and adjust accordingly until the outcome is achieved.

Then comes the time to up the difficulty in which you can maintain your bravery to risk.

Training is small tangible tasks that develop the proper techniques in order to execute leverage and ring mastery. It’s always supposed to be preparing you for the utmost integration when you rest and recover. You cannot be under a constant adrenaline dump and achieve new skills.

You have to go to the place you are weakest and learn why you are there, how you got there, where is the first place new you can get to? How you will you accomplish the change? What will this change help you achieve.? You risk, you learn, you adjust and repeat. It’s a simple process that has bigger meaning and performance implications.

Create an environment to risk- self-mastery depends on it.