In tournaments, my coaches have always told me to play my game.
To a beginner, that may sound a bit confusing though. What exactly does that mean?
Personally, I feel that this is contingent on the competitor being actually good at a handful of moves. Afterwards, you can try your hardest to score points or win by forcing the opponent only to face that part of your game (until the rest of your game strengthens).
If you are not excellent at a few moves, you can NOT "play your game" in a tournament.
In a Lloyd Irvin article I read online many years ago, they said that he makes all of his best guys drill positions/moves 3000 times before they can move on to the next one. Doesn't matter how long it takes, but they have to put in the reps. And when you watch videos of amazing competitors like Ryan Hall, Mike Fowler, JT Torres, etc, they all execute certain moves with black belt expertise (often times way before they actually were black belts)
So next time you are in training, remember how important drilling these moves are!
Here is a highlight of Pablo Popovitch, Abu Dhabi Champ!
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I have been in a gym where did each mover 30 times, before moving on to something else.
sounds like training in dragonball Z
3000 times is a lot. I can't imagine having to do that. I understand though that they want it drilled in your head and for it to become a reflex instead of something you have to think about.
Reminded me of the movie Semi-Pro for some reason. We're going to run this til you can do it in your sleep.
Really interesting, please write more! I wish I could fight like these people.
SOunds interesting enough. Diversity is an advantage is any field, especially in hand to hand combat.
You all need the hyperbolic time chamber. follower +1
I guess you have to push yourself if you want to get good.
practice makes perfect, how do you think pros get to being pros? they make shots thousands of times
Gotta respect that! Great post, followed!
Wow. Just... wow. the determination is just crazy.
Training must take a longggg time, but if you win at the end it must be worth it
I need to go to the gim :|
3000 is a new number, you always hear about 10000 in sports
This just proves that winning is everything in these sports. With this amount of time and training, why wouldn't it be? 3,000...That is a LOT.
Great insight actually.
Good write. Really interesting stuff!
that sounds like it can apply to a lot of sports
perfect practice makes perfect. +1
woah this is like some serious intense dbz workout lol
Nice insight, sounds like practice makes perfect here. And i never really knew what people meant play your game, but i do now, thanks
wow, that's dedication for sure. I wonder how long it takes on average.
Wow, 3000 repetitions of the same move. That would get so tiring/boring, but it would be good training!
the more you do just about anything, the more comfortable you'll become. I think it's good advice from your coach to stick to what you know in the heat of battle.
very cool video once again
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