Flow with the go

Flow with the go

I keep in mind that jiu-jitsu is not a hard martial art, in which you have to impose your power. It’s something which combined more with the sense of in a huge wind storm, the big trees have more chance to fall, because they’re hard and tough, and the wind comes hard and knocks them down. The flexible trees can bend and still, like, forever, so they’re not going to be destroyed.

So, jiu-jitsu is always something that gives me that sense of: “I don't have to be too strong, but I have to be flexible, I don't have to be too fast, but I have to be technical.” So, those elements of technique suppresses speed, leverage suppresses strength and flexibility adapt you and make you feel like you don’t break, you’re unbreakable because you can bend. 

Those concepts make me feel like, when I'm engaged, I'm not there to break the tree; I'm there to just find myself comfortable in the mobility, in the sense of moving positions and being comfortable all the time. I have to flow with the energy, with the heal, with the real storm, which is in front of me.

And I'm not fighting, I'm just trying to educate myself to flow, to become sensitive enough to be in the best position for me and capitalize. So we have to flow not only in jiu-jitsu, but in life.

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