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BJJ in a bottle
We strive to contain what can’t be contained. To control what can’t be controlled. But we can’t bottle the ocean.Artwork by Elizabeth Bass.We can’t trap a feeling under glass. We long for release, but release is something we must give ourselves. And it’s a gift that’s available whenever we are ready to receive. True warriors know that they do not know this. They do not try to write it down. To bottle it up. To trap it in intellect. They simply do it. But is it really them that does it? Or is ...
BJJ in a bottle
We strive to contain what can’t be contained. To control what can’t be controlled. But we can’t bottle the ocean.Artwork by Elizabeth Bass.We can’t trap a feeling under glass. We long for release, but release is something we must give ourselves. And it’s a gift that’s available whenever we are ready to receive. True warriors know that they do not know this. They do not try to write it down. To bottle it up. To trap it in intellect. They simply do it. But is it really them that does it? Or is ...
BJJ Meditations: Walking through the fire
What does it feel like to walk through fire and come out unscathed? The hard path stretches before us, each jagged stone awaiting its bare foot.Artwork by Elizabeth Bass.What does it feel like to walk this path unflinchingly? How do you feel each wound without thinking, without rationalizing it? Because here in the arena, there is no room for thought. Consider the jagged stone underfoot and it only slices deeper. Every rationalization is a shadow that washes over you. Every thought is another...
BJJ Meditations: Walking through the fire
What does it feel like to walk through fire and come out unscathed? The hard path stretches before us, each jagged stone awaiting its bare foot.Artwork by Elizabeth Bass.What does it feel like to walk this path unflinchingly? How do you feel each wound without thinking, without rationalizing it? Because here in the arena, there is no room for thought. Consider the jagged stone underfoot and it only slices deeper. Every rationalization is a shadow that washes over you. Every thought is another...
BJJ Meditations: What is enough?
What is enough? Enough is illusory. Enough implies that there’s a static location, place, or quantity that suffices. It implies that life itself is static. That we can put it into mount or side control and do with it what we will.his image was created by Dall-E AI, using the following prompt: Expressionist painting. A man descends slowly into a torrent of water, his body dissolving, becoming water.Life is liquid, flowing, shapeless, formless. It is everything and nothing all at once. It is ev...
BJJ Meditations: What is enough?
What is enough? Enough is illusory. Enough implies that there’s a static location, place, or quantity that suffices. It implies that life itself is static. That we can put it into mount or side control and do with it what we will.his image was created by Dall-E AI, using the following prompt: Expressionist painting. A man descends slowly into a torrent of water, his body dissolving, becoming water.Life is liquid, flowing, shapeless, formless. It is everything and nothing all at once. It is ev...
BJJ Meditations: The line
A line separates our training from ordinary life. This was a concept that came up in a recent Andrew Huberman Lab podcast episode. On one side of the line is the time we have devoted to training. Everything else falls on the other side.This image was created by Dall-E AI, using the following prompt: Expressionist painting in the style of Paul Klee: The dot that went for a walk.Prior to crossing the line into the training zone, we have done the mental and physical homework that optimal trainin...
BJJ Meditations: The line
A line separates our training from ordinary life. This was a concept that came up in a recent Andrew Huberman Lab podcast episode. On one side of the line is the time we have devoted to training. Everything else falls on the other side.This image was created by Dall-E AI, using the following prompt: Expressionist painting in the style of Paul Klee: The dot that went for a walk.Prior to crossing the line into the training zone, we have done the mental and physical homework that optimal trainin...
BJJ Meditations: Choosing to win
How do we choose to win? Don’t get me wrong. We must study. We must practice. We must train hard to build mental and physical toughness.This image was created by Dall-E AI, using the following prompt, which was refined by Chat GPT: Neo-expressionist style painting of two Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitors locked in a struggle, one on the verge of executing a pivotal move. Their forms are dynamic, muscles tense, conveying the high stakes of the match. The scene is awash in sharp, contrasting colo...
BJJ Meditations: Choosing to win
How do we choose to win? Don’t get me wrong. We must study. We must practice. We must train hard to build mental and physical toughness.This image was created by Dall-E AI, using the following prompt, which was refined by Chat GPT: Neo-expressionist style painting of two Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitors locked in a struggle, one on the verge of executing a pivotal move. Their forms are dynamic, muscles tense, conveying the high stakes of the match. The scene is awash in sharp, contrasting colo...
