I remember back then when I started jiu-jitsu in the age if 15 and the first time i entered the gym its was a completely different view and feeling, I used to watch all the biggest martial artists movie stars when I was a kid but never actually experienced the reality than being in a movie , the first day in the gym was very good and everyone was very welcoming, in the beginning everyone have the motivation to become a fighter or be in the ufc when they starting to learn martial arts, let me tell you something, this feeling is fake, always those people who have such a high expectations in the begining with no reason ending up quitting martial arts or maybe coming twice a week to train, the real people who wanna be fighters they finding a way to express themselves and become better and set goals for their accomplishments in the future, then from there you entering first amatuer fight and then and another and so on... i remember myself after 3-4 months of training my jiu-jitsu coach told us that adcc is coming up and i was very excited , i was very confident that i ready to compete, but my coach wasnt , he didnt know what to do and he asked the students how am i doing , i guess he got good reviews about me and then he gave me only 3 exircises to practice and work on and thats it, its was : armbar from mount, and another 2 drilling exircises from side control, i just did what he said, but i was very nervous and scared of losing thats the truth, right i was very confident that i can win, but i was scared of get embarassed in front of my brother and dad especially,and i wanted to prove my coach wrong, i usually wasnt very confident at high school and i didnt had a lot of friends but martial arts changed me , i was doing those movement drills like 1-2 hours non stop until i couldnt move anymore and my body was shaking, once the day of the tournament came and i just few moments before entering the ring i was feeling that i wanna quit beacause i was so scared of embarassment and my coach is there and family, my family is from dagestan so imagine how my dad will feel if his son will lose, basically i won my first fight guess with what? with armbar from mount, my coach knew what i good at and how i can win , but the feeling that i had and the self esteem after the fight that i just cant explain. i ended up winning the second opponent too by points and the last fight i lost beacause he had 3 points over me, i ended up winning 2 guys in my division who trained more than me , the feeling of: i proved them wrong is the best feeling a person can have his entire life, and isnt about the ego or feeling that you a champion, is the aspect of growth within yourself, and isnt about to show your girlfriend which kind of a man she has a champion, after that i went to another 2 compatitions and won but that dosent matter, what im tryng to say here is , if there is something that you believe in that you can achieve in life then go for it . if you training right now in any type of martial arts dont hesitate and go compete , for everyone it will be a diffrent experience, for some people they trained well enough so they go compete and nobody is worried aboout them that the going to lose or get hurt, this feeling of proving them wrong are still inside me and will stay inside forever, whenever im sparring better fighters than me and i see myself 8 years ago winning all of a sudden i becoming a diffrent person at sparring and i dont care how tierd i am anymore, sometimes you can see in a fight that a guy can lose all the rounds and all his entire face covered with blood and all of a sudden in the last round he won by a rear naked choke or by a knockout, in a fight you have to be patience, jon jones when he fought machida, machida used to catch hs kicks and then punch him to the face, his coach told him to fake the kick , once he did it he got him a nice giolutine that sent him to sleep , you only the one who need to motivate yourself in life and nobody else, dont expect someone to ell you how good you area dn how is your plan wil be very successful, if you expect so then you not reaaly believing in yourself, there is a successful mma foghters who started to train little later in life like alexander volkanovski, he started when he was 23 and after 10 years he is a ufc champion, do you think that at that age he went to all his friends, family,girlfriend and told them, hey guys, i wanna be an mma fighter how do you think about it? hell no he just did what ever he was feeling like doing, and the more people dont believe in you and telling you that is just a hobby the happier you have to be, not just because you wanna prove them wrong in the future , beacause is everyobdy is not agreeing with your goals is means that your goals are high enough and not making sence and thats why you will be diffrent, ofcurse if youll tell your parents im going to be a doctor everyone wil say how genius and successsful you going to be, will that is what almost everybody is doing then what diffrence does it make? it dosent. so when you telling someone to do something that never been invented and nobody did yet thats when you know that you the normal one and not the crazy one , sometimes people getting so comftrable in their life and they waitng for someone to tell them just to move on , or some people can stay in their parents home all their life and expect does their parents not gonna kick them out one day, let me ask you this, lets bring an homeless guy who went through difficulties in life and slept in the gym just to train and went through struggles vs a whealthy rich boy who were supported by his parents all the time to go to any mma why to train everyday in a fight, who do you think will win? ofcurse the homeless guy , even though the rich kid has more experience and trained more, but the homeless guy has the mindset ,the endurance and the motivation which the rich kid dosent.
thanks so much guys for reading hope you guys enjoyed. ill be exited to hear your opinions in comments below
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