How to Capitalize on Your Opportunities
Posted by Peter James | Posted in Balanced Life, Learning Off Experience, Mixed Martial Arts Development | Posted on 16-02-2009
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Article by Peter J. Normandia. Follow me on Twitter.
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Jiu Jitsu is very much like a chess match. In each match, you are constantly positioning yourself to capitalize once all the pieces are in place. However, unlike chess, there is a very brief moment of time that those pieces will be in place. In fact, as you become more and more advanced at Jiu Jitsu, the shorter that window of opportunity becomes.
I can not tell you the countless times in my BJJ career that I have seen a perfect opportunity and failed to react to it. The majority of time is when I am rolling with someone who is better than me. When I am better, I am much more patient, and trusting in my abilities, but when the opposite is true, I tend to not trust my instinct as much because I am expecting to fail.
