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Monday, 24 January 2011

Marc Walder BJJ Team: Brown and Black Belt Training Sessions

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Posted by Meg Smitley at 24.1.11
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  1. Georgette24 January 2011 at 15:46

    I have more sympathy than ever for upper belts now that I am a blue belt. Even though I'm just one little rung up the ladder from whitebelt, I notice more and more that I hunger for people higher up than me to drill with, simply because they can give me such helpful feedback (and more efficiently than I can get it from a whitebelt, though I still get it there too.)

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  2. Meg Smitley24 January 2011 at 15:50

    Thanks for your comment, Georgette! Totally, I love training with advanced grades and I try to follow a balanced diet of male and female training partners (to the extent that I can manage that) of all different sizes and belt ranks. The Women's Open Mats are really helpful for that as well as having mats in my basement; get mats and they will come, from massive brown belt dudes to tiny white belt ladies :D

    Enjoy your week's training!

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  3. A.D. McClish26 January 2011 at 15:07

    Sounds like an amazing time! :)

    "In particular, the importance of trying different approaches to familiar problems in order to push one's game, to develop one's own style and to find one's own truth."

    For me, this is one of the hardest parts. I get into habits and my body wants to do those things automatically. Problem is, "those things" don't always work and other solutions are needed. I need to learn to be more adaptive. But I guess that is just another beautiful part of the bjj journey.

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  4. Meg Smitley27 January 2011 at 08:26

    It was a lot of fun, A.D. McClish!

    That is a paraphrasing of Marc's words, so I can't take credit; I find his approach - and that of my coach with whom he shares similar points of view - very helpful for conceptualising what it is all about, man ;)

    I here you, sister, yup my bod wants to play the comfort zone too! Working hard to break out of it, but it'll take time (lots and lots of time).

    Thanks for your thoughts, I love that you read and comment!

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