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The Ability to Relax While Training The acquisition of this ability is paramount to your progress in BJJ. If you train without the ability to relax, sooner or later you will become exhausted or overtrained, and more likely than not, injured. Not only that, but training with a super-tense competitive mindset slows your progress down. It’s been proven that people learn fastest when they are relaxed. Now all this is easier said than done. I always have other bjj instructors asking me things like ‘How can I teach my students to relax?’ It’s been my experience that the primary factor at play when a student is unable to practise in a calm and controlled manner is his or her own ego. Nobody likes tapping out. The ego wants to dominate and control and to win at all costs. Let me let you in on a little secret: You’re never going to be the best jiu-jitsu fighter in the world. You’re probably never gonna be the best guy in your academy. But so what? Being the best is a fleeting and painful position to be in. You always have somebody on your back, trying to take over the top, and sooner or later, somebody better than you comes along. Forget about winning or losing – put your focus on learning and developing. It’s a much better long-term strategy, trust me