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One of my perceived beliefs was challenged yesterday. Two, actually. I\u2019m pretty sure I missed the next several minutes of instruction because my brain just could not fathom what I had just learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My jits coach is a big guy. Big compared to anyone, really, and definitely big compared to me. He likes pressure passing. I\u2019ve always thought, \u201cwell, duh, he\u2019s HUGE! Of course he likes to use pressure.\u201d But apparently, this was not the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He was introducing pressure passing to us as \u201cA way to pass not THE way.\u201d Then he shared a story\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Years ago, his coach, Matt Thornton, introduced pressure passing to him. (Wait, what? He was already a black belt at that point.). Not only that, but he sucked at it. He kept falling into submissions. Struggled to find his balance. Exerted a lot of effort trying to figure it out. But then, he stuck it out. He worked it until it became natural and effective and he added it to his passing game<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I actually love when my beliefs about things are challenged like this, because usually, it exposes other beliefs that I\u2019ve built upon them. In this instance, I realized that I had built a belief that \u201cit will never work as good for me as it does for Ray because he\u2019s much heavier than I am.\u201d This then informs how I approach learning and practicing pressure passing. If in my head I believe that I will never be \u201cthat good at it\u201d, then I\u2019m never going to put in the full effort needed to figure it out. If I believe that the skill of pressure passing is predicated on how much weight one has, then I will never be able to see my true potential at using it because I\u2019m smaller. Realizing that Ray had a hard time learning to use it, means that weight has nothing to do with it, and further, that MY weight has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had no idea that I had built a framework of belief about my potential for pressure passing based around another false belief. Exposing the first belief exposed the second. Exposing both allows me to more fully explore without built-in inhibitions about what I can and cannot do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my perceived beliefs was challenged yesterday. Two, actually. I\u2019m pretty sure I missed the next several minutes of instruction because my brain just could not fathom what I had just learned. My jits coach is a big guy. Big compared to anyone, really, and definitely big compared to me. He likes pressure passing. I\u2019ve always thought, \u201cwell, duh, he\u2019s HUGE! Of course he likes to use pressure.\u201d But apparently, this was not the case. He was introducing pressure passing to us as \u201cA way to pass not THE way.\u201d Then he shared a story\u2026 Years ago, his coach, Matt Thornton, introduced pressure passing to him. (Wait, what? He was already a black belt at that point.). Not only that, but he sucked at it. He kept falling into submissions. Struggled to find his balance. Exerted a lot of effort trying to figure it out. But then, he stuck it out. He worked it until it became natural and effective and he added it to his passing game I actually love when my beliefs about things are challenged like this, because usually, it exposes other beliefs that I\u2019ve built upon them. In this instance, I realized that I had built a belief that \u201cit will never work as good for me as it does for Ray because he\u2019s much heavier than I am.\u201d This then informs how I approach learning and practicing pressure passing. If in my head I believe that I will never be \u201cthat good at it\u201d, then I\u2019m never going to put in the full effort needed to figure it out. If I believe that the skill of pressure passing is predicated on how much weight one has, then I will never be able to see my true potential at using it because I\u2019m smaller. Realizing that Ray had a hard time learning to use it, means that weight has nothing to do with it, and further, that MY weight has nothing to do with it. I had no idea that I had built a framework of belief about my potential for pressure passing based around another false belief. Exposing the first belief exposed the second. Exposing both allows me to more fully explore without built-in inhibitions about what I can and cannot do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,36,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-growth-mindset","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/perceived-beliefs.png?fit=1170%2C1177&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallgirlbjjworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}