Here is an awesome little documentary my cousin recently sent to me. It's based on a real life fight club, which at first sounds a little brutal, but after watching you realize this one is in fact not very brutal at all and is actually quite beautiful.
Check it out here (its the video titled 'Uppercut')
Listening to the narration, I recalled a conversation I had last year with Xande Ribeiro - an 8 time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Champion who has produced some of the highest performing BJJ competitors in recent years. He mentioned how new students tend to shy away from entering a competition out of fear.
He would ask them - "Have you ever felt fear?.....Have you ever felt your throat get dry and your stomach start to turn?"
Most of the new students would sharply reply 'no'.
Just like the guys in this documentary, Xande saw the importance of experiencing and dealing with these basic human feelings in order to progress and understand yourself as an individual.
Joe
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