What’s next?

With the tournament over, I find myself wondering what’s next. I find that for myself I work better with clear goals, with something specific to work for. There is a number of other tournaments coming up that I could sign on for, but I think for the time being my next goal will be to test for my blue belt in the fall.  At our gy there are lists of move sequences which you have to know fully in order to attain he next level of training. I have gone through the sequences a number of times but, I don’t know them anywhere near as well as I should. When someone shows me the move, I will recognize it and can do it easily, but when I am put in a position of leading a newer studen through the list I have a really hard time remembering everything. Where does my left foot go for a standing Spider Guard sweep? Do i want a cross grip for the Omaplata sweep? etc. One reason that I don’t know the sequences as well as I should is that I have focus my training on No-Gi in preparation for the tournament, but still that feels like an excuse. I have been training for four months now and I should know them better. My level of technical knowledge is not on par with my sparring. In sparring I am super comfortable because I can stick to what I know and do it well, but when working technique I often get flustered. I need to go in and just work though the sequences several times untill I burn them into my brain. Everyone tells me one day it will just ‘click’. So that ‘click’ is my new goal.

~ by blairturton on July 31, 2008.