by Wayne Tomsett, author of Cheat Codes: The Secret Guide to Winning on the Mats www.cheatcodesbjj.co.uk Listen, we all love to win. I know the feeling (and the opposite feeling all too well), but trust me when I tell you that your job isn’t to win in training. In a competitive scenario, the mats are a battlefield. But when it comes to your every day training, the mats are instead a laboratory for development.  While the primal urge to "win the round" is strong, and natural,

by Wayne Tomsett, author of Cheat Codes: The Secret Guide to Winning on the Mats www.cheatcodesbjj.co.uk There’s a saying I use a lot in class just before we start sparring: “look after each other.” Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu can be, and frankly often is, an exhausting and painful sport. And the older you get, the bigger toll it takes on your body. It’s therefore critical that you learn to manage how you train , because if your only training strategy is to roll until your lungs coll

by Wayne Tomsett, author of Cheat Codes: The Secret Guide to Winning on the Mats www.cheatcodesbjj.co.uk When you start Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, it feels like being dropped into a foreign country where everyone speaks fluent violence and you don’t even know how to say “hello.” I remember those early months extremely vividly. The constant sense of drowning, sometimes literally in sweat. Looking back, there are a few things I wish I’d known at the start. They would’ve saved me a to

by Wayne Tomsett, author of Cheat Codes: The Secret Guide to Winning on the Mats www.cheatcodesbjj.co.uk Failing with Enthusiasm If you train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for any length of time, you’ll quickly realise something uncomfortable but essential: you’ll lose far more rounds than you’ll ever win. Far be it from me to be pessimistic, but I am realistic, and that’s the reality of the sport we play. It is a sport of continuous struggle. So the question becomes, how does one keep

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