The Art of Becoming: A Look at Everyday Practice and Preparation

Believe Behave Become

• Establishing a foundation
• Every day practice
• Stretching
• Exercise
• Practice
• Introspective/self awareness

1.      Understanding capabilities and limitations.

2.      Setting goals

a.       Short term

b.      Long term

3.      Find your inspiration/Motivation

4.      See this as an Art/Passion.

5.      The nature of the of the thing itself

a.       “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased”

b.      Strip away what is false, what isn’t real. 

6.      Answer to yourself

7.      Furocity

a.       “Acting with, marked by or resulting from great force, energy, or emotional intensity.”

• Fighter practice…Begginers Mind…Shoshin…In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

• Go with a plan
• Work on basic techniques
• Work on playing different ranges…3 zones
• Understanding movement
• Taking it up a notch
• Work on listening to the fight and your opponent
1. Feel what you are doing
2. Feel what our opponent is doing
• Ferocity

• Tournament
• Establish a routine you can control
• No baggage
• 1 fight at a time
• Patients
• No ego
• No expectations
• Leave it in the Eric
• Listen to the fight
• 1^st impression
• Style
• Motion/Balance
• Movements
• Do not focus on any one thing
• Be formless

• Mind
• Knight hood goal = Mind Screw
• Remove doubt
• Remove worry
• Remove Fear
• Remove thoughts of achievement
• The need to show
• Big mind

Passion is “the thing that you find in your life that you can care about, that you can cling to, that you can invest yourself in, heart, body and soul.”

                             … Joseph Campbell