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silver at the asian championship in my purple belt debut: adult, medium heavy. 🥈

no training for the past 6 weeks, 3 rounds of antibiotics and feeling grim… but matside every class of camp with my notebook. 

learning jiu jitsu on paper has been a unique experience that i am acc v grateful for on reflection… 

some of it stuck. first match of the day, a back take we’d been building all camp was there. finished with a choke, a sequence i’d barely felt, let alone drilled. there’s science behind this: it’s called the generation effect. you retain what you generate yourself far better than what you just watch or copy, and handwriting forces you to summarise in your own words. drilling builds the automatic stuff. writing builds the stuff you can explain and adapt/do under pressure. camp needed both, i only had access to one, so i leaned all the way in. injured or not, get a notebook!!!!

some of the day could have been better. i lost positions & matches i could have won. too many moments chasing the next point instead of controlling the pace of the fight. patience and stratetgic thinking are skills like any other. my fight iq has a long way to go, and now i know exactly what to work on.

that doesn’t take away from how much i loved being out there. competing is my favourite part of this sport, win or lose!! it’s stressful & expensive & a little scary but somehow still the best part, every time. the growth from putting yourself out there bleeds into every area of life, and its a really beautiful thing. 

grateful to my incredible and talented opponents, to my teammates, my sponsors and to my professors and @etpbjj for the support that got me to japan to fight in the first place. so early into my purple belt, fighting at this level isn’t something i take for granted, and i’m looking forward to the growth this next year brings at my new school.

swipe to the end for a sneak peak of my new collab rashguard with @trastora / @torashguard - presale soon, all proceeds to charity. this problem in our community will not be brushed under the carpet, and i'll keep using my platform to raise awareness and fight for change.

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All i can say is WOW!!!! Not sure if it was bigger or smaller than least years but i do know that it was just as awesome!!!! From the teams that volunteered, sponsors, and the jiujiteiros……. the support was incredible! Thank you! Today was a good day. Like the homie @quarterback said, more mats!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 📸 @luckeeshots
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