MONDAY MINDSET: K.I.S.S.

WEEK OF 10/28/24

When it comes to making things complex, I’m as guilty as anyone else.  Fighting is, at the highest level, extremely complex.  Knowledge, first and foremost, drives action, and action drives results.  Therefore, knowledge is power, right?

Well, yes, of course…

That said, I do have a LOT to say about this past week’s trip to Vienna for the ISKA World Championships.  I’ll get it all out over time.

But one of my biggest takeaways is just the simplicity of it all.  Smart, high fight IQ athletes were losing to better conditioned, higher output fighters left and right.  It was a game of numbers, balance, power, endurance, and EXPERIENCE.  That’s pretty much it.

We have a tendency to make things complex, to search for the answers to our deficiencies in the nuance and complexity of what we consider “high level” techniques.  All the while, we haven’t mastered basic skills like kicking, shrimping, bridging, footwork, level changes, proper lifting mechanics, you name it.

The best fighters were just simply the best fighters.  Not the smartest or craftiest.  Just the best.  Sound like a massive oversimplification?  It is.  But it’s also true.

In your quest to be better than you are right now, K.I.S.S. as they say: Keep It Simple, Stupid.

There is no substitute for the boring, hard, and consistent work unfortunately.  But, fortunately (for me, anyway), any idiot can do it.

If you want it, work for it and take it.  It’s that simple.