Competition
Preparation
FOR GRAPPLERS
Built from the mat. Refined through research. Put results first.
Chapters:
- Strategy vs fit in fight sports
- Confidence: what it does, and what it doesn’t
- At the competition: changes in the brain and the body
- Long-term preparation for competition
- Short-term and event-day preparation
- Breaking through the silver plateau
- Growing after falling: working with losing
Structure:
- Week – Fight History Review
- Week – Training vs Comp Gap
- Week- Preparation optimization
- Week – Comp Plan Integration
- On-demand – Refinements
We work from the demands of a comp bout and build backward. What matters stays. What doesn’t gets cut. The model we use reflects that. Nothing here is theoretical. Everything earns its place by holding up when the round starts.
What the work focuses on:
Danger changes the game.
The moment injury is possible, everything changes. Decision-making, timing, and movement are distorted by threat. Any approach that ignores that starts from the wrong place.
Stress shows up in the moves.
Under pressure, the body tightens, reallocate, or shuts things down. This isn’t a mindset topic. It’s all over in posture, reactions, and choices made in fractions of a second.
Stage fright is not the issue.
Stage fright is a nuance when it comes to competing in fight sports. It’s combat stress that sets the baseline and makes most approaches too superficial to have an impact.
