The Art of Being a Round Finisher

Greetings Team,


I hope everyone is off to a Great 2011 and ATTACKING their Goals! My encouragement this week for you Team is to practice something I call the Art of Being a Round Finisher. In the Ring, it simply means to push the pace at the end of the round to secure a victory. For us as martial artists, it can take on a very deeper meaning.

Have you ever quit something? Something that is postitive for you? Did you ever quit on a worthwhile goal? Maybe just before you actually achieved it? I pose these questions to you Team to demonstrate the true power of being a Round Finisher. You hear me say often that your life off of the Mats at some point will mirror you life on the Mats. Simply meaning, the person you become in training has a direct affect on who you are at your core. If you make a point to truely make each Last Round your Best Round, you will slowly see some changes in your work ethic and attitude. If you can create scenarios in your training often where you feel like quitting and chose not to, you become a Round Finisher. Someone who will push themselves to the very edge in everything they do.

I am a firm believer that we need to train our emotional control as much as our body control. If a fighter gets hurt in a round, his abitlity to talk himself through adversity is crucial. Did you see the Frankie Edgar fight at the last UFC? He was hurt incredibly bad in Round 1 and came back to fight an amazing fight! He knows how to be a Round Finisher.

If in your training you constantly put yourself under duress, you constantly grow as a person. Every time you do more than you think you can you grow. Soon enough, your not a Round Finisher just on the Mats...your a Round Finisher in Life!

I hope you got some benefit from this today!


All the Best,

COACH