There is always someone better than you

There is a lot of rumour regarding last Sundays UFC event, especially two world title fights between Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz and Holly Holm vs Miesha Tate.
I see people sharing their thoughts towards the losses of both Champions.
There is a lot of support but a lot of critics too.

In my opinion both defeated fighters are going to come back much stronger and wiser after that experience. Both fighters are great warriors and athletes who have just proved their quality by the way they talk about their losses.

In today's world run by media and money we are being fed with believe that the real Champion should never loose and if one happen to loose a lot of people think that his prime has departed.
We tent to forget about the actual idea of sports rivalry.
A lot of people think that looses on fighters record showing his weakness.

From my experience it doesn't matter how many looses you've got on your record.
What really matters is the way you are facing your failure and the way you come back after.
Someone wise has said that it doesn't matter how good you are. there will always be someone better than you. Those who have been winning only I suppose haven't really faced real challenge yet.
Sports. martial arts is something that don't matter how long you train and how good you are, there will always be room to improve.

Another very important factor is that when you are on top, you become everyone aim.
All pretenders to the tron are working hard to get your crown.

All we need to remember is the idea of the sportsmanship at the first place.
Idea of improvement our, mental, physical and emotional skills to the highest possible level.

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Krystian Ozog Fighter/Instructor, GMMA Academy 07928093841 | KrystianGuruMuayThai@gmail.com | http://www.gmma.co.uk/ | London/Great Britain

Building up your emporium

Every single morning we all make one, very important decision. 

We decide for ourselves how the rest of our day is going to look like.
Not only by taking certain actions; exercising, meditating, eating well, etc...
But mainly by our attitude towards possible forthcoming challenges.

By choosing the way we feel about ourselves and difficulties that comes our way.
As most adult people understand, life is full of them and the way we deal with those obstacles is going to define how our life is going to look like.

If you are a bit of modern action man/woman, set to progress and having ambitious goals.
Very rarely you will wake up felling totally fresh, without any fatigue.
Especially when you exercise extensively and still carry on with full time work and other human being related activities.
You most likely wake up with sore muscles, maybe with some injuries.
You most likely lacking on recovery sleep and other comforts that could bring you "short term happiness".
You most likely wake up with long list of the tasks that you want to achieve during this day.

Do you? !

You are not the only one!
We all get that felling.

I do believe that to build up great, powerful and stable emporium,takes a long time and it is full of ups and downs journey.

There is going to be many obstacles and difficulties like the weather conditions, natural disasters, wars, epidemics, political or family related problems and other catastrophes...
If you want to achieve your greatness you need to learn on your mistakes and embrace the failure. Believe in yourself and command community of your emporium wisely.
To be great commander you need to be flexible and learn how to adjust to constantly changing situations, while listening to the needs of your people. You need to show great respect, love and patience to your soldiers and ally.
And what is very important,  you need to make sure that they morals and motivation doesn't go down when the hard times comes.

Great commander,  great leader is also a great motivational speaker.
But if there is any doubt or insecurity in commanders voice people will feel it and they will just follow the orders without spark in their actions.
That's why it is essential for the commander to have a great vision, pure intentions, believe and knowledge of how he or she runs the emporium.

Keeping your body fit and strong is just like looking after your army and arsenal.

Having good, healthy diet. Plenty of sleep, rest and hydration. I would compare to looking after your ally, which you want to make sure are always on your side and never turn their back on you, especially when you are ready to fight.

To inspire others and make them believe in themselves and our vision. We first of all have to believe ourselves and lead them by example. 

When we feel tired, broken  and demotivated is worth to make few steps back and look at the motives that have brought us to this point and made us choose the way we are at first place.

Then we could consider some changes or adjustments in our strategy to prevent future burn out of our army and ally.

We have to trust ourselves as well as the mother nature. We are all born to achieve the greatness.

Is only us who can decide how our life is going to look like. By making those everyday choices of how we feel about our lives. 

Stay strong, stay focused, stay driven.

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Krystian Ozog Fighter/Instructor, GMMA Academy 07928093841 | KrystianGuruMuayThai@gmail.com | http://www.gmma.co.uk/ | London/Great Britain

Dealing with negative thoughts

Have I done enough work?
Was I working on right aspects and strategies for this particular event?
What if after all this work and sacrifices I will make some silly mistake which will make me loose?
What is my opponent capable of ? What does he know ? Was he working harder than me?

Have I had enough rest? What if I am a bit rusty as I haven't fought for a while?
What if I haven't had enough recovery time since my last bout?
What if my Injury will get worst during the fight and I will loose or match will have to be stopped?

These and so much more crosses my mind before the fights.

Questions, doubts and self talks are inseparable part of our existence which intensity grows up along with the importance of happening that we are overcoming.
I don't think that it matters how old you are or how much experience you've got we are always going have this kind of thoughts in our heads. I think that it is in our nature.
To stop this kind of thoughts we would have to stop our brains which one very wise men Sadhguru has said cannot be done as long as we are alive. He said that our brains cannot stop working just like our hearts cannot stop biting and our livers cannot stop functioning.

The only matter we have some impact on is; the way we deal with overcoming obstacles.
The way we see ourselves in particular situation and what benefits we or others going to get out of it.

I have seen recently some bits of TV reality show "Special Forces - Ultimate Hell Week" and full episode of "Discovery secret of human brain" ( you can watch it on You Tube ), where both resources where showing what makes human being stronger, faster, more responsive and adaptive to a world under pressure.
In both episodes they were showing some extreme training of special forces aspirants which have been trained and examined under extremely difficult and stressful for human beings circumstances.

After all, most of those aspirants ( especially those who succeed ) realise that they are capable of doing things that they would never think of. They realise that all the worries were created in their heads and the only way to fight it back is to conquer their own negative minds.

Watching and hearing  this kind of stories makes me think that what this people find in their extraordinary training, many of us find in every days life, battling with some difficult life situations.
Makes me think that my way of training my brain and getting through the life has always been sport challenges and for a long time it has been my Martial arts and fighting experience.

It doesn't really matter how strong your body is. If your brain gives up you cannot do nothing.

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Krystian Ozog Fighter/Instructor, GMMA Academy 07928093841 | KrystianGuruMuayThai@gmail.com | http://www.gmma.co.uk/ | London/Great Britain

Confidence and humbleness

I will never forget when in 2002 back in Wroclaw/Poland, I have attended, as a viewer my very first kickboxing show. It has brought a great impact to my life, especially two MuayThai fight fights presented on the day. Both of those bouts were involving young( teenagers ) fighters from outside the country. Experience of those Thaiboxing fights was quite different from all other matches on that show. I found it more interesting, deeper in meaning and more artistic than the other, even the main event fights.
Boys walking in to the ring fully focused and without any spectacular body motions.
Traditional outfit, Wai Kru dance accompanied by traditional MuayThai music. Both boys looking down while meeting in the middle of the ring and hogging each other before the fight starts.
The moment when fight begins you can hear from the distance, powerful kicks and punches slamming on their bodies. Amazing techniques, looking for openings in every possible situation and trying to score from every possible angle. Amazing will power of both young fighters and great respect given to each other before as well as at the end of the fight made all experience very attractive and impressive to me.

Right from very first of Thaiboxing class I have took at GuruMuayThai, I wanted to grow and learn exactly this same way as boys which i have seen on the show.
I wanted to learn the skills and absorb everything that fighting and martial arts practise brings along.
I wanted to build up my confidence but stay humbled and respectful at this same time.
I wanted to become I can possibly be...

Stepping up the level, becoming full time fighter and instructor has made me put my improvement on hold few times. Thinking of where I should be and where I currently am, forgetting about the journey I went through and setting up very high expectations to myself. Watching some of the greatest fighters and criticising my own performance in comparison with theirs.Working out to reduce the weight more than to improve my skills. Being overconfident with some aspects of my abilities.
All this and I suppose few more things has been my setbacks at some point of my experience.

But coming back to my vision right from the beginning of my journey always brings me back on track.
Believing in yourself and fact that you can achieve whatever you choose as long as you stay focused, humble and take every possible step towards your goal.
That is the best you can do for yourself.
Stay passionate, stay focused.
Stay confident, stay humble. 

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Krystian Ozog Fighter/Instructor, GMMA Academy 07928093841 | KrystianGuruMuayThai@gmail.com | http://www.gmma.co.uk/ | London/Great Britain