"Jiu-Jitsu is never ending. The better you get at it, the more weaknesses you find in your game. Don't look at it as you getting worse, look at it as you improving."-Andrew Marshall
Often times we are our own worst critic. When we roll at the gym or in competition we notice all of the little things that is lacking in our game, and to many of us this translates into "I suck". If you really think about it the fact that you can even recognize what you are doing wrong, has to be worth something, right? This reminds me of another quote I like:
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."-John Wooden
This is the only way making mistakes can ever be negative. If you recognize your shortcomings, and do not change them, then eventually you will fail. But if you can identify the errors and then make the necessary corrections, you just evolved.
"Jiu-Jitsu is not a force, but a process."-Me
Jiu-Jitsu is something you can't force. Know that eventually you will be good, but never perfect. There will always be something that can be changed, tweaked, adjusted, and improved. Like evolution, we have to look at our game, take out what is useless and improve upon what is key to our survival on the mats...until one day we can hold our own.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
