Consistently Above Average

I've grouped off Three different areas, with a variety of points in each for what is important when you are heading off to compete in JiuJitsu somewhere.Getting There , Acclimitasion, and Exposure.orGTAE for short of course.There's a lot of variables, and depending on where you are going to these things might not apply. Just some things I have experienced and I would recommend to k

Winter Arc is the meme of the season so far, there'll be multiple other trends between now and christmas that i will miss and go completely over my head, but maybe there is some truth behind the winter arc, let's try figure it out. I need to get up to skills on how to use Instagram best to this shows advance. There's a market we need to tap into, so I will be enlisting the help of

I can't believe I'm writing this on a Friday afternoon, that's insanely off brand. The week after a tournament when you are questioning your life existance, happy to just be trianing for the sake of enjoying training instead of doing 3x per day, Took a seemingly normal diversion of my week and headed up to our fine capital country, where I'm reminded despite loving Dublin, everythi

The bonus episode. Longer than usual. Recorded in three parts, Sunday Night after dinner, the middle of the night trying to not fall asleep before heading to the airport and sitting at Gat E44.Thanks to Jean for joining me, for the first time but maybe not for the last time. We will have to see how it went. There are a couple of cuts in the editing, one mic between two people was a

Coming to you from Ostia, Rome. Episode 10 of Consistently Above Average is live. The Airport Taxi drivers are clued in to what fares they want to take anyway, Day One is over and done with, Day Two will be kicking off just about an hour before this episode goes live. I am competing today, and it was a strange process to record and verbalise that the night before I competed. There'

I need to come up with more concise titles for these episodes....Episode 9 continues on with a more positive twitter discussion than last weeks finished on, before transitioning over to look at the idea of does your environment deserves to influence your work ethic. Everybody is able to train when the conditions are perfect, why it's so important to keep doing it when they are less

Episode 8, my favourite numbers. Why do you ask? No problem, I'll answer it.Another Week, ANOTHER E-MAIL. What a pleasure.The e-mailler poses (kind of) a two-part question and ultimately concludes they may not have asked a question at all, but I still do my best to make an attempt at an answer.We are going to have "The Last Dance" this Sunday as there's another big NoGi Europeans t

I got an e-mail during the week that influences a large part of this weeks episode. Comes from someone who felt a particular problem or reluctance to want to continue with JiuJitsu as they attempt to re-learn several fundamentals.It sprawled off into a much wider disucssion and thought process, so thank you very much listener for the e-mail.I've also marked this episode as explicit

We had brilliant training last Sunday and then I followed it up with one of my worst sessions in years. The sea saw of going up and down at different parts when you are preparing for a tournament is normal. Hopefully I'm able to normalise it here a little bit. A little chat about how prep + performance can be two different things entirely, as well as the fact how some people can ju

On this episode, we run over my predictions vs outcomes. from last weeks ADCC Ireland. Some observations from The Shamrock Cup on Sunday, as well as a couple of figures and sums from other tournaments for us to ponder over for a future episode.Also, in a small social media clip from last weekend, elite black belt Tainan Dalpra suggested "sooner than later" his coaches Rafa + Gui Me