Breaking Down Personal Performances

Above is a video of Tyler demonstrating how he personally breaks down his own performances. As you may know, we are advocates of positive psychology. Positive psychology basically tells us to focus on what is right rather than what is wrong. In breaking down your own performances it’s important to know the difference between evaluation and picking out deficiencies.

We want to be sure that when evaluating our performance we don’t look at things like, “I should have gone for an armbar”, or “I need to be more aggressive…”.  We look at things like, where wasn’t I using my strengths in this match? What kept me from being able to do the things I normally do well? How do I improve my current strengths to cover up for things I struggle with?

We would encourage you to breakdown your personal performances with “you” in mind. Don’t impose your expectations of how you should be competing onto how you actually competed. Evaluate how you can do more of the things you do well, and why you weren’t able to do them this time. An example of this would be a man with only one hand looking at his performance and saying, “man, I missed an opportunity for the cross collar choke, I need to really work on that”. We would espouse thinking of this instead like, “Why am I unable to complete the sweep I normally do from this position, what do I need to look at to make this sweep available, did I mss my opportunity, or do I need to make an adjustment in this scenario?”.

To learn more about positive psychology and jiu jitsu visit my friend Dan Faggella at Scienceofskill.com

God bless,

BishopBjj.com