How does everyone deal with tournament losses? Eat something bad for you that tastes damn good? Go out with some friends? Train more? I lost today and find myself feeling down.
I've only been training for 8 months, but had my second tournament today. My first nogi tournament went very well, I dominated my division after only 2.5 months of training. I thought I was king shit. :redface:
That feeling's now gone. I entered a nogi tourney with some wierd rules today, and didn't even medal. I won my first two matches by submission, but lost my 3rd 2-0 to a guy I felt superior to. He was extremely strong, but didn't have much technique. He seemed like he trained a lot of MMA grappling, but not much stand alone BJJ. This tourney was a large field, and a step up in competition for me, but I really felt I underperformed.
It feels like my hard training the last month is all for naught. I feel like I let myself down, let my instructor down, and let my training partners that came to watch me down.
I want to get back in the gym as soon as possible, but I really feel like shit at the moment. How does everyone cope with this shit? Maybe it's just because I put too much pressure on myself....
I've only been training for 8 months, but had my second tournament today. My first nogi tournament went very well, I dominated my division after only 2.5 months of training. I thought I was king shit. :redface:
That feeling's now gone. I entered a nogi tourney with some wierd rules today, and didn't even medal. I won my first two matches by submission, but lost my 3rd 2-0 to a guy I felt superior to. He was extremely strong, but didn't have much technique. He seemed like he trained a lot of MMA grappling, but not much stand alone BJJ. This tourney was a large field, and a step up in competition for me, but I really felt I underperformed.
It feels like my hard training the last month is all for naught. I feel like I let myself down, let my instructor down, and let my training partners that came to watch me down.
I want to get back in the gym as soon as possible, but I really feel like shit at the moment. How does everyone cope with this shit? Maybe it's just because I put too much pressure on myself....