“All the techniques are connected together like a chain.
This concept is exactly the same as our lives.”
In sparring or in a fight, it’s important to keep applying techniques one after another every time you fail one, until you immobilise them and submit them, like drawing them into spider webs.
It’s a very important concept in Submission Arts Wrestling.
You should always keep this in your mind when training.
These are what the SAW founder Shihan Hidetaka Aso said.
“There is no failure in submission techniques.”
A lot of people give up and stop movement when they apply one technique and fail, but there is no failure in submissions.
Because if you think you made a mistake or failed, keep going to the next technique.
For example,
If you made a mistake for your guard arm bar, then your opponent is just about to come on top of you to hold you down, use their momentum to turn them over, then you can come on top of them to hold them down, but if you think you made a mistake and stop movement, then they come on top of you to hold you down tight, so that mistake becomes a real mistake.
When you make a mistake or fail one technique, you should think,
“It’s a good opportunity for the next technique”
Because that mistake and failure becomes a good setup for the next technique.
“All the techniques are connected together like a chain.”
This concept is exactly the same as our lives.
Everything you do or everything you experience are all connected together.
“There is no failure in our lives.”
If you think you made a mistake or failed something, just try the next challenge.
That mistake or failure will be a good set up for your next challenge.
If you give up and stop making an effort, they will become real mistakes and failures.
If you think you made a mistake or failure, think it’s a good opportunity, then keep challenging.
That’s the SAW spirit, and that’s what we should aim for.
