Former wrestler and two-time PBR champion Jess Lockwood once said:
“In wrestling to win a match, you gotta have hip control. You gotta dominate your opponents. It's not a fight in a sense with your opponent. You gotta flow and move off of what they are doing. Same thing with bull riding. It comes from your hips. You don't fight the bull. You're not gonna to win a battle with a 2,000-pound bull. So you gotta flow with them and react to their moves and not fight it. You gotta move with.”
A head-on collision is naïve and dangerous, especially when your opponent is much larger and stronger. The only way out is to offset limited resources with an excess of wit.
To find the right solution, the mind needs absolutely nothing.
The bigger your opponent, the greater his inertia. That means you can more easily guess the direction of his movement. While the massive force slowly shifts, you have time to make your move.
The only one who can stand in your way is yourself.
For instance, if fear takes over and you lose faith in yourself. Fear locks you up, not just physically but, more importantly, mentally. The range of possibilities shrinks from infinity to zero.
That’s why, in the most hopeless situations, the real fight is within.
In this sense, believers have it easier. Facing an overwhelming threat doesn’t paralyze them because they carry within themselves an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful God.
Faith calms fear and gives the Creator's insight a chance to enter the mind.
A confident person watches his opponent with curiosity. In a way, he’s even grateful, like a scientist facing a problem, for the chance to show his inventive mind.
Only thanks to a raging ocean does a surfer’s mastery grow.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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