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The Secret To Achievement In Jiu Jitsu and Beyond

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness · Jun 20, 2019 ·

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu's Marc Hagebusch promoting Billy Mullino to Black Belt.
Texarkana Jiu Jitsu’s Marc Hagebusch promoting Billy Mullino to Black Belt.

How To Speed Up Your Jiu Jitsu Progress and Develop Your Real Potential

Applying Anders Ericsson’s ideas to becoming better at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

No one is born great. We don’t suddenly become an expert.

We can become great at many things, but it takes work.

Learning allows us to develop our potential.

What’s the best way to learn a skill like Jiu Jitsu (as well as anything else)?

The main gift that experts have is that they use focus, not some innate ability.

It’s about expanding your potential not arriving at your potential. If we stay in our comfort zone, we do not get better and will over time get worse or get passed by.

In order to become your best at anything, you can’t rely upon 10,000 hours of mindless practice contrary to Malcolm Gladwell’s book and popular idea.

Mindless practice often causes skill regression.

You get worse if you practice errors or to say it another way, you get better at making mistakes.

Other people pass you by if you aren’t continually pushing your boundaries.

Gladwell based his book on the work of Anders Ericsson who also wrote a book, Peak – the new science of expertise.

Ericsson talks about utilizing Deliberate Practice which requires being uncomfortable and pushing yourself to grow.

Deliberate Practice means employing the 3 F’s…

1. Focus on a particular area.

2. Feedback immediately during execution. Ericksson talks about the importance of an expert coach to correct errors right away. During drilling a coach and even a training partner can help you correct the error. You can see errors in yourself also during training against an opponent. The correction of the error can be a little trickier if you do not know the skill.

3. Fix it. Correct the error and practice the correction so that you don’t continue to make the error. This allows ongoing growth as you correct the margins of your game, the areas that you are developing.

Expert Performers continue to try to improve their practice and to get better.

They do not feel like they’ve arrived and then start mindless practice because this will result in decreasing performance… so it requires ongoing growth and improvement not just to get better but to also prevent losses in performance.

Netflix Motivation!

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness · Dec 31, 2018 ·

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Looking ahead to the New Year…

My 9 year old daughter likes to watch this show on Netflix, Nailed It.

It’s an interesting baking competition where unskilled cooks try to make different deserts under time pressure.

At the end of the time, they put their creation under a cover and bring it up to the judges.

They uncover the baked goods and proclaim, “Nailed it!.”

We’re then shown the person’s final product on a split screen with the professionally made model.

They never truly nail it.

Most often it’s not even close, although it makes for a good laugh.

The show is really a model for hitting goals.

The ‘bakers’ have directions and materials. They get to work and push it right up to the time limit.

They’re ‘in the game.’

They have some high goals set for themselves – in this case by the producers of the show who are asking them to move far outside their comfort zone.

They might not create a masterpiece, but they created something and got some experience.

They created much more than people who didn’t get started.

They made progress, even though it wasn’t perfect.

That’s what it takes to achieve your goals.

If you’re like me in 2018 – you nailed some goals and and others didn’t quite make the cutโ€ฆ instead maybe looking like some of the contestants final products during the time they were given.

The New Year brings with it the hope of starting anew and hitting some new targets.

Of course to do so, we’ll have to do some new things.

We will be helping lead the way this year to see what we can really accomplishโ€ฆ

We have some big news coming at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness that we’ll have to save for the next email, but thanks for being part of the team whether or not you’ve made it in yet!

This year will mark my 20th year of teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Texarkana. It’s amazing how fast our lives fly by.

Looking back over the years, I’m very thankful to have been able to help thousand’s of people – men, women, teens, and kids in Texarkana learn the art, get more active, develop confidence, and have fun. So many people have ‘nailed it’ and accomplished more than they believed possible.

Happy New Year!

Coach Marc Hagebusch

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for everyone age 4 through adult. No experience necessary.

All fitness levels welcome – you don’t have to be in shape to start – we’ll get you there!

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We can help you Nail Your Goals this year!



Hurry Up Offense 2018

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness · Oct 3, 2018 ·

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ค๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟTexarkana Jiu Jitsu best BJJ MMA gym in Texarkana. Hit Your Goals

We have officially entered the 4th quarter of 2018.

I don’t know if you’re a football fan or not…

In football as the time ticks off the clock and the game enters the 4th quarter the teams begin to feel a sense of urgency to win.

This is especially true of the team that is behind in the game.

They hadn’t up to that point hit their targets and accomplished their goals.

๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฐ๐˜๐—ต ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿด.

75% of the year is behind us.

3/4 of 2018 has already passed and it’s easy to start looking ahead to the end of the year with the holidays and the rapidly approaching 2019.

Only 91 days to go.

Many of us started 2018 optimistically.

๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ.

We thought we’re going to lose some weight, take care of our health, eat better, exercise more, train more Jiu Jitsu.

We may have set some type of target, say we wanted to lose 25lbs because we knew it would make us feel better and improve our health.

We thought, this year I’m going to start training Jiu Jitsu or maybe put in some extra time to see what we are capable of achieving.

Unfortunately life has probably gotten in the way and threw us a few unanticipated ‘curveballs.’

You may not be on track to ‘win‘ in the 4th quarter of 2019.

๐—œ๐˜’๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต!

In football, the team generally doesn’t ever give up in the 4th quarter.

They do not just simply throw in the towel and leave the field.

Often people do.

The idea is let’s just make it through the holiday and then 2019 will be our year.

Paraphrasing Mark Twain who apparently made up a quote he attributed to Ben Franklin…

“๐‘๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ƒ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘‚๐‘“๐‘“ ๐‘‡๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐ท๐‘œ ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐ด๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐ฝ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐ด๐‘  ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™.”

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ’๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐˜’๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต.

If you want to start hitting your goals, start today as Twain suggests.

๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—๐—ถ๐˜‚ ๐—๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€๐˜‚?

Contact us and we’ll get you set up to try a first free class so we can start you moving towards the goal line before the end of the quarter.

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness
903-793-1085

๐˜‰๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ป๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜‘๐˜ช๐˜ถ ๐˜‘๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ด๐˜ถ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜Œ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ˆ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ 4 ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜บ!

How To Use A Magic Formula To Transform Your Life…

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness · Feb 4, 2018 ·

Small Change? How To Use Small, Consistent Change For Massive Positive Benefit In Every Area Of Your Life!ย 

albert einstein secret of success and achievement in texarkana martial arts

How To Use A Simple Formula Einstein Called The 8th Wonder Of The World To Improve Any Area In Your Life (Or The Life Of Your Kids)โ€ฆ Achieve More In Every Area From Weight Loss To Fitness, Self Confidence, and More!ย 

This is an important message, I urge you to read it.

It might take you five minutes to read.

The benefit of taking this time is thatย  it has the power to radically improve your life.

Our society has been duped into thinking that there are painless, quick fixes and instant gratification. It seems as though virtually everyone has lost sight of the value of planned, consistent work.

How many times have you (or someone you know) quit doing something that is positive because you were impatient or maybe you hit a small obstacle?

I’ve seen some of our members at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness quit after the first week of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or the first week of Cardio kickboxing or our Ultimate Body Shaping Course.

People often quit before they even get started.

They don’t understand the simple ‘secret’ that I’m about to explain below.

This secret is something so powerful that it can allow you to achieve every goal that you currently have, whether it’s to lose 20 pounds, earn a Black Belt, give up a bad habit, make more money, or anything else.

It’s a secret that Albert Einstein said (according to folklore, at least), is said to be the greatest invention in human history.

What’s the secret?

Small steps completed consistently over time allows you to accomplish anything. It’s the secret of compounded interest.

The formula isโ€ฆ small smart choices + consistency + time = radical difference.

The Power Of A Penny

Here’s the scenario. Let’s say you are offered a choice.

You can either take $3 Million in cash right now OR a single penny that doubles every day for 31 daysโ€ฆ which would you choose?

The penny!

Whyโ€ฆ because it is worth MUCH more money in the end, BUT it does take longer to see the pay off!

Let’s say in the example above, YOU take the instant cold, hard cash AND your friend takes the penny.

On day 7, you have (about) $3 Million and your friend only has 64 cents. Of course at this point you’re thinking, “My friend is an idiot. I really need to get smarter friends.”

On day 10, Your friend has $5.12 How is your friend feeling at this point? Your spending your millions and loving life while your friend is putting in the time and waiting patiently with very little to show for it.

On day 21, your friend has only $10,486 versus your BIG money. Your friend hangs toughโ€ฆsacrificing, and gaining more each day

His money continues to grow while your money is being blown on vacation homes, fast cars, fancy tropical vacations, and partying.

As the month continues to tick away, the effect of compounding starts to pay off for them.

On day 31, your friend has $10,737,418.24! This is more than 3 times your original $3 million of which you’ve spent a sizeable chunk.

Whoops!

This is exactly why consistency over time is important and why negative choices don’t keep you still, they move you BACKWARDS.

There are few things in life that are as powerful as this compounding effect, hence the Einstein quote. Amazingly, you can harness this same compounding effect in every area of your own life.

Let’s use another example to illustrate the difference that consistent, directed effort makes over time.

In a practical way, everything that you do every single day can serve to make you better or make you worse.

You may be frustrated and want to lose the extra 20 pounds you’ve been carrying around the last few years, but those chocolate cupcakes sure look good with their seductive rainbow sprinkles.

Surely, one cupcake won’t ruin you.

The problem is that the compound effect works in a negative manner just like it does in a positive one.

The delicious cupcake moves you BACKWARDS.

You gain a little more weight, you get a little more fatigued, you are drawn a little closer to obesity and it’s devastating health effects (depression, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc)โ€ฆ AND most people make bad choices EVERY day making it impossible to achieve their goals.

It just happens so slowly that you don’t see it happening. It’s the compound effect of bad choices.

The same thing happens in a positive way when you make good choices EVERY dayโ€ฆ you join our martial arts class AND show up to train.

The progress is slow at first.

You wonder, am I going to be able to do it?

You know about the magic power of compounding demonstrated in the penny example, so you hang in there.

You train Jiu Jitsu a couple of times a week. You start eating a little better each day.

A month passes and you’ve lost about 10 pounds.

You’re starting to feel betterโ€ฆ you’re less stressed out, you have more energy, you’re just starting to feel better.

You continue training because you know that it’s consistency that really pays off.

Three months into training and you’ve lost 22 pounds. You haven’t looked this good since High School. By the way a student tells me this has happened to them on almost daily basis.

Let’s continue.

A year passes, you’ve earned a belt and look back on everything you’ve accomplished over the last year.

You’ve lost a lot of weight, you feel better, you’re less stressed, you have more energy, you’re getting along better with your family, and you’re healthierโ€ฆ PLUS, you have proven to yourself that you can accomplish something!

You compare your own progress to your friend, Bob.

Over the last year, Bob has gained another 12 pounds. He’s now 30 pounds over weight.

He hates his life. He’s stressed out and working on another heart attack.

We all make choices every day.

I think the biggest problem with our society in America right now is the inability of people to delay instant gratification.

Everyone wants the cupcake and they want it now, not worrying about the consequences that will occur later.

It’s what’s happening with our kidsโ€ฆ they’re getting less fit, playing more video games, and losing the values of hard workโ€ฆ then most programs cater to the lowest common denominator instead of challenging them.

No child left behind?

It’s more like put the slowest kid in the front, so no one ever develops into a good runner.

This is why you see 5 year old kids in other martial arts with black belts.

They want this instant gratification instead of working hard and earning what they get.

This sets kids up for failure in life!

It’s also why our kids at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu are taking a different path.

Kids in our classes earn every stripe and every belt.

This teaches them discipline and goal setting that will serve them the rest of their life.

You can make a decision to change right now.

If you get 1% better every day, then at the end of the year you aren’t just 365% better because you get growth compounded on itself every day.

You be amazed at what you’ve accomplished… and we’re here to help you do it!

If you have any questions please contact us at 903-793-1085 or email us here.

Claim A One Week FREE Pass for Kids or Adults! <Click Here!>ย 

 

 

Bullying, A Very Serious Problem

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu and Fitness · Jan 21, 2018 ·

Kids Are Being Bullied And It’s Effects Can Be Devastating.

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It’s happening a lot more at school, but often kids can’t escape the torment because of the online world that now follows them everywhere.

Unfortunatelyย  an alarming number of kids have their confidence destroyed causing severe emotional distress and in far too many cases it can be deadly.

According toย bullyingstatistics.org the numbers are significant… but if it were only ONE, it would be one too many that was suffering.

“The statistics on bullying and suicide are alarming:ย  Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year according to the CDC.

For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts.”

 

https://youtu.be/GJQGabCzTyo

Bullying, Kids, and Schools

The schools can’t be held responsible for the majority of bullying problems.

There are just too many kids… but we can empower the kids.

I wonder how the parents will deal with the loss of their son.

It must be so incredibly difficult for them.

I can’t imagine losing my daughter andย especially to suicide.

Every day, for the rest of their lives, the parents will question what they could’ve done differently.

Teddy Molina of Texas was a young bullied boy that took his own life in 2012.

The parents knew thereย was a problem with Teddy, but I’m sure that they had no idea of how bad it really was for him.

Not too long ago, one of the young teenagers in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class was attacked by 2 larger ‘boys,’ although one was apparently already out of high school.

Fortunately, he was able to fight off the attackers using his conditioning and jiu jitsu that he has developed training with us.

This is a serious problem.

Kids are bullied on a daily basis, often scarring the child for life and making them question their own self worth.

Other times, as seen with Teddy (one example of so many), the child can’t take it any more and ends their own life rather than have to continue to face their antagonists.

I’ve talked about other examples in the past of kids like Teddy that had the possibility of accomplishing so much in life, but now will not.

If you know of any child being bullied, maybe its your own, a friend’s or co-worker’s child, then please let me know.

The kids can develop confidence and feel empowered knowing that they have the ability to take care of themselves.

It doesn’t have to be so hard on them and we don’t need to lose even one more child.

 

Dr. Marc Hagebusch BS DC beCN
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt
Head Instructor
Texarkana Jiu Jitsu

 

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