This is the Jocko Underground Podcast number 128 sitting here with Echo Charles and Echo Charles sometimes in life

You have to commit

To two things to make them happen, right?

Sometimes you gotta commit to make it happen,

make that thing happen.

We hear this lot, but you gotta be careful that you don't over commit.

All right, so it's training Jiu-Jitsu today.

And I was training with Mija and Mija kind of left his arm out.

And I was, it's weird, even though I was going for his arm,

I actually knew that I couldn't get his arm from this position,

but I knew it was gonna kind of, what I was trying to do is pass his guard.

So I was kind of in a half guard scenario. He had a little butterfly hook type thing and I'm trying to straighten out his arm.

And what I was literally trying to do was distract him from his legs so I could finish the pass.

And I over committed in a real big way to his arm and so I was off balance and he and he

swept me got on top and he actually got on top and terrible position got me.

Here's the thing.

There are many times in fighting when overcommitment is a problem.

So if you overcommit to a strike, it's easy to get taken down.

If you over commit to a takedown, you can get tired.

Or you can get elbowed in the head, right?

Remember when the house happening for a little while?

People were like on the single and people are just dropping elbows to the side of the head and knocking him out.

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