Day 2 - How You Act

21 Day Combat Yoga Challenge
Written By Em Keen

“How you act is the combination of the unconscious and the intentional conscience. By being able to differentiate between the two and focus on both of them, that is total self control.” - Andy Hrovat

What You Can Control

Over the next 21 days the focus of this class will cover the 5 areas you can control in combat, yoga and life. In the first four classes we will discuss the first area you can control - YOURSELF - Today’s focus is how you act

Combat

In combat, many times, how you act and react happens faster than you can think. Therefore it is training that is responsible for the split decisions made in the heat of battle. Knowing and training our best decisions before we need to make them increases our likelihood of success.

What is an area in your life where you can automate decisions that will set you up for success? (diet, training, lifestyle)


Yoga

One of the many skills yoga teaches is the ability to act intentionally. This intentional action is a result of listening to the instructions we are given throughout the class.

Do you remember a time in today’s class where you lost focus on listening and found yourself unsure where to move next?


Life

In combat you train and repeat the best possible outcomes in order to unconsciously act and react faster than you can think, yoga on the other hand teaches the skill of slowing down and connecting with intentional action.

Notice your automated daily decisions/habits. In what ways can you add intention to make the decisions more aligned with who you want to become.

 
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Day 20 - How To Be Well Rounded But Hyper Focused
Day 20 - How To Be Well Rounded But Hyper Focused

“Today we talked about being the best version of you. What this looks like is being well rounded but also having a hyper-focus. The hyper-focus attention is on you - what are you needing to defend the most, what are you most successful with and what are you going to add that will surprise your opponents the next time.”

- Andy Hrovat

Day 19 - How To Redirect Your Finish
Day 19 - How To Redirect Your Finish

“The finish we set out for isn’t always what we get. Sometimes we get redirected. At this moment we can either choose to give up and look at our efforts as a failure or we can continue to move forward. The ability to get redirected, assess our new situation then pick a new finish is what experts call the flow state.”

- Andy Hrovat

Day 18 - How To Improve Your Finish
Day 18 - How To Improve Your Finish

“Today we focused on improving our finishes. First we start slow, then we set deadlines to create urgency and commitment to getting the finish.”

 - Andy Hrovat

Day 17 - How To Learn Your Finishes
Day 17 - How To Learn Your Finishes

“In wrestling the more time you spend in a situation. The more understanding you have of how you can move within the situation and where the exits are.”

- Andy Hrovat

Day 16 - How To Move On From A Situation
Day 16 - How To Move On From A Situation

“In wrestling the more time you spend in a situation. The more understanding you have of how you can move within the situation and where the exits are.”

- Andy Hrovat

Day 15 - How To Prepare For The Situation
Day 15 - How To Prepare For The Situation

“Today we are going to discuss how to prepare for the situation. In wrestling you have 4 attacks that lead to 5 positions and 18 situations. Since it is unknown which situation our attack will lead to we must prepare for every situation.”

- Andy Hrovat

Day 14 - How Did You Get In This Situation
Day 14 - How Did You Get In This Situation

“The reason we want to know how we got in to the situation is so that we can look back and see if that situation was advantageous for us or a disadvantage. That way we can look at the statistics to determine which situations we want to avoid and which situations we want to recreate in the future.”

- Andy Hrovat

Day 13 - Technique In Relation to Situations
Day 13 - Technique In Relation to Situations

"To really understand how you can control your situation, we need to better know, what technique means in combat. Technique is direction and control. Directions are automated movements. We're going to focus on control today. Which is the fine motor skills of your head, your hands, your hips, your feet, and how they can adjust and move through an ever changing situation."

- Andy Hrovat

Day 12 - Offense/Offense
Day 12 - Offense/Offense

“Offense/Offense are the times in a match where both athletes need to score. Match is tied, 15 seconds left, who is going to pull the trigger to win. This is what we are talking about. This is attack and counter attacking. So no matter if you are acting or reacting the goal is to move forward in motion.” 

- Andy Hrovat

Day 11 - Defense
Day 11 - Defense

“When the strategy calls the purpose of defense is to shut down your opponent. Refuse them the opportunity to attack and if they do minimize the damage it can create.”

-Andy Hrovat

Em Keen
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