Saturday Nov 06, 2021

Submission - BJJ and Being Present in the Moment

Abdel-Majid Faouri is Jordan's Number 1 BJJ competitor. In this episode he shares his journey with BJJ, life lessons learnt and his philosophy in BJJ.

Islam literally means 'submission'.

And one of the aims of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is to force your opponent into submission. So when you are being choked out and have to admit defeat, it is a little reminder of who is really in control.

Books Mentioned:

Tao of Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee

Khalid Bin al-Waleed: Sword of Allah - Gen A.I. Akram

Timestamps:

2:25 Abdel-Majid’s journey from chubby teenager to BJJ

11:30 The beauty about BJJ is that even if you have the world’s problem, when you go to class you have to be present.

14:30 Joining Alliance Gym in Nottingham

18:30 6 months Atos BJJ camp in California

23:47 “BJJ gave me the confidence to be me”

23:57 BJJ is uncomfortable, it teaches you to become calm in the worst of conditions

25:01 Kron Gracie - “stay cool under pressure”

26:41 “Follow what you want and if you become a master in it somebody will come and appreciate your art”

28:11 “I’ve never met a millionaire who didn’t make his money doing something he loved” George Harrison

28:25 Because it is a truthful journey to yourself it show whats true in other things as well

31:42 Jiu Jitsu shows you people

33:44 “This sport is humbling, no everyone likes to be humbled by force”

34:51 The dream of becoming world champion as small

36:07 It never becomes easy, you just get stronger

38:34 Uncertainty and fear - “Fear everything and run or face everything and rise”

Fear everything and run or face everything and rise

40:48 BJJ Teaches not to judge others

43:20 Islam means submission

Submission is knowing who is in control

48:00 The Sunnah of grappling and fitra

51:00 Bruce Lee’s 3 stages of learning

52:50 Mental training

54:29 The story of the black belt

56:26 Ayrton Senna - “I compete against myself”

59:10 You learn from loosing. If you can learn from winning then you have made it.

59:55 “Train like you are number 2 and compete like you are number 1. Always be hungry”

Submission - BJJ and Being Present in the Moment

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