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The fight for position begins in earnest. Gary pushes down on my shoulder to break my grip on his head as he tries to move around to the side.

He succeeds in freeing his head, but I’ve still got control of his leg. At this moment, that’s about the only thing between me and being submitted, and we both know it. On the plus side I’ve avoided being quickly beaten, which means that things are bad but I’m still in the fight… and as long as I’m in the fight then I’ll be trying to win it.

The psychological dimension must be used with care to avoid doing more harm than good, but mental conditioning can be built into the fighter’s training at every level. Fitness work, even technical drills can be set up to build the habit of pushing on through to the end, even when things are bad. This is important, because nothing ever goes according to plan and sometimes the margin between defeat and victory is simply the fighter’s own willingness to keep at it when someone else might have given up.

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