Chaos to Order Order to Chaos
In the beginning we work to bring order to all the unknowns, the seemingly chaotic nature of all things grappling. We work to simplify and categorize the madness by position or objectives. The randomness starts materializing to look like the guard or mount or side control, all in an attempt to separate and focus on bite-sized chunks of certainty. Our training partners do the same, and both evolve along a line of our sweep vs their pass.
Our next evolutionary step is to then reintroduce chaos into order. Chaos is the raw material for order, and nature’s natural lean. Our attempts for order can only bring us close to a semblance, and only temporarily. We can take advantage of our training partner’s scrambling for order amongst our induced chaos. Spending more time in the chaos yields more comfort within it. Our relaxed state seemingly slowing things down for us, allowing us to play whack-a-mole in an orderly manner in response to their attempts at order.
This back and forth never stops, but we strive for balanced use of both. Usually we bring order to their chaos, or chaos to their order. But sometimes we double down on what they bring, causing them to overshoot their chaos or bring fragility to their order. What seems like chaos for them can be order for us. We’re always asking, what is this situation asking of me? Do i need to put things in order or shake things up? Like yin and yang, one without the other doesn’t exist and we should toggle between both to advance our game.
