Friday Dojo Discernments

Hi all!

Here is your weekly dose of Dojo Discernments, with a couple of nuggets of thought inspired by the mats this week. 

Supplements I'm Taking

• Alkaline Water, any will do
• Trace Minerals
• Ultima Electrolytes
• Sport Probiotics
• Lung and Bronchial
• Cell Nurture
• Creatine
• Teddy Bear Night Night 😎

Performance Hack: The 15-Minute Reboot

Every day, I take a 15-minute nap—not just for rest, but for a nervous system reset that fuels another high-performance training session. Having a background in epilepsy, I first developed this habit for health maintenance, but it evolved into a superpower for learning and performance.

In a full night’s sleep, your brain cycles through multiple sleep stages:

• Non-REM Light Sleep (Alpha → Theta): Entering rest.
• Non-REM Deeper Light Sleep (Theta w/ Sleep Spindles & K-Complexes): Processing memory.
• Non-REM Deep Sleep (Delta Waves): Growth hormone release and physical recovery.
• REM Sleep (Beta & Theta Waves): Dreaming, creativity, and neural reorganization.

A 15-minute nap lets me cycle into these phases just enough to wake up restored, refreshed, and primed for peak performance.

Dim the lights, get comfortable, close your eyes, turn "off", exhale, yawn, fall asleep, wake up. 

Want to try it? Here’s an NSDR protocol from Dr. Andrew Huberman, one of the leading researchers on rest and recovery.

What I'm Thinking About

Building a balanced, unified game, without weak spots. Avoiding feeding into imbalances, contorsions, and adressing gaps.

The Power of Completion: Closing the loops in your game

Here's a seedling of thought, that I expect to grow into a tree of wisdom. 

One of the biggest differences between an average grappler and a master is completion—the ability to take a plan, organize, and act in a complete, closed chain. 

Many practitioners think in isolation. Their thought process is filled with half-built structures, leaving gaps their opponents can exploit.

The key is to train with a full-sequence mindset: Every decision should be made with the end goal already in mind.

This mode of thinking is what results in a well taught class, an impasssible guard, and achieved goals. 

The most dangerous grapplers don’t just impose their will; they impose inevitability—techniques that don’t just happen, but complete themselves. Build a game that leaves no openings, no unfinished sequences, no half-measures. Completion is what turns skill into certainty, and potential into dominance.

We are one week away from our WNO match in Costa Mesa at the Hangar. Lets enjoy an incredible night of grappling! Get Your Tickets Use coupon code "Cordova" for a discount and to help me out! 

Standby for The release of the Snuggle Bug Instructional soon!