Signing up for my first tournament.

Well, it's been a year now since I started my journey in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It has been a long year with work, health issues, injuries, and family obligations. I switched my daughters my academy in July of last year. I had them restart as no-stripe white belts because I feel they did not deserve to be four-stripe white belts. I took off a month because of a gout attack, then another three weeks because of an Achilles tendon issue.

The joints in my fingers are all messed up from a new white belt that kept trying to attack them. I had some back pain as well as neck issues from rolling. Lots of bruising on my upper arms and chest.

I have met some really great people and attended a few Jiu Jitsu tournaments this last year. I never considered competing until I realized I am now in the Masters 3/4 division.

Today I signed up for a tournament that is scheduled for next Sunday. It will be exactly one week away. I do not know why I felt compelled to sign up for it. Maybe because I was scared to, and I wanted to face that fear head on. It was almost exactly a year ago that I went to a Tony Robbins' UPW Seminar. I was scared attending that one also. But signing up for that seminar lead me to listen to Tony Robbins and ultimately lead me to my jiu-jitsu journey.

The one biggest takeaway from UPW was that I was my greatest enemy. My limiting beliefs and fear of failure held me back more that anything else. So today I faced my fear and signed up for the tournament. Both gi and no-gi. I have been sick to my stomach all day. I'm thinking I can just through away the $119 registration fee and no-body would know the difference.

Nobody but me that is. I wonder if my opponents are as nervous as I am. What am I thinking, I am still so new to this whole thing. Let's see what happens from here.