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Overcame a big mental hurdle today. I really wanted to attend a Royce Gracie Jiu Jitsu seminar but none of my regular training partners could make it and I was scared about going alone. Doesn't sound a big deal but it's a very intimate close contact sport and I get nervous rolling with guys I don't know.

Then there was a late venue change and at this point my anxiety kicks in because directions weren't clear, parking wasn't at the venue and I'm starting to panic that I'll get lost, be late, the dogs will be left too long, I won't won't find a buddy, will make an idiot of myself blah blah.

A year ago I would have tapped out and baled...but pet sitter booked, left in good time, found the venue, made some new pals and had a really awesome training session. My buddy was an absolute gentleman and I was honoured to receive a promotion from the big man himself. My last stripe as a white belt.

There are so many cliches but it's 100% true: Sometimes the fight is not on the mat. It's in your head and showing up is the win.

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Gerald Ford vs. Teddy Roosevelt, no holds barred MMA fight. Who wins?

Despite his portrayal as a clumsy oaf, Gerald Ford was almost certainly the best athlete to ever serve in the White House. He was a legendary college football player who won two national championships at the University of Michigan, and was MVP of the team in his senior year. Ford turned down contract offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but turned down a career in the NFL in order to attend law school. Ford was a avid skier until his 80s and continued swimming regularly for exercise into his 90s, and he would have had a notable size advantage over Theodore Roosevelt.

However, if someone genuinely knows what they are doing during a mixed martial arts fight, they are going to be very difficult to defeat -- even against an opponent who might be a superior athlete in every other sense. That has been a lesson learned throughout the growth of MMA as a mainstream sport dating back to Royce Gracie easily handling much bigger opponents in the early UFC with his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Or Rickson Gracie calmly controlling and systematically dominating literally everyone he fought in Japan, no matter who Pride FC threw at him.

Theodore Roosevelt would be giving up quite a bit of size and athletic ability against Gerald Ford, but TR was an early student of martial arts. As President -- in the White House itself -- Roosevelt kept active with wrestling (always the best foundation for a mixed martial artist) and boxing. And he was among the first Americans to actually train in jiu jitsu and judo, receiving lessons directly from the legendary Yamashita Yoshiaki. Because of that experience, I think Theodore Roosevelt probably would have given any of his fellow Presidents a rough day at the office if they had an MMA fight, no matter how big or strong or athletic his opponent might be.