We were asked to run a 2 hours’ workshop between free jams. About 100 practitioners attended to the event so we split them into groups regarding their experience.

I ended up in taking care of the advanced guys with Sebastien and Blane. And the thing that hit me the most was the energy most of them had. We call it the Fire, when you burn your energy, you just fly around, you don’t care about tiredness and pains, you just enjoy so much moving that you don’t care about anything else and you can’t stand still !

The thing is that with these guys, some of them don’t understand why we make them do a lot of conditioning. They don’t feel they need it right now because they feel good, just by moving everywhere. What I use to say is that I don’t see the point of teaching them more techniques because they already know it I prefer offering them something they don’t know about, and it may be hard for them to understand because them won’t need it right away...

What I want to say is that if you have this kind of Fire with you, enjoy it as much as you can ! This energy will make you improve a lot, your confidence will be at its top level and you will feel very good... This fire will also save you from most of the pains and injury because you have this incredible joy to move !

When I meet people like that I just want to give them some tools for the next step: One day this fire will go and then you will have to practise with something else, another motivation, another method etc... I don’t show them conditioning drills to piss them off, I just believe that it might be helpful the day their way of practising changes and the original fire is gone. The conditioning will build up a body armor and if you want to last in the discipline it will protect you from pains and injuries...

Peace