Nothing beats a partner

Training can be extremely hard especially when your doing it on your own. If your unmotivated then you wont train hard. Simple fact. If your training on your own you might have to incourage yourself to get motivated. For me, I play videos of people tricking and martial arts demonstrations. For other people it could be something entirely different. Listening to music or actually doing some light training before doing the heavy stuff.

But the best way to get yourself motivated without a doubt is having a partner. Nothing beats having a partner. That person who can spot what your doing wrong and corrects you, that person who always incourages you to push yourself that little bit further. If it was'nt for that person you would have finished what you were doing earlier to have a rest.

Their is another reason why people perform better when they have a training partner and its not just the fact that you will be ridiculed as a pussy for quitting or having someone to critique you. It's competition.

Face it, we love competition.Whether it's who can run faster, who is better then who in games, who can eat the most. Generaly who can do X,Y,Z better then someone else. Everyone wants to be the best at what they do.

Let me ask you a question? When you train, and in this case I'm goin to say with wieghts. Do you want to prove that you can lift the same or even more then your partner? If the answers yes then its for a competition purpose.

Noone wants to be seen as the weak one even thought your lifting nearly you and a half in wieghts over your chest or withstanding your face being pummeled in. In order for anyone to improve competition is needed. If your better then someone, you need to train to keep that edge. If your partner is better then you, then you train hard to be better then them. It will always come down to competition.

Warrior Dynamics have a fair share of internal competions. We constantly try to outdo eachother and there are many in the group who have the advantage (we have trickers, parkour practioner, juggler and a variety of martial artist). But we dont see this as a weakness. This is fuel to improve oursleves. But being in a group like ours we don't let this competition stop us from improving eachothers skills, we help eachother by teaching eachother how to do the moves. We even look at other groups and aim to be as good as or better than them.

If you have a competitive nature. don't think of it as a bad thing. Think of it as a method of progression.