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Absolutely my problem. ~90% of rolls in my gym, I'm either paiseh about going too hard against an upper belt with escalation dominance on me, because I feel like he's being nice so I don't want to be a dick; or I'm paiseh about really putting the hurt on a new guy or a little guy or whatever. I sorta thought this would fix itself as I got better technically and wasn't just relying on muscle, but six months later I'm still stuck in second gear.
Maybe I just need to bring a flask and do enough shots to hit the Ballmer Peak right before I roll...
I need to get out of my own head, and I'm thinking even rolling "normal" pace against new people will break me out of it because I won't be mentally placing them in my hierarchy before we even slap hands.
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