# Traps and Anti-Patterns

* Standing pat on your skill set, assuming status quo is in your favor.
* Assuming that team training is enough work in conditioning, skill development, knowledge transfer.
* Failing to address injury, fitness and conditioning issues aggressively
* Using unrefined skills in critical situations.
* Lazy mind, using the same technique over and over.&#x20;
* playing it too safe, or too loose, in practice.&#x20;
* Abstaining from a defending decision
* Pulling up from fear of contact, versus trying to avoid contact.
