A volleyball player spent twelve years getting nowhere because he chased flashy moves instead of mastering basics. He switched to jiu-jitsu, where bad fundamentals mean getting hurt, and learned what he'd missed: the unglamorous work that actually makes you good.
I should be a world-class athlete. I've played volleyball for 12 years and I suck at volleyball. People ask me, how long have you been training? Like 12 years. And then you can see in their faces, they go like, dude, you suck. And the reason why I didn't get good was because I wanted to do all the flashy things, the cool moves, and I never learned good fundamentals so that I could never unlearn these bad habits. And that's why I fucked up. And then I switched to jiu-jitsu, and in jiu-jitsu you have to learn the fundamentals. You have no option because the alternative is being physically hurt. They actually hurt you if you don't do the fundamentals because it is a martial art. That's why I train it, because it reminds me of what I need to do.
