Why Train with Repetition?
Tiger’s long drive. Jordan’s fade away jumper. The complexity of ice skating. The gymnast’s perfect form. It also takes place in the athletic realms that we deal with in Jiu-Jitsu and MMA. Mirko CroCop’s left head kick. Roger Gracie’s back control and rear naked choke. I would also throw in Fedor’s armbar. To be able to employ the perfect form in competition it takes a significant amount of work. The examples above illustrate such. That we stare at TV screens in awe at the wonder of such skill doesn’t do justice to the mental and physical anguish that goes into such efforts of achieving mastery. I wonder how many times such athletes, in moments of intense training, come to hate, maybe if only for a brief time, what they are doing because it gets so old. I’m not talking about physical exhaustion. I’m talking about mental burnout and reaching the point of becoming numb due to having to do a drill over and over and over again. I think that such extensive hard work is more mentally taxing
