I asked a simple question in the last seminar:

“How much has everyone improved in the year since we last met?”

I have practiced the same basics every day for decades.

Everyday Rain or shine. Summer, winter, spring and autumn. And again………………………………………

And I’m never satisfied. I’m not fast enough, I don’t hit hard enough, my basic “technique” is NOT entirely satisfactory.

I don’t train many “techniques”. But I train such “techniques” a lot.

Basic fundamental things. That’s all I can handle.

Over and over and over and over and over again……………………………….

Know why?

Because I am NEVER satisfied. I’m not fast enough, I don’t hit hard enough, my basic “technique” is NOT entirely satisfactory.

No! I am NEVER happy.

It would be nice to “do” more advanced, complex and exotic things.

But personally I can’t justify it. I see too much room for improvement in the most basic fundamental things.

Because I’m never satisfied. I’m not fast enough, I don’t hit hard enough, my basic “technique” is NOT entirely satisfactory.

I guess the problem is that I have no idea when these basics become “good” enough. It seems to me that I could spend the rest of my life constantly working to improve just a handful of solid basics and still NEVER be satisfied. Never be fast enough, never hit hard enough.

Curse. Etched to an existence of fundamental basics. Well, I guess I’m just one of the lucky few.

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