Its a Way of Life

Learning the fundamentals of any game is needed in order to be a decent player. If you play softball you need to know how to catch the ball and throw the ball. Not knowing how to do that will really slow down your game, its almost impossible to play without knowing the fundamentals. If you play basketball you need to know how to dribble, pass, shoot, and you need to know the rules of the game. Every single sport is the same whether it is golf, football, softball, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, volleyball, swimming, or wrestling.

I was thinking about "learning the fundamentals." It made me think about having a job. If you don't know the basic things about the job like how to type, how to answer the phone, or how to file papers, your job is going to be a lot harder than it really should be. Knowing the fundamentals about anything is just a way of life.

Really good athletes shouldn't look at practicing fundamentals as being boring, they should think positive and say that they are making their skills better. Working on fundamentals can never hurt you, it can only make your "game" better. Of course some people are just born with talent and it seems as if they are good at everything but without learning the correct fundamentals then that player will never be as good as they have the potential to be. Hard work + fundamentals = high potential.

"Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time."
~Greg LeMond~