It's a sport

Like a game of volleyball, pingpong, or tennis, it's the same thing all over again. The ball gets in ur court, you determin how you want it played, you execute it and the ball is in your opponent's court and you wait, you anticipate and try to make sure you get the ball back in play and not let your opponent score a point.

Once in a while, you slip, you fall, your opponent too isn't free from mistakes so the scores just keep adding up, depending on who slips more.

You practise with different teams or players each varying in strength and weaknesses so you learn. Practise with a stronger team to learn, practise with a weaker team to build confidence and come up with game plans.

Time outs are always good coz you get to rest and look at the play from another perspective. You come up with a different strategy and you go back in fully recharged, each hoping this next set will be a better set.

Sometimes you rest your muscles by taking day offs and not train at all so this gives you ample rest for the streneous drills and training sessions ahead.

Hope this 8 days will be a good time away for me. I'm getting exhausted.