You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I already have natural speed, which I don't need to work on, so in training I've been working more on my endurance.
You can run in behind someone - one v. one, you're better - so I'm always trying to work on my speed. That's probably one aspect I've worked on the hardest as a player. I want to always improve on everything in my game, but that's one area I really work on.
I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.
Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.
It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.