Hearing Sendou's words, Sawamura fell silent.
"I kind of don't get it!!" Sawamura said with a silly grin after a while.
"In other words, knowledge only becomes yours once you've mastered it!
If someone merely tells you a pile of theories, even if you memorize them by rote at the time, you won't understand them.
And even if you do understand them at the time, you'll forget them soon enough!!
It's like those lessons Black-bellied Glasses has been giving lately. How much do you still remember now?"
"Uh... um..." Sawamura panicked a little.
"Though I don't know why, that's simply the truth!!
Human memory is usually just that short-lived!
So when your body keeps playing games and practicing, and you learn what each movement can accomplish...
You'll naturally remember it!!
Only then will that knowledge truly belong to you.
It's like the things Senior Chris told you a year ago only truly became yours today!!
But I think you understood what those words meant first, then remembered that Senior Chris had said them before, right?"
"Shut up!!" Sawamura blushed slightly.
"Oh, right. You'd better start adding some sprints to your runs lately!" Sendou said again without pressing the matter.
"Why?"
"Because you need to build up your stamina a little!"
"???
But I've always been running!!"
"What do you think the purpose of jogging is?
It's only meant to stabilize the balance of your lower body!
Baseball itself isn't a low-intensity, long-duration sport like jogging.
It's a high-intensity, short-duration sport—one that relies on explosive bursts.
You wouldn't understand if I explained the theory, so simply put, the stamina jogging builds isn't actually the same thing as the stamina you expend during a game!
In other words, jogging trains your aerobic system, while what you use up during games comes from