Hard work beats talent, when talent fails to work.
Subject of getting better at about anything in life, involves consistency, armwrestling is no different, however this is where it gets dangerous for the most talented kids(often referred to as “young/new brzenks” I’ve been armwrestling for well over 10 years, and people don’t mention how DRASTICALLY your local competition change/gets replaced. People, team, promoters, etc, everyone you see now, if you stick with it, only 10-20% will be here in 10 years and their roles also changes so much, people lose or gain passion, find themselves in roles of fans, promoters, refs, etc. The moral here is, stay in your lane, compare yourself to only yourself only, majority won’t even stick long enough. Now about extremely talented youth. I can’t count how many times Ive traveled and I’ve met new upcoming phenoms, I’ve met one at least once or twice a year, about every year, I’ve even armwrestling for 12. I’ve roughly met 12-24 new John brzenks. I can confidently say 100% of them by now, didn’t fulfill their friends,family and practice mates dreams. All of them are talked about as “he/she has/had all the potential, just need to put in work” They don’t. Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work.