Beginner's practice is in need of getting firm protection too. You can keep up the fit practice till the main situation turns demanding. One day you may show off or prove yourself. These were very common ways. Themes to ignore only at great costs later, perhaps To ignore the mistakes of history could be to repeat them.
Hits are the only shots that count.
If history repeats itself, the prices might have gone up. Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles, 1975. Autobiography of a Yogi. Los Angeles, 1971.