Schtitt & Mario's walk: the war against the self you cannot live without

Schtitt's summation, watching Mario's brothers' brutal training refracted through it: "junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without." The tennis regimen is a scale model of the human condition — the body's discipline a rehearsal of the lifelong, unwinnable campaign against the limited self. The academy isn't finally teaching tennis; it's teaching, through the body, the one war everyone is conscripted into.