dawn drills: make a second world with no conditions in it — "there is in this world you…"
there is in this world you, and in the hand a tool, there is a ball, there is opponent with his tool, and always only two of you, you and this other, inside the lines, with always a purpose to keep this world alive, yes?
Context
Schtitt's doctrine, stated at its barest: the court is not a place you adjust to but a second world you build where the outer world's conditions — cold, wind, tiredness, the eyelash in the eye — simply do not obtain. The whole metaphysics of the regimen is here: the 23.8-by-8.2-meter rectangle is a sheltering second reality, stripped to you, a tool, a ball, and one other, and the discipline is the labor of staying inside it. The body drills not to endure conditions but to enter a place where there are none.