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Tripping point: MMA rife with amateurs

By Jake Rossen
Sherdog.com

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell, author of "The Tipping Point," stirred up lots of press last year when he proclaimed that anyone who wants to get good at anything needs to put in at least 10,000 hours of effort toward mastering it. "You can't become a chess grand master unless you spend 10,000 hours on practice," Gladwell told an assembly in 2008. "The tennis prodigy who starts playing at 6 is playing in Wimbledon at 16 or 17, [like] Boris Becker. The classical musician who starts playing the violin at 4 ...

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