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>Looking at Nakajima's current fighting style, it seems like the cardiovascular endurance built up at this point must have been helpful...
>"Now that I think about it, yes, but actually, I was the type who wasn't good at sports in the club... Among the boys competing in the same events, there were even ones who went to the Olympics (laughs). Plus, I loved tokusatsu and was always reading books, so I felt a bit out of place in the club. All the kids who weren't the athletic type went to table tennis, but I had this feeling of wanting to challenge myself to something stricter, like a chuunibyou phase. So even my elementary school homeroom teacher was surprised when I became a pro wrestler. But that teacher had told me to keep doing sports in middle school too. I wasn't good at sports, but they knew I was trying hard."
>Now that Nakajima is seen as a player who's basically a bundle of athletic nerves, it's hard to believe.
>"Absolutely not. Even now, there are tons of things I can't do. I always see players with much higher quality, so I constantly think I still need more practice to reach that level."