I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.
Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.
But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.
It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.