Ready Isn’t Required is the story of everything that happened before the biggest moment of his career. It shows the thirteen-year-old shipped off to train in Europe, living with kids years older and only a few prepaid phone cards to call home. It runs through the years when most Olympians live on a few thousand dollars with no sponsor writing checks, through watching a fellow athlete die doing the sport he loved, through laboring to fix equipment well after midnight just so he could get up and train the next morning again.