From: | "Ratinac, Rand (NSW)" <RRatinac@*****.REDCROSS.ORG.AU> |
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Subject: | Re: Martial Arts Idea (Going slightly off topic here) |
Date: | Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:26:28 +1000 |
> >It does, in spades. It is for this reason that most Korean TKD
> players
> >wouldn't even think of serving up a KO kick (spin hook, high
> roundhouse,
> >axe) until there were 3 or 4 initial kicks. Even so, Herb Perez, for
> >example, went to the Olympics mainly on the strength (so to speak ;-)
> of
> >his roundhouse.
>
> Don't know the guy, but he sounds like a one-trick pony. If that
> one-trick
> is phenomenal, it can take that pony places, but eventually, it'll
> wear
> thin. True regardless of sport or whatever. Specialists can be
> impressive, but I'm not convinced they have long term prospects in
> sport,
> the workplace or possibly even in "life" depending on which one-trick
> they
> rely upon.
>
> Erik J.
>
Errr...one thing you're wrong about there, Erik. Think American sports,
particularly football and baseball. In baseball you have guys who all
they do is pitch (although they can do that well), or all they do is
hit. Do they have pinch runners in baseball (you know, college sprinters
who never quite made it as serious runners)? In football, you have an
entire 'special team' devoted just to returning punts and blocking and
other such 'one play' junk (I think). And then you have the kicker. Go
out, kick a goal, sit down again. Go out, punt the ball, sit down again.
These are the guys who treat their kicking feet better than they do
their families.
So there is a place for one-trick ponies, and it's called American
sports. :) Don't get me wrong, I find baseball fascinating and I
absolutely LOVE football - but you have to admit, in them you have the
equivalent of doctors specialising in ailments affecting the left
nostril only.
Oh, and I wouldn't recommend replying to this one (much). We're already
WAY off topic here. :)
*Doc': I'm sorry, sir, I can't help you. Your estranged wife cut off
your RIGHT testicle. I only know how to treat left testicular maladies.*
Doc'
.sig Sauer