RE: Sporting memories: The day I finally learned now to hit a baseball
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but back then if you wanted to, you could get raginigly drunk and then go have 80 mph fast balls thrown at you.
Sounds like a lot of fun, and well-deserved if the ball hits a drunk guy who entered the cage... 😂
Jokes aside, nice story! Who would tell that $2 worth of credits can teach you baseball, while dozens of coaches couldn't do it... 😃 I remember the time when I was working in the PC gaming club, wondering what those kids could learn from games that could help them out in life... Who knows, even PC games could develop skills... 🙂
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Sometimes there is just a tiny little thing that is missing and for whatever reason people just missed it. I recall a teacher I had in college that nobody in the class could "get it" but then one day he was ill or something and his teaching assistant graduate student came in and I guess she was more able to understand the mind of being a student because she was one. A lot of people got that missing link of information from her and now the subject didn't seem near as impossible as it was when just Dr. can't-explain-anything was lecturing us and getting increasingly upset as none of us were understanding.
That could have been part of the coaching problem: They were so far removed from actually doing the actions they were telling us to do that they could not longer remember what it was like to NOT BE ABLE to do them.
Yeah, that is often the case... You can be the best sportsman in the world, but you can lack the ability to transmit your knowledge and skill to others... That's why some "average" players can still become the BEST coaches when they switch careers...
This is true. A lot of the best coaches were just average players and especially in basketball, much of the time the best players are terrible coaches. I look at some of the best NFL coaches and feel like those fat goons probably couldn't run the length of the field if their life depended on it. But they are geniuses at play-calling.