http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcKLqO789RU
dreaming is a dangerous game. discontent may fuck you up.
there's so much life in norwegian wood. you could say it helped.
life doesn't have innings like softball, but the idea is that each inning is a new one, and no matter what happened in the bottom of the fourth, or the top of the fifth, there's always the bottom of the fifth. three more outs and plenty of dangerous time. therefore, a person has to literally let go of everything that has passed, and go out and hit the ball hard.
and there comes a time when a person wants to learn to hit opposite field. and in that time he necessarily has to learn to limit himself so as to achieve good opposite field technique. and the limitations tend to reduce sharpness, either because the mechanics are different, or because the goals are different; at least in the first stages. but the truth behind hitting is to go out there, to see the ball and to let the disciplined instincts take over. so i guess the idea is that you can't hit the ball if you're not ready to hit the ball, pure and simple.
life takes time. people take time to know each other, in both compressions and rarefactions. it's a bit puzzling but i guess it's true. like getting used to a person's throw, coming to trust that throw, and slowly visualising the completion of a good strong throw. from the little things before a throw, such as a person's balance, posture, timing (mechanics), timing (sense of time in which to act) and confidence, many times the resulting flightpath of a throw can be foreseen. coming to trust the thrower and correspondingly the thrower to trust the catcher takes time.
there are few middle grounds in softball. something is either very difficult or very easy. i can't explain it either. i suppose this is why visualisation, playing according to basic fundamentals, and confidence is so important. i still feel a sense of semi-confused awe when i make a good throw. and i've been playing for twelve years.
i can't begin to describe how it feels to have someone put their trust in you as a team mate. i've missed my old team for so long. and now i'm starting to feel it. it's good.
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i learned today that i take something very basic and very important for granted in softball. partly because no other sport requires it so much. and i realised i don't do it anymore, and it cost me. but no longer.
life doesn't have innings like softball, but the idea is that each inning is a new one, and no matter what happened in the bottom of the fourth, or the top of the fifth, there's always the bottom of the fifth. three more outs and plenty of dangerous time. therefore, a person has to literally let go of everything that has passed, and go out and hit the ball hard.
and there comes a time when a person wants to learn to hit opposite field. and in that time he necessarily has to learn to limit himself so as to achieve good opposite field technique. and the limitations tend to reduce sharpness, either because the mechanics are different, or because the goals are different; at least in the first stages. but the truth behind hitting is to go out there, to see the ball and to let the disciplined instincts take over. so i guess the idea is that you can't hit the ball if you're not ready to hit the ball, pure and simple.
life takes time. people take time to know each other, in both compressions and rarefactions. it's a bit puzzling but i guess it's true. like getting used to a person's throw, coming to trust that throw, and slowly visualising the completion of a good strong throw. from the little things before a throw, such as a person's balance, posture, timing (mechanics), timing (sense of time in which to act) and confidence, many times the resulting flightpath of a throw can be foreseen. coming to trust the thrower and correspondingly the thrower to trust the catcher takes time.
there are few middle grounds in softball. something is either very difficult or very easy. i can't explain it either. i suppose this is why visualisation, playing according to basic fundamentals, and confidence is so important. i still feel a sense of semi-confused awe when i make a good throw. and i've been playing for twelve years.
i can't begin to describe how it feels to have someone put their trust in you as a team mate. i've missed my old team for so long. and now i'm starting to feel it. it's good.
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i learned today that i take something very basic and very important for granted in softball. partly because no other sport requires it so much. and i realised i don't do it anymore, and it cost me. but no longer.