ok. i’ve had my first complaint from a friend, natch. he thinks while in tennessee i was body-snatched and replaced with some zen-space-age-crystal-sniffin’-beatnik. the point being: i’ve gone all fluffy. maybe maybe, not likely, for those who know me. but chew on this awhile. what if it doesn’t take muscle to get through life? what if while you (and I) keep doing the same dog-turn through life looking for a place to lie down you get a little dizzy, start knocking things over and pretty soon you’ve gone stark-raving bonkers?
see, in a.a. (alcoholics anonymous, no affiliation) they describe madness or kra-zee as exactly that, taking the same action/attitude over and over and expecting a different result.
all i’m saying is give ‘ease’ a chance. take swimming for example. i swam for years muscling through the water, it may not have looked like it but you know when your body reaches a plateau, you don’t get better and you’re not going faster.
then i stumbled across Total Immersion a method that teaches you to stop pushing like a barge and start sliding like a canoe. i would describe it as the LONG and SHORT of it. you learn how to displace weight and balance, yes balance, AND you don’t need to kick like kung-fu to move. essentially i’ve become more efficient. and that’s the thought for today.
(even the Navy Seals adopted a version of TI and applied it to their training...see video)
....and if you still think i’ve gone fluffy gimme five minutes, i’ll meet you in the parking lot...
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