Author: David Mitchell
Date: 04:04:42 05/16/04
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On May 15, 2004 at 18:34:06, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >1. Injure foot (plantar fascitis). > >2. See testosterone charged movie (Troy). > >3. Get pumped and feel like playing favorite sport (basketball). > >4. Realize you are a loser. > >Seriously, does anyone else think life is too easy nowadays? Any idiot can make >it to 75. No one *dies* any more. Any moron can kill someone with an M16 or a >Tomahawk cruise missile. It takes a man to kill someone with a sword. > >anthony > >P.S. 'Troy' was actually pretty good. Pitt looks a little spaced out a times, >but it was worth it to see Legolas get beat up :) Too bad that never happened >in 'Lord of the Rings'. > >P.P.S. As an aside, do we have any martial artists here? 1) it's great that you know exactly what's wrong with your foot. Presumeably you know proper care for the injury. Wonderful. 2 and 3) great that you can see the latest flicks, and can get pumped up about it. 4) Are you comparing yourself against Tim Duncan or Kobe Bryant or Shaq? How ridiculous! These guys not only have superb natural genetics for b-ball, (like height > 6'6", great hand-eye and other sensory development), but also, they have had the benefit of the very best coaching, and the luxury of being able to totally dedicate themselves to something most working guys can do maybe 1 hour per week, tops, on average, and make a fantastic wage doing it. Statistically, lots of folk don't live to see 75 years, intellect aside. I lost a good friend to a very aggressive leukemia a few years back. He wasn't even 30, and had been in excellent health, with no other diseases. But within a week of feeling like he had the flu, he was dead. Look what happened to John Ritter. Just working away on the set, and his aorta tears open and he's gone. Man to man combat was less common than hollywood portrays it - and less heroic, too. Simply too hazardous. In the Wild West, it was bushwhacking that was most common, not the showdown at high noon on main street. Favorite use of the sword, and it's shorter cousin, the dagger, is by surprise, and/or from behind the unsuspecting victim. It wouldn't play well on the silver screen, methinks. Several poster's have mentioned some study of the classic fighting arts. Glad you liked the movie Troy, but isn't this a topic better posted in Chess Thinker's Forum? dave
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