2011年10月21日星期五
Sports shouldn't be just about heaping glory
and rewards on those who win. Sports are about excitement, exhilaration, enjoyment, striving, mastery, dedication, teamwork, loyalty, commitment, resilience, and hope. There are a great many terrific coaches. Dir. These benefits have little to do with Nike Requinthe victory stand.Many coaches, however, reduce sports to a battle for prestige, a war for reward. But the goal of the contest is not the same as the reason for playing it. Of course he wanted to win; that's not the point. I don't mean to be derogatory; simply accurate. Let's face it. Rather, I'm returning to its original usage. An idiot was someone who was self-centered. When coachesNike Air Max 90 Homme fully grasp this, they move beyond being idiots concerned only with themselves and their team.Famously, ESPN's "Coach of the Century," John Wooden, never talked to his team about winning. To achieve the positive gains that come from playing, win or lose, is the ultimate reason to compete. The whole competitive enterprise would fall apart if people weren't trying their utmost to come out on top. That's what it's really all about. It is the goal everyone must pursue for sports to exist. It is not that there is something wrong with wanting to win. They were not contributing members of the community. Ultimately, for those committed to sports, the competition is about pursuing excellence of physical performance and finding enjoyment in strenuous pursuit. There are also a lot of idiots prowling the sidelines. Necessarily, winning is the internal goal of the contest. They were takers, but not givers.Today, many coaches seem to forget that sports can and should serve the common good of all. The list, of course, could be extended indefinitely because the bounty flowing from well-played sports is endless. But Wooden defined success not as victory, but as playing to the best of one's potential. Let's move beyond idiotic coaching.David Light Shields, Ph.D., is the Founder and Ex. When everyone views sport in that way, everyone benefits. The real purpose to play is found in the play itself. By "idiot," however, I don't mean what the word Chaussures Lacoste Hommestypically connotes today. of TrueCompetition.Org, a nonprofit dedicated to reclaiming competition for excellence, ethics, and enjoyment. In ancient Greece, an idiot was a person who was only concerned about their own good. His latest book is True Competition: A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society (Human Kinetics, 2009)..
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