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| author | Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sun, 02 Apr 2023 10:30:03 -0600 |
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| 7 <body text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#551a8b" alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> | |
| 8 <a name="The Legend Of The Mysterious Stranger"> | |
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| 12 <p><strong>The Legend Of The Mysterious Stranger</strong></a> | |
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| 14 <p>©1997 Milton N. Bradley | |
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| 16 <p>Imagine that you are an athletic coach, magically transported 50 years back in time. One day, you | |
| 17 are approached by a mysterious stranger who offers you a new training method that he claims | |
| 18 will improve the performance of <em>all</em> athletes, male and female, young and old, able bodied or | |
| 19 handicapped, and which will also aid in the rehabilitation of injuries. "Of course this is only a | |
| 20 training adjunct", he says, "and the athletes will still have to practice and perfect their specific | |
| 21 sport skills just as before. But if they add this discipline to their training they will become faster, | |
| 22 stronger, and more enduring. Its only drawback is that it's hard work, and unfortunately there's | |
| 23 only anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that it works." | |
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| 25 <p>Your first reaction would almost certainly be one of complete disbelief, but, restraining your | |
| 26 negative impulses you inquire as to the nature of this marvelous new method. The stranger | |
| 27 replies "It's called progressive weight training". Now your disbelief turns to derision, because | |
| 28 back then everyone "knew" that weight training caused athletes to become "muscle bound" and | |
| 29 less, not more competent. So you dismiss him as a slightly deranged fanatic, more suited to | |
| 30 residence in a "rubber room" than someone to be taken seriously. | |
| 31 | |
| 32 <p>Now quickly fast forward a half century to the present, and we find that everything that the | |
| 33 mysterious stranger predicted about the ability of the unusual new training method to improve | |
| 34 athletic performance has proven abundantly true. Today all athletes male or female, young or old, | |
| 35 and whether engaged in football, swimming, tennis, or any other sport now routinely make | |
| 36 progressive weight training an integral part of their regimen, and performances have soared to | |
| 37 previously unimagined levels as a result. | |
| 38 | |
| 39 <p>A miracle? A lucky coincidence? Hardly, but you must understand the simple underlying | |
| 40 principle to appreciate why the method works. The specific requirements of every sport, even | |
| 41 such multi-disciplinary events as the decathlon, require that the athletes who participate in it | |
| 42 repetitively practice a specific, limited series of movements. This inevitably results in overuse of | |
| 43 some muscle groups while underusing others, producing an unbalanced and sub-optimal physical | |
| 44 development. Progressive weight training <em>complements</em> each athlete's specific sport training by | |
| 45 filling in those gaps to produce a much more balanced development which is not only stronger | |
| 46 and more versatile, but also more enduring and less injury prone. In addition, it simultaneously | |
| 47 provides a graded method for progressively increasing the resistance applied, thereby increasing | |
| 48 the athlete's strength and ability with maximum efficiency. | |
| 49 | |
| 50 <p>Now imagine that it's still the present but instead of an athletic coach you're a parent and/or | |
| 51 educator, and this time the mysterious stranger approaches you with an even more outrageous | |
| 52 proposal. He claims to have discovered <em>a near magical extra-curricular activity that will | |
| 53 improve the thinking ability and academic performance of even marginal students</em>. Just as was | |
| 54 true of progressive weight training, <em>this new activity won't replace the need to study and master | |
| 55 the regular academic subjects, but it will make those who habitually employ it better and more | |
| 56 willing students</em>. Best of all, it isn't hard work but pure FUN! | |
| 57 | |
| 58 <p>Once again, with great effort you suppress your disbelief and enquire as to the nature of this | |
| 59 almost magical paragon of pedagogical tools, and the stranger replies "It's the 4000 year old | |
| 60 Oriental strategic board game called Wei Ch'i in China, Baduk in Korea, and GO in Japan and | |
| 61 the rest of the world." Your skepticism in response to this information is even greater than | |
| 62 before, but you're understandably more cautious about rushing to a possibly erroneous judgement | |
| 63 given the overwhelming success of weight training in athletics, so you ask for some proof that | |
| 64 the new method works. Once again, the stranger informs you that there are no controlled | |
| 65 experiments which conclusively demonstrate GO's efficacy in improving student performance, | |
| 66 but there is abundant and <a href="JapEd.html"><Font Color="#0033FF">highly persuasive | |
| 67 anecdotal evidence in Japan.</Font></a> | |
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