Topic: Science of Football tells Ascension
I love football.
Although WiH says organised sports are perfect way for Theocrat mind-control (which I definitely agree*), there is something special in football spirit. So I do not throw the baby out with the bath water. Football is about planning, defending, acting, attacking, play making, winning/losing. Like our spiritual situation.
I’ve been to Science & Football World Congress last week. And there was a fascinating presentation on Biomechanics of Football Skills. A professor working on this area talked about kicking skills. Of course he didn’t have anything in mind about ascension, but the minute his presentation began, NR’s sports reporter Feritciva was there with a big grin in his face.
Alright, here we go:
There are 4 stages on biomechanics of kicking skills, which you can understand why I immediately thought of ascension when I heard these;
- Initiation
- Preparation
- Execution/contact
- Follow through
1) Initiation includes a lot practice before going to an actual match/competition. You have to practice a lot, you have to know when & where to stand to kick the ball. You have to be ready for it when the moment comes. You have to have the skills/patience/knowledge to be in the right place when the ball comes your way.
2) Preparation is the stage when you know the time is near. Elsewhere I’ve read about “making smart decisions". This can apply here:
"Isn’t more information always better?" asks Gerd Gigerenzer. "Why else would bestsellers on how to make good decisions tell us to consider all pieces of information, weigh them carefully, and compute the optimal choice, preferably with the aid of a fancy statistical software package? In economics, Nobel prizes are regularly awarded for work that assumes that people make decisions as if they had perfect information and could compute the optimal solution for the problem at hand. But how do real people make good decisions under the usual conditions of little time and scarce information? Consider how players catch a ball–in baseball, cricket, or soccer. It may seem that they would have to solve complex differential equations in their heads to predict the trajectory of the ball. In fact, players use a simple heuristic. When a ball comes in high, the player fixates the ball and starts running. The heuristic is to adjust the running speed so that the angle of gaze remains constant –that is, the angle between the eye and the ball. The player can ignore all the information necessary to compute the trajectory, such as the ball’s initial velocity, distance, and angle, and just focus on one piece of information, the angle of gaze."
This is interesting. As I wrote various times in different threads before, I always wondered why we have to forget about everything when we came here to 3D. If we’re here to do a task, what good is it to forget everything? This have some answers. We may be using “spiritual heuristics" in 3D. The initiation stage may include all the actual preparation and knowledge about here, but they are only initiation or maybe practice. When the competition begins (once you’re in 3D) you don’t have the time/situation to compute all the info and maybe just focus on one thing as ball’s movement. If you’re lucky enough to “remember" initiation/preparation stages you know when to kick the ball. One more step further, this 3D existence may be another level's practice field.
3) Execution/contact: This is "the time". The moment you contact with the ball. Will the next ball be in the pitch on 2012? Probably - or it already got on the pitch on 98 as Lyra's thread mentions. If you’re ready, you have your shot.
4) Follow through: Excellent info here. This is the kicking action and afterwards. Biomechanics tells about the legs, muscles, knees etc. For example you must have a straight leg position (faith), but also you must have a flexible knee (discerment, suitable rationale). There is a point your knee has to rotate to absorb the force of kicking. This moment is the point where there’s maximum injury potential. If your muscles (knowledge) are not strong enough or flexible enough, here’s injury. There are also "negative forces". No, not the opponent defenders, this comes from kicking process itself. There is gravity, rotation limits, even air resistance while your kicking action occurs. These are told as negative forces in the presentation. The professor just said “these forces are the factors that slows the player down, so he has to have total control on these to have stable & succesful movement". And I thought, “wow! if only he knew what he’s talking about!".
And these are only a small part of the whole process. There is speed, coordination and use of force in whole kicking process. Or should I say ascension prcess? Coordination is another fascinating subject, there must be a shorten-strecth cycle of leg muscles, there must be simultaneous joint movement of the knee, there must be physical action-reaction processes in whole body. You may put the suitable metaphor to these and see this famous ascension process in a single football match. This may be reading Universe’s common language. Or Feritciva may be going absolutely nuts as his close friends began to say lately..
* On Theocrat mind control thing, there was also another presentation in the congress on how supporters act definitely irrational when it comes to their teams. The presentation was about economy of football. The speaker said “we are used to rational consumer pattern in normal economy but supporters are different. They never look at the quality, price or necessity of a team merchandise, they simply consume". And again I thought “wow! if only he knew what he’s talking about". As I read elsewhere once, this situation is “Consumer is the consumed".
- Jon Anderson
