Category: optimisation

The Envious Athlete.

Their squash is better than your squash because they’re playing right now and you’re just watching.

Envying the other players skills, fitness or opportunity should inspire you towards optimal training.

Envying the opponents kill shots should inspire one to practice our own kill shots.

Envy is the symbol of a loser who probably won’t work towards becoming a success.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is expressed in optimal training.

The envious athlete grows leaner with each success of the opposition.

Envy implies self recognition of ones inferiority at something, thus should lead towards superior training.

Happiness and envy can be barriers to improvement. Too happy with a component of ones athleticism leads towards stagnation or deterioration. Too envious about anothers athletic component leads towards loss of agency.

The envious athlete dies not once, but every time their opponents win applause.

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Love All, Match Ball.

a couple stretching while holding squash racket on the wooden court

Squash racquets in hand and ball in play,
Athletes move in their wonderful way,
Estimating angles and trajectories,
Outmaneuvering opponents with optimal efficiencies.

The court, a rectangular box of defined dimensions,
A perfect place for competitive intentions,
A sport for sweating over trigonometry,
With tactics that require aroused autonomy.

The velocity of the ball, a vector in our game,
Relative to the force of the stroke and your aim,
Players anticipate heuristically,
And then chase it down so gleefully.

The discrete scoring system, a counters delight,
Points earned with each rally, a strategic fight,
Tallying up the integers accurately,
Officials’ record the contested victory.

So let us celebrate our sport of squash,
Where physics and fitness gracefully smash
Into shots selected by disguised statisticians,
A testimony to all human movement mathematicians.

by David Jarvis March 2023.

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Sayings of Sport : Stoic Athleticism.

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Dedicated to an old and stoic friend, Tim Rowbottom.

The essence of a stoic athlete is that they will move well irregardless of external influences.

Athletes are not disturbed by competition, but by their viewpoint about the competition.

A gym, sports ground, or recreation centre is not adorned by trophies or pennants, but by the virtue of those whom move humanely within it.

They who exercise wisely, exercise optimally.

To be uneducated is to experience misfortune. To begin ones education is to make the attempt. To be accepting of oneself and others shows that ones education is Complete.

To fail at the skill is to be untrained. To train in hardship is the beginning of…

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