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To: Brumar89 who wrote (101002)	4/11/2005 11:00:32 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 108807

I practiced like a son-of-a-gun and I knew people that were much better with much less practice. Practice is certainly part of the triad of knowledge. Not everyone with 20 years of computer engineering experience is as good as every other person with 20 years of experience. You must know that from your own field, whatever that is. Why don't golfers with more years of experience and more familiarity with a course kick Tiger's butt? Because they aren't and never will be as good! <Here you are dead wrong - it's mostly in the practice.> We'll have to disagree.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (101002)	4/12/2005 9:34:08 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Nobody here knows for sure whether Tiger Woods could write equations for the kinetic simulation of a golf swing. I know he's a smart guy and a dedicated professional, so I certainly wouldn't put it past him. But I don't know. And neither does cosmicforce. When cosmicforce stated that Tiger was incapable of it, I was hoping he'd offer some type of evidence. He can't, which is obvious by now. I think sometimes people have a world view that is far different from reality. When folks here insinuate that athletes are less intelligent than non-athletes, it contributes to an erroneous stereotype. Having had equal exposure to engineers and athletes in my two careers, I believe there are many brilliant people in sports. I'm not just talking about the run of the mill players who can tell you how many stitches are in a baseball or dimples there are on a golf ball, and the spin rate needed for successful execution. Or every professional baseball player who knows wood and leather types, composition and processing inside out. Look at the Birds and Jordans and Mannings and Lemieuxs. Larry Bird could tell you the timing, arc and how many times his shot had to backward rotate from the foul line in order to go in. And what would happen if more than 278 pebbles were on the skin of a size 7 ball. Michael Jordan designed sneakers for Nike. He was involved with both the artistic and technical processes. Nicklaus, Palmer and two dozen other big names in golf are expert course designers. Ted Williams wrote a book about hitting a baseball called the Science of Hitting. There are equations in the book about the simulation of a bat swing. Fran Tarkenton, the hall of fame quarterback, has run several successful companies. Bill Bradley was a Rhodes Scholar and great player for the Knicks. There are countless examples. The top athletes in their sports usually know their sport both physically and technically. Pointing to the dumbest guy in the NBA is easy, but it ignores this reality.