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Quote from: Raptor on May 11, 2011, 04:10:25 pm

That's a good point... makes them "think less". Maybe more right side of the brain into it.

The more you think about movement, the worse it usually gets.

That's what I'm getting at. Dropping thought and just going with the flow doesn't always come natural to people who are used to actively engaging their concious brain in everything.  Alcohol can help temper down an overactive frontal cortex which tends to make movement singular and mechanical. The hindbrain (instinctual brain) is where you want to be for bodily movement . A few years back LBS's hero Lyle Mcdonald would even drink Vodka before he skated with the goal of taming his overactive frontal brain so he could become less mechanical on the ice. 

that's funny about lyle, didn't know that. only came to nutswinging on the tail end of his speed skating days so i missed most of what he wrote about his own training. closest thing i could find in a quick look around his forum was a joking suggestion to add "russian"-style events to speed skating meets, where you'd take a shot of vodka between every lap. would love to see where he actually talked about drinking while training, that would be funny.

you're still wrong, though. overactive frontal cortex* does not equal "intelligence"**. and anyway, you didn't contradict what i said. lowered inhibition and reduced overthinking are close to the same thing in my experience, especially when it comes to dancing. what does any of this have to do with "intelligence"?

back to your original question, though, and even taking "intelligence" at face value, where on earth did you get the idea that more-intelligent people tend to be worse dancers than less-intelligent people? that doesn't make sense and is not at all true in my experience.

petey0109, since when are "people that go with the flow" less "intelligent" than "overthinkers" or "overthinkers" necessarily more "intelligent" than everyone else?

also, since when did the bar for "good dancer" get set at "not being really jerky"? i can move in time to music, even sober. my movements get looser when i'm drunk, i think, but that doesn't make me a good dancer. in fact, trying to do any kind of coordinated dance gets HARDER when i'm drunk. i do care less that i'm not good at it, though. so there's that.

*relative to what? what's a normal level of cortical activity? what's subnormal and supernormal? why do those states exist? do they exist to a greater degree or more frequently in some people than others? why? how many people fall into each category? what effect do those differences have on movement? honest questions for which i'd be very curious to see answers.

**"intelligence" doesn't exist as a singular trait that you can isolate and measure, so is completely meaningless for any kind of comparative purpose. what do you mean by it?

Woot. Nice PR's.

     

Thanks! Nice to make some progress after a few shitty workouts in a row. The key: sleep. It's a "duh" point but even when I don't feel tired, I'm usually underslept. There is a wide gulf between low fatigue and no fatigue.

Also, as adarq, pointed out in the PR thread, someone talking to me about my jumping and giving me some cue or other usually means I PR or close to it on the next jump. No idea why that would be. But I AM getting better at concentrating and jumping with other people around, as long as they're not also using the basket.

On the down side, I found out I'm going back to Afghanistan and Pakistan for a few weeks starting around mid-June. Should be cool trips but I'm not happy about three more weeks without normal gym facilities. Oh well, will try to make the best of it. In Pakistan I'll at least have access to the nice gym. Not sure about Afghanistan. Might try to finagle some nights at the nice hotel in Kabul, which has an okay gym. At the very least the ceilings are high enough there to make ME jumps/depth jumps a possibility. The fancy hotels are lonely as shit, though. Much prefer guest houses.

Just means I have to squeeze as much as possible out of the next month.

Nobody has something to say about it? 

why don't YOU say something about it?

 

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good athletes are good athletes because they practice. good dancers are good dancers because they practice. what the fuck does any of this have to do with intelligence.

alcohol helps some people dance because it lowers inhibitions. people who are naturally stiff tend to relax, their movements get freer and they dance better. or at least, perceive that they dance better, because alcohol also skews perception.

so...you're saying that intelligent people are more inhibited than less-intelligent people?

last night

BW = ???
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = none
FATIGUE = moderate

- shoot around x 25 mins
went harder than usual, chasing down rebounds fast instead of lackadaisical, some ME layups, etc. worked up a good sweat

- foam roller x 30 mins

- stretch x 30 mins