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lhommedieu
03-04-2009, 05:57 PM
Interesting article from the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/sports/basketball/04freethrow.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=free%20throws&st=cse

Best,

Steve
arnisador
03-04-2009, 06:49 PM
I got the Times today and read that! I wonder how it applies to what we do. Many of us specifically eschew technical innovations (else we'd be training firearms more than machetes), for example.
Pekiti & Bells
03-05-2009, 07:04 AM
I got the Times today and read that! I wonder how it applies to what we do. Many of us specifically eschew technical innovations (else we'd be training firearms more than machetes), for example.

blinks
yeah......
aint that the truth....
Brian R. VanCise
03-05-2009, 09:52 AM
Improvement in technique is some thing we should all have an eye for. Do not eschew some thing just because it is new. Nor praise some thing just because it is old. We all need to be performance based.http://www.fmatalk.com/images/icons/icon6.gif
blue
03-06-2009, 02:12 AM
Here's a link to an article advocating the less macho but more effective "granny-style" of free throwing....

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/the-body/07-physics-proves-it-everyone-should-shoot-granny-style
lhommedieu
03-06-2009, 02:20 PM
I got the Times today and read that! I wonder how it applies to what we do. Many of us specifically eschew technical innovations (else we'd be training firearms more than machetes), for example.

One implication for what we do is that a specific skill set performed by high-level athletes under stress (i.e., the stress of missing a point, losing a game, etc.) has not risen above a 70% level of success despite 50 years of rigorous analysis and coaching. Athletes at this level simply cannot get any better at this specific skill set.

Of course, performing a solitary action at this stress level does not adequately compare to the stress of performing a skill set (an angle #1 strike, for example) against an opponent who is determined to get you to fail (and who might possibly kill you in the process) - but all this means is that the corresponding percentage level of success is probably much lower.

It might follow that simple, conservative actions have a relatively higher percentage level of success than complicated, rash ones...

Best,

Steve