Project Logic Ga

My eyes ache when watching poor fundamentals in sports.  On the first day, everyone wants to dunking a basketball, smash a tennis ball or swim a lap.  These impatient sportsmen fail to realize that sporting lives are constructed over time with a commitment to learning the basic skills before the flashy moves.  In more bad news, the quick techniques used to play sooner rather than later must be unlearned later. 

People use an ugly swimming stoke that does require put their heads in the water; sisters can’t get that hair wet according to Steve Harvey.  Swimming with your chin out of the water violates every rule of water propulsion.  In tennis, many beginners start by choking up on the grip in a move that looks like ping-pong.  Away from sports, people in my community use poor grammar around their children and wonder why the kids struggle at school and work.  Newsflash: the stuff you learn at school should be used in life….that’s why you learn it. 

In jazz, musicians who want to sit-in with a band are traditionally asked that one important question: Do you know the book?  The book is a collection of jazz standards that every real player should know.  It all comes down to fundamentals over flash.

We see new congressional candidates across the political landscape that I fear think campaigning is a piece of cake.  It’s hard than it looks and actually governing effective is even harder.  Candidates who are new to the political game should get those fundamentals down first or getting on the court with a seasoned veteran will get real ugly real fast.