Time For a New and Different Sport!!

I'm thinking it's time for a new and different sport. Something that makes sense! I enjoy hockey although confess I've only watched a game or two in the past playoff season. I tuned into a little bit of soccer as the World Cup was showing and as I watched something stood out to me---something quite peculiar and from all appearances grossly unfair. A goalie in soccer has a net 24 feet wide, 8 feet across. The net size for NHL hockey is 6 feet by 4 feet! I read sports commentaries which sing  the praises of Goalie A or B but come on!





I calculate with the goalie just standing in front of the net more than likely 50 % of all pucks would most likely be stopped by not moving. What skill is there in that in having to stop a puck with the net so small? Not much really especially when one considers their big large leg pads to boot. Then there's basketball....the net is 10 feet from the floor with the average players height in the NBA being about 6 foot, 7 inches. When they make jumps to become equal height as the hoop it looks wonderfully impressive but keep in mind it's only 4 feet above them.

 I say it's time for a new sport or take the existing ones and make them ever more challenging. How about changing the hockey net from 6 to at least 12 feet which is still only half the size of a soccer net. Or maybe with basketball we can make them play it on skates and if they make a jump towards the hoop they have to do it in a figure skating fashion. Imagine every hoop jump they have to do a quad in mid air, which is four revolutions with their body in a spin and then plunk it into the net? Maybe the idea of the game should be how graceful can you get?   What do you think? LOL :)

I wrote about Jumping Up to the hoops? Perhaps you'll like my blog, "Up, Up, and Up..New Ways of Using The Up Word" Please click on link--->  http://bob-richards.blogspot.ca/2011/06/up-up-up-up-new-ways-of-using-word.html

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Don't Die Getting Mad---Stay Cool as a Cucumber!!

 

 

 

You've heard the expression, one should seek to be as "Cool as a Cucumber"? Not particularly sure why a cucumber should be viewed as cool except perhaps  the taste seems so when you bite into them but the term has be used to describe people who aren't moved into the extremes of displaying an overdue amount of agitation when faced with the trying test of life which all come our way. There are benefits in keeping your cool...when you could get mad and lose all perspective I guess you could say the chief benefit of not doing is you're more likely to live a longer life. Now don't get mad when I suggest this but there's a new study out which seems to indicates losing your temper or maybe I could say being prone to going into a conniption fit could cause you to die prematurely.

 

 

 

 

Found in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health it's being stated "argumentative people are three times likelier to die early than relaxed types." Middle aged adults who squabble regularly with their spouse are twice as likely to die as those who rarely fight but it doesn't just stop with getting along with your spouse....allowing oneself to become overly upset with anyone can produce the same effect. Apparently choosing to embrace a mental state of being upset or for want of a better word, STRESS... such leads the body into making molecules like cortisol and pro-inflammatory cytokines that can make you sick. How to rise above it? Obviously learning the way and manner in which to create positive mental states can be most beneficial.

 

A check list of positive constructive ways of how to thinking about difficulties can empower one to stay relaxed and can keep one in the mode of being at peace. Might I suggest my blog, Sometimes--An Odd Time---and All of The Time, http://www.bob-richards.blogspot.ca/2010/12/sometimes-odd-time-and-all-of-time.html" might be a good collection of statements which I believe might help you exist within positive mode. 

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