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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Why is it Sidd's point? I am so frequently slighted.
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because you're an assjack
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the Hamm's started gymnastics at 6. you cannot do the stuff they did last night w/o training forever.
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However, every young man you saw last night lost a good chunk of his childhood to the sport.
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If you are refering specifically to gymnastics, perhaps, but otherwise I dispute that the time spent on the sport was "lost."
Even for the thousands of people who
didn't make the Olympic teams, the time wasn't lost (excepting, perhaps, the atheletes who move into permenant camps like gymnasts). Sports training is important for establishing healthy habits, as well as good* life skills.
*"good" in the traditional American sense: willing to put in long hours for delayed gratification, playing through the pain, being a "team player."
