Probably going to stop playing FPS’s for a while again. I am wondering if I really want to devote the inordinate amount of time to perfecting a skill that isn’t really useful outside of its field. That being said, I feel like the same is true for many, many things. A lot of activities only give you skills that are only really very specific to that field. Of course, there are exceptions. Maybe I can’t use the skill I’ve accumulated from cello playing elsewhere, but my musicality from that does transfer to other activities.
I am going to try to focus my time on skills that do have that kind of aspect. Skills that can be applied elsewhere. Take breaking; even though you can argue that most of the skills/movements that I practice probably can’t be used elsewhere, I get the benefit of physical well-being; that in itself makes the time invested a worthwhile endeavor.
Having established all this, I want to move on to point out that society encourages people to specialize, to hone one skill beyond everyone else. Those are the people who are recognized. Nobel prize winners don’t win for being “decent at everything.” No, they win by being excellent—by mercilessly smashing their peers and elevating themselves in a field to a level where there ARE no more peers.
In the end, I suppose it’s just a matter of what makes you happy, because as long as you excel in something, you will be successful, in one way or another.
I want to end this post discussing what I had originally intended to discuss, but got sidetracked doing instead:
Tidbit on windmills: While practicing with Candace on Friday, I emphasized that you need to kick straight up with the right leg while you are on your back. This is something I read from a tutorial a while ago, where the upward momentum from the right kick is necessary for you to clear the floor. However, I want to explore another theory tomorrow at practice; and shout out to Rhul aka Bboy Dumpling for his comment; Rhul mentioned that the kicking process might be slightly different because I am relatively more flexible than most. As I envision people with great windmills such as Bboy Kaku, I recall that they do NOT kick straight up, or rather, that the motion is not seen. Instead, their right leg sweeps in a circle.
I will attempt this tomorrow; I still need to work on placing my head down on my mills if I ever want to get them clean/if I ever want to get nutcrackers. A lot of it comes down to manning it up and just doing it.
BTW, if Ang ever gets to reading this; my mom figured out what Jie Wu (or w/e ping yin I’m supposed to use) and she flipped out and was like DON’T HURT YOUR BODY. And then she was like “GO LEARN TO SWIM.” Lol. My mom cracks me up. I really should learn to swim though, save I ever get on a cruise and the boat gets Titaniced.
Back to Electronic Properties of Materials. Toodles.
