The Importance of Physical Knowledge - Importance of Sport and Dance

[charlie cho]

What this man understands how the physical body works is insane, and there is much to understand and learn from him. I understand now why Kobe Bryant wanted to be a writer after he retired. Because he understood articulation is not only reserved for people who read all day, but also for people who do much phsyical activity. For example, like Sun Tzu, he wasn't really a writer, but his articulation of how war is in reality made him write and speak on lectures to the princes at that era, the most difficult to understand phrases, sentences, and insights about war history has ever seen. This all comes from physical knowledge. 

Having some plans to coach teenagers on the sport, I had to make myself stronger and learn about how schools work, how coaching works, how games work in planning, how statistics work, and how to analyze relationships with educational staffs. Until now, I realized I lacked something in which this video addresses, the conflict between competitive athletes and dancers. One thing is similar between them, they are physical and they are intense in their work. 

I feel there is no knowledge of anything creative if one cannot be intense about his physicality, one could call this dancing, but one could be attend a strongman tournament, or simply become stronger physically. Or do endurance running. All these attributes of strength, flexibility, and endurance translates to creative attributes. Dancing is one of them. And I don't see any potential of one's knowledge being realized unless he or she masters the art of creation, albeit intense or not intense. 

Here one thing Kobe speaks so insightfully is that he feel athletes and competitors do less than dancers. Because people who compete is more goal-oriented and has one job to do. Sure there is tremendous creativity in that one goal, but dancing has many goals that it is a holon itself, unlike competitions. 

Anyway, I wrote something I felt what's important to grow our insights. 

Lord, it's tremendous how he said the last sentence about dancing. Athletes, because they are so myopic about winning, they only care about speed, which is good in competitions and fights. The problem comes when they don't understand the structure that speed needs. Every move on speed, there needs to be a certain rule set, discipline and structure for a certain move in a competition to succeed permanently and consecutively. This is how important creative pursuits are as opposed to simply competitive ones. And Kobe Bryant talks about this well. It can be applied to all fields, I feel. 

Edited June 2, 2023 by charlie cho

[Sugarcoat]

Totally resonate, lately I’ve been naturally drawn to dance a lot. It’s like a new way of approaching life