Re: MD Coherence and Satori. I

From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 06:21:24 BST

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    Hi Mark,

    Thanks for still more examples of the sweet spot. But, so far, all
    the sports examples you've given touch the sweetness for a fraction
    of a second, the perfect tee shot, the unbeatable volley.

    A long time ago, in Shakespeare's dark backward and abysm of time, I
    was an OK handball player, indoor, six planar surfaces, a tiny, hard
    black rubber ball slightly bigger than a golf ball, thin gloves more
    for keeping sweat off the ball than for protection. There were times
    when the sweet spot became the sweet several seconds, maybe longer.

    It started by moving your opponent, shot after shot, a little more
    out of position, till his returns were only defensive and therefore
    just barely creative, till finally your fist shot to the ceiling,
    front wall, floor, resulted in a fast retreat, a clumsy left hand
    direct to to the front then straight to the back, pretty and fat as a
    cantaloupe, and you were there, waiting. You dropped to one knee as
    the back wall bounce fell to an inch from the floor to be met by a
    blindingly fast and powerful sweep of your arm and palm, and barely
    perceptible twitch of the hips, sending the ball at 90+ mph, one
    perfect inch above the floor, the full distance to the front wall.
    Then came the sweet smack, the flat rollout, the no chance of return.

    So, the sweetness started several seconds before the final perfect
    finish, and lasted a few seconds after. It may be that our sweet
    spot is fatter than we think! Anyway, I like to think so.

    Best,
    Mark Steven Heyman (msh) 

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