I've been on the road much of the past month and as consequently have been much less active on the board than usual.
As a result, this thread has largely slipped under my "radar." There has been lots of good info exchange by all but there has also been quite a bit of nonsense.
Here are a couple general points I'd like to make clear in case everyone wasn't aware:
*Insults will not be tolerated. If anyone is on this board looking to bolster their own ego by putting down others they are in the wrong place. The best thing about this forum is the friendly and intelligent sharing of information without the chest-beating and insults found on other sites. There are other forums out there where this type of behavior is accepted and I'd be more than happy to recommend anyone who would rather discuss things in this manner to one of these other sites.
*INTELLIGENT arguments (a.k.a. debates) are not only ok but are encouraged. It is through these types of back-and-forth discussions that we can all enhance our knowledge.
*Curse words are censored into some nonsensical or modified word. I'd like to keep the site as "PG rated" as possible. While I am certainly no angel in this regard, I have been told that cursing is the langauge of the uneducated and those with limited vocabulary. I am certain this isn't the case of anyone on this forum and it's not a huge deal but if everyone could please help to keep the site as clean as possible I'd appreciate it.
*An individual being able to DO something well has very little bearing on whether they actually know HOW TO DO that very thing well. This is supported both by motor learning research as well as by anecdotal evidence. If this fallacy were the true, every superstar athlete would make a superstar coach and we have plenty of evidence in a wide variety of sports to indicate that this is just as likely or more untrue than true. In fact, it is my experience that MOST elite level coaches were average athletes who never attained elite level status yet still produce athletes that consistently outperform anything they could have ever done themselves.
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