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British Wrestling – Before London 2012 Olympics

Wrestling in the UK is pretty small in comparison to other countries, and if you look at the talent you have to be impressed.  I mean British wrestling has a membership of just 700, that well is just minuscule when you consider their will be 17 gold medals on offer at the Olympics.  On that basis well, how can we be competitive, well erm the answer is actually we are.  Which is just remarkable, their just must be something special, their must be some fire in the belly somewhere!

Well how have they defeated the statistics, these stats are well erm just against British wrestling!  Well their has definitely been a Ukrainian influence, and well their is the fact that London has the Olympics!  Personally I think we’ll see allot more medals at London as oppose to Beijing where we had zero medals.  We managed 3 medals at the London test event even with 4 injury/illness withdrawals, and 1 under the weather medal hopeful.  So well, as I see it their is just something in the British psyche, and that’s open to anyone who can just unlock it.  However, that’s it! you have to be able to unlock it, and well you need access to do that.  In my mind the whole problems that British wrestling has, rests just on that concept that you need access to it. 

I mean people have to realise just what’s on offer, and if you have people who just well don’t know what’s on offer, you just get nothing.  I do think that some of the Eastern European training partners, have been given an opportunity to see what’s on offer in the UK, and that’s something we just have to be able to do throughout the UK.  These are part of models, and tell us how people get to top level performance.  You see the thing is skills are acquired inter-personally, they are not just these fact based ideas you can download of the internet.  So you need relationships, you need contact with the people with the top skills in the sport, and you need access to training facilities.  What we don’t have however is a wide enough club network, we are well supported in some areas, most notably at the moment around London, but there are huge geographical gaps in the network.  I’m not puting forward a solution, I’m just saying that’s the problem.  For the first time we can see that’s the problem because we can see how things should work with Eastern Europeanswho know how things should work.  It’s not a new problem that we haven’t got a wide enough club structure, it’s just now we can see Eastern Europeans using a model that should be country wide.  It’s more to the point that Eastern Europeans have told us what’s wrong with British wrestling, what we need to do is listen to this.  Well frankly the Eastern Europeans have helped us, and continue to do so, we just need to listen to them.

What is Wrestling?

Wrestling isn’t part of my normal persona, I’ve always been occupied by other sports mainly running, and then martial arts.  I suppose martial arts plays towards wrestling, and there is an interest there but, its been difficult to get around to I suppose.  Still, I’ve been supporting British Wrestling since they had the Commonwealths in Manchester back in 2002, mainly just at competitions doing the timekeeping.  Well its getting towards 2012, and looking like I’d be doing timekeeping duties, but just need to make sure I get good at it I suppose.

So here’s the question, what is Wrestling?

Well when it comes to Olympic sports, wrestling is at the heart of it.  Maybe other sports have become more popular but, wrestling is just the sport that is most naturally involved with the Olympics.  It just defines that early concept of competition, and just seems to have Olympics at it’s root.  It’s almost the inspiration of the Citius, Altius, Fortius motto.  It’s like everything of the modern Olympics was born out of wrestling.

This just means that wrestling just has big echelons to live upto.  When that wrestler steps on the mat, it is something that spans 1000s of years.  It’s more than just the sport, it’s the Olympics at it’s core.

This is what wrestling is!

Politics and aggression

Wrote this for an NVQ thingy at work, it was based on the following articles;

University of Chiago Press Journals (2011 March 18th) Cranky? On a Diet? How Self-control leads to anger, Science Daily Retrieved January 10 2006 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317131045.htm

Aggression in the streets of London (and elsewhere): Caused by the economic crisis? Or caused by the same mechanisms that caused the economic crisis?! Published: 9th August 2011 http://blogs.minyanville.com/ernst-labruyere/2011/08/09/aggression-in-the-streets-of-london-and-elsewhere-caused-by-the-economic-crisis-or-caused-by-the-same-mechanisms-that-caused-the-economic-crisis/

It was a bit inspired by Geoff Beattie, but don’t quote me on that it might be all wrong :I

Okay here we go:

Politics often touches people as a system for controlling anger, because this is what we remember, we remember the bad. This is just it though, people have this limited exposure to politics, as we relate politics to the understanding of the bad. However aggression is something that is within us all, and present in our daily lives. In any sport we see elements of aggression, combined with skill, and this becomes something that looks good. So how does politics and aggression compare with our own ability to control aggression?

We essentially have lower centers of the brain that are responsible for aggression, that are part of our early evolution. We then have upper centers that are part of our later evolution, these work as controlling mechanisms. These are very different centers of the brain , and work independently of each other. More specifically the limbic system is responsible for aggression. The pink wrinkled area is the cerebrum which works independently and, as a controller.

We can tell these parts of the brain best work independently as if we were on a diet, and we try and become very strict about it, we’d get very cranky, and often break all the good intentions of eating well.

It could be suggested to think about ‘control’ as; ideas, words, skills and talents. Aggression could hence be thought as; Anger, focus, rage, bad memories, emotions, fear, and change. So in a diet, the control could be thinking about the recipe, how the food is made, how we are going to cook it.

In politics this is different, politics is just the ‘controller’. It is good in conjunction with controlling our emotions, when we individually wish them to be uncontrolled. Such as to keep life simpler we give away this control, like the boss that employs us, or to the doctor that treats us. Likewise politics can be bad if don’t wish to have our emotions controlled, like red-tape on the self-employed, or if just don’t like being told what to do.

Racist Language

Why do people use racist language? you know the ones where they abbreviate the actual word, and think the abbreviated word is a normal word.  I mean well it’s just so obvious, and everyone knows they are racist because they’ve been used just soo badly in the past.  So logically, well, you just don’t use them, do you.  That’s at least my logical anyway.  But it just doesn’t seem to work with some people, but why?

Is there actually some logic to it, I mean if you believe that everyone has a place in society, can it possibly be logical.  I mean it’s a question of language, and people use language in different ways, and well words mean different things from different people.  They make up a dialogue within a dialogue, and there are no rules to this…………  So with some thought I can acknowledge that these bad languages don’t necessarily have this racist hate within them.  But I just can’t properly acknowledge that, I mean not really.  I just couldn’t say that someone using these words wasn’t racist.  But that’s it really. it’s just consensus that programs us not to use these words, and the completely obvious, that you just never racially hate someone.  I mean that’s beyond consensus, I mean that’s just wrong!  

So well, I just think the same really, and these words that some people use, are the prerogative of the stupid, who can’t understand what consensus means!  Sorry to be blunt, but just going with consensus I suppose.

Politics according to me

Well I’m in the UK, and we’ve got this coalition government between the Conservatives and, Lib Dems.  The status quo has always been Conservatives vs Labour, so who are the Lib Dems, and why did this come into existence.  Well I’m a Lib Dem, and we’ve always been associated with this protest vote.  Like, if you didn’t like what the Tory’s (Conservatives) or what Labour we’re upto you just voted Lib Dems.  Which kind of makes me sad really. 

I mean am I just the product of being a disaffected voter of another party? I have this horrible suspicion of just well, I just might be, and I find in the coalition, I start to think the Tory’s are quiet good, and Cameron sounds well, alright, actually.   

Well I suppose that view just depends on whether you believe in this two party status quo.  But I just like the fact of this other party who can act against status quo.  I mean the Tory’s have some good ideas but they have this rhetoric that just alienates those who just don’t have the same opportunities.  Labour, seem to have pockets of good ideas but don’t seem to co-ordinate them to be coherent as a overall idea.  Still Lib Dem’s have there faults, and seem to come a miss by playing the other parties as villains.

I would say we have to change this villianisation, and get back to this party that’s just better.  I mean this is so that we don’t go on silly rants about tuition fees, and put something more constructive on the table that talks about the facilities, and standards of education.

That’s my take anyway.  Sorry if it’s a Lib Dem one, but we’ve all got our bias, and I do feel Lib Dems need a fair opinion of them.  But I hope this makes it more obvious what Lib Dems think, well at least of myself anyway.

Control and Aggression

I say ‘Control and Aggression’ and I think of Martial Arts.  I remember Alfie Lewis would describe that you need lots of controlled aggression in Martial Arts.  You need lots of Control and lots of aggression, and you need them together otherwise it just doesn’t work.  But what do I think of this, well I like the control side of this, I mean aggression is just aggression, and besides I don’t have a great deal of this.  However its the combination of the two, that makes Martial Arts look good.  That’s what gives martial arts it’s explosivity, which looks good, and it’s drive to overcome adversity is in that too.  But there is also the control element, this is that part that looks like dance or sometimes gymnastics, which inherently looks good.  It’s the combination of the two though that makes martial arts, and not without each other that they do this, and it becomes a definition of ‘good’.   

But is it just Control and Aggression that go together like this, what about ‘Mind Body and Sprit’, or the Ying and Yang, are these the same thing also.  Yes, is what I’d suggest and, they seem to be a part of our evolution, and symbolise this notion that we essential have two parts to our brain, they almost function independently, but not quite.  It’s a Tai Chi philosophy that different positions represent different concepts, with the gut being the first point that is formed in the body.  Which explains this concept of our gut instinct.  This is something that is part of our early evolution, and we need this.   Seperate you can draw on ideas of your heart being were love comes from, and your brain as being were your higher centers operate, and then others that are more subtle.  

The higher centers are were we develop beliefs, and ideas, again we have to have this, and we are not capable of not having these beliefs.  Without these we don’t know what to think, and without our earlier parts of the brain we cannot function.  We need lots of it, in Martial arts and a belief that lets us do this.  The Trick to it is something different though, the trick is the illusions we create that disrupt the balance to it all.

Is The World Flat?

Well we pretty much take it for granted the world is broadly spearical, but if you were to just look at it in the near distance, you would see lots of hills, and overall it would look pretty flat and it’s a bit more confusing.  

It almost seems completly silly now to suggest the the World is flat these days.  But surely with all these questions about the universe, it does seem that is very easy to have lots of silly ideas about how the universe does work.  In fact it mostly probable that most of the ideas we have on this, in some sphere are often pretty silly.

But we do except some of these ideas, and we know that they might not necessarily be correct.  Most of us except this Newtonian idea of gravity, and with good reason, yet Einsteins Stress Energy Tensor argues against allot of the ideas of Mass as the cause of gravity.  We seemingly choose to except these ideas, and only reject them once we have somethinelse to grasp onto.  Does this tell us something about ourselves, are we incapable of not having a belief?

Then, if we have this incapacity of not having a belief, where does this leave us when concepts we believe in no longer exist? Further more, it seem society is setup, for these changes to occur, we all see changes in governments, we see changes to sports clubs we support, and we constantly change our own beliefs.  But when these beliefs no longer exist, it does seem we just lack something, and that is something we struggle to identify with until we have a concept that we are capable of excepting.

Pattern

I was wondering why I keep my blog as I do, what sort of patterns between my posts have I been making? I started to think that I seem to follow a pattern, of just focusing on just a ‘word’, and this word just becomes this special meaning.  Somehow that special meaning is different from the dictionary meaning, it’s like we have this a natural facination of language that just seems to be like each word embodies a concept of meaning.  It’s just ‘meaning’ just seems somehow, bigger than the word its self. 

Then again there is the cynical side of myself, knowing that my website ranks behind the dictionary definition of ‘trepidation’.  Hence maybe its just logical that the people who search for trepidation usually are interested in this format.  I mean, the people who come to my website just have this interest in words, and their meanings, and well I somehow tune into this and entertain that concept.

BRAT

I suppose there is a little bit of a brat in all of us, I just wondered how much of a ‘brat’ is in me.  I mean my parents have never called me a brat or anything like that, but then I’ve never felt it appropriate to behave that way in front of my parents.  However, but what if I was or am a brat elsewhere?  I mean I’m not someone who is gifted in exactly every area of my life, I think dyslexia sees to that.  But what if I’m gifted in other areas, can I still be a brat, well I think maybe yes!  I mean, could I just have this social aptness that just makes me likeable, and then I’m somehow I’m ignorant of this? What ever this is, maybe if I am likeable to everyone, does this make me socially apt.  And then if I’m socially apt does that bring a certain responsibility, and then how am I meant to behave around other people.  I mean if I’m maybe not entirely focused can I just kid this idea of being likeable with this notion of being funny.  Well then, I think if that is the case; maybe, just maybe I’m occassionally that brat.

SEO

I think I’m correct when I say mostly the audience to my website is driven from the SEO crowd, it took me some time to work this out, but I have found that google does indeed list websites based on the number of link backs from other websites in google.  So despite my lack of input into the web content of this website, I’ll probably bear this in mind in future web content.  I’ll try and, make it a bit more topical, which should help you SEO guys/gals out there.  Oviously I’ll still moderate the contents, but I don’t mind link-backs going on for decent websites