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- From: garry@alice.att.com (garry hodgson)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: meta-comments (was: Re: Thai kickboxing )
- Message-ID: <24530@alice.att.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:12:30 GMT
- Reply-To: garry@alice.UUCP ()
- Distribution: rec
- Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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- Oh no! Floowing up my own postings. That's a bad sign...
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- In article <24526@alice.att.com> I wrote:
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- <stuff deleted>
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- This long lost memory just popped into my head while writing the
- above. When I was a youth, I was into conjuring. I recall reading
- a book on coin magic. It was discussing how to flip a coin so as
- to get it to come up heads or tails every time. Basically, there
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- Yeah, yeah...Now that I re-read this, I know how silly it sounds.
- I know it comes up heads or tails all the time. You know what
- I meant. Now please, can we skip the 20 replies pointing this out?
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- is no trick to it, just incessant practice until you have total
- control over the action of your arm, wrist, and thumb to control the
- number of revolutions. The author's comment said something like,
- "This is the sort of trick mastered by one-trick men in bars.
- They know no magic, but they have one trick that you couldn't
- do in a lifetime."
-
- The relevance of this to the martial artist is left as an excercise
- for the reader. I'd be interested in your comments.
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- Garry Hodgson A slow winter day
- AT&T Bell Labs A night like forever
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