Posted by Bill (other posts) on February 11, 2014 at 23:16:33 Previous Next
In Reply to: Shaun White posted by elektros on February 11, 2014 at 18:27:03:
: He lost his olympic title. Shouldn't have got shorn (get it?).
Quite a few comments on the local newspaper's web site here make references to Samson and similar situations, in effect saying he lost his power when he cut his hair.
Shawn did not compete in the downslope event for fear he'd hurt himself. It was won by a longhair, who said that real men take on the slopes they are given rather than complaining about them. Then a guy with hair a lot longer than Shawn's has now, along with two others, beat Shawn at the half pipe.
We here know that long hair affects a man's sense of personal power, but does that translate into athletic performance? It's a tale as old as the Samson tale in the Bible, but is there some truth in it? Is a subconscious psychological power at work? Or could it be that when a man practices repeatedly with long hair, he learns to pick up wind speed and direction and "which way is up" information from the movement of his hair, and without that information, Shawn was to some extent flying blind? Or maybe, his loss of his hair had nothing to do with it at all.
Well, my beard tells me all the time which way the wind is blowing.
Interesting to ponder....
Bill