Dopiest comment yet!
Your meme game is strong when you’re proven to look a bit silly. High horse much.
Yeah - great call....
www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au
obviously your sarcasm sensor is off when you get too worked up.Yeah - great call....
And weak - not quoting for your reply so you get a free shot!
You don't need to be a PERFECT person to not abuse or inflict undue suffering on subordinates in any industry!
Just decent professional people who understand their duty of care in a commercial high-performance envioronment!
As for the Catholics etc - have you been living under a rock for decades??
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was a 5-year inquiry. It submitted its final report on 15 December 2017.
Doubt I'd be moving too well (if at all) after 500gm of bacon
Being tough and creating a tough culture is one thing, but putting a player at physical and mental risk in what is a work environment is another.
Agree, but at the same time it’s difficult to understand how any of those punishments/activities can reduce a professional body contact sportsman from continuing in his occupation?
There have been certain ideas and practices where breaking down a persons body and mind will make them stronger. But I don't agree with that because everyone is different.
I am sure plenty on here have heard a coach/trainer explain that when you miss an assignment or take a shortcut on a footy field it’s your mate you are letting down. Generally you work on this in training by doing additional penalties at training when an expectation is not met. Happens in nearly every program I would think, practicing discipline like you practice your set plays.
I don’t know that it’s a matter of breaking a person. I think the goal is to make a person uncomfortable and while in that state be able to make decisions which are skillfully executed? It’s similar in a way but not the same as military training where the abuse, both physical and emotionally is designed to have you instinctively follow orders when stressed. For many years science has acknowledged the phenomenon of muscle memory, but only more recently found that the brain has similar adaptability which allows it to grow relative to necessity.
As an apprentice I would smash that for lunch, but I would have already had a pie for breakfast and a B and E roll and a cake for morning tea, than hamburger and chips for lunch and each of those meals had a 750ml of coke (in the glass bottle). But I was building shite every day, doing 600 sit ups every morning, after work I was hitting weights or running or swimming up and down a black line.
Terrific reply.
I think one of the main reasons for this training is to work against the fight or flight type of mentality which occurs under stress. We often hear commentators excusing it for fatigue or brain explosion etc. It was interesting last week to hear James Fisher Harris interviewed after their come from behind win. "We just did what we do and got the win." Is it possible that they are so conditioned that it happens without conscience forethought or effort?
Going forward athletes will probably need to sign a waiver accepting that they are going to be placed outside their comfort zone, and unfortunately that comes with a level of risk (like the sport itself).
Jez.
