Belly of the Beast

Things are getting weird, but that's to be expected I'd guess, listening to some radio talk show last night and the news is the tsa and their behavior towards passengers and such. Not to sure what to think about this, I don't want to go through the naked body xray either, but if you don't, well, they 'pat' you down, so to say... If you the reader don't know what the heck I'm talking about, sorry, but this is the fact of the matter and I wish you luck in understanding the underlines of the belly of the beast. Wake uself up da!! Nothing really happening in my world of golf, have tried to watch a little with the little guy, play some plastic ball golf indoors and stuff.. but no golf for me and I can't really see that as happening for some time. Being that A is wanting to play hoops, or should I say, she has stated that she wants to be real good at it.. ok, I think, we can do that, but it's going to be tough for her, but possible, of course, she has played many years of handball, and has a good looking shot, she just needs to get the footwork and fundementals down... maybe a good chance for the old man to get in shape 2? It would be fun to play some hoops again, wonder if I lifted some weights and took the time it takes, I guess I could jog up and down the court and shoot some three's and make some passes.. Would be great to play some hoops with A. Ya ya, babbling and rambling along here otherwise. Cold here in Norway now, it was -12 today and the sun went down at 15:00. Brrrr. Gotta go, later folks, take care and be good. 

Getting 'Mad'

Tonight I got 'mad' at my high school team, making layups and doing things right is not always easy for kids from 15-17... I wish they could understand the importance of listening and understanding what is being taught. I know that repatition is part of coaching, repeating the same things over and over is a large factor in winning or loosing for the long run, I at least know that the kids know where I am coming from and that's a huge step as it is. Nothing wrong with me showing my emotions at practice, but the funny thing is that when I did get mad and made them run for missing easy layups and threatened them again with running if it continued... What do you think happened? That's right, no more misses - I ask them why and someone says concentration, YA... and then I said to them, just think if you all could concentrate for the whole practice, think how much better they would be, and so much faster.... Listening is a very improtant part of getting better as a hoopster, even I will admit that... I would say that getting better at anything, including life, is based in large degree in how we listen and learn. Havin g to learn form ones mistakes is ok, but I what a difference it would make if one could really learn from just listening and taking the possiblity for creating a better self seriously?? Babbling on here I know.. gottsta go da..

Looking, down the Road

Road trips, fun those, always like the road trip. This weekend the young men have two road games, back to back.. one on sat, one on sun.. This is something they are not used to. We play about one game a week here in Norway, if that and that's ok really. Being that the teams don't get to practice everyday, it's hard to teach them everything they need to know to really compete at their highest level. I am hoping this will change in the years to come. If we can get our own gym, then the sky is the limit and I hope for that. Always nice to reach for the stars and actually get there... does not happen much, but it does happen. Looking forward to the long drives int he next two days, it's always fun to spend time with my team, no matter if it's hoops or not, a great group of young guys and I know how lucky I am to have the opportunity to teach them. Ja ja ja.. Babbling on again, that's the way it goes when you love to write and actually have nothing to say... ,-)

College Hoops!!

I am sooooooo glad that the college hoops season has started again! It's just so fun to watch the young men and women get up and down the floor, just for the love of the game, no money for them, well, they do get their share of goodies, but no straight up money.. and all the cash they bring in for the colleges.... whew that's alot of dough.. Night shift last night... got to find a way to get the games there... getting tired of dvd's, tv, and sometimes even reading... uff da, nah I didn't mean it, reading is always cool and even writing.. am about 160 pages into my new book. So that will be fun to see what happens with that.. I've gotsta to get some sleep now, 'everyone' else is awake and I'm sleeping... That's good too, because I don't really like people anyway, and most feel the same about me, so, it's probably best for society that I'm locked away in the night shift world... ,-) Oh yeah, showing the little man where the three point line is... he likes being at the games, that's for sure and I thinks it's ok too  ;-)

Trustworthiness

Don't you wish sometimes you could have tapped all your conversations with the people who you interact with through out life? I mean if someone tells a lie, well, you'd have the tape to disprove this slander, I mean if someone says one thing and does of says something else, for good or bad to outcome might be, god, how I wish I could have that tape. Just as a backup... I mean there are so many people who you really can't trust, it's so strange actually, I guess I take it for granted that people are trustworthy and all that, which makes it of course so that much more to deal with it when it happens. I just wish I could have somekind of way to go back, and get the 'tape'... hmmph... yayaya.. BUT the opposite is always true, and that's what is good about us humans, the good guys usually get together in the end and usually or I might even dare to say, always get together in the end and truth does win out over even lies and tape. That's the way life works, for every action there is reaction, and in today's world with all the crazy people out there, I guess you just never know, do ya... maybe it's time to try a change of sorts? Babbling on here, and I'm hoping there is some larger point to it all. Counting on it  ,-)

Get over yourself...

When is right to say to someone that they really should get over themselves? I mean is it possible that people over appreciate their own self worth? I believe so, sometimes someone does a great job at something one time, and that can be many years ago, but they keep measuring their importance by the actions or success of the past. Hmm? I can't understand it, maybe it's just a being humble thing? If one is humble, which can be difficult for everyone from time to time, but if one tries to be humble and straightforward and not forgetting honest about the facts of any issue... well, then maybe one will have a better chance of living in the now and in the near future, instead of hanging on to the past successes or failures... is it possible? Hope so da.

Trust and Backstabbing

How are you to trust people that go behind your back? I have no idea really, when this has happened to me in my life I have had the response of being angry, hurt, sad, frustrated and more or less wanting to kick the persons butt. It's even worse when it happens and affects other innocent by-standers, people who have no control or even a chance to control the situation and or outcome. When someone goes behind your back, it leaves little room for trust building afterwards and for me I tend to write people off after things like that. People can make mistakes yes, I know a lot about that from my own.. but when someone goes behind your back and does something to undermine your posistion at work, on a team, at school, whatever, then it is real hard to give that person a second chance. I for one can't and the reason is this: Backstabbing is a pre-thought thing, the person has to know that they are doing it and thus they have to know it's wrong... can you go beind someone's back as a chance thing, something that just happened, a freak occurance? I don't buy that and I never will. That's about the worst thing another can do, backstabbing someone is done by cowards who don't have the balls to do the right thing.... Rambling on here I know but as you can tell, somethings happened in my life and I have to deal with it, straight forward and I have no qualms about it. Do the right thing and you'll never backstab anyone... AND if you do, well, expect the worst reaction, because being a backstabber is one of the lowest types of people and thus the response can sometimes be large and fitting..... Gotta go, take care and be good world. NO BACKSTABBING DA!!

Learning through winning/not winning

Teaching the bballers is fun, a source of energy, joy, understanding, and sometimes frustration. I know the kids are hard workers, they love the game of bball, give their all each and every practice and are willing to learn as much as possible each time out. Some might say that one can learn just as much from winning as not. I'm not sure about that, I guess when you lose, you learn how to deal with the loss, but learning how to win, how to achieve the results wanted and become a winner. Can one be a winner and still lose games? Absolutley and I know this from first hand experience. I have played on championship teams and the other way too... I learned more about teamwork, how to win, how to practice to win and be better on the championship teams and I learned how to handle disapointment on the teams that were losers... What else did I learn from the loser teams? Probably more than I know, but I do feel like I did learn the most playing for the coaches that knew how to teach winners and I believe this to be the case. Good coaches can and often do create winners even when the natural talent of the team is below average. Not that it always happens, but the chance for the kids to be winners is bigger I think when they at least try to learn what it takes to be a winner both on and off the court. Succes in the gym often means success outside the gym too... life is better when you try and learn how to win and not learn how to deal with loss? Many questions this time around I know. Any other answers? No Doubt, many others and better ones too... Try and find them da and search for the key... gotta go, take care folkens..

Rain...

It's rainy and cold here in Norway. It reminds me of when I lived in Oregon. Every year there were weeks in a row that it would rain like it has here in Saltnes the past couple days. It's been pouring down and lots of wind, we have all been fighting somekind of sickness the past week or so.. Everyone has it except for the little guy. I am feeling probably the best as of now. Lucky for us/him that little guy has kindergarten during the day, he gets to play, talk, discuss, learn and all that, it's for sure much more fun than being home the whole day with Pappa... (nah, we always have fun us to, and if it was just up to me, I'd have kept him home another year) but he seems to like himself there and thus I feel like it's also a good thing. Not much happening here golf wise, the course is still open, but I can't imagine who would be playing out there now, it's cold and I'm not just talking about the last couple of days.... it's been cold for about 7-8 weeks. Hoops wise it's rolling along, I love coaching the high school kids, maybe somehow I can make a difference in their lives and help them as much as my coaches helped me... I know I have written it b4, I know I need these kids more than they need me, it's just the way I am, or the way I have become because of my life and the struggles and successes I've had. They are probably not reading my dribble so often or if at all, but if any of you read this, just know it's true and I'm not afraid of admitting it either, that's the first step of the long journey of finding out the truth of ones-self. I know that some of the kids have problems, many different kinds and sizes of them but if I can make a positive change or assist them in life someway, then it's all worth it and that's the point, right? We are here as humans to learn to treat each other in good ways, help each other in all lifes struggles and successes, protect one another from dangers and hopefully seeing the joy/wonderment of the afterlife. I'm rambling on here I know, but lucky for you I gotta go.......