Alan & Brenda Leonard

1/13/03 02:11:

> If a kid has played with all kinds of balls, bounced them off different
> surfaces, has a good idea for their different properties by weight and shape
> and spin and distance, the first time someone talks to him about force and
> vector and inertia and all, he will have a bodily sense and a lot of
> experience to help him understand all that. That is, unless it is presented
> as a mathematical formula to be memorized, with no tie-in to sports
> experience.

I always thought a good way to learn that stuff was the pool table. None of
those stupid formulas ever made the least bit of sense to me until somebody
explained to me how to improve my pool game. I'm still not very good at
pool, but at least I know what I'd need to work at to improve.

brenda