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There are a lot of paradoxes in the world.  

1) Self-sacrifice (love) is the only route to true fulfillment; he that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall find it.  ... a mother's love for her newborn baby is truly selfless, receives absolutely zero in return ... and yet fills her with joy and contentment.  A 3-week-old baby gives nothing back to its parents, and yet somehow the love involved is nature's finest reward.

2) Golfers will tell you to swing easy to hit hard.

3) Fermi's Paradox:  mathematically, aliens in our galaxy must have colonized the Milky Way long ago -- it takes at most 5 million years, after the first space flight, to colonize the galaxy, even if you discount self-replicating Von Neumann probes, which you cannot discount.  Five million years?  This is an eyeblink in astronomical terms.  Neither could humanity have been the first intelligent species; Earth itself is a recent development.

Aliens must have colonized Earth by now.  Yet they have not.

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Speed up to slow down.  This is another sports paradox.  Without going into great detail on this one, here's the sequence.

• You learn the knife deflection in painstaking slow motion.
• You attempt it and get it wrong.  Repeat this.  Work on the component parts of the movement.
• The day comes, when every single part of the motion is right.
• Tuesday, you attempt it and get it right.
• You find that it's easy, and fun.  Super easy and super fun.
• Wednesday morning, you do it a hundred times, laughing all the time.
• Wednesday afternoon, you can easily do it ... as fast as the attacker can possibly move.
• Thursday morning, you can do it at the speed of thought -- you grow a beard waiting for him to arrive.

You'll never get there in a Shotokan dojo, no offense to all you karateka out there :- ) some of whom can break my bones out in the street.  But slow-motion training has its own benefits as it applies to speed.

Nothing's quicker than a child scrambling out of your reach.  She's not encumbered by method.  She just does.  She just is.  She just moves.  Her limitations are her tiny little muscles.  

Would be nice if Justin Smoak ran into the limitations of HIS muscles, no?

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At this point you may be wondering, "Why doesn't everybody train in slow motion?"

Now you're asking the right question.  It's a start.  Bledsoe's quote, in Baker, reminded us of a Charlie Lau quote.  "How come YOU couldn't hit?"  "Because I didn't have a video machine then, kid."

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