There ain´t no mountain high enough !!!

We are about to finish the holidays ;( a time for others full of joy, laughter, play, sea, sand and a lot of sun ... more than I like ha ha ha .... my little girl, this year as always we get warmed up to face a new course, full of challenge and of course learning....

Doping

When I think of any sport that is practiced on a professional level, I consider that it's one of the best ways to be self-disciplined, to learn to work in a team, to learn to give your best effort (people always want to break their limits), to learn that winning is more than being the first; it's understanding that it's part of a hard work process, that losing doesn't mean being the worst or the last, but it could be the golden opportunity that teaches you to see your mistakes as part of your training and/or growth.

However, when an elite athlete reaches his peak of performance and savours the pleasure of being recognized and admired in his discipline, he could be tempted to make this performance something continuous and / or permanent. Or conversely, if an elite athlete, despite what he does, doesn't reach a high level of performance, he could also resort to substances that stimulate and improve his performance.

In both cases, I think the problem lies in the fact that not all elite athletes are tolerant of frustration; considering this type of behavior is feedback from when we are toddlers. Obviously, we all like to win and we enjoy it a lot when we are the winners, because since we are kids, competitiveness is encouraged more than cooperation. Up to a point it's good that we all have the motivation to win, but not at any price. Not everything can go in order to be the first and/or the winner; or not everything should be allowed.

This idea would theoretically be the ideal, but in reality we see in the press that there are many cases of doping in the sports world. On the one hand, I think retroactive punishment of an elite athlete who has used illegal substances, is not ideal, because if you want to modify or penalize a negative behavior it would be more effective if it is immediate. But on the other hand, I believe that it's better to correct an improper act , even if it is extemporaneously: better late than never.

In this sense, the message must be clear: doping to win is cheating, and this act will have a double penalty, at the sports level (suspension of the practice of said sport) and at a social level (the loss of prestige from being a winner to being an imposter). The point is that every person has his own scale of values and priorities.

Consequently, I believe that it's equally or more important to train elite athletes in social skills than simply to develop their sporting discipline. It's so or even more important to learn from error (often losing is part of winning, losing you gain experience, you can develop new and different strategies, you strengthen and temper your character), to understand that as an elite athlete you are fallible, in addition your career has a date of expiration. Likewise, it would be very important to develop techniques of physiological deactivation, among many others, to achieve the full performance of an elite athlete.

I think that if you invest in all these aspects, it would be more effective than the simple punishment and /or penalty of an athlete. And on the other hand, we could break the stigma that falls on some elite athletes: all brawn and no brain.

Days like these, I can't help thinking about you ..... my dear daddy

Last dance?

One of the pleasures of this world of which I could not do without ....  dancing

Summertime

Maybe this is the best summer holiday of my life ...

 I hope not the last  :)