{"id":6229,"date":"2005-02-03T22:29:37","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T22:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/forming-with-sm\/"},"modified":"2005-02-03T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T22:29:37","slug":"forming-with-sm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/forming-with-sm\/","title":{"rendered":"Forming with Small Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 4<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

I’ve been meaning to weave three disparate threads together, triple helix
\nstyle; they converged–blink!–for an instant while I was reading the other day, and it seemed like more than another drill. 
\nWho’s running this time?  Ann Berthoff, Steve Berlin Johnson, and one more
\n(Coach: I don’t care who goes, dammit.  Fill in the lines.<\/i>) 
\nFirst, I’ve got to tell you a bit about the weave:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In college, we’d run a lot of early morning practices–stretched and ready by 6 a.m.  We shared one small gym among several sports, so folks took turns getting the prime 3-5 afternoon slot.  Until volleyball season ended,
\nbasketballers worked out in the morning.  I won’t go too far into the context of practices or the conditions in the gym.  Think of a box with three outer walls aligning tightly with the out of bounds line, a tight 88′ court (right…88) where the temperature inside matched whatever was outside, at least until the hot-water heat system kicked in (6:30 or 6:45).  <\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, we ran a lot of drills, especially early in the season and
\nthroughout the preseason months leading up to a first game sometime in early
\nNovember.  With just two baskets, practices tested the limits
\nof simultaneous activity.  For everyone to be involved, we often worked through stations, did a lot of ball work, agility circuits, speed and quickness, heavy ball and weight vests–rituals that could be performed without a hoop.  Shooting time was spare; forcing those who cared enough to work on their jumpers into a separate, custom slot squeezed by all other practices.  Half hour wherever it would fit.  <\/p>\n

The weave is a common basketball drill; the commonest (all that bullshit
\n"gym time" just jacking up shots, that’s not making you a better player<\/i>). The conditions of the drill: three lines beginning with regular spacing, pass, go behind, pass, go behind, pass, go behind.  The trivium advances the length of the court through a braided pattern; players ex through the middle of the court, but otherwise they push into one outer lane or the other outer lane–broad S-ing<\/i>-curves the length of the
\ncourt.  Strike a 45-degree slant from the hash mark, and punctuate with a simple lay-up. 
\nThen back again.<\/p>\n

The weave is a hands drill (but not just<\/i> a hands drill). 
\nDon’t let the ball hit the floor<\/i> (again and again, voice and echo in
\nescalating rejoinders). Except on the bounce pass leading the lay-up, the ball
\ncan’t touch.  When the ball touched the floor (cause: fumble), the trio
\nwould return to the beginning and start again, continuing until they worked the
\npattern quasi-algorithmically.  A once and back was easy; down and back
\ntwice, tougher.  Three trips?  So the condition of flawless execution
\nand return trips stretched as far as was needed to exceed the lowest threshold
\nfor physical or mental fatigue by one among the group of three.  Key: seek a strong group for the run–good hands, reliable finishers.  If you run
\nwith an unreliable finisher, pace so the lay-up goes to somebody who will score
\nit.  Every time.  Make plays easy for those around you.<\/p>\n

Berthoff, who, when I was reading this week, said this:  <\/p>\n

That’s why it’s useful, I think, to keep in mind that a paragraph gathers
\nlike a hand.  Note that the gathering hand operates in different ways: the
\nhand that holds a couple of eggs or tennis balls works differently from the hand
\nthat holds a bridle or a motorbike handle.  When you measure out spaghetti
\nby the handful, scoop up water by the handful, hold a load of books on your hip,
\nknead bread, shape a stack of papers, build a sand castle, your hands move in
\ndifferent planes and with different motions, according to the nature of the
\nmaterial being gathered.  But in any case, the hand can gather because of
\nthe opposable thumb. (The thumb of the human hand can be brought into opposition
\nwith the fingers.) A paragraph gathers by opposing a concept and the elements that develop and substantiate it.  The kind
\nof gathering a paragraph makes is thus dependent on the kinds of elements and
\nthe way in which they have been gathered. (Making of Meaning<\/i> 6)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But we’re gathering a basketball.  (Can you catch the ball? Make your hands big. Squeeze the ball when you catch it.<\/i>) Clean pass, clean catch. 
\nCollect the ball. Keep it simple.  Refrain from the flashy. Work together.
\nOne drop and all three reset for another try.  Worst case.  Get out of my gym.<\/i><\/p>\n

I didn’t really need a metaphor…<\/p>\n

\n
\nSteve Berlin Johnson<\/a> on
\n
\n"Tools for Thought"<\/a> and DevonThink, in his NYT article, tells us about a
\ngather-minded text-search app that can intuit the lexical resemblances
\nassociating in a sampling of documents.  <\/p>\n

\nNo doubt some will say that these tools remind them of the way they use
\nGoogle already, and the comparison is apt. (One of the new applications that
\ncame out last year was Google Desktop — using the search engine’s tools to
\nfilter through your personal files.) But there’s a fundamental difference
\nbetween searching a universe of documents created by strangers and searching
\nyour own personal library. When you’re freewheeling through ideas that you
\nyourself have collated — particularly when you’d long ago forgotten about them
\n— there’s something about the experience that seems uncannily like freewheeling through the corridors of your own memory. It feels like thinking. (Johnson)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t really need a metaphor to extend my sense of the ways gathering and collecting and forming have changed.  But this one took me, induced me to "freewheeling through the corridors of [my] own memory."  Metaphors, I was reminded, when I tried to open a little bit of this up, are only useful to the extent that they give us expanded understandings of the relationships between things (and concepts?).  They are neither inherently true nor false; metaphors merely serve
\nus more or less well depending on how they compel us, perhaps idiosyncratically, to think differently, with new understanding (not only my ideas, exactly…comes from a talk in the 720 course this week). I guess I’ll stop here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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