Lol jhonny. I still remember brian's post about how much pivot energy is required to move the body mass. Relevant?
But couldn't more muscle mass help in powering the body (energizing the pivot)?
Is Woods too big? No. His ego's so small. Well maybe not, but it's substantially shrunk. This guy was a bulletproof winner who's been carrying home trophies since he's been in his diapers. He also went through a very public scandal. That'd be damaging to anyone in their life--can you imagine what it means in relative terms for a professional athlete? The best in sports are hardly ever nice, normal, well-adjusted people--their genius is in performing coordinated/graceful/powerful athletic movements.
He's a sex-addicted, over-testosteroned (not saying exogenous which I'm sure will be an issue that's going to be raised in this thread) professional athlete and he's been through all of this for almost two years now. I'm not saying we should pity the guy. It's obviously something that he can only feel regretful, embarassed, and just deeply pained over. I don't think that's something anyone could wear very well day-to-day but he has to. He experienced the most public expose of a private matter that anyone ever could. This was a guy who even had a boat named "Privacy". He routinely talked about how much he hated that aspect of his life. Call him entitled, whatever. It's understandable. With all of that light shining into his closet and closely following him around for almost four decades, it's hard not to shrink away. I wouldn't be surprised if Tiger followed a couple of other athletes throughout history who just left (even with records to break on the table). I'm thinking he'll be more like Borg or Koufax rather than Ali. But with him, it won't be as with Borg or Koufax because people will know why. We won't ask "where have you gone Tiger Woods?" In the end, it's golf. It's hard as hell. A scandal as bad as Tiger's is hard as hell as well.
For so long it seemed that the only person that could beat Tiger was Tiger. "Tiger should have won were it not for Butch/Haney/Elin's spaghetti/Stevie/the knee/the weather at Muirfield (at a British Open, shocker)." By doing what he's done and having the whole world know--it's hard. Tiger Woods has finally beaten Tiger Woods. Who says you can't be over-competitive?
So is Woods too big? No. But he feels small. And for an athlete, that's a dangerous thing. Maybe he's been hitting the weights a little more to feel bigger.
