The Fosbury the fragilists took away
In honor of de la Quadra Salcedo and Félix Erausquin
You know those coaches who explain a drill or a small-sided game, the player makes a move within the constraints the coach has just set… and then gets told he is wrong, that “it is not supposed to be done that way”? Please, do not be those coaches.
It happens often, though, in real competition: the basketball player drives left and finishes with the right hand, and the crusader for the aesthetic values of sport —the coach, I mean— scolds him, saying that if you go left, you must finish with the left. Please, do not be crusaders for aesthetic values. Do not let fear win. You could be mortgaging many futures.
If it were not for people like that, this would not be called Fosbury Flop but De la Quadra Salcedo Style: