Why
Play Aerosticks
Why
play Aerosticks? (I mean, beside the fact that exercise and eating
lots of fruits and vegetables are all that stand between you and an
early death?)
Let
me count the reasons.
1)
Satisfaction Can Be Had
The
act of spearing the flying ring with a stick, you will discover, can
bring you immense personal satisfaction. Studies show that men and
women agree on this. In three pages or less, please discuss the psychodynamic
implications. But first, do it and enjoy.
2)
You Will Have the Arms of a Giant
Using
a stick to catch an Aerobie extends your effective reach significantly.
You will chase MANY fewer rolling and flying Aerobies this way. The
stick makes your catching arm four feet longer. This addresses a major
flaw of the Aerobie, namely, the fact that It is too good. It goes
so far and so fast that you can run yourself ragged, especially if
your throwing partner is, shall we say, less than accurate.
3)
Aerosticks Ends the Pain of Catching
Let's
face it. A clean catch on a fast Aerobie throw coming straight at
you can hurt. Bare handed catches are not for the faint of heart,
or the uncallused of hand. This problem can quickly reduce the number
of available Aerobie partners. Well, the Aerostick handles that. Every
catch is a clean, satisfying, and painless experience. You can hurtle
fast flat throws at each other for hours, once you get the hang of
catching this kind of throw with a stick.
4)
You Can Have More Fun With Non-Experts
Even
though you are an expert Aerobie player, your less than expert partner
will catch more throws, and spend less time chasing missed catches
and generally wasting time. (Of course, all of those problems are
a direct outcome of the Aerobie's general amazingness and tendency
to go FOREVER.) As a result of what it does for your partner's stopping
and catching percentage, you will throw more. She or he will not become
discouraged. Life will be very good.
Studies
show that even SPOUSES and RANDOM UNCOORDINATED FRIENDS can enjoy
Aerobie more with a stick in the hand than without one. In fact, my
wife, who readily admits to not having much depth perception at all,
claims that this is the only game of catch that she has ever been
able to enjoy. This may be because catching involves continual aiming
of the stick, but does not require (for the more basic receptions)
a depth-perception-based decision on when to grab.
Above: Meditation
in motion, on motion, with motion, by motion, through motion. Note
the closed eyes. Experts can make astonishing catches using only
their senses of smell and hearing. But peeking helps.
5)
Aerosticks Bend Mind and Body Together
If
you think about it on a deep level (and why not?), as you move from
novice to expert, you will find that instead of catching the Aerobie,
what you are really doing is aligning yourself to be caught by it.
In so doing, the stick becomes, ironically, an instrument of reception,
while the circular Aerobie becomes an instrument of projection. Meditate
on that as you maneuver in the four dimensional space-time continuum
to align yourself with the path of the ring
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