Time Dilation (again)

While coaching last week, this topic came up for me again. I was explaining *why* the athlete had more time to do something—even though the length of the throw was roughly the same.

Positions create time. Rather, the opportunity to “bend” time to your needs.

The most succinct definition of Time Dilation I’ve found is, “a slowing of time in accordance with the theory of relativity that occurs in a system in motion relative to an outside observer.”

What does this have to do with hammer?

When athlete is connected well with hammer, “time” slows down.

When athlete is not connected well with hammer, what you see is what you get.

This means, what?

It means that regardless of if the athlete is connected or not, the amount of elapsed time is the same.

It’s what you do with time.

But if you are, you’ve learned how to manipulate time and in turn you’ve given yourself the ability to maneuver within that “bonus” time to impact the velocity of the hammer.

This is Tao.

Here’s some sweet 9kg action when Uncle Kib was feeling it.