The Week #175 jamesvandyne.com
@jamesvandyne it wasn’t culture day but at tsushintai the other day, there was a father letting his son have it, Showa style, over his laziness at baseball practice. You’d think the kid was a POW it was so bad and it went on for a good hour. We were all cringing. Hope that “big man” is proud of himself. 😬
@rickcogley Yeeash. I don't get it. Part of me wants to go and inform them of the current era, but you know it won't make a difference.
@jamesvandyne it's the "Ohtani Shohei" effect, with parents mistakenly believing their kid's the next incarnation.
@jamesvandyne I used to march in drum and bugle corps from 15 to 19 yrs, and the instruction style on the east coast was to yell and use rough language. A fellow marcher friend who later became an instructor and went west to teach, said when I asked him why the west coast corps usually win: "it's simple; they don't yell. It's all about an expected level of professionalism and correct guidance."