BenderRodriguez said:

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Where did my long rambling post go?

Am I taking crazy pills?

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It was a good post. I enjoyed it and expanded upon it.
I would conjecture that it was thought of as going "off topic", but only because the title of the book, "The Inner Game of Tennis" doesn't seem to have anything to do with hunting. The book is really about training your mind to allow your body to perform at its peak, especially in critical or difficult situations. It just so happens that the author was the captain of the Harvard tennis team and taught tennis, so that is the medium through which he is best able to convey how to train your mind.
The principles are definitely relevant to anything that requires skill and concentration, and turning off the "inner noise" that can deter success, such as the kind of a hunt Tandy was doing. I hope he reads it and derives benefit from it.

He Who Shall Be Unnamed said:

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BenderRodriguez said:

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Where did my long rambling post go?

Am I taking crazy pills?

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It was a good post. I enjoyed it and expanded upon it.
I would conjecture that it was thought of as going "off topic", but only because the title of the book, "The Inner Game of Tennis" doesn't seem to have anything to do with hunting. The book is really about training your mind to allow your body to perform at its peak, especially in critical or difficult situations. It just so happens that the author was the captain of the Harvard tennis team and taught tennis, so that is the medium through which he is best able to convey how to train your mind.
The principles are definitely relevant to anything that requires skill and concentration, and turning off the "inner noise" that can deter success, such as the kind of a hunt Tandy was doing. I hope he reads it and derives benefit from it.

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That is really weird. The book was appropriate and the post interesting and useful for the topic. I really hope some dumbass mod didn't delete it intentionally.

I was thinking about getting the book for my son to read. He missed a deer yesterday, plays sports, and needs that mental toughness and the way the book was described makes it transcend tennis.

Yeah, I believe the OP said he would order the book, so it was appropriate to the topic.