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Old February 19th, 2014 #4
Alex Linder
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Frank Carroll, ice skater coach

http://deadspin.com/the-coach-who-do...s-i-1525870117

"There's a difference between being a coach and being a teacher," Carroll told me in December. "Teaching involves being able to on-pass knowledge about how to do a skill; how to teach someone to use their body to do a jump, or use their feet to create speed, or how to make a spin go faster. A coach is somebody who can prepare people for competition and give them a philosophy about how to be champions, how to deal with the disappointments and the triumphs, how to budget their time. And a coach teaches them the philosophy of being a competitor."

This involves a little roleplaying. From the first day Carroll begins working with a skater, he emphasizes the importance of carrying oneself like a champion. That's how WN should act.

"I tell the student to pretend I am a very mean, cranky, nasty judge, and that I want to see them go on the ice and warm up as they would at a competition. Not their jumping, not their spinning, but their stroking and skating," he said, referring to the brief group warm-up sessions skaters are allowed before taking the ice in competition. "I tell them, 'I want you to convince me, by the way you step on the ice and the way you move around, that you're the very best skater in this group.' Then I'll let them loose, and I'll see what their idea of impressing people is."

In this world, you get taken as seriously as you take yourself, generally. As has been said, you teach other people how to treat you by what you allow. WN has allowed too much. It has been too tolerant. This is one reason it has not gained respect. It's not the main reason - that would be enemy suppression/attacks, which are continual - see the enemy equating;mixing National Socialism with Satanism and pedophilia in the new popular HBO show "True Detective" - but it is a minor one.

Be a serious man, or woman. If white nationalism is something more than entertainment, then what does that imply on one's part? How does it change how one lives and behaves?

Last edited by Alex Linder; February 19th, 2014 at 05:57 PM.