okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Monday, November 20, 2006
Bowling?!
Holger Hott Johansen showed up on a Norwegian TV program a few days ago. He was, of all things, bowling. You can check out the November 19 version of Newton, go to about the 15 minute point in the program.
The program, Newton, is a science show aimed at kids. The bit with Holger is about self confidence and flytt ("flow") - standard sport psychology stuff.
I suppose it is obvious, but just for the record, the short TV clips makes it crystal clear that Holger is a better orienteer than bowler. But, I bet that if he worked at it, Holger could become a decent bowler. I suspect that a lot of the thinking skills involved in orienteering and bowling overlap.
In fact, I have fond memories of talking about things like practice, preparation and concentration with a co-worker years and years ago. I was talking about orienteering. My co-worker was talking about bowling.
