RE: Acknowledgement

["Erika Robbins" <ROBBINS@faculty.law.duke.edu>]

Poster: "Erika Robbins" <ROBBINS@faculty.law.duke.edu>


> People are quite certainly suggesting that there should be a multi-tier
> standard of calibration. There shouldn't be. Part of a well-thrown blow is
> focus and follow through.

Well, there's a multi-tier standard of calibration, and then there's 
the minimum standard that everyone should accept.  My personal 
experience has been that I'm perfectly capable of throwing an 
acceptable blow.  For anyone wondering, I'm female and 5'3".
I'm not some hulking brute.  I regularly practice with two well-known 
dukes.  They are perfectly happy to take my blows when I 
throw them right.  They like to hit each other a lot harder, but 
since they don't hit ME that hard, and take my blows, I have no 
problem with this. This is not different calibration standards.  This 
is meeting a minimum standard and being willing to play at or above 
it as the situation warrants.

Someone once told me that I couldn't throw a blow hard 
enough to kill him IN A TOURNEY.  This is an example of 
a "different" standard.  I think he's full of it, and intend to prove
it to him one of these days when I get good enough, but that's
beside the point.   
 
> People are also getting quite personal in all of this, and I find that
> unfortunate. I found one personal characterization wrong, and tried to
> exlain why I thought so.

Agreed.  Lets leave the personal crap out.  This has been a pretty
good discussion with the name-hinting.  

Eilis
Windmasters Hill

 
Erika Robbins
Duke University Law Library
Serials and Acquisitions

"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans."
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