Watch out for this baby
I hear he’s a real hustler.
I have no explanation for how this kid can do that. It doesn’t seem to be a trick, either, except for the fact that his father has to get the ball in the right zone in order for the baby to hit it. But there’s no question that the baby’s hand-eye coordination is almost impossibly advanced for his age.
Here’s his nearest competitor. Not in the same league. Although dad’s aim isn’t bad:
Is it true the Boston Red Sox have already offered kid #1 a lucrative contract — just so the Yankees don’t get him.
I was just thinking the same thing. With eye-hand coordination like that, MLB scouts are going to be following this kid’s every move for the next 15 years.
@neo I have no explanation for how this kid can do that
Actually, most of the babies who unexpectedly arrived in Smallville’s cornfield’s in rather surprising fashion during the past few decades have exhibited similar, or even greater, abilities.
At this point, I’d just like to know if he seems peculiarly – though spectacularly – useful when his foster parents get a flat.
At the other end of the age spectrum is table tennis legend Marty Reisman. This video shows him at age 80
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQQZauZ7aaM&feature=related
Youtube clip: “Marty Reisman Monologue” shows him giving a humorous speech.
The best clip of him in recent years may be “Marty Reisman sandpaper ping pong “
Hi Neo
Very cute baby, this baby way smarter that those Mullah with Cardboard Ayatollah in Teheran.
I feel sad that these rhetoric Mullah left control Iraq with their proxy Maliki and Jaafary, Sader, al-Hakeem and more.
I have no explanation for how this kid can do that.
the answer is in front of you…
A box of 500 balls or actually more and an adult who can focus and keep the babies focus doing the same thing over and over and over…
being we are social and aim to please. Have ability way beyond what stunted domesticated humans of today are even aware of (easily noted by the fact that the stuff that amazes us is usually a product of focus and repetition, and range from contortionists, to jugglers, to sports, to cards, magic, and more)
Today you would not generally trust most 13 year olds to drive… but back before we were crippled the first admiral of the US, received his first military commission at the age of 12.
From Wiki:
in fact, a huge number of movies warp our idea of age and what we could do, and so on.
Alexander the Great took up his Kingship at the age of 20. Einstein did his best work in his early 20s.
by crippling and creating a child hood they roll back the ability of the adults. skills education starts late, and so ability is less than what it could be. the tiger moms and similar that maybe dont push but do cater, kind of violate that and their children end up seeming amazing becuase they are learning skills that adults who didnt have problem mastering…
ie… because focus, self control, working to the end and such is a set of skills and if you develop them early on rather than wait for them to be needed and struggle later, your whole set of abilities is greater.
it would be like comparing knowing to read with having to sound out the words to read. having learned to read as a child, and do so phonetically (unlike kids today), has allowed us to push down the act of reading out of our consciousness and to the land of doing it automatically. while a person who is illiterate and tries to learn later, ends up having to work harder for a similar end competency even if it takes longer. their vocabularies are less.
an extreme example of ability meets driven parent would be Mozart…
this is not always the case, as there are parents who cater to a child whose early obsession is a positive one. you can see a child obsessed with playing an instrument would more likely get a instrument, than a child obsessed with other things would be. It would also require in the child a mono interest vs a evolving one, or a transitory one, a whimsical one, etc… (and a certain degree to refuse to be like others)
people can do amazing things when given the chance, and often the person doing it is not what we would imagine. (but hollyweird caters to what we imagine to be right rather than what is often the truth of it).
those who were not taught discipline at an early age find extreme discipline at a later age to be an impossible thing akin to some kind of magic or genetic mutation of ability.
some things not developed while your brain is being wired never become as able as those that were developed then. (and putting children off and so on, and other missives exacerbate this and egg it along with educational narrowness)
read shakespear and realize the common man of that time, being less domesticated by the state and having no state education, could understand that talk and find it easy enough that its entertaining in common theater. put that text through the grading system of reading levels and such, and you will find that its much higher than Obama’s under 8th grade level speech. You will find the same with such ‘childrens’ books by mark twain, and JF Cooper… even Lewis Carrol…
looks like the Red Queen is wrong, even if we run fast as we can under their games, we cant keep up and stay in place, we seem to be drifting back to a time of almost pre-literacy, and a time that never existed of not having ability (even basic ability – or basic reason).
@artfldgr …wow.
+1
Something a leftist can never consider is what incredible potential any anonymous person they pass on the street possesses.
He/She is an incredible creature of the earth, yet a leftist wants them stacked like cord wood in housing projects while animals get all the documentaries made on endangered habitats.
Artfldgr: I have no trouble understanding how prodigies come about, often as a combination of superior native ability and a parent with the skills and patience to work with the child to develop those early abilities (Tiger Woods as a 3-year-old golfer comes to mind).
What I meant when I said I had no idea how this kid does it was that there are in fact some natural limits, even for prodigies. Just to use a ridiculous example, there are no children who are talking intelligibly at the age of 1 months, no matter how assiduously a parent would try to teach them. The organism simply doesn’t allow it. And my impression is that this child’s hand-eye coordination seems to go past that limit. I would have thought that, even with a parent who practices with the baby in the baby’s every waking hour, the feat would be impossible because the nervous system of a baby that age could not support it. Obviously, however, I would be wrong in the case of this baby; the video speaks for itself.
Maybe the kid has aspergers… 🙂
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Also been a teaching tennis pro for nearly 3 decades, played in college, etc.
re: this ping pong kid. Meh, no big deal. I’ve seen 7 year old tennis players that can beat athletic adult men into the ground.
The real test is can he do it on his feet. Right here the kid is basically just responding to his father’s tosses, not reacting so much to the ball.