Re: Unofficial WEG Team

[Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

There seems to be some real stretching here. A lot of sports are team sports,
but to different degrees.  Basketball is a team sport and the make up of the
current five guys on the court is important.  You win in basketball, by moving
the ball to create an open shot and take it.  You win in basketball by good
team defense, eg switching coverate, etc.  Football is a team sport where each
member has a job and has to do it. Baseball is a sport played as a team but is
really a sport of many individual contest.  There is not much the on deck guy
can do to help the batter at the plate and there is little the shortstop can
do to help the pitcher on a given pitch.  It is a contest between pitcher and
batter.  If the shortstop boots a ball, he boots the ball as an individual.  A
relay in track is again a team effort with success dicitated by individual
efforts.  A runner can learn very eaisly to pass a baton.  The winning
stragety in a relay is to have the best eight legs you can fine on the team.

So team sports are team sports to  degree.

Seems to me that team endurance riding is more like a relay in track than
basketball.  All that is needed to make it a team is eaisly learned and
perfected and what really matters is the best horses to make up the team.

Tell you what guys give me,  give me the four guys with the best 100 meter
times in the world and a week to work them on the baton exchange  and I'll
challange anybody elses team to a 4x100 realy.  You can use any selection
process and stragety you wnat,bu in the end I am sure I wouldn't have many
takers.

Teddy Lancaster wrote:

> Carlos writes:
>
> > Endurance is not a team sport where each member has to learn to
> > play with all the others in order to be successful, as you would in
> > basketball, etc. It is an individual sport where , at the end, you add-up
> > the individual performance of each rider. There is really very little
> > one rider can do to help another rider succeed. They each have
> > to ride their own race. Even the believe that riding together the
> > horses motivate each other is hard to accept since the horse rider
> > teams come from different parts of the country and most probably
> > have never ridden together.
> >
>
> Ah, but this is where you are wrong.  The WEC IS a
> team competition FIRST and that is our goal...to
> send the best TEAM!!!

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