At 83 years young, Tom Steury recently made his 1 millionth free throw since he began tracking his efforts in 2005. He’s a sweet-shooting, swish-seeking inspiration to me.
Fascinating....I had assumed 90% was the free throw threshold, and any percentages achieved over that were luck. But I see Mark Price was 559 of 590 over consecutive seasons, which comes to 94.7%. For some reason, no NBA player has been able to do anything like what Tom can do for a career.
I also would have thought people dropped off with age.
I don't think the obsession requires any explanation. I have plenty to live for, but the value of it is intuitive to me.
I don't know that anyone would pursue it in this way if she didn't think she had a chance to become elite at it, or at least if she didn't have a particular goal. A lower numeric goal can come to represent something important for you.
I admire the mental toughness behind the skill. Not really the discipline of doing it every day, but of keeping the skill, of not choking, of being comfortable in the idea that you are that good. And I was surprised to read that Tom is in fact so comfortable that he thinks about other things while he shoots. It all sounds like therapy to me, if it's successful -- or maybe that the successful practitioners should be therapists! Sharing the principles in other realms, of course and helping people apply them.
Fascinating....I had assumed 90% was the free throw threshold, and any percentages achieved over that were luck. But I see Mark Price was 559 of 590 over consecutive seasons, which comes to 94.7%. For some reason, no NBA player has been able to do anything like what Tom can do for a career.
I also would have thought people dropped off with age.
I don't think the obsession requires any explanation. I have plenty to live for, but the value of it is intuitive to me.
I don't know that anyone would pursue it in this way if she didn't think she had a chance to become elite at it, or at least if she didn't have a particular goal. A lower numeric goal can come to represent something important for you.
I admire the mental toughness behind the skill. Not really the discipline of doing it every day, but of keeping the skill, of not choking, of being comfortable in the idea that you are that good. And I was surprised to read that Tom is in fact so comfortable that he thinks about other things while he shoots. It all sounds like therapy to me, if it's successful -- or maybe that the successful practitioners should be therapists! Sharing the principles in other realms, of course and helping people apply them.