Ralph Turner
Las grandes culturas de la humanidad
1. Las ciudades antiguas
Editorial F. C. E.
México, 1974
564 págs.
Trad: Francisco A. Delpiane, Ramón Iglesia
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Tiene 48 años...
COD: #FZR0865-46
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"It was a dream of mine to become a skydiver. I am 40 years old right now, so I waited a pretty long time to make my dream come true. The only regret I have is that I didn’t start skydiving sooner. " -- Ralph Turner
I have just spent most of my evening reading articles, posts, quotes, testimonials and personal stories regarding Coach Don Meyer. The internet and social media is absolutely abuzz about the impact of Coach Meyer. For those that have spent a good deal of time in college basketball circles, this is not surprising. You know of him impact, his influence.
As I type this, it's been less than 20 hours since Coach passed away in his home in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
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I like to write, and there is so much to write about Coach Meyer. My mind is going with my thoughts about my personal interactions with Coach, along with so much of the stories that I have read or watched today. I'm not sure where to start, or finish. I just want to get it right.
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I didn't play for Coach Meyer, and I didn't Coach with him. I didn't work his camps. There are many people that will read this ...that know Coach better than me. I don't want to try to pretend that I know him, personally, better than I do.
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The first time I ever heard of Coach Don Meyer was at a Nike Basketball Clinic at the Jersey Shore. I was a young coach, just getting started, and there were some big "names" speaking at the clinic. I remember Bob Knight, Pat Summit and Tara Vanderveer.
But Don Meyer was speaking, and I never heard of him. I was a basketball junkie.....and I was blown away when I heard him.
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After three years as an assistant coach, I was named the Head Coach at Wilmington College (DE), now Wilmington University, at the age of 25. After I heard Coach Meyer, I got back to the office and called him. I had two thoughts in mind: 1) I wanted to let him know that I had started my own Coaching Clinic, and I was hoping to get to the point where we could afford to fly him up to speak at the clinic, and 2) I wanted to play David Lipscomb (He was the Head Coach at Lipscomb at the time).
Somehow, after all these years, I still remember his response to both comments/questions. On the first one, I recall that he was rather direct, telling me "to stick with Bob Hurley. You can't afford me." .........and so, somewhat shocked, I moved onto the second point. While I don't remember the answer verbatim, I believe that he told me that he would play us at his place and he'd give us $1,000 and a meal at Captain D's. We scheduled a tournament at Trevecca Nazarene first, and scheduled a game at Lipscomb a day or two later.
I think that we caught his attention when we defeated Trevecca in their own tournament, as Coach Meyer watched. When we played Lipscomb, it wasn't so pretty. They thumped us. (Years later, for a period of time, I realized that I had the distinction of coaching against the two winningest coaches in the NCAA - Don Meyer and Herb Magee from Philadelphia University. As many know, most of Coach Meyer's wins were in the NAIA with Lipscomb, but he coaches long enough at Northern State to allow his wins to count within the NCAA record book. As such, I contributed a "w" to both Don Meyer and Herb Magee).
Coach Meyer's team was very well coached, as expected. They also had very good players. It was, quite frankly, what I had expected when I scheduled the game.
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Many years later, I was serving as the Director of the NAIA's National Championship. It was our 75th Anniversary, and I called to ask him to be our guest speaker. In addition, we were choosing a 75th Anniversary Team, which consisted of 60 players and 15 coaches. Coach Meyer was selected to that team. This was in 2012, several years after his accident (in 2008) and after he had been awarded the Jimmy V Inspiration Award at the ESPY's.
He was very kind, and said that he loved the NAIA and would do anything to help. He agreed to be our guest speaker, so he and Carmen (his wife) flew into Kansas City a day or two ahead of the banquet. I remember that busy, but tremendously enjoyable evening. I ran from dinner with the "red coats" (tournament committee members) to meet Coach Meyer and Carmen, who were with Josh Poteet at the Westin. Coach was wonderful with us that evening. I recall him being quite funny, but he was also appreciative of being back in Kansas City at the NAIA Tournament.
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I sat with Coach and Carmen at the banquet, although I was gone from the table for a good portion of the time, as I served as the emcee. Something sticks out in my mind about that night, in addition to his speech. Just before I went up to introduce him, he leaned over to me and said, "This is going to be one of the hardest speeches that I ever give."
Now, for those of you that know Coach, you know that he has given speech after speech after speech......probably thousands of them, in many capacities, all throughout the country. Right away, I thought, "Why?".......but I don't think that I ever asked. In thinking about this, I think that there were a couple of reasons that he said this: 1) He knew that he had another opportunity to teach, and this was in front of hundreds of student-athletes, and many of his coaching peers. 2) Secondly, I think that the cancer was starting to have an effect on him, and he just didn't know how many more opportunities that he would have left.
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His speech as terrific, as expected. I have a copy of it, and I've watched it more than once.
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As I began to create my Lessons of the Legends presentation, I included Coach Meyer in my study......and ultimately, he's been one of the coaches that I feature in this presentation, of which I've given in 11 different states thus far (and I'm scheduled for quite a few more). As such, I've continued to study coach, both from reading and watching videos......and also through phone conversations.
Coach called a few months ago, and I reminded him about the presentation that I've been giving, and I asked him what lessons he'd like to pass onto coaches. He told me to remind coaches that, "Your example isn't just the main thing in influencing people. It's the ONLY thing." Also, he told me to "ask coaches if they love coaching more than they love winning." (Think about that one).
He told me to let him know if he could help in any way.
That conversation was the last time I talked with Coach.
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I saw Coach at the NAIA Tournament in March, but didn't talk with him. He looked very weak, as it was obvious that he had lost quite a bit of weight, and he looked very pale. I watched him teaching. He was sitting at the baseline, with Coach Joe Niland (Mobile) on one side of him, and Coach Dannton Jackson (Xavier, LA) on the other. The three men barely picked up their heads, as Coach Meyer had out his pen and paper, and was teaching. This was in late March.
As I walked away, I thought that this might be the last time I saw Coach. It was.
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During my interactions with Coach Meyer, it was obvious to me that the car accident affected him. He fell asleep at the wheel and ran head-on into a semi on a highway, and lived. He considered it a "blessing". Because of the accident, they found the cancer.
After the accident, he spent the rest of his time trying to help others, and DO for others. He was kind, and he showed his emotions more than before the accident. He told family, friends, coaches and former players that he loved them.
By observing, this was a big lesson for me: I don't want for it to take a semi - or cancer - before I express my emotions to others. I don't want it to take a tragedy before I tell people that I love them.
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I've literally spent hours reading what coaches and former players have to say about coach. I've read quotes and comments from family members, sports writers, friends......and even people that attended his camp as a kid. I've read comments from people that barely knew him personally....and even people that have never met him in person.
Here's what really stuck out to me: In sports - and in coaching - we often TALK about teaching life lessons and character through sports. Here's a guy - Coach Don Meyer - who DID it!
We often TALK about building relationships with our players, and we TALK about building life-long bonds, and here's a Coach that DID it!
Through my studying of Coach Meyer, I've seen many of his wonderful quotes, BUT here was a Coach that walked the walk .....he LIVED the quotes and embodied them.
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Ralph Turner coached a long tie as an assistant to Coach Meyer at Lipscomb. For the last several days, he's been posting a lot of great stuff about Coach Meyer, and he's encouraged others to do the same. Here was a great note on his wall from another coach:
"After reading all of your posts about your coach and your memories of him, I can't help but think that Coach Meyer is the epitome of what all coaches should strive to be. We want to leave our mark on the players we coach and help them grow into adults with life lessons from the game/sport - whatever it may be. I think all of your posts reflect the notion that we forget about wins and losses & th...e scores or points, but what we carry with us always are the relationships we formed while playing and/or coaching and that's what sports is truly about! Thank you for reminding me about the importance of what we do in regards to the life lessons we teach and the awesome opportunity we have as coaches to impact lives and be mentors to others. Also the responsibility we have to practice what we preach and live our words each day! You're awesome!!"
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Philip Hutcheson played for Coach Meyer at Lipscomb, and became the all-time leading scorer in the history of college basketball. Today, Hutcheson is the Athletic Director at Lipscomb. Upon learning that Coach passed away, here's what he wrote:
"Pick up a piece of trash today when you see it. Use please and thank you when ordering at lunch. Make note of something new you learned today. Coach Meyer would've wanted that instead flowers anyways. Thankful I had the chance to learn from him. RIP Coach."
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Coach was known to tell players, coaches and anyone who would listen (and, over the years, the legions of people that would listen would grow larger and larger) to leave every place better than they found it.
Coach did that.
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After reading many of the comments and tributes to/about Coach Meyer, New York Times best selling author Jeffrey Marx wrote this: "Reading tributes to Coach Don Meyer, I'm reminded that -- when used properly -- the platform of sports is most powerful platform in America."
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Coach recognized his platform, and he did, indeed, use it properly.
You see, people from all over this country are picking up trash. They are saying "please" and "thank you". People are taking notes. People are treating others like they would like to be treated. People are helping others, and being kind to others.
Coach: You sought to leave the world a better place than you found it, and you've accomplished your mission.
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Ekstatyczność podniebnych nurkowań
Przed swoim pierwszym skokiem spadochronowym, Ralph Turner (Miami, USA) obawiał się, że może zemdleć z przerażenia. Okazało się jednak, że nigdy w życiu nie było mu dalej do stracenia przytomności, niż w trakcie pierwszego skoku. W momencie oderwania się od podłogi samolotu, organizm ludzki natychmiast przechodzi w niemożliwy do opisania stan pobudzenia. Do akcji błyskawicznie wkraczają nadnercza,uwalniając do krwiobiegu ogromne ilość kortyzolu – klasycznego hormonu stresu. Poziomy adrenaliny i noradrenaliny wkraczają w najwyższe partie Himalai. Mózg skoczka zaczyna pływać w chemicznej zupie hormonów, którą uzupełniają hormony tarczycy oraz uwalniany przez przysadkę mózgową hormon wzrostu. Tempo bicia serca wzrasta do 170 uderzeń na minutę. Człowiek jest w pełni gotowy do walki z niedźwiedziem. Tymczasem zamiast przeciwnika, jest tylko bezkresna przestrzeń, nie możliwa do objęcia wzrokiem.
Momentem szczytowym pierwszego skoku wbrew pozorom nie jest wcale lądowanie, lecz chwila otwarcia spadochronu. To właśnie wtedy cały stres i ogromne pobudzenie (porównywane przez niektórych z wsadzeniem palców do gniazdka elektrycznego), przechodzą w uczucie prawdziwej ekstazy. Umysł podświadomie uznaje, że przetrwał chwilę najcięższej próby. Skoczek dowiaduje się, że wygrał los na najważniejszej loterii. Ogarnia go poczucie bezpieczeństwa, które wreszcie pozwala się cieszyć krajobrazem przybliżającej się ziemi. Po wylądowaniu człowiek osiąga mistrzostwo Zen, pozostając przez następne kilkanaście godzin w stanie absolutnego oświecenia. Odkrywa nieznane mu dotąd prawdy. Pragnie wyjść do ludzi i opowiadać wszystkim o tym co go właśnie spotkało. Tymczasem tego nie da się opowiedzieć. To trzeba przeżyć.
