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Except navy seals do tactical operations.
Being fast in specific instances isn’t the same as treating every day as a crisis. 99% of the time navy seals aren’t doing tactical operations, they are setting things up so they can do them when needed. You prepare for doing 48 hours without sleep by being fit and well rested.
Have long stood by this belief and still do but modern IT calls it legacy and antiquated. Oh how we've lost The Plot.
The modern attitude is discard everything "old", not immediately understood, and abandon standardization and simplicity.
Especially as I've gotten older, I've noticed I do less work more slowly than my younger peers, but I only have to do it once, and I usually get closer to the root than my younger colleagues. Measure twice and all that.
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Same thing with Olympic weightlifting. This is a very common phrase in my gym. Snatching has got to be the most humbling barbell movement ever. Dudes who can easily bench over 100 kg (220 lbs) would never get to close snatching that. (Myself included, but hopefully one day)
I know nothing about Olympic weightlifting! What makes snatching so unique and humbling? Aside: you don’t have to, but a one sentence definition of it would be awesome too - my lifting has been limited to the classic stuff, no fancy Olympic “bend and snap” stuff ;)
this phrase is used in sailing, skiing, motorcycling, showjumping, skydiving, tennis, classical musicianship, downhill mountain biking, and lately I hear, mma. I have some doubt that it originated with door kickers.
I've been taking glassblowing classes for a few years, and this is easily the biggest lesson there. If I rush something, I will fuck it up. If I let things happen bit by bit while they can go smoothly, everything comes out much easier. This probably applies everywhere, but it's really stark when you're playing with quickly-solidifying goopy liquid sand
> but it's really stark when you're playing with quickly-solidifying goopy liquid sand I already wanted to learn glassblowing, but hearing it described this way just sold me on it completely. I’m gonna go find a place. :)
I have a hard time believing that this phraseology originated in the military given its historical use in the motorsports community. See Alain Proust, who professed to embody this philosophy. Granted the SEAL community predated Prousts F1 participation, but SeAL tactics were not top of mind in 80s popular culture like they are today.
Festina lente.
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I know nothing about Olympic weightlifting! What makes snatching so unique and humbling? Aside: you don’t have to, but a one sentence definition of it would be awesome too - my lifting has been limited to the classic stuff, no fancy Olympic “bend and snap” stuff ;)
You pull the barbell up from the ground (like a deadlift) while dropping into a squat, and then get it up over your head while standing up. It is much more explosive than either the deadlift or squat separately.
But - it being explosive makes perfect sense, but what does it work that deadlift or squats alone don’t? Or is the point the explosiveness?
- I'd be curious if the origin is really the Navy seals. I couldn't find in my brief searching any where else... - I like John Wooden's saying "be quick but don't hurry". I mentioned that to a doctor who trained in the mid 20th century and he said that surgeons had a line "hurry, but don't rush"
- several people here mention that they learned this phrase in the military
- the first written mention I could find is in a 1998 army report [0]
- the first Google Books hit for this phrase is from 1970 but this seems to be an error - the full text preview is from a different, recent book [1]
- Internet Archive has a lot of hits - but the earliest ones - except for the army report mentioned above - are from the 2000s (don't be fooled by wrong publishing dates in the metadata) [2]
- Google Ngram Viewer shows a brief appearance around 1980 (maybe a fluke) and then a steady rise in the 2000s [3].
- In one army magazine I saw an extended version: "slow is smooth, smooth is fast, fast is deadly" (which doesn't transfer that well to other professions)
[0] https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA357718/page/23/mode/2up?...
[1] https://www.google.de/books/edition/Span_of_Control/IYy_EAAA...
[2] https://archive.org/search?query=%22slow+is+smooth%22&sin=TX...
[3] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=slow+is+smooth...