Dre Wheeler Mr. Raport Dre Wheeler Mre Raport Dr. Wheeler Mr. Raport Dre Wheeler Mr. Raport Dre Wheeler Mre Raport eajee Try it, Mr. Raport. Try it real seriouslye I wish our radio audience could see you now, Jime You are contracting practically all of the muggles of your face and scalpe Why don't you just move those little muscles right behind your ears? I'm afraid I'm not able to do that, Dr. Wheeler. I can't find then. That's just the point. In erder to find and to use a local muscle for the first time, you have to start with all the muscles in tuat region and locate the ones you want by a procedure technically known as "individuation". When, finally, you have located the muscles which you want to use mainly in the performance, the rest of your muscles which you used too much at first quiet down but do not remain completely relaxed. They become tense and that tension is necessary in the execution of the desired motion. In performances like diving, shooting baskets in basketball, swinging the club in golf, and so on, this tension takes the form of bodily posture. This posture, as every teacher of physical education knows, is absolutely necessary for the execution of skilled move- ments» That is very interesting, Dr. Wheeler. I kmow of Dre Coghill's work and I think that physical education instructors are becoming more and more familiar with it and its importance for the psyche ology of skill, It will certainly be an important step in the history of physical education, Mre Raport, when physical education instructors gener= ally learn of Dr. Coghill's discovery. Before we leave this point, may I give another illustration? Certainly, Dr. Wheeler, Did you ever see a very young infant erying when he was not squirm- ing all overt No, I can't say that I have, Tr. Whecler, although I have not ob= served the behavior of very many young infants. Well, there is an excellent reason why very young infants are always squirming all over when they are crying. They have to set their body in motion in order to find the muscles that they use in cryinge This soumds very strange at first, but all the evidence points to the truth of this statement. I wish we had more time for a discussion of these interesting points, but there are some more q uestions I would like to ask you, Dre Wheeler. Certain physical education teachers believe thas we stress too much the competitive games. Just the other day a high school youth went to bed crying because his team lost a game. Should games be played with so much stress upon the score?