The Sports Connection: Earthing in Action
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I ground myself. Within one day, or even within hours, I can stop the pain. It disappears. “I’m an avid golfer and have been so all my life. Now that I’m retired I play practically every day, and even though I’m seventy-one, I’m still very competitive. I was a 2 to 3 handicap golfer in my younger days. Now I’m still at a 4 to 5 handicap level. None of my contemporaries are at my level anymore. All the guys I used to play with when I was younger and who played me even or beat me can’t come close to me anymore. They have lost their capacity to play competitively. I have not. I play with the pros my age and I kick their tails. They can’t believe it. “I play golf grounded. I put copper wires in the insole of my shoes, bend them through a hole in the soles, and then bend them again flat against the bottom of the shoes. I think that sleeping and playing grounded has something to do with being supple and able to take the physical beating caused by regular practice and playing. Most people my age stop being competitive on the golf course because they can’t take the abuse to their body. They can’t practice, swing really hard, or push their games to be a winner because it hurts. So they don’t win. They lose. I can’t beat the really good twenty- or thirty-year-old kids. Nothing hurts when they swing. But the older ones don’t beat me.”