RAFAEL NADAL - KINETIC BEAUTY - UNIVERSAL APPEAL

Rafael Nadal pictured in Madrid, Spain
Photo credit: Getty

According to my TV Cox Communications schedule
Friday, September 19, 2008
The Versus Channel - for me that is channel 139
The Davis Cup in Madrid will air
Noon to 6:00 p.m.
That is not live.
Live would be at 6:00 a.m.


www.versus.com/schedule

Saturday, September 20 - Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 21 - Noon to 5:00 p.m.

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Rafael Nadal Septembe 18, 2008
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And video 1 and video 2 with Rafa in them from Madrid, although a lot of Spanish language that I unfortunately don't understand. Still worth taking a look.

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Rafael Nadal

Uploaded by talented 14 year old Hannah - serenitylivesforever

Music: Kissing You

Text from David Foster Wallace:

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.

The human beauty were talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings reconciliation with the fact of having a body.

Of course, in mens sports no one ever talks about beauty or grace or the body. Men may profess their love of sports, but that love must always be cast and enacted in the symbology of war: elimination vs. advance, hierarchy of rank and standing, obsessive statistics, technical analysis, tribal and/or nationalist fervor, uniforms, mass noise, banners, chest-thumping, face-painting, etc. For reasons that are not well understood, wars codes are safer for most of us than loves. You too may find them so, in which case Spains mesomorphic and totally martial Rafael Nadal is the mans man for you he of the unsleeved biceps and Kabuki self-exhortations...

...A top athletes beauty is next to impossible to describe directly. Or to evoke...

The article, although it is centered around Federer, illustrates an author who wrote about tennis on the whole and its beauty , which brings me to its relevance to Rafa - beauty in motion. The full article is at: www.nytimes.com

By David Foster Wallace

Published: August 20, 2006

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