Sport is pain in exchange for fulfillment. It's where an athlete learns to embrace pain. Everyone, therefore, should do sport to learn pain.

Anyone who dont know how to handle pain would shift his own to others. That's the root cause of all evils.

Actually, both sports and wars are fulfillments out of pain. In sports, it's your own pain. In wars, it's the others'.

But those in sports know the benefit of suffering pain. Many would even cushion others' pain to divert conflicts. World would achieve peace if we all put sports above all other activities, expecially war.

The greatest obstacle today to get people to do sports turns out to be sports themselves. This is because sports are not sports, but entertainments. And their deluisve ego-boosting capabilties have distracted potential candidates for sports from actually doing them. Worst yet, they more likely trapped them into becoming couch potatos.

Some of the major sports today may be discovered to be as harmful as how we discovered about cigaretts. We should have already recognize their contribution in promoting violence and mob behavior. But someday their downfall may well be blamed on their original designs. They are simply discriminative.

Most sports discriminate most of us. We are mostly too small for football, too short for basketball, too meek for hockey, too poor for golf and too smart for baseball. Half of us, who are women, have to practice segregation in order to play these sports. And the rest of us -- senior, nerds, orientals etc -- just watch and dont play.

Now these sports are big money entertainments. Their popularities with the young people have prevented innovative nondiscriminating sports from being successfully introduced. We need to change this through compulsary education.

China recently made kungfu a compulsary requirement for all school kids. We like to add to this breakthrough by suggesting that we make the value of the kungfu strokes measurable, and for nonviolent applications.

Toward this, we introduce pongfu -- kungfu pluses pingpong. Now we can measure each student's skill level precisely on a pingpong table. But the most important benefit is that kids would learn to become real people.

1.50 PINGPONG PLAN

1.51 HIGH-TECH GADGETS

1.52 FUTURISTIC LARGE-STADIUM DISPLAY

1.53 PRACTICE MAKES A PONGFOOL

1.54 PLAYING TABLE -- PLABLE

1.55 LEGENDS -- OLD AND NEW

1.56 GOOD OLD PINGPONG

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