After reading this article, I have a question on my mind, why large portion of the NBA player came from the suburb instead of the inner city.

The city can provide a lot of advantages for a boy to become a NBA player, you konw so many stars are in hte city, street baskateball, countless competitions, better training facilities and even coaches.

There are some possibilities I can think of but I am not sure if I am right because I am not living in America. First, I think there is a possibility that the kids in suburbs have more time practicing because they don’t have much entertainment in the suburbs, and bskateball dosen’t need much preperation, all you need are a ball and a net. So they can spend a lot of time in practicing their skills. But the kids living in inner cities have much more activities for them to choose they can watch movies in the theater, they go to bars, they can do part-time jobs, they can attend lectures and many different social activities, so many of them actuall not choose baskateball as their hobby. Second, kids in suburbs see baskatball as a chance to enter good college so they always practice hard trying to have a good performance so a good university will admit them after they graduate from high school.But childern in the inner cities always have more choices and opportunities and because the life they have experienced in the inner cities they are more motivated in studying and know better what they want and what they should do to achieve it they only take baskateball as a program to watch or a sport to help them keep fit.

So, there is a big chance for the kids in suburbs to become basketball stars.

It really astounded me when I first read this story. I am a X-Game addict, I always watching X-Game videos and screech for their amazing tricks, but I have never even thought that a handicapped person can really participate in X-Game because X-Games are pretty difficult and dangerous even for the healthy people. some of the mono athletes were paralysed, some even don’t have legs, but they still succeed in putting up astounishing performances in the X-Games. I am deeply touched and inspired by these mono athletes, although their body is not so capable, but their determind minds in exceed the limits of their handicapped body is something that we healthy people should admire.

In this article we can also see that actually the high tech has greatly helped the handicapped people in challenging X-Games, like the sit style snowboard and skateboard, these equipments greatly helped the handicapped people to realize their dream of participateing in the X-Gamesand once again help regain their confidence.

I notice this trend in our mordern society that is people are actually becoming metally stronger and stronger, i believe that’s because our society has changed into a society that you don’t have to be pysically strong to win others admiration, like in the ancient times the knights were respected by people. Nowadays the will power actually matters much more, with the appearance of more and more eminent figures like Helen Keller and Stephen Hawking , their stories have greatly encouraged the disabled people that they can also do great things even they don’t have a healthy body like others.

I feel very happy to see the progress that the human kind made in the external part or in the spirit. The story I saw will always encourage me to break my own limits and fulfill my goals!