Question: What is so great about counter hitting?
About the article "Boxing", section "Counter puncher".

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The counter-drive is usually a counterattack against drives, normally high loop drives.
The racket is held closed and near to the ball, which is hit with a short movement "off the bounce" (immediately after hitting the table) so that the ball travels faster to the other side.
A well-timed, accurate counter-drive can be as effective as a smash. 
"Dinosaur" is a song written by Kesha Sebert, in collaboration with Max Martin, Shellback; the latter two are responsible for the song's production.
All three composers were responsible for providing the song's instruments.
The song's recording was commenced at Maratone Studios, in Stockholm, Sweden, by Martin and Shellback.
While being interviewed by "Rolling Stone", Kesha was asked about her writing technique and how her songs come to fruition, which she explained using "Dinosaur" as an example.
The singer explained that the song's conception was auto-biographical and that it stemmed from a previous experience she had when an older man had been hitting on her, which she elaborated on: "I just write about what I live — literally, my entire record is totally autobiographical, because I think there's a great pop song in anything and everything, any situation.
There's a song called 'Dinosaur' about this old guy who was hitting on me, and his toupee was kind of falling off, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're so old, you're prehistoric, you're like a dinosaur.
D-I-N-O-S-A-you are a dinosaur.'"
Mr Hill had originally planned to raise money for charity.
However, Rab Taylor, Great Yarmouth coastguard's Operations Manager, told the BBC "Launching the lifeboat, offshore and inshore, helicopters, Nimrod aircraft and using other vessels at sea all costs money and it could be counter-productive compared to what Mr Hill is going to raise for charities through this trip.
"Despite being “heavily criticised for wasting the time and resources of the coastguard and lifeboat services" Mr Hill felt “no guilt about taking up so much of their time”.
He said "If there's a service for those in peril on the sea, surely it should be used - I only really cost them the diesel."
Various baseball analysts, including Bill James, Pete Palmer, Dick Cramer, and the "Baseball Prospectus" editors, have found so-called "clutch hitting" ability to be a myth.
This is not to say that clutch hits, like those listed above, do not exist, but rather that some kind of innate ability for a player to perform above his true talent level in high-pressure situations is nothing but an illusion.
In his 1984 "Baseball Abstract", James framed the problem with clutch hitting this way: "How is it that a player who possesses the reflexes and the batting stroke and the knowledge and the experience to be a .262 hitter in other circumstances magically becomes a .300 hitter when the game is on the line?
How does that happen?
What is the process?
What are the effects?
Until we can answer those questions, I see little point in talking about clutch ability."
Guénon distinguishes two phases in the action of 'counter-initiation', the first being purely negative and devoted to the destruction of everything authentically traditional in the human realm, a phase that culminated in the kind of materialism that could be called 'integral'.
But that latter phase is only a preparatory one, destined to be followed toward the setting up of something that can more appropriately be called a 'counter-tradition', which is yet to come before the end of the Kali-Yuga.
These two phases are contemplated by Guénon using the symbolism of "solve & coagula" taken from alchemy.
In the 'counter-tradition', the role to be played by the 'counter-initiation' is referred to by Guénon in the following terms: "after having worked in the shadows to inspire and direct invisibly all modern movements, it will in the end contrive to 'exteriorize', if that is the right word, something that will be as it were the counterpart of a true tradition, at least as completely and as exactly as it can be so within the limitations necessarily inherent in all possible counterfeits as such".
About "false spirituality", the term refers also to beings involved in the 'counter-initiation' and engaged in 'inverted realization' and who lose themselves in a way that can only end, in the extreme cases, at last in the total 'disintegration' of the conscious being and in its final dissolution, "thus realizing the inverse of the effacement of the 'ego' before the 'Self', or, in others words, realizing confusion in 'chaos' as against fusion in principal Unity".
A finality so conclusive represents only an exceptional case, which is that of "awliyâ esh-Shaytân", but the goal of 'counter-tradition' will be to divert as many as possible from true spiritual path.
'Neo-spiritualism' and the 'pseudo-initiation' proceeding from it were only, writes Guénon, "a partial 'prefiguration' of the 'counter-tradition'", notably in their utilization of elements authentically traditional in their origin, "perverted from their true meaning".
But this perversion "is only a move in the direction of the complete reversal that must characterize the 'counter-tradition'".
This "false spirituality" should be expressed, according to René Guénon, even in the social field through the establishment of a "counter-order" opposed to the traditional notion of "Sanctum Regnum" (whose motto is "Ordo ab Chao"), and run at unprecedented scale in human history according to traditional data.
When such a counter-order will be about to appear, Guénon writes that modern social concepts for human organization inherited from the first phase of the antitraditional action such as "egalitarism" and other similar ideals will be abandoned in favor of the setting up of a "counter-elite" and the reintroduction of "counter-values" which will form the social basis for the 'counter-tradition'.
Symbolism itself will be subverted by the counter-initiation through subversion of inherent double meanings of its constitutive elements, according to a complex notion exposited in chapter 30 of "The reign of quantity and the sign of times".
He identified, in some undercurrents manifested from the seventeenth century and continued throughout nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the premises of this final phase of dissolution.
The reign of the 'counter-tradition', writes Guénon, is identical to the traditional notion designated by the 'reign of the Antichrist', whichever way this latter symbol is understood, either as an individual or a collectivity.
In a certain sense it could be both, as there will be a collectivity that will appear as the 'exteriorization' of the 'counter-initiatic' organization itself when it finally appears in the light of day, "and there must also be a person who will be at the head of the collectivity, and as such be the most complete expression and even the very 'incarnation' of what it will represent, if only in the capacity of 'support' to all the malefic influences that he will first concentrate in himself and then project onto the world".
Guénon precises that he can therefore be regarded as the chief of the "awliyâ esh-Shaytân", it can be said that he will be as it were their "seal" ("khâtem"), according to the terminology of Islamic esoterism.
He will be an 'imposter' (this is the meaning of the word dajjal by which he is designated in Arabic), since his reign will be the 'great parody' in its complete form, the 'satanic' imitation and caricature of everything that is truly traditional.
The Antichrist can adopt the very symbols of the Messiah, "using them of course in an inverted sense".
In the same way, "there can be and must be a strange resemblance between the designations of the Messiah (El-Mesîha in Arabic) and of the Antichrist (El-Mesîkh) ".
Here, writes Guénon, there is an untranslatable double meaning: "Mesîkh" can be taken as a deformation of "Mesîha", by the mere addition of a dot to the final letter; but at the same time the first word means 'deformed', which correctly expresses the character of the Antichrist.
A commentator of René Guénon, Charles-André Gilis, has published a book in 2009 which proposes some insights and developments of the idea of 'counter-tradition' introduced by Guénon, based on Mohyddin Ibn Arabi's writings ("The profanation of Israël in the light of Sacred Law").