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Merlin Hummel is awesome. World Cup silver with AI – colossal intelligence. The World Cup silver is only one passage station, says ARD light athletics expert Frank Busemann.
That was awesome! A phrase has never been more accurate. After many successful German hammer men a long, long time ago, we now have a big boy in the world elite of the well -kept quadruple. And what kind of one. No hammers, more of a shelter. The Supermottek from Bavaria, so to speak.
Merlin Hummel had threaded the hopes of an extraordinary performance for a top result. Clearly in the pear, nerdy brain twists. One who feels comfortable in the depths of technology and new methods and makes a development that you need if you want to be among the best in the world.
World Cup silver only one Passage station
Carefully built up by his trainer, supported, accompanied, with a long -term plan. At the age of 23 he arrived at the silver medal. This career high point should and will only be one passage station. When Markus Esser won the last hammer throwing medal for Germany, he was three. A small child, this colossus, hardly imaginable.
Only Merlin can do magic
In the meantime we have arrived in the age of artificial intelligence. It does not throw a hammer away, but it can support it in the analysis. Hummel is simply interested in study technology. A win-win situation with him, so to speak, and he can be sure that the AI will never replace him.
Because it can’t conjure up. Only the Merlin can. He also tinkers with his trainer on strange devices that the world has never seen. You have to go unconventional ways to generate exponential performance.
The calm of a successful thrower
In the first attempt he threw his best performance and that by adding! The later medalists had previously indicated in their first attempt, there is nothing here. Then keep the calm, then throw it at one and a half meters over the best performance, that’s hard. Heavier than the 7.26 kilos on the wire. This testifies to this calm, which is needed as a successful thrower.
Marshmallow test passed
He would have “passed” the so-called marshmallow test as a child, at the time of Markus Esser’s last German medal. It gives children a marshmallow that they can consume, but when they wait an indefinite period, there is a second one. This is called reward postponement.
An athlete must be able to do that and especially a thrower. I invest in the here and now, in training, or already in an impact, with leisure, with calm because I know that I explode at the back. There is the reward. Can he. 82.77 meters. Test passed. The effort was rewarded with silver.
Progress is learning
And he’s not finished. The sensors are already stretched out, progress is learning. What can you learn from AI, what from other trainers, what from other athletes? They are in exchange, there are potential everywhere that can be raised. To do this, you have to wake up and learn with open eyes and learn. That is the AI. Your colossal intelligence.