{"id":129650,"date":"2024-02-02T16:10:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=129650"},"modified":"2024-02-02T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:11:14","slug":"lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons for Life: Dr Buddy Reid in Q and A-by  Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lessons for Life: Dr Buddy Reid in Q and A-<span style=\"color: #333399;\">by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #333399;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/02\/02\/lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>THE MAKING OF AN ALL-ROUNDER: A Conversation with Dr Buddy Reid \u2026.\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Sunday Island<\/em>, 28 January 2024\u00a0\u2026.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/island.lk\/the-making-of-an-all-rounder-a-conversation-with-dr-buddy-reid\/%C2%A0\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/island.lk\/the-making-of-an-all-rounder-a-conversation-with-dr-buddy-reid\/\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Correspondence to Dr Sanjiva Wijesinha = Sanjivasw@gmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/02\/02\/lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/buddy-2.jpeg?resize=238%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dr Buddy Reid \u2013 one of the finest all-around sportsmen Sri Lanka has produced \u2013 recently celebrated his 83rd birthday. During his University days, Buddy won the National Table Tennis championships of Ceylon three times, played Cricket for Ceylon, sang in the University SCM choir, and played clarinet in a dance band called The Neurones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 1965 he graduated as a doctor -and a few years later he captained our national teams in both Cricket and Table Tennis, was a player and coach of the Table Tennis team as well as Secretary of the Table Tennis Association of Ceylon. He raised a family with his wife Peace \u2013 and became a specialist surgeon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/02\/02\/lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/UNI-CEYLO-TEAM-1963-SARA-CHAMPS.webp?w=698&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>The University of Ceylon Cricket Team which secured the Sara Trophy in Ceylon in the<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>1962\/63 season \u2026. with Carlyel Perera of St. Josephs as Captain and Buddy Reid of STC as Vice-captain<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>In a conversation last week with Ravi Rudra and Manilka Wijesooriya, Buddy spoke about his life and career \u2013 and gave us an insight into what it takes to be a true all-rounder.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Question-<\/strong><\/em>What goes into the making of a sportsman?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Parents play a vital role. The most important first gift parents could give a child is a ball and the next few gifts should be more balls of different kinds. The parents should then play with the child as often as possible, showing that the most enjoyable thing in life is playing with a ball. Once a child has come to know the joys of catching, throwing, bouncing, hitting, or kicking a ball he is well on the way to becoming a sportsman. Play with other children will make him a team sportsman \u2013 which will then lead him to a well-adjusted attitude in sports and life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">What matters most is enjoyment and enthusiasm. Some may be happy to just play socially while others have the desire to go on to serious competition. Pressure from parents won\u2019t lead to a happy achiever. It is the enthusiasm of the player himself that leads to achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Enjoyment should be the aim, irrespective of the level at which you play. Sportsmen like Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardena would need to score a 100 to gain the same degree of enjoyment as an Under 14 schoolboy player hitting just one ball for four. All are winners as long as they enjoy the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Question<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cHow do you balance studies, sports, and other interests such as music?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&gt; As we know, studies or sports alone could take up all of an individual\u2019s time. I personally found that the best way of achieving the maximum in multiple fields was by good time management \u2013 which meant.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1. Make maximum use of the time available.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">2. Use each activity as a relaxation from the other<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">3. Study everything \u2013 including sports.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">4. Concentrate on only one thing at a time.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">From the age of about 13 years, my typical day consisted of school followed by cricket practice until 6.00 pm, followed by Table Tennis up to 7.50 pm. I would then run the mile from the Table Tennis club to meet my father\u2019s deadline of being home by 8.00 pm for the family dinner. This was followed by homework which I always completed before hitting the pillow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Studying everything I did, including sports, enabled me to arrange my thoughts better and utilize all available time. During University days I summarized each chapter of a textbook into a single page of an exercise book and then summarized that page into a single page of a small notebook which fitted into my shirt pocket. Whenever I had a moment to spare \u2013 for example, waiting for a bus or halted at the traffic lights on my bike, I would flip open the notebook in the shirt pocket, and in a minute with the notebook, I would be revising two hours of the original chapter of the textbook. In this way, I made use of all the \u201cin-between\u201d moments.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In Cricket I would study the reasons I got out. I would then go over the corrected stroke over and over again, faster and faster \u2013 perhaps fifty to a hundred times \u2013 until it was ingrained in me to the extent that I played the correct shot automatically next time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In Table Tennis, I made notes in exercise books. In the first half of the exercise book, I wrote down techniques I had learned by playing or watching other players. The second half of the exercise book had the names of players I had played against recording their weak and strong points. I noted what they did against me and what I had to do to overcome them. Reading this before a match enabled me to be prepared and one step ahead the next time we met. There was an index of strokes and an index of players for quick reference.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Concentration was very important. The secret of doing many things in a day is to do only one thing at a time, applying full concentration to the activity being undertaken at the time. You cannot solve a maths problem while thinking of cricket. Once the final school bell rang, my concentration switched to watching the ball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Music served as a means of bonding with my teammates, restored the spirits after a loss on the field, and was a means of relaxing after the concentration required for the main activities. In summary, the keys to success are Enthusiasm, Enjoyment, and Time management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">********<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>ADDENDUM from The Editor Thuppahi, February 2028:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Do attend to Dr Buddy Reid\u2019s special service to Sri Lankan cricket in the protracted process of protecting Muralitharan from the machinations of the Australian cricketing powerbrokers seeking to get rid of those whom they considered chuckers. See two illustrative photos afer Buddy examined Muralui and his unique arm with its plasticine wrist and unqiue shoulder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/02\/02\/lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/HAR-No-balling.jpeg?resize=449%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This was in Melbourne where\u00a0 Murali had been no-balled and put out of action in a pre-planned move with Darrell Hair \u2014 at head umpire not square-leg mind you \u2014 as executioner. Owen Mottau (ex-Kingswood and then playing for Prahran CC in Melbourne) knew on the morning of the match that Murali would be no-balled. While chucking was a major issue then in the 1990s The Aussies chose the wrong target. J. Warnaweera and Kumar Dharmasena would have been better targets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/02\/02\/lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MURALI-bowling.webp?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/02\/02\/lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MURALI-ARM.webp?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"300\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/02\/02\/lessons-for-life-dr-buddy-reid-in-q-and-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BUDDY-R-1990s.webp?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"300\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Murali\u2019s arm\u2026photo from Buddy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Buddy in the 1990s<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons for Life: Dr Buddy Reid in Q and A-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis THE MAKING OF AN ALL-ROUNDER: A Conversation with Dr Buddy Reid \u2026.\u00a0Sunday Island, 28 January 2024\u00a0\u2026.\u00a0https:\/\/island.lk\/the-making-of-an-all-rounder-a-conversation-with-dr-buddy-reid\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0Correspondence to Dr Sanjiva Wijesinha = Sanjivasw@gmail.com Dr Buddy Reid \u2013 one of the finest all-around sportsmen Sri Lanka has produced \u2013 recently celebrated his 83rd birthday. 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