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Originally Posted by Instant Karma
To be honest, both of you are being silly.
Everyone will have a base natural ability that will improve on further training up to a certain level. Pogue seems to think that the talent can be improved limitlessly and you seem to think that it can never be improved.
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Erm... No I didn't say that. I said it can continue to be improved up until the point at which you start to decline physically. Which is around about the mid to late twenties.
Then you've got a few years where some attributes continue to improve while others start to decline, some more rapidly than others. Next thing you know, you're in your mid-thirties, a decrepit old fart like me, literally everything starts going south (apart from the grey matter, for another few decades anyway) and it's all downhill from there.
What is total bollox is this concept of a glass ceiling where a player - who is training his nuts off, whilst maturing physically and constantly getting stronger, quicker and more practised at what he does - suddenly finds that specific aspects of his game starts to stagnate, for no other reason than he's apparently reached the limit of his "natural talent"
The limitless improvement thingy was only ever hypothetical and based on Plech's age-defying magic pills.