You’ll often catch me saying that my students and players have gained a lot from my studying star athletes.  For example, when it comes to hockey stars, younger students benefited from my dissecting Denis Savard’s spinarama, and then teaching it in several very easy steps; while my studies of the great Ovechkin have surely helped older players with their shooting movements. That established, I need to refer to at least two things from the other side of the ledger… 1) A long time friend and former adult student of mine wrote me today to inspire this entry, with something he’d…