That’s cursing your opponent. Just because you’re awesome doesn’t mean the other guy sucks. You can choose to have the fastest serve in the game, though, or to always put it on the chalk slightly less often than would look like cheating or magic.
Ah, but there’s an interesting catch there. If you’re a regular baseball player, you can take either the power or the timing (you can still use your natural power, though, with the timing perfect), but if you’re the DH, then hitting’s your sole job. I don’t know if that’s a ‘mild’ superpower anymore.
Which is it, power or accuracy? Can’t take both. If you take throwing accuracy, that’s fine, but you’ll only be able to throw, like, 15 yards unless you practice. If you took kicking power, you can git it to the goal from the 50 yard line, but it’ll be 30 feet wide.
I was initially going to just penalize you yardage, but since you used “caveat” to mean ‘stipulation’ instead of ‘warning’, I’m ejecting you from the game. We don’t need your kind here.
No, it’s akin to making every field goal from inside the 25, which is legal. I’d make 18 putts, but what about the other 52 strokes? I’m on my own for those.
You can take the speed, sure, but once you step on the track, your powers are useless. For some reason, your power always fails you when you’re trying to win other competitions.
Oh, and I should say that technically, the putting power is not to “make every putt” but to “be able to perfectly analyze my potential putt”, such that I always know the right angle and strength to hit it. And the “make it inside the 25 yard line” power is really something like “Always have perfect accuracy inside the 25” and I figure you could learn to kick that hard.
i would argue that never missing a putt isn’t an ability but rather a consequence. the ability would be to read the green, and even then you’d have to adjust how much power to putt with.
Then you wouldn’t be that great a putter, certainly not 18 per round like you said. Putting is usually what keeps the top players from winning as they pass their prime. Guys like Palmer and Watson, and most recently, Tiger, stopped winning majors in their mid-30’s, and putting was probably the most important factor.
It stands to reason that the older you get (within limits), the better you get at reading greens, so the reason for the decline in putting has to be the loss of the ability to hit it exactly the way you want to. At their worst, the “yips” kept guys like Hogan from being able to make any semblance of a smooth stroke.
It’s kind of like that dumb show a couple years ago, “No Ordinary Family” or something like that, where the scrawny kid suddenly became a brainiac and could see the exact angle to throw a football. In the show, he was throwing these perfect passes. In real life, knowing where to put the ball is a lot different from actually being able to put it there.
I’d agree that putting is at least two different skill. One being able to read the green and the second being distance control. Maybe even a third, being able to accurately hit the ball on the line that you read. (I bet some caddies can read the line of a putt better than some golfers, but that doesn’t make then better putters unless they can put the ball on the right line and hit it the right distance.)
Plus I’d also say that similar to your long, medium and short range punts there are at least 2 different length putts in golf: lag putts from long range (say 30’ +), and putts inside of that (and maybe a 3rd category for putts inside say 8’).
I don’t think I have the athletic ability in any sport where just a single improvement will make me competitive with the professionals. The only thing I could think of would be speed for running, biking or swimming or accuracy in shooting and make a living off olympic endorsements.
So instead I’d pick the same as Cheesesteak- the ability to hit a golf ball with a chosen trajectory and leave distance control and other aspects to my own abilities. I still couldn’t make it in the pros but I could shoot in the mid 80’s right now with the skills I have and probably shoot in the 70’s with just some improvements in the rest of my game.
I don’t really know enough about fencing to say. Is there more than one way to defend yourself other than “parry”? Or are you trying to make yourself a perfect defender? Can you make a possible parry but still be hit anyway?
If it doesn’t automatically make you an unstoppable behemoth in the sport, then it’s legal. But if you’re asking to never, ever be hit, well…that’s not mild.
Speed. I’d have to go with that.
It has always been my best physical attribute and I could understand how to use it.
Center fielder in baseball or in American football: cornerback or even wide receiver.
If I got shoulder surgery to fix my partially torn rotator cuff (you’d be surprised how common this injury is) I could still throw a ball back from center field.
Well… maybe.