Comments on: Youth Sports Getting Too Competitive http://www.misunderestimation.com/index.php/2006/08/28/youth-sports-getting-too-competitive/ Life in the 21st century Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Kris Hildebrand http://www.misunderestimation.com/index.php/2006/08/28/youth-sports-getting-too-competitive/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Kris Hildebrand Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:55:38 +0000 http://rymat.com/misunderestimation/?p=101#comment-94 This may be the biggest topic in coaching today, how do we develop athletes long term (LTAD - Long Term Athlete Development). We are starting to see people publishing and analysing this issue (finally). My wife has write a few articles about athlete development (we are both coaches who teach coaches) that you may have an interest in. http://www.tridevelopment.info/Articles.htm Cheers, Kris This may be the biggest topic in coaching today, how do we develop athletes long term (LTAD – Long Term Athlete Development). We are starting to see people publishing and analysing this issue (finally). My wife has write a few articles about athlete development (we are both coaches who teach coaches) that you may have an interest in.

http://www.tridevelopment.info/Articles.htm

Cheers,

Kris

]]> By: Ernie Pena http://www.misunderestimation.com/index.php/2006/08/28/youth-sports-getting-too-competitive/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Ernie Pena Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:13:55 +0000 http://rymat.com/misunderestimation/?p=101#comment-93 I agree with you to a point, yes things have gotten out of hand; yes parents can be the Childs worst role model. But having a child in completive sports do a few things first and foremost it makes her strive to be on the best. It’s not just my kid / family that is like this, it’s a growing epidemic this so called “completive sports”. Gone are the days of playing baseball or basketball or even volleyball with your parents at the park so that you can make the team at high school. I can tell you from personal experience that I have seen many "good" kids with the heart to play, simply get pushed aside but because they were not good, to but it bluntly “they didn’t have the ‘Select” experience to play. I have seen coaches at the high school level not give a kid a chance simply because they haven’t been in a "select" sport that they are trying out for. Its not some thing they ask to see who has played and who has not, and the ones who have are given priority. But like any job you or I go out for your experience in that job will determine weather or not you get the job over the next person right. Unfortunately it’s that way in high school. And yet we have parents who don’t give a rats ass about their kids and they (the kid) excels in a sport because their drive or heart o play that sport is far brighter than all the rest. Then and only then will a coach take notice of a young athlete with natural ability despite the fact they have no “select” experience in the game they choose to play in. My job as a parent is to make sure that my kid doesn’t get in trouble and stays out of places where she shouldn’t be or with people that I don’t approve of. A lot of parents have lost this basic child rearing rule. I think keeping her busy weather it be in a sport that takes up her time, so be it. I agree with you to a point, yes things have gotten out of hand; yes parents can be the Childs worst role model. But having a child in completive sports do a few things first and foremost it makes her strive to be on the best. It’s not just my kid / family that is like this, it’s a growing epidemic this so called “completive sports”. Gone are the days of playing baseball or basketball or even volleyball with your parents at the park so that you can make the team at high school.

I can tell you from personal experience that I have seen many “good” kids with the heart to play, simply get pushed aside but because they were not good, to but it bluntly “they didn’t have the ‘Select” experience to play.

I have seen coaches at the high school level not give a kid a chance simply because they haven’t been in a “select” sport that they are trying out for. Its not some thing they ask to see who has played and who has not, and the ones who have are given priority.

But like any job you or I go out for your experience in that job will determine weather or not you get the job over the next person right. Unfortunately it’s that way in high school. And yet we have parents who don’t give a rats ass about their kids and they (the kid) excels in a sport because their drive or heart o play that sport is far brighter than all the rest. Then and only then will a coach take notice of a young athlete with natural ability despite the fact they have no “select” experience in the game they choose to play in.

My job as a parent is to make sure that my kid doesn’t get in trouble and stays out of places where she shouldn’t be or with people that I don’t approve of. A lot of parents have lost this basic child rearing rule. I think keeping her busy weather it be in a sport that takes up her time, so be it.

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