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re: Private sports lessons for your child...video it?
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:18 pm to Gaston
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:18 pm to Gaston
quote:You always roll other folks under the bus?
ETA: Downvotes for my little guy. Tough crowd
The downvotes are for you.
Let’s play a game.
Read this entire thread as if you weren’t involved in any of the posts and you’ll see that you’re coming off quite doucheishly.
I wish your youngin’ well but I’ll put $100 down even odds that he never plays a snap of D-1 football.
The vast majority of kids with stage parents like you at Age 12 end up not succeeding.
Pump the brakes, let him get into High School.
If he’s good, the schools will find him.
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Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:21 pm to Lester Earl
Jonathan Ruffin
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:26 pm to Gaston
The Cleveland Browns could use him right now.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:30 pm to soccerfüt
No shite he probably won't kick for LSU or State over here. I mean really. He's a talented kid, a shite ton of stuff can happen.
He's a soccer player. A really, really good one. He may want to run track and sail, who fricking knows? Doesn't mean I'm not going to try and help him develop in every way he wants to.
It's hard to get attacked and not respond in kind at least a little bit. I probably am a douche for giving up so much so I can cart my boy around everywhere. I'll give him a big hug when he quits and buy a fishing boat.
He's a soccer player. A really, really good one. He may want to run track and sail, who fricking knows? Doesn't mean I'm not going to try and help him develop in every way he wants to.
It's hard to get attacked and not respond in kind at least a little bit. I probably am a douche for giving up so much so I can cart my boy around everywhere. I'll give him a big hug when he quits and buy a fishing boat.
This post was edited on 9/17/18 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:34 pm to Gaston
I member him, he played at Ridgewood prep
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:39 pm to Lester Earl
I'm happy he's local and is willing to work with my son. He's a captain now, so I really appreciate weekend time he can scratch out.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:42 pm to Gaston
When I was a kid.. into my early teenage years, I lived next to this kid who was a fricking idiot.
For years he thought he was going to one day be a punter for the Saints and for years, he would get in the road, put the ball, go get it, punt it again and so on.
I don't think I ever saw him punt it straight. He would always move his leg to the right and kick the side of the ball and it would go off in people's front yard. He did get to the point where he could consistently punt it far, but I think he just got a little stronger as he got older.
His older brother use to yell at him that he sucked and he looked like an idiot just punting the ball by himself and he would say "when I am playing for the saints I want you to come to my games and say that"
He is now a legitimate meth head with black teeth and lives off of his baby momma.
If he would have had lessons, things might have turned out different for him.
And this is an absolute true story.
For years he thought he was going to one day be a punter for the Saints and for years, he would get in the road, put the ball, go get it, punt it again and so on.
I don't think I ever saw him punt it straight. He would always move his leg to the right and kick the side of the ball and it would go off in people's front yard. He did get to the point where he could consistently punt it far, but I think he just got a little stronger as he got older.
His older brother use to yell at him that he sucked and he looked like an idiot just punting the ball by himself and he would say "when I am playing for the saints I want you to come to my games and say that"
He is now a legitimate meth head with black teeth and lives off of his baby momma.
If he would have had lessons, things might have turned out different for him.
And this is an absolute true story.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:42 pm to Gaston
You came here asking for advice.
Hope he does well. But chances are I’d take your croaker.
Especially if you smother him.
Lighten up Francis.
Hope he does well. But chances are I’d take your croaker.
Especially if you smother him.
Lighten up Francis.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:42 pm to Gaston
Ignore the haters. They either have fat little fricking kids who do nothing but veg out on their phones or Xbox all afternoon, or were fat little unathletc kids themselves. They can’t fathom stuff like this, because they have never been exposed to it. They think those folks they watch on tv come out of a test tube. They probably would have told tiger woods’ dad that he was out of control. Those Williams sisters? Why the hell you making little black girls play tennis? 
Did I mention high school coaches? Biggest fricking egos in the world who collectively know less than coaches at any other level.
Did I mention high school coaches? Biggest fricking egos in the world who collectively know less than coaches at any other level.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:43 pm to Gaston
quote:why do you talk like this?
but this is about cultivating true belief over years of practice. No one is going to bet against him, he's just got build up muscle memory and belief from within.
This post was edited on 9/17/18 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:44 pm to Gaston
My kid has worked with the top motocross trainers/coaches in the industry. The people who train current top professionals. I have hours of go pro footage of them working with him and pages of notes. We do go back to the videos and reference certain techniques and whatever.
When we are at the track, I have pages of notes that I've put into my phone during his lessons. I often reference them when working on certain things.
When they go into lessons with trainers, it's often information overload for them. Especially for the younger kids. If they pick up on 25% of what is being taught, consider that a success. But by all means, find a way to capture what they didn't pick up on so that you can continue working on it with them until they do get it. You paid for that.
That said, I don't share the notes and videos I have. I paid a lot of money for that information. And even though I have more info than my kid has picked up on, I still have him working with trainers telling him the same things. It's frustrating, but I can tell him something over and over and he won't do it. Trainer tells him once and he nails it.
This past Sunday he worked with his trainer for the first time in a month. He had my kid doing things on the bike within and hour that I'd been trying to get him to do for the last 2 months. They just need to hear it from someone else.
When we are at the track, I have pages of notes that I've put into my phone during his lessons. I often reference them when working on certain things.
When they go into lessons with trainers, it's often information overload for them. Especially for the younger kids. If they pick up on 25% of what is being taught, consider that a success. But by all means, find a way to capture what they didn't pick up on so that you can continue working on it with them until they do get it. You paid for that.
That said, I don't share the notes and videos I have. I paid a lot of money for that information. And even though I have more info than my kid has picked up on, I still have him working with trainers telling him the same things. It's frustrating, but I can tell him something over and over and he won't do it. Trainer tells him once and he nails it.
This past Sunday he worked with his trainer for the first time in a month. He had my kid doing things on the bike within and hour that I'd been trying to get him to do for the last 2 months. They just need to hear it from someone else.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:46 pm to Gaston
Private lessons must be a new thing. I don’t remember them when I was a kid.
Kids now will refer to them as “privates”. Which is weird AF.
Kids now will refer to them as “privates”. Which is weird AF.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 8:51 pm to Gaston
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He wants me to video his free and penalty kicks in soccer, but I get too damn nervous.
Why are you nervous? He's the one who has to make the plays.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 9:00 pm to Chad504boy
Kicking at the end of games is crazy pressure, you don't think confidence in that situation comes from years of practice? He's already been kicking on the high school field for years. He goes through the 'three seconds left' situations as a 10-12 yr old, you don't think it's going to be surreal to be in that situation? Still have to make it, damn near every time to be successful.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 10:20 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Posts like this make me appreciate my parents more. They let me be a kid, explore my own interests, and not try to live their life through me. I’m sure you mean well OP but when the kid is older is he going to look back and reminisce on all the great practices he had as a kid? Do you work with him this much on his academics and why not?
I don’t understand much of this thinking.
Pro tip: if you are a good parent, your kids are going to hate you for a lot of things. Until they get a good bit older. Then they’re going to appreciate a lot of things.
Posted on 9/17/18 at 10:31 pm to Gaston
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I probably am a douche for giving up so much so I can cart my boy around everywhere.
Oh dear lord
Posted on 9/17/18 at 10:40 pm to Meauxjeaux
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Pro tip: if you are a good parent, your kids are going to hate you for a lot of things. Until they get a good bit older. Then they’re going to appreciate a lot of things.
Agreed. A parent's first job is not to be a friend. A parent first and foremost should create a safe, supportive environment that both challenges the child and encourages them to pursue their talents. This doesn't mean signing your kid up for every travel ball team with Brayden that wins six rings a summer. But sometimes it means lessons with a swing coach or a guitar instructor or being on the swim team until the kid can explain to you why they don't want to do that activity and what interests they have that they would rather vigorously pursue instead.
The human brain isn't done developing until a few years after a kid typically moves away from his parents. Kids will do dumb things with no guidance. It's a parent's job to figure out when to push and how hard. Often, if a parent doesn't guide the kid has no self discipline. Also, if the parent guides ineffectively, the kid may come to hate authority
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