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Question For Parents Whose Kids Play Travel (or AAU) Sports
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:22 pm
Yesterday I heard an interview with Chris Webber and they were talking about players who sit out in certain games during the season in order to not wear themselves out for the playoffs..
He goes on to say that he notices that the wear and tear during an NBA season is something he thinks starts at an earlier age. When people have their kids playing in AAU or travel teams where they are playing 2 or 3 games a day. He went on to say the same thing applies to kids who play baseball all year around.
The more you play the higher risk of injury and that an injury that might not seem that bad at the time.. As that kid ages, there are some injuries that can eventually become a nagging problem.
I know there is always talk about travel ball on here (mostly people making fun of names), but for the parents who have kids that play travel or AAU ball.. Is this a concern of yours? Do you think that having them play too much could hurt them in the future?
He goes on to say that he notices that the wear and tear during an NBA season is something he thinks starts at an earlier age. When people have their kids playing in AAU or travel teams where they are playing 2 or 3 games a day. He went on to say the same thing applies to kids who play baseball all year around.
The more you play the higher risk of injury and that an injury that might not seem that bad at the time.. As that kid ages, there are some injuries that can eventually become a nagging problem.
I know there is always talk about travel ball on here (mostly people making fun of names), but for the parents who have kids that play travel or AAU ball.. Is this a concern of yours? Do you think that having them play too much could hurt them in the future?
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Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:26 pm to OweO
I’m sure basketball is the same way but a ton of baseball pitcher injuries started from being way over worked growing up
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:26 pm to OweO
That’s the risk you take if you want your kid to be a champion.
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:28 pm to OweO
Do you have a kid?
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:32 pm to OweO
What position did you play?
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:33 pm to OweO
frick no! Jaxtynn is 6 and he don’t never get tired. He looks like a damn gazelle rounding the bases
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:39 pm to OweO
My boy has what it takes and I’ll pitch him till he gets a payday. Even if it costs my my life savings.
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:57 pm to SuperSaint
I am the best safety to have never been able to play the game.
Posted on 11/16/19 at 4:59 pm to OweO
Dr James Andrews has something to say
LINK
quote:
Q: STOP stands for Sports Trauma and Overuse Prevention, so why have you made overuse injuries such a primary focus?
A: The good thing about overuse injuries, which are so common in youth baseball and other overhead throwing sports, is that about 60 percent of those are preventable by just common sense, if you can just try to keep kids from overworking. Two causes of overuse injuries are specialization, which is playing one sport year-round with no recovery time, and professionalism, where they take young kids whose bodies are developing, train them like they're professional athletes, like more is better, and end up over-training them. Tennis offers one example of professionalism where kids are in these tennis academies when they're six years old, and then they get hurt before they get to be real athletes.
Q: Isn't specialization important to ascending through the ranks of a given sport?
A: Nowadays, there is some need for specialization to go to college, but we recommend you don't specialize in a sport until you're a senior in high school. That's what a number of our professional athletes who have been very successful have followed. That's what Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford did. He was a quarterback at Oklahoma and plays for the Rams now. He didn't specialize in football until his senior year in high school.
Q: Your book recommends that kids take three months off from a given sport per year. How did you decide on that time frame?
A: Three or four months is what we recommend, but they need at least two. Fatigue can take the form of event fatigue, which might mean too many pitches in a baseball game; it could mean seasonal fatigue, too many innings in a season; or it could be year-round fatigue, which means year-round baseball. Our research program at ASMI showed that a kid participating in youth baseball with fatigue in any of those three categories is 36 times more likely to injure his throwing shoulder or throwing elbow or both. If that doesn't get the parents' and grandparents' and coaches' attention, nothing will.
LINK
Posted on 11/16/19 at 5:17 pm to OweO
Good to see another thread about this
Posted on 11/16/19 at 5:19 pm to thejuiceisloose
Glad I can fill the demand.
Posted on 11/16/19 at 5:22 pm to OweO
You calling my Blayztynyn a pussy, boy?
Posted on 11/16/19 at 5:44 pm to OweO
I can only speak to baseball. But the vast majority of high end players don’t play(practice) year round until 9-10th grade.. they are playing other sports or taking rest
Posted on 11/16/19 at 6:01 pm to Jim Rockford
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Dr James Andrews has something to say
He's also said a kid shouldn't throw a curve ball until he can shave.
Posted on 11/16/19 at 6:37 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Kids under 14 need regular throw (or call it fastball) and change-up. Period!
Posted on 11/16/19 at 6:49 pm to OweO
Glad I could be the eleventh downvote
Posted on 11/16/19 at 7:12 pm to LSUandAU
quote:
Kids under 14 need regular throw (or call it fastball) and change-up. Period!
Totally agree. Controlling the fastball is Job One.
Posted on 11/16/19 at 9:16 pm to OweO
My son started playing in a lower key travel ball team this fall. We were first timers. I can help but think that the parents were trashy. That might be localized to my area but it was. I always thought that travel ball was set up to avoid trashy people.
Posted on 11/16/19 at 9:17 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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Totally agree. Controlling the fastball is Job One.
But does this mean you pitch the shite out of him?
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