re: Travel ball parents

2 nights a week at those advanced training facilities. It was no joke to these coaches and players.

They had a great coach but also did the advanced training during the week when they were not on the soccer field. Their coach ran their practices like a fine oiled machine he had 3 groups of girls. Two were practicing offense and defense against each other under his instructions and the other group were running on the sides or around the field. He would blow the whistle and the groups would just switch around. Let's just say he was very organized.

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You mean like footwork drills with cones and girls staying in their lanes when attacking? Let's just say I didn't grow up playing soccer but I learned alot watching them practice. BTW my daughter is out of school for the summer and she has her own personal soccer training going on right now. She put alittle resume about her past soccer accomplishments and a picture of her in her college soccer jersey put in on open door app and she is training six kids right now between the ages of 9-16. She is using alot of drills she learned from that Coach.

FLBoo. You’re wasting your time. There’s a travel ball thread at least 3 times a week on this board. The infatuation the OT has with it is mind boggling. My theory is that 99% of the people that make condescending remarks about it are people with absolutely no athletic skill whatsoever and/or sucked at baseball growing up. Today, they have no interest in baseball and hates the game.

I’m slowly teaching my kid how to play baseball. He’s in T-ball and improving every day. We don’t get knee deep into the game right now because i just want him to love playing. In the future, I don’t want him to play year round and he wont. But if he’s good enough to play ona tournament team in the summer time to experience that, then yeah I’ll put him on a team. Once the summer is over “, it’ll be on to another sport for the season. I don’t ever expect him to play HS or college ball. We will only take it as far as he wants to take it.

You forgot Pit Bulls, but if already mentioned, right on.

Good answer. The best part now with watching some of these kids that love the game pursue their dream of playing professional ball. Hell we all wanted that if you had some talent after high school. One kid I know who plays ball at Charleston southern college took off to go chase his dream in calfornia this summer. He and his college roommate got invited to a summer league in calfornia and drove 2 days to pursue their passion. Good for them. This is a kid I knew from 5 years old and that kid could knock the shite out the ball. Guest what his mom posted on her Facebook he got 2 Homers in 10 at bats.

Travel Ball starting line up

1B) Brayden
2B) Cayden
3B) Jayden
SS) Aden
RF) Kayden
CF) Hayden
LF) Alex

I love watching all that. My niece was the same growing up. She played travel softball. Saw a lot of girls grow up. Niece was so good she made varsity for Sulphur as a freshman. That doesn’t happen often. But, with the wrong attitude and the wrong set of friends, that goes downhill fast and it was over before it started. Paths can go either way.

I just hope my boy loves it. I just hope he enjoys the competition and being out their with other kids. He’s super social already and this gets him out there with other boys as well. Time will tell. I’ll never force him to play anything he doesn’t want to play. I “make” him now only because if it were up to him, it’d be YouTube 90%’of the time.

Like i said, I have to clear the path for him to get started. Once he’s on that path, itll be up to him where he goes and how he wants to use it.

My youngest son chose the wrong path also. Got with the,wrong crowd. The boy had the height and size to go along with athletic ability but his focus on his class work did him in. He is good kid and has learned alot but nothing has been given to him. He starts community college out here in the fall no scholarship just my money and hopefully some passion to succeed in life.