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re: What Age Did You Stop Playing School/Club Sports?
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:09 am to CaptainsWafer
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:09 am to CaptainsWafer
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Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:15 am to The Torch
When they stopped letting everyone play and you actually had to make the cut to be on the team.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:23 am to CaptainsWafer
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You mean they don’t want to play baseball year round from age 6 to 15? That sounds lik getting burnt out to me.
No I’m talking about the work in high school, I’m talking about year around lifting, throwing and hitting programs.
As far as year around, hardly any teams truly play year around. 1-2 practices a week mid September until thanksgiving while playing 1-2 tournaments, doesn’t equal playing year around. Most travel ball kids,85%+, play more than one sport, until at-least 12.
And nobody forces kids to play travel and put in work outside practice, but kids instinctively know if they don’t, they will fall behind
Bottom line is playing for 6 months and then not picking a bat up again for 6 more, isn’t a good model. Kids have been quoting baseball after age 12 for decades before travel ball, so this isn’t some burnout issue. And burnout does happen but it usually when the kids gets exposed to something he then prefers more. Many times it’s not truly burnout, it’s simply the kid growing up and their hobbies reflecting that.
And why is baseball the sport people get so upset at when it becomes a year around program? Nobody gets mad about swim, golf, tennis, other individual sports and basketball being year around or football having a full year around program of lifting and skill development….only baseball.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:23 am to The Torch
I was good athlete and had a girl friend who just drove me to do more since I wanted to show off for her which I did and broke several school records on the track team and highest rebounder ever on the basketball team
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:28 am to lsu777
All sports are year around if you’re good enough. The actual season is the quietest, least stressful part of the year.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:33 am to The Torch
17 after senior season in football. I would have loved to kept playing in college but the reality was my size wasn't big enough for playing on the line in college. Skill was there not the talent for me. I loved all the practices and games.
My parents wouldn't let me play until 9th grade.
Only basketball, football and track were available at school back in those days. I would have also played baseball if it had been school sport but summers were spent water skiing, dranking and Vitamin P.
My parents wouldn't let me play until 9th grade.
Only basketball, football and track were available at school back in those days. I would have also played baseball if it had been school sport but summers were spent water skiing, dranking and Vitamin P.
This post was edited on 1/7/23 at 9:36 am
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:36 am to Gaston
Started playing soccer at age 5 and I’m still playing 30+ years later. Don’t plan on stopping even if I’m moving to coed or old man leagues as I get older.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:38 am to lsu777
quote:This is false.
And nobody forces kids to play travel and put in work outside practice
Parents force them to, or at least they are the driving force.
Sure there are kids who want to spend every season playing a different sport (small number), but to the extent it currently exists? Not a chance.
It wasn’t like this in the past and is a relatively new phenomenon.
This post was edited on 1/7/23 at 9:40 am
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:38 am to Gaston
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Big fricking day today. Nervous AF for him.
Not sure why when your boy bombs 60 yard FG kicks which outclasses most of the kickers currently in college today.
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My son made a 50 yard kick off of the ground as a freshman in high school, made a 50 as sophomore as well…in actual football games on shitty fields …kicked 58 in competitions as a freshman, and routinely hits them from 60 as a 16 yr old
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:41 am to The Torch
Forced to retire from all sports at 9 years old due to fibromyalgia.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:42 am to The Torch
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Of course, I had visions of scholarships pouring in.
You're definitely the only one who thinks that.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:52 am to Gaston
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Big fricking day today. Nervous AF for him.
What’s he doing?
In all seriousness, hope he does great at the next level.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:53 am to Scruffy
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This is false.
Parents force them to, or at least they are the driving force.
Sure there are kids who want to spend every season playing a different sport (small number), but to the extent it currently exists? Not a chance.
It wasn’t like this in the past and is a relatively new phenomenon.
BS, I am 40 and growing up until atleast 12, me and my friends played atleast 3 sports plus fall baseball so we were playing more sports than what kids do today.
This is such a bs OT thing…..kids are fat and don’t play enough sports……then in other threads….kids play sports too much, let them be kids!!!
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:53 am to LSUintheNW
He’s kicking against the top 5 kids in the country today and tomorrow…their stories are very similar. He missed his 58 last weekend in the comp, after charting #1 over two days, but another boy here made it to win. He’ll have to kickoff 73+ to come away #1 in the country again.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:56 am to Gaston
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He’s kicking against the top 5 kids in the country today and tomorrow…their stories are very similar. He missed his 58 last weekend in the comp, after charting #1 over two days, but another boy here made it to win. He’ll have to kickoff 73+ to come away #1 in the country again.
Not only could not keep your word about mentioning him kicking anymore you're going to dox your own kid.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 9:58 am to RummelTiger
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What’s he doing?
Routinely does what Ohio states kicker couldn't do in the playoffs.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 10:01 am to LSUintheNW
Oh well. There are assholes everywhere, pretty sure the pressure from them is expected.
Posted on 1/7/23 at 10:02 am to The Torch
17 my sr year in HS and tore my mcl
Posted on 1/7/23 at 10:02 am to lsu777
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And why is baseball the sport people get so upset at when it becomes a year around program? Nobody gets mad about swim, golf, tennis, other individual sports and basketball being year around or football having a full year around program of lifting and skill development….only baseball.
I think it should all be much more casual, frankly. Kids ought to be able to play sports without investing so much time into it. Even back in the 1980s when I played youth baseball, we practiced, like every... fricking... day. Why? I don't think the NCAA or the NFLPA even lets football teams practice as much as we did. It gets old quickly.
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