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That sounds horrific. And I'm all for kids playing team sports. Key word being playing. It helped me learn teamwork and good sportsmanship, which is supposed

• alistairSH 4y ago
  Yeah, it's pretty crazy. When my son was playing youth sports, many of his peers started doing speed/coordination training with a coach in 6th/7th grade. This was usually 1-2x/week and applicable to most sports. Focus was more on first-step speed, running form, and full body movements (jumps, "suicide" sprints/shuttle runs, etc). I thought it was pretty crazy at the time, still do, but at least it was generic. These days, neighbors have kids in with pitching coaches at age 8, playing travel league baseball 3+ nights/week, plus 2-3 games/weekend. 9 months of the year. That is REALLY crazy to me. How about some swim team, or soccer, or anything else? Back when I was in high school (mid-90s), the best athletes were all multi-sport athletes. Football/basketball/track-field was a common combo. No idea if that's true today, but I suspect there's a lot more single-sport athletes at the prep level, which is kinda sad.
  • mym1990 4y ago
    I know Roger Federer and Nadal were both soccer players until late, and chose to specialize in tennis later down the road. I bet there is some survivorship bias, but a non-negligible number of kids end up hating a sport because of the insane schedules these days and parent oversight. My sister played tennis from the age of 9 until the end of college, and I am not sure she wants to pick up a tennis racquet ever again. I started playing tennis in college, and I am absolutely in love with it, and will be for the rest of my life.