Why is that?

I could see a semi-professional competitive future in cheer at the high school/college level, but gymnastics is Olympics or bust, or the NCAA that nobody really cares about.

Classic post by muttiah right there.

[mention]razorbacker [/mention] Congratulations, I can’t imagine how proud you just be.

Gymnastics is pretty big in some areas. Utah draws like 15k for their meets and some of the SEC schools are anywhere from 3k-10k. To answer your question though, I don't really know. Maybe the parents all think their kids are future Olympians, but most likely they have some club director in their ear about how great there kid is, they just need to push them to the next level which is 20 hours a week of training at 2k a month. I know of a few different families who home schooled their kids so they could train for gymnastics. One family had three kids involved and they moved so their daughters could train. All of them had quit the sport before high school.

2nd grade team is 4-0 with 107 points scored and 0 against. To be fair we haven't been challenged yet but we are pretty good.

last game video vs Roswell:

8 year olds playing tackle football ITT?

Whats your point? should they not have airsoft rifles either?!?

perfect response

well we were 5-0 with 146 points scored and 0 against

ran up against mceachern and lost 12-0, but our boys fought hard.

2 more games to close out the division and then playoffs, maybe we can meet them again on a dry turf field and show them what we can do.

As a parent of very young kids, I would love to hear follow ups from fellow parents who have kids who are really excelling in sports. What did you do right? What did you do wrong? What kind of obstacles did you face? etc.

Would be nice to hear

2nd graders throwing passes is impressive. Friend of mine had a son who played a North Gwinnet. The year they won state there were like 15-20 4 stars on the field between the two teams. Just an entirely different level of athlete than about anywhere else in the country.

I have two kids. I've posted about our son, but he is at a top ranked JUCO playing baseball. Daughter is a high school volleyball player. She could probably play lower end D2 ball but I think she will go the academic route.

What did we do right? We held them accountable. We also didn't blindly follow what Mr or Mrs Coach said. If the coach was a jackass or in the wrong we said so. I felt like we were always honest with our kids. My family are mostly coaches. We removed our son from a bad situation in football when he was young based on the advice from my father in law. Did the same thing with our daughter in softball. If a coach is being verbally abusive to little kids, get the kids away from them. I coached my son in baseball and I coached him hard. Probably too hard at times but it prepared him to be coached hard in high school football. We put too much emphasis on sports. That could go in the bad category, but we love sports and so do our kids. Our son wanted to transfer schools going into 7th grade. We did it. We moved him into a football factory and it was the best thing we could have done. Daughter ended up doing the same thing for volleyball at the same school. It was hard and I had to drive them 30-40 minutes each way until they could drive. We spent whatever it took. For baseball we traveled the country, for volleyball it was the region. We made some great trips out of the sporting events. Throughout everything, we were there. I ran the neighborhood flag football game, the wiffle ball game, the basketball game. All of that was in our yard and I pitched, played QB or whatever. I never said no.

What did we do wrong? It's a lot harder with the first one. Once you've been through it once it's easier with the next child. I got caught up in my kids performance reflecting on me. We had a lot of dad's who played sports with big egos and it became a pissing contest at times when they were young. I was as guilty as anyone. We all matured after a few years. Youth sports are important but what is really important are high school and beyond. The problem is that you have to set your kid up early. If they aren't on a good travel team it is hard to play in high school around here. I was too hard on my son. I'm lucky I didn't ruin him. Never abusive, just practiced him too hard, demanded too much.

What would I do differently? I would have put them in dedicated strength training from about 7th grade on. Bigger/Stronger/Faster is the name of the game in Sports. Who cares if your kid is sore for a 7th grade game. They need to get strong and you will see that translate to greatly increased performance. My kids lifted on and off but never year round like they should have. Son lifts almost every day now in JUCO.

What obstacles did we face? With our daughter it was mostly smooth sailing with volleyball. She's had mostly good coaches and the ones that weren't as good were great with kids. We had one very bad softball incident with a coach which ended her softball career at 8 years old. With son it was more up and down. In football he had an arm but was gangly and awkward. We held him out of youth football for the most part and did a lot of throwing in the yard. In 8th grade he was replaced at QB right before the season started. That was tough. He didn't understand why and we didn't either. The other kid struggled and my son got the job back a few weeks later but it was a tough situation. High school football was incredible. It couldn't have been much better. High school baseball, my son had a combined ERA over 3 years of around 1.50. We got a new coach and he preferred kids who played baseball only. He proceeded to make a kid who had pitched about 5 innings in his career with a double digit ERA the #1. Lost his team before he'd ever coached a game. Covid hit and the season was cancelled 5 games in. We were probably going to face a lot of obstacles that season.

Advice to parents going through this: Don't waste your money on agility or speed training for kids. Strength training is all you should spend money or time on. Eric Cressey is a name you need to know for sports performance. Many times smaller kids dominate in the early years and the tall kids can struggle. That will usually flip by high school age. If you have tall kids, be patient. If your kid is little and dominating I have some bad news. It's probably not going to last but hopefully your kid is the exception. Don't let a jackass coach ruin your kid from a sport. Remove your kid from the situation. My kids played for probably 40 or so coaches, you are bound to find 1-2 bad ones. Academy teams will preach to you to avoid "daddy ball" There are a lot of terrible academy teams just like there are terrible daddy ball teams. The best teams we played against though were coached by dads. A lot of these young former college baseball players are terrible at coaching, terrible with kids and most importantly terrible with communication. As your kids progress it is extremely important to get them on the best teams they can play on once they are about 15. It's time to be selfish at that point. College sports are a full time job. Everyone says they want their kid to play in college. I was the same way. After seeing the hours my son puts in, I want my daughter to do whatever makes her happy but I kind of hope she goes the student only route.

Great stuff razorbacker!

Now I just need to find a female of breeding age who'll put up with me

...Still working on that

Make sure to check her vertical and 40 time along with her athletic background.

Yeah the sex is great and all, but her 100m dash is over 11, so I just don't think this is gonna work

we've got 3-4 kids that are very special. 2 of which had dads in the NFL. Then we got another 5-6 more kids who are usually the best athlete on the field. It's pretty sick. We got beat by a team that just out-physical'd us. Since then, we won our last game against a very strong team that is our rival, 21-14. so we have clinched a playoff berth but still have our last game against another rival, both teams are 6-1. That's this weekend. These kids are awesome.

one thing I will say is though it's real easy to get any kid to make contact when you restrain them to limited space. Getting them 1 v 1 in the open field is so much harder to get them to form tackle correctly. Last practice we ran a ton of open field stuff and it was frustrating for everyone. But that's the only way they learn.

Of course, we have 3-5 kids that just dominate tackling no matter how we try to make it hard for them. And on the flip side of the ball, unless there's 2-3 guys bringing them down, most kids are not getting a finger on them.

Daughters high school team lost in the quarterfinals of state. We were defending champs, but playing the #1 team on their home court in front of about a 1000 people. Played well in set 1, but they beat us. Played bad in set 2 and they destroyed us. Rallied late in set 3 to win, then won set 4. Lost 15-12 in the final set. We took the lead 12-11 and I thought we were going to pull the upset, but couldn’t finish it. Crowd got to us early. My daughter played well but she serves at 96% and she missed her first 3. All of our girls rebounded and fought but the better team won. We should be one of the favorites to win state next year. If you have a daughter, consider volleyball. It’s indoors, fast paced, and fun to play and watch.

I should get my daughter into volleyball, but soccer is her sport. She'll probably be 6 ft tall.

Soccer and volleyball don't play well together. The high school seasons around here are opposite but the club seasons overlap with the high school seasons. If she is pre-high school let her give it a shot and see if she likes it. Being a 6 footer in volleyball is pretty fun. Your job is to jump up and kill the ball or block it. Always involved with the ball and scoring points.

she's only 10, but she's a phenomenal soccer player. Soccer was my sport and her ceiling is super high; she's gifted. Not sure I want to pull her out or push her elsewhere. Just saying, I could see her doing well in volleyball for sure. I think it's an awesome sport for girls.

Also being 6 feet tall with a middling amount of skill leads to scholarships much more likely than through soccer

won 6-0 today at lassiter.

7-1 regular season and region champs. onto the playoffs.

we play the only team we lost to (12-0) at home tomorrow... on turf and it should be good weather this time, instead of rainy windy on their grass field.

beat mceachern 14-7. onto 2nd round of playoffs vs marietta