Sunday, November 15, 2015
What is more important
In today Society what is more important in sports winning or having fun. having fun at the kids level should be the answer. but this idea of winning. for example when kids are playing is technique more important than having fun. if what they are doing is going harm them self than by all means stop the, but is drilling them and drilling them at the end pf the day what is truly accomplished. beside the fact that the kids are now not having fun. is that what you truly want?
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I'm going to have to say unfortunately its mostly about winning. That goes with I would say all sports, I was helping out last weekend with the wheelchair rugby tournament and each team seemed to have that one player who was way better than the rest of the players on the team and the coaches gave them most of the paying time which meant a lot of the other players just were left to sit on the sideline. They kept the best player in most of the game because they wanted the win.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is mostly about winning; for children yes you teach them that the game is fun and about winning, and yes they want to win, but it's the way you coach them about the game. If you teach them from a young age to have good sportsmanship, respect the rules of the game, that winning and fun can become on an equal level. I do see where you're coming from about technique; for kids, it's about getting them out there and just getting them to try it, even if they aren't doing it perfect. Perfection of a skill should not matter as much when they are younger. As long as they are trying their best, and hopefully their coaches are encouraging them to do that and giving them positive feedback as well like great effort, keep trying, awesome pass etc..and hopefully that will help them have some fun.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience with coaching kids I say its both. You as a coach have to do a balancing act in keeping winning always in mind but having fun with it. I would always try to introduce the technique to them in other ways that they were not used to doing to keep their excitement level up and allow them to have fun with the drill. The more fun the kids are having with a drill, the more reps they are going to want to do for themselves. There were times when I would have to cut drills short because they wanted to spend to much time on it. I also worked them hard because our mission as a team was to expose them to levels of competition that exceeded just their league. Our team was successful in completing that mission year after year, getting more kids to regional and Junior National competitions and having them be top contenders and All Americans in their age groups. You have a fine line to play with as a coach but both are necessary for children in sports.
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