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Post by swamp on Apr 24, 2013 13:59:16 GMT -5
DS and DD play lacrosse. He is 6, will be 7 in a few days, she is 5. They practice twice a week for an hour each time, which I think is plenty.
The Kindergarteners are practicing for an hour and a half. WTH? Isn't that a little excessive for 5 year olds?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 14:00:46 GMT -5
do you have any idea how much tiger practiced as a kid? your kids have it easy ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/wink.png)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 14:06:47 GMT -5
I don't think so. when our Son was 6 years old he practiced tennis twice a week. And I didn't think it was excessive amount of time for 6 years old.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 24, 2013 14:53:32 GMT -5
I am the only Mom who complained that there wasn't enough practice time for my son - in Kindergarten, and still up until now. But, that is because he needs structured activity to prevent me from killing him.
Bad Mom points!
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Post by Bob Ross on Apr 24, 2013 14:56:47 GMT -5
Pfft. Lacrosse.
If you're gonna drill your kids to death with sports, at least make sure it's something with which they can make a mint someday, and buy you a mansion. Like baseball for DS, and full contact jello wrestling for DD.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 24, 2013 14:58:01 GMT -5
Paul told us to pick the unloved sports to increase the odds of getting a college scholarship.
All of my children's sports are picked from the Ocho, or OSQ.
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Post by reader79 on Apr 24, 2013 15:04:51 GMT -5
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Post by Bob Ross on Apr 24, 2013 15:09:40 GMT -5
Paul told us to pick the unloved sports to increase the odds of getting a college scholarship. All of my children's sports are picked from the Ocho, or OSQ. Perhaps, if a college scholarship is the ultimate goal. But no one ever made mansion money with badminton (except maybe those Chinese guys).
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Apr 24, 2013 15:48:41 GMT -5
When I was a kid we'd come home from school at 3 and go play stickball, touch football, basketball, or ride bikes until 7 or 8. Do you think a couple hours at the park a few times a week is excessive? If not why is practice different?
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Post by 973beachbum on Apr 24, 2013 16:02:25 GMT -5
When I was a kid we'd come home from school at 3 and go play stickball, touch football, basketball, or ride bikes until 7 or 8. Do you think a couple hours at the park a few times a week is excessive? If not why is practice different? I never see kids at the park who are actually running all the time. Most of the time is more hanging out type of play. I think an hour is plenty for structured practice at six or seven. When they hit 8-12 they can go up to an hour and a half. I am asuming a fun league though. For the tiger parents who are gearing their kid up for the olympics who knows how much would be enough. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/grin.png)
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 24, 2013 17:41:28 GMT -5
I've never seen a practice where they are running for a solid hour either. They do a little warm up, the run a couple drills and a few plays, and then maybe a half-field scrimmage.
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Post by 973beachbum on Apr 24, 2013 18:07:09 GMT -5
I've never seen a practice where they are running for a solid hour either. They do a little warm up, the run a couple drills and a few plays, and then maybe a half-field scrimmage. The kids on our soccer practice are 8-12. We have actually switched to hour and a half practices. We start out with stretching but them they do a half mile jog. We go on to drills that have them practicing skills while dribbling up and down the field. We normally end with a twenty minute scrimage with no goalies so everyone gets in there. They do take a couple of breaks for water in there though. I don't know about a full hour of running but it is a good 50 minutes. Is that not enough for elem school age rec kids? thruthfully I'm ot sure most of them could do anymore than that. And we have had 40 degree days still. I think I would need to call 911 for most of them if it was already 90, and I pushed them that hard.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 24, 2013 20:12:22 GMT -5
when I quit structured skating practice in favor of another structured practice (because I wasn't allowed to do both), I was doing 2h/day, 6days/wk of skating. I quit that when I was 10, that was (ah, shit....really? wow.... ![:|](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/plain.png) ) 24 years ago.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Apr 24, 2013 20:21:08 GMT -5
Olympics nothing, you're going to need more than an hour once or twice a week just to play for the high school here. It says home of Champions on the wall for a reason, there are quite a few section and state banners hanging from those rafters.
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