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Post by swamp on Sept 5, 2013 13:46:33 GMT -5
How do you play soccer with no ball? You kick each other?  |
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Post by swamp on Sept 5, 2013 13:49:28 GMT -5
You kick each other? Sign me up!  No kidding. I think it sounds awesome! |
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Post by midjd on Sept 5, 2013 13:50:32 GMT -5
I could go for that. Since the head is an approved contact point, can we head-butt people too??
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 13:50:47 GMT -5
How do you play soccer with no ball? They drink beer then play hokey. |
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Post by swamp on Sept 5, 2013 13:52:02 GMT -5
I could go for that. Since the head is an approved contact point, can we head-butt people too?? absolutely. |
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Post by movingforward on Sept 5, 2013 13:59:38 GMT -5
OMG... how much coddling is too much? Kids need to experience both success and failure. Everyone is NOT a winner and there are no trophies for 7th place. And a teacher is going to use a red pen to grade papers. Our kids need to learn to suck it up and learn to deal with the fact that life is not always fair. Agreed. They also need to learn to be both good losers and good winners. No one wants to deal with an obnoxious winner or a poor loser. How are they supposed to develop/learn to control their emotions when no one ever wins or loses |
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Post by Phoenix84 on Sept 5, 2013 14:01:21 GMT -5
Those crazy Canadians and their antics.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 5, 2013 14:04:02 GMT -5
Yay! soccer for uncoordinated people. Can't tell we can't aim if there is no ball.  |
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Sept 5, 2013 14:04:17 GMT -5
They could use the severed head of an enemy, the way it was played in the old days...oh, wait, never mind. That was lacrosse. My bad. But it could still work. |
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Post by dannylion on Sept 5, 2013 14:07:46 GMT -5
So what kind of soccer-playing skills can a soccer player develop without an actual soccer ball? Doesn't soccer actually need a ball to have any meaning as soccer? If they are not developing ball-handling skills and blocking skills and passing skills and goal-tending skills and all the other soccer skills that require an actual soccer ball, they're basically just running around at random, aren't they? Maybe I'm missing something.
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Post by swamp on Sept 5, 2013 14:09:37 GMT -5
They could use the severed head of an enemy, the way it was played in the old days...oh, wait, never mind. That was lacrosse. My bad. But it could still work. A severed head isn't really aerodynamic......... |
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Post by dannylion on Sept 5, 2013 14:19:38 GMT -5
And another thing: Wouldn't skill development be a prerequisite for having a winning team? I don't understand how wanting to win precludes skill development. Isn't that what soccer practice is for? Doesn't the team with the most skilled players generally do better? What happens when the kids get older and want to play on real teams? They won't have a clue. This sounds like a very stupid idea.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 5, 2013 14:28:06 GMT -5
Note: The show is satire, we got Punk'd.
Troubled by what they see as the overemphasis on winning in sports involving kids even under the age of 10, youth soccer groups in Canada are doing something about it. In at least one community, Midlake, Ontario, kids play in leagues where they no longer keep score or even play the game with a ball.
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Post by greeniis10 on Sept 5, 2013 14:33:33 GMT -5
They could use the severed head of an enemy, the way it was played in the old days...oh, wait, never mind. That was lacrosse. My bad. But it could still work. A severed head isn't really aerodynamic......... But much more satisfying to give a good boot to, particularly if it's someone you dislike. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 14:39:01 GMT -5
Sorry...not keeping score is just as ludicrous of an idea as taking the ball away entirely.
I played sports for most of my life and we absolutely destroyed teams and were absolutely destroyed on occasion by the opposing team. Yeah it sucks to get beat badly but no one cried that it wasn't fair that the other team scored 17 runs and we only scored 4.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 14:49:32 GMT -5
How do you play soccer with no ball? You kick each other? in the balls? |
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Post by dannylion on Sept 5, 2013 14:53:34 GMT -5
Note: The show is satire, we got Punk'd.
Troubled by what they see as the overemphasis on winning in sports involving kids even under the age of 10, youth soccer groups in Canada are doing something about it. In at least one community, Midlake, Ontario, kids play in leagues where they no longer keep score or even play the game with a ball.  Cool! At least we had some fun with it. Just wait. The "everything everywhere always has to be fair always" twinkies will get hold of this and run with it (but not with a soccer ball because that would be bad). |
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Post by Taxman10 on Sept 5, 2013 15:02:44 GMT -5
You kick each other? Sign me up! Who wants to kick me??  |
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Post by t-dog on Sept 5, 2013 15:15:29 GMT -5
Ok sorry but this is insane. Once kids know how to count they know the score. I had one of those kids who played in an under 6 league that didn't keep score, he knew the score and he was right after every game. He also at 8 stated his only trophy that mattered (he had a dresser full of them) was his baseball MVP trophy. When asked why only that one mattered his answer was "because I earned it, the others were just handed to me." Time to stop the coddling!
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 5, 2013 15:23:47 GMT -5
I'm so glad I don't teach PE anymore. Just a matter of time.....
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Sept 5, 2013 15:26:39 GMT -5
Since the significance of Mich's post isn't immediately clear: the authors of the article are admitting they were duped. The premise is fake. No such soccer program exists in Ontario.  |
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Post by t-dog on Sept 5, 2013 15:27:55 GMT -5
but the point that kids can count and so there is score in scoreless leagues isn't fake.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 5, 2013 16:10:15 GMT -5
Since the significance of Mich's post isn't immediately clear: the authors of the article are admitting they were duped. The premise is fake. No such soccer program exists in Ontario. Thanks, Virgil..... The article was satire and that it was satire was written in the first line of the link. I'm surprised that no one else saw it. |
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Post by dannylion on Sept 5, 2013 16:13:34 GMT -5
Since the significance of Mich's post isn't immediately clear: the authors of the article are admitting they were duped. The premise is fake. No such soccer program exists in Ontario. Thanks, Virgil..... The article was satire and that it was satire was written in the first line of the link. I'm surprised that no one else saw it. I have to admit to having missed it completely. Thanks for pointing it out! Maybe we're so used to the "everything always has to be fair always" twinkies actually coming up with really stupid ideas that we've lost our skepticism with regard to anything attributed to them. Anyway, that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it. |
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Post by violagirl on Sept 5, 2013 16:15:49 GMT -5
That is probably from the satire show on CBC radio called This Is That. They have these outrageous stories and people phone in their outrage. kind of similar to The Onion idea. But if you suspend your initial outrage and think generally the ideas make no sense at all. Like soccer without a ball.
Now someone will probably think that is a good idea.
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Post by hoops902 on Sept 5, 2013 16:30:20 GMT -5
Sorry...not keeping score is just as ludicrous of an idea as taking the ball away entirely. I played sports for most of my life and we absolutely destroyed teams and were absolutely destroyed on occasion by the opposing team. Yeah it sucks to get beat badly but no one cried that it wasn't fair that the other team scored 17 runs and we only scored 4. No it's not, and it's not even close. You can develop all the skills you need to play a sport without keeping score. I think it's kind of silly not to, but it's not nearly as silly as not having the one essential piece of equipment which defines the sport. |
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 5, 2013 16:32:27 GMT -5
Sorry...not keeping score is just as ludicrous of an idea as taking the ball away entirely. I played sports for most of my life and we absolutely destroyed teams and were absolutely destroyed on occasion by the opposing team. Yeah it sucks to get beat badly but no one cried that it wasn't fair that the other team scored 17 runs and we only scored 4. No it's not, and it's not even close. You can develop all the skills you need to play a sport without keeping score. I think it's kind of silly not to, but it's not nearly as silly as not having the one essential piece of equipment which defines the sport. The article is satire, Hoops...... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 16:33:31 GMT -5
Sorry...not keeping score is just as ludicrous of an idea as taking the ball away entirely. I played sports for most of my life and we absolutely destroyed teams and were absolutely destroyed on occasion by the opposing team. Yeah it sucks to get beat badly but no one cried that it wasn't fair that the other team scored 17 runs and we only scored 4. No it's not, and it's not even close. You can develop all the skills you need to play a sport without keeping score. I think it's kind of silly not to, but it's not nearly as silly as not having the one essential piece of equipment which defines the sport. You can also develop all those skills by never even playing a game to begin with. It's called PRACTICE. Yes...I'm talking about PRACTICE!! |
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Post by hoops902 on Sept 5, 2013 16:34:44 GMT -5
I know, I read the note when the article first came up. That doesn't change my opinion that removing the ball is not close to as ridiculous as not keeping score. That's why i didn't respond to anything about the league not using a ball, jsut the idea that not using a ball would be as ludicrous as not keeping score.
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