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Post by hoops902 on Sept 5, 2013 16:36:34 GMT -5
::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!!::
Yeah, you can. And lots of times practice involves playing game simulations, often referred to as scrimmages. Often you don't bother keeping score there, but it's still developing skill. It's pretty much the exact same thing as playing games without keeping score.
There are lots of teams who practice at young ages but never play a "real game". They just practice, learn skills, scrimmage a little. Adding another team to scrimmage against doesn't change it one way or another. It's essentially all just practice.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 16:45:40 GMT -5
::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!!:: Yeah, you can. And lots of times practice involves playing game simulations, often referred to as scrimmages. Often you don't bother keeping score there, but it's still developing skill. It's pretty much the exact same thing as playing games without keeping score. There are lots of teams who practice at young ages but never play a "real game". They just practice, learn skills, scrimmage a little. Adding another team to scrimmage against doesn't change it one way or another. It's essentially all just practice. A scrimmage isn't an actual game though. In an actual game score should be kept. If you (in general) as a parent can't handle the fact that score should be kept in an actual game then perhaps you as the parent shouldn't sign your child up for sports. I often wonder if it's the child or the parent that is more afraid of not getting the "Participation Ribbon".
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Sept 5, 2013 17:36:42 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. Good satire should ideally be slightly too goofy to be believable (although the furor over Orwell's famous War of the Worlds radio skit does set some rather outrageous standards on what some people will believe). I think the unfortunate lesson in this case is that the premise is clearly believable. It even fooled the authors of the article. Stupid, but the kind of thing we can all imagine some well-meaning individual with no common sense putting into practice.
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Post by violagirl on Sept 5, 2013 23:04:07 GMT -5
Some other skits from the show are:
A councilor in Montreal trying to pass a bylaw requiring all dogs to understand both official languages. An interview with a Texas utilities commissioner that put sugar in the town water supply to encourage people to drink more water. The phone calls about that one were particularly funny. A profile of the new ethnic neighbourhood in Toronto - Little America. A group of politicians trying to get the province of Saskatchewan renamed to something shorter.
If you just turned on the radio, it takes a few minutes to realize the very serious conversations they are having are totally bogus. I find the show amusing.
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Post by happyscooter on Sept 6, 2013 7:23:26 GMT -5
Archie, what is 'hokey'?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 7:24:53 GMT -5
Nothing, what's hokey with you?
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Post by happyscooter on Sept 6, 2013 7:29:35 GMT -5
reply #6
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Post by dannylion on Sept 6, 2013 9:08:24 GMT -5
Some other skits from the show are: A councilor in Montreal trying to pass a bylaw requiring all dogs to understand both official languages. An interview with a Texas utilities commissioner that put sugar in the town water supply to encourage people to drink more water. The phone calls about that one were particularly funny. A profile of the new ethnic neighbourhood in Toronto - Little America. A group of politicians trying to get the province of Saskatchewan renamed to something shorter. If you just turned on the radio, it takes a few minutes to realize the very serious conversations they are having are totally bogus. I find the show amusing. I once tried to teach the neighbor's Labrador retriever French. It just annoyed him. I think it was all the irregular verbs. He liked Russian, though.
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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 6, 2013 9:33:31 GMT -5
Not responding to the article but I had our teams first soccer practice last night. I didn't read this thread until today so I found it funny that last night I took the balls away for part of the drills. The ball is important and of course you couldn't play an actual game/scrimmage without but a huge chunck of the skills needed to play are not about the ball. We were going over basics like throw ins. Once the ball was in their hands their brains turned completely off. Not matter how much I tried to explain and show how they need to do it while keeping both feet on the ground when the ball left their hands they were not only raising the back foot but in some cases even both feet when they threw the ball. finally I took the balls away and made them practice the steps and motion without it more like dance moves than playing soccer. It worked like a charm.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Sept 7, 2013 12:37:52 GMT -5
What they really need to do is give each kid his/her own field, and own ball. Being forced to share the field with other kids will regress development because the kids who are less skilled will have their self-esteem hurt by having to be in the same area as the more skilled kids.
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Post by tallguy on Sept 7, 2013 18:17:20 GMT -5
I know you know this, but.... Orson Welles. (Is this some weird Canadian shorthand thing? ORson WELLes...ORWELL.)
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Sept 8, 2013 11:00:48 GMT -5
I know you know this, but.... Orson Welles. (Is this some weird Canadian shorthand thing? ORson WELLes...ORWELL.) No. Brain fart. "Orwell" as in George Orwell of "1984" fame, almost certainly as a result of the lexical similarity you point out. Ordinarily I confuse Welles with George Bernard Shaw, which is likely another culprit. Obviously that cluster of neurons needs a bit of maintenance. I'll get around to it later.
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