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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
This doesn't sit very well with me. I can see not really keeping score in 5-6 under, but kids aren't (hopefully) that dumb, and will figure it out pretty quick.
I don't know about playing "to increase skills for later use", either. If they kids have no drive or motivation to do better, why would they want to increase their skills? So they can not keep score until 20? This just seems like a bad idea to me. It does put me in mind of a conversation I frequently have with my lead hand at work though.
She says "Perfection is not required."
I always reply "If you don't demand excellence, you're only going to get sh**."
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I guess my point was, there should be more organized (community organized?) pickup soccer games as an alternative just for fun. (Not necessarily a no score game, but maybe alternatives too that lets players gamble and try new things without consequence.) I know when I was younger, I didn't have any problem with drive or motivation. After school or on weekends, I would play some 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3 etc or 10 vs 10 during recess for hours. Same with hockey, basketball, tennis, all of it. The drive and motivation should be, its more fun if you play harder. But I love sports, even now as an adult, and I'm usually playing some sort of sport every day, whether its organized league or pickup.