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Originally Posted by Locke
Nice try, but not even close.
Kids sports is for kids, not for the coach.
But if it was just all fun and games then they'd probably have a coach more suited to that attitude like little Timmy's mom who brings cupcakes for half-time and where they dont keep score and everyone wins every time.
Kids play team sports for fun and to learn to interact within a team and be part of a team.
For a coach it isnt all about winning games or making a kid a tenth of a second faster, its about teaching kids how to pull together, about how motivation and determination can help you win an unwinnable battle or keep trying far beyond the point you thought you could.
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Ok then explain how the length of his hair detrimental to the team being able to "win an unwinnable battle" or impedes the team from "trying far beyond the point you thought you could"?
Coaching is also about instilling a sense of confidence in an athlete, and acceptance within themsleves that choices they make in a game can be right. Helping them think outside the box when faced with different tactical possibilities within a game. To foster an athletes sense of individuality to try new things in a game.
To me it would seem that a coach that has such a pedantic approach as this coach would not foster a sense of individuality.
I once listened to an interview with Bobby Orr. He was talking about watching kid hockey. He was saying that it was sad to see the d-men put the puck up and off the boards everytime. He attributed it to coaching. He said that growing up he had been lucky. He had coaches that encouraged skate the puck out of the zone, encouraged him to think outside the box, to make the unusual choice when faced with different possibilities. He says that it was this coaching appoach that allowed him to develop into the player he is/was.