Posted by: tashi
Ah, I wasn't clear. I actually DID want to get into team sports. I liked basketball and rugby.
What I was doing was avoiding spending my time getting yelled at by people I had to obey, but did not respect. I didn't respect the old school coaches because they couldn't communicate firmly or clearly without loosing their shit. I considered soccer for a while precisely because the coaching staff seemed more reasonable.
it's been the same for bosses - I can respect the ones that keep calm when things are shitty but the foreman loosing their shit all the time just drove me to find ways to not work for them. Life is too short to waste around people who can't control themselves when they're under stress. Why would anyone follow a leader who can't control himself?
yeah so you didn't buy into the old school coach/jock thing but those good athletes who didnt buy into the system were in every school NOT playing team sports so it did level the playing field so to speak cuz none of those kid chose to play h-school team sports for that kind of coach. Yeah no stop/start/sub in soccer so they pretty much have to just let you go and play, where I went to school (burnaby north) the coach was quoted in print saying that most of the kids knew more about soccer than he did due to the local system ( cliff ave united ) so he just let them play
Since the old school coach was so widely accepted it was everywhere so there isn't really any way to say one got better results than the other ...its just the way it was
In H-school the foot ball coach kept trying to recruit my kid a smart kid good at any sport, good mtn biker good ww kayaker and so I asked why not give it a try and he said " when coach starts yelling and doing the thing, I just wouldn't be able to stop from laughing in his face "
Last edited by: XXX_er on Sept. 10, 2017, 6:16 p.m., edited 1 time in total.