Do all sports favor the big kids?

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Anonymous wrote:So only team sport is baseball.

As the father of a small baseball player, I'll say it is coach dependent. If you have some meathead infantry dad coaching, the will overlook your son. If you have an intelligent analytical dad who recognizes that your 5 ft 7, 135 pound junior stole twice the bases anyone lese did, and can legit switch hit, his value will be recognized.

Sadly too many men are just too stupid to focus on skill and results over size.

Woodson had a 6 ft4 left handed first basemen maybe 8 years ago who couldn't catch a volleyball if it was soft tossed to him by his grandpa. But he looked the part, so there he was put.

And every single that year was a double or a triple.

This perspective is also annoying. Big kids grow frequently. My 10yo daughter is going to be taller than your son pretty soon. She does really well and has the best shot on her team, but some days it's just not there, it's like I have to start over from scratch retraining those growing limbs.

Some coaches/sports feel very strongly kids should have mastered the skills if they haven't by the time they are five they aren't ever going to swimming is especially annoying. It's sad you can look at the club so many girls aren't going to pass five ft. But there they are in the Olympic training USA Swimming. The coaches just milking their parents bank accounts.

Then in basketball we have all these gungho parents with the shortest daughters, coaching everyone. Isn't that the weirdest thing, like why do tall kids have to put up with all that mediocre coaching from short kids parents. Give the ball to little Susie.

I'm all for encouraging athletes in short stature. I just don't think this perspective that a kid needs to be skilled early on is setting smaller players up for success. Sounds like some of these coaches may have done you a favor.

Someone forgot to mention cricket. Now there is a money sport for short players. I don't 🪏 it, but I encourage those who do.

Sorry, but I'd take a 5 ft 7 inch son any day of the week over some beasty 6ft 2 girl as a daughter. Your poor daughter.

Oh, you want to pick on girls do ya. No wonder you got kicked out of your club. Sawed off ego and all.

I bet you never had to special order pants tough stuff. Upset because there are somethings that just aren't your thing.

Aged out, silly. Not kicked out. And he played in college. Currently in his last year of law school while your daughter is trying to find size 46 pantsuits. LOL.

For some bottom of the barrel D3 school likely? I am sure he would love to find a 6’2” volleyball player so his own kid doesn’t suffer the same fate as him.

And I am sure he and his friends would relentlessly mock her. Literally no man wants to date a linebacker.

Tom Wilson’s wife is a tall beach volleyball player. Definitely not a linebacker build!

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Anonymous wrote:OP - talking about youth sports right now. Have two large kids. Technically/sport ability they are pretty good but I definitely think that they have an advantage purely because of their size. I have a 9.5 year old girl who is 80 pounds and 4'8" tall.

A 9 year old hirl at that size might hit puberty early and end up one of the shortest in her class by 7th or 8th grade.

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As a former coxswain it's a great team experience and teaches valuable life skills, but anyone remotely athletic who ended up coxing was green with envy over the rowers having the actual chance to work out. Sitting, thinking, steering, directing - those aren't a workout.

So it depends on what you want. For me, it was perfect.

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Anonymous wrote:As my high school's basketball coach used to say, "you can't teach tall." (that said, there were always a couple of players hovering around 5'6-5'8 on the team)

Your coach was a washed-up-charity-case-drunk who lived on recycled garbage. Sorry.

My kids played basketball all thru high school. I have literally heard at least 10 coaches say this over the years.

Still doesn't mean its not losers coasting on cliches.

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This is a weird take.

Basketball, out of all sports, clearly gives and advantage to height

Yep, basketball for your average build of person is like a 6'8" person getting on an airplane and not being able to put their feet on the floor.

Average people just don't understand when some corner of the world isn't built ideally for them with umpteen different styles of medium shirts in each color. On the other hand, basketball players are quite familiar with you know like the door frame or sitting in cars even just table chairs. Just everywhere you go this just doesn't fit.

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Anonymous wrote:Crew (coxswain)

As a former coxswain it's a great team experience and teaches valuable life skills, but anyone remotely athletic who ended up coxing was green with envy over the rowers having the actual chance to work out. Sitting, thinking, steering, directing - those aren't a workout.

So it depends on what you want. For me, it was perfect.

My son is not very big and I asked him if he would be interested in cox and he looked at me like I was insane. He’s in the bow pair and loves it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - talking about youth sports right now. Have two large kids. Technically/sport ability they are pretty good but I definitely think that they have an advantage purely because of their size. I have a 9.5 year old girl who is 80 pounds and 4'8" tall.

A 9 year old hirl at that size might hit puberty early and end up one of the shortest in her class by 7th or 8th grade.

Sad but true. I was the tallest girl in 4th and 5th grade and I'm 5'3.