lax culture from an insider

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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Tired from lacrosse practice and partying?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question. How many boys go to Landon? How many play Lacrosse?

Most are juniors and seniors with a few underclassmen. I guess 20-25% are on the varsity lacrosse roster. There is JV for most freshmen and sophomores. Younger years have grade specific teams and lower enrollment so there would be attrition on the rosters.

This estimate is way too high. There are plenty of other spring sports - tennis, baseball, track/cross country that all field full and competitive teams. And boys who don't play any, although only a few. I'd guess it's more like 10% who are on either varsity or JV.

I got the % from the online roster divided by the enrolled students for junior/senior year. It is 20-25% because the enrollment number comes from nces [national center for education statistics] so might be for a different school year.

Lacrosse has 10 on the field at any given time:
1 goalie
3 middies
3 attack
3 defense

teams have 3 middie lines so that's a minimum of 23 plus all the others who don't get real gametime. 10% of 170 juniors and senior total only gives 17 kids on a roster. That's representative of a small understaffed youth league team NOT a high school varsity squad that's competitive.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully the school will address issues related to the Gamers. This is a group that seems to fly under the radar at Landon. This is a group of fair soft and paunchy kids that aren’t particularly good at anything except video games. They spend most of their off-time playing Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and a variety of other violent and sexually explicit video games. They also spend a fair amount of time harassing people. They all seem to have Grand Theft Auto alter egos. They can be a pretty nasty bunch.

[Anonymous]

Interesting read. Are there any ohter "LAX insiders" who are willing to share?

[Anonymous]

The OP's article is old and a cutesy attempt by a local high school grad to try to avenge whatever affronts he suffereed in high school or to compensate for his envy of his "friends" who played lax in high school. His descriptions of the typical lax "look" is standard prep school fare regardless of sport. Sports groupies? Sports groupies, drugs/alcohol, herd mentality are misogynism prevalent in many boys/mens team sports nowadays.

[Anonymous]

Much as a LAX parent might malign the whole LAXbro culture while in public or conversing with someone not of the tribe, in tribal circles (i.e., those who get LAX and all that it implies and symbolizes) they, in coded language, make it quite clear that they approve of the elitism, the cockiness, and the masters of the universe mentality associated with your typical LAXbro.

[Anonymous]

What is the laxbro culture and does it really exist or is just a figment of youtube parodies?

[Anonymous]

The author of this article is hardly a "lax insider". He is no different from any other prep school kid who had friends who play the sport. I am sure he had friends who played football, xc, wrestling etc. It makes him no more of an expert on those sports cultures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Much as a LAX parent might malign the whole LAXbro culture while in public or conversing with someone not of the tribe, in tribal circles (i.e., those who get LAX and all that it implies and symbolizes) they, in coded language, make it quite clear that they approve of the elitism, the cockiness, and the masters of the universe mentality associated with your typical LAXbro.

Funny. All the lax bros from my years at prep school hardly ended up as masters of the universe. They were/are pretty good guys, but they're all very average; although, the blowhard in them will come out every once and a while. They still refer to men as "pussies," etc.

[Anonymous]

Laxbro culture = Landon School culture and morals

[Anonymous]

more unhelpful ignorant posts from someone who knows nothing of the sport, its players or schools in the area.

[Anonymous]

People who play lax don't use the term laxbro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The author of this article is hardly a "lax insider". He is no different from any other prep school kid who had friends who play the sport. I am sure he had friends who played football, xc, wrestling etc. It makes him no more of an expert on those sports cultures.

Bro is a term that is used by lax players as well as non-lax players. A guy does not have to be a lax player to be a bro or part of the bro crowd. The author of the article attended a private boys school and you are incorrect that a non-lax player cannot be an expert on high school lax culture. Some very good or excellent lax players are not bros. Some lousy or marginal lax players are bros. However if Bro is the dominant culture on a team at any given high school they can make it very uncomfortable for those who are not Bros. Some high school bros drink in season, smoke pot, and have groups of girls that hook-up with various members of the same bro crowd.

It is school dependent at all levels.

[Anonymous]

``People who play lax don't use the term laxbro.''


Don't say that laxbros don't exist, that's just stupid. At least acknowledge the issue. Denial just makes you look like an idiot.