NVSC Pushing Super Y (Summer League) Already?

[Anonymous]

great way to wear out your kid's ligaments during the summer when they should be resting from the rest of the 10-month year.

[Anonymous]

100% agree about resting for the summer.

[Anonymous]

Their is a Difference between resting and sitting on a couch for 3 straight months

Some movement/stretching is still necessary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:great way to wear out your kid's ligaments during the summer when they should be resting from the rest of the 10-month year.

Super Y is pretty casual. People going on vacations is pretty understood and actual practices are pretty minimal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Their is a Difference between resting and sitting on a couch for 3 straight months

Some movement/stretching is still necessary

Whew. Am I glad I logged in today and didn't miss this post. So much useful information on this board.

[Anonymous]

Off season or Summer is where you can make the most gains. More to time to do strength training, speed and agility work, and try to expand your field game. Whether it be playing a different position, developing more field vision, or working to gain more confidence on the ball. There is less pressure to win games and more time for coaches to sit back and watch which players are putting in work on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Off season or Summer is where you can make the most gains. More to time to do strength training, speed and agility work, and try to expand your field game. Whether it be playing a different position, developing more field vision, or working to gain more confidence on the ball. There is less pressure to win games and more time for coaches to sit back and watch which players are putting in work on their own.

It is true the off-season is the best time to make gains: strength and power training, speed and agility work, expand your game. That’s why summer leagues are a bad idea for technically gifted players. If you’re in a summer league, that’s more practices and games where you can’t work on you, the individual. Summer leagues are great for players that need to play more. But the excelled players? Work on yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Off season or Summer is where you can make the most gains. More to time to do strength training, speed and agility work, and try to expand your field game. Whether it be playing a different position, developing more field vision, or working to gain more confidence on the ball. There is less pressure to win games and more time for coaches to sit back and watch which players are putting in work on their own.

It is true the off-season is the best time to make gains: strength and power training, speed and agility work, expand your game. That’s why summer leagues are a bad idea for technically gifted players. If you’re in a summer league, that’s more practices and games where you can’t work on you, the individual. Summer leagues are great for players that need to play more. But the excelled players? Work on yourself.

Please understand of all the soccer players in the DMV u5 thru u19. There are only a handful of "TECHNICALLY GIFTED" players. Granted there are some better than most and can play up an age or two. The truth is for almost all players unless they are playing on multiple teams full time during spring and fall or recovering from an injury will benefit from game play anytime its possible. The handful that are technically gifted should spend the Summer playing in mens leagues if they are not already training in a youth national team program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Off season or Summer is where you can make the most gains. More to time to do strength training, speed and agility work, and try to expand your field game. Whether it be playing a different position, developing more field vision, or working to gain more confidence on the ball. There is less pressure to win games and more time for coaches to sit back and watch which players are putting in work on their own.

It is true the off-season is the best time to make gains: strength and power training, speed and agility work, expand your game. That’s why summer leagues are a bad idea for technically gifted players. If you’re in a summer league, that’s more practices and games where you can’t work on you, the individual. Summer leagues are great for players that need to play more. But the excelled players? Work on yourself.

Yep it most cases it’s the same coaches doing the same things they did during the regular season. It’s just at a lower intensity. Summer leagues are more causal, coaches less interested because they have already picked the teams for next season. Off season work should be on technical things that are hard to do during the season, nit more of the same.

[Anonymous]

Lol, less intense. Okay.

[Anonymous]

yep. hot 95+ degree practices on turf (since most grass fields are closed in the summer) and hot 11v11 games on turf with 1 or no subs because kids are on vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Off season or Summer is where you can make the most gains. More to time to do strength training, speed and agility work, and try to expand your field game. Whether it be playing a different position, developing more field vision, or working to gain more confidence on the ball. There is less pressure to win games and more time for coaches to sit back and watch which players are putting in work on their own.

It is true the off-season is the best time to make gains: strength and power training, speed and agility work, expand your game. That’s why summer leagues are a bad idea for technically gifted players. If you’re in a summer league, that’s more practices and games where you can’t work on you, the individual. Summer leagues are great for players that need to play more. But the excelled players? Work on yourself.

Please understand of all the soccer players in the DMV u5 thru u19. There are only a handful of "TECHNICALLY GIFTED" players. Granted there are some better than most and can play up an age or two. The truth is for almost all players unless they are playing on multiple teams full time during spring and fall or recovering from an injury will benefit from game play anytime its possible. The handful that are technically gifted should spend the Summer playing in mens leagues if they are not already training in a youth national team program.

^ This. The definition of technically gifted is relative - buty I agree that there are ~5 or so kids per age group who are clearly better than the others - so let's call that the technically gifted group. I think it's worth pointing out that those kids got that way by playing all the time. They play on clubs, they play in unofficial leagues, they play pick-up. They play futsal, they play with older kids and adults, and they play with younger kids. They play in the fall, the winter, the spring and the summer. And they don't stop playing because they have reached the level of "technically gifted". They keep doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Off season or Summer is where you can make the most gains. More to time to do strength training, speed and agility work, and try to expand your field game. Whether it be playing a different position, developing more field vision, or working to gain more confidence on the ball. There is less pressure to win games and more time for coaches to sit back and watch which players are putting in work on their own.

It is true the off-season is the best time to make gains: strength and power training, speed and agility work, expand your game. That’s why summer leagues are a bad idea for technically gifted players. If you’re in a summer league, that’s more practices and games where you can’t work on you, the individual. Summer leagues are great for players that need to play more. But the excelled players? Work on yourself.

Please understand of all the soccer players in the DMV u5 thru u19. There are only a handful of "TECHNICALLY GIFTED" players. Granted there are some better than most and can play up an age or two. The truth is for almost all players unless they are playing on multiple teams full time during spring and fall or recovering from an injury will benefit from game play anytime its possible. The handful that are technically gifted should spend the Summer playing in mens leagues if they are not already training in a youth national team program.

^ This. The definition of technically gifted is relative - buty I agree that there are ~5 or so kids per age group who are clearly better than the others - so let's call that the technically gifted group. I think it's worth pointing out that those kids got that way by playing all the time. They play on clubs, they play in unofficial leagues, they play pick-up. They play futsal, they play with older kids and adults, and they play with younger kids. They play in the fall, the winter, the spring and the summer. And they don't stop playing because they have reached the level of "technically gifted". They keep doing it.

My kid is one of the more technically gifted kids on her team and she doesn't do all of the extra stuff. Zero personal training, zero Futsal, zero anything else. However, she learned a lot of technical stuff very young which gave her years to improve on it. A good technical coach very early on is key.

[Anonymous]

A Super Y topic has led to defining players as "technically gifted"

The immediate prior post just made me laugh. Another parent that thinks their young girl/boy in this case girl is "technically gifted"

Good luck with that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol, less intense. Okay.

Yes should just drop the intense part...it’s just less...a lot less.