What are you weighing? What did you decide?

[Anonymous]

No offense but sounds fishy to me—how many parents have kids who don’t want to be one of the better players on their team?

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

And mine left because of not playing. On the smaller side, great skills and speed and lots of assists and goals, but overall not big enough to win balls from players over a head taller and 50 percent heavier.

Not playing is a good reason to leave, but you don't necessarily need to be big to win balls from taller players. My son is 25th percentile in height and weight, and can win them. You just need to find a way to win them that doesn't involve direct shouldering off, which I agree is unlikely to work.

Yes and no.
If this is U12 I think this may be the hardest year for smaller players because the field is tiny and the height/weight differences start to get really big. There's often very little space to work with and the larger players look faster than they are. Not a lot of room to use other ways to keep or win the ball. Will change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And mine left because of not playing. On the smaller side, great skills and speed and lots of assists and goals, but overall not big enough to win balls from players over a head taller and 50 percent heavier.

Not playing is a good reason to leave, but you don't necessarily need to be big to win balls from taller players. My son is 25th percentile in height and weight, and can win them. You just need to find a way to win them that doesn't involve direct shouldering off, which I agree is unlikely to work.

Yes and no.
If this is U12 I think this may be the hardest year for smaller players because the field is tiny and the height/weight differences start to get really big. There's often very little space to work with and the larger players look faster than they are. Not a lot of room to use other ways to keep or win the ball. Will change.

I actually think that small skillful players have advantage playing in tight spaces on smaller fields. Once they transition to 11v11 game, the field is huge and the first couple years after transition fast physical, athletes with early maturity dominate. As the kids get older, physical advantages/disadvantages diminish and technique and decision-making become more important.

[Anonymous]

And mine left because of not playing. On the smaller side, great skills and speed and lots of assists and goals, but overall not big enough to win balls from players over a head taller and 50 percent heavier.


Not playing is a good reason to leave, but you don't necessarily need to be big to win balls from taller players. My son is 25th percentile in height and weight, and can win them. You just need to find a way to win them that doesn't involve direct shouldering off, which I agree is unlikely to work.


Yes and no.
If this is U12 I think this may be the hardest year for smaller players because the field is tiny and the height/weight differences start to get really big.

My son is a U12. Yes, there are some significant height and weight differences, but we have made him work on his speed and endurance (through timed running).