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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coaching is very much a skill.  You'll have to develop it, and also an instructional relationship with your kid.  It's worth doing though, because it will only make your kid that much more coachable.  It's worthwhile reading relevant coaching material, even if it's only sports nutrition and conditioning.

We recently switched teams, and I think my DD's new coach was somewhat surprised she actually listened and implemented the things he was talking about in practice (while the coaches' kids barely listened to word they said).  She very quickly became the go to player. Coaches' kids not listening seems par for the course in AAU basketball, it's kind of weird, we love them for organizing the teams anyway.  AAU basketball is still very much parent coach oriented.

The bottom line is until you get to MS/HS program where they coaches are training them 5+ days a week, you'll have to figure out how to plug the gaps and get the right amount of training when they need.[/quote]

I need to read and learn about having an instructional relationship with my kid, then.  Coaching is not a skill I have.  There are several gaps that are so obvious to me, and I want to fix them, but my kid is not into it.  I'm mostly getting back, "you're not my coach". The only times they've been receptive is when we've involved a friend, and the friend will figure out that I know my stuff and be open to learning from me, and then my kid will, too.  [/quote]

You have to fight the "youth sports industrial complex".  You have to understand there are all of these social pressures that kids feel teachers, coaches, etc.  Their business is taking your money and training your kid.  They are interested in having the kids that pay more for training services be better.  In most cases these "professional trainers" have optimized the available resources.  They're telling your kid not to listen to you.

You have to compete with that.  The thing is all those sources of training are going to put it together for you.  They just want to charge $100 an hr to have your kid do basic drills.  Kid not improving take more lessons.

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