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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my son was similar.  When he got about 9 or 10, I always framed as you are playing great, but if you want to get to the next level you need to get more aggressive and the great thing is that is already in your control.  You already have the skill, you just need to get in there and not worry about making a mistake or the contact.  And then we created stats for the games for how many 50-50 balls, etc. and solely focused on that when discussing the game.  After a couple of months he became very aggressive and now we don’t talk about it anymore.  So I think it can be learned if you have a kid that wants to learn that lesson.  But you have to be careful to bring it up in a way that makes them like the sport more and not less.

Was it the right move to push that with him?  Who knows?  It turned out well for him as he seems to love the game more now and is playing much better.  But easily could have backfired.  It’s a really hard question of when to push.  Because if you just take a let them have fun approach, maybe they never learn and then end up leaving the game because they never progress in their development.  
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