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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see many times the term "Natural Athlete" being mentioned. What 3 traits best define this when you see one.[/quote]

(1) Picks up the baseline skills of any sport she tries very quickly and easily. Would probably be able to compete at a high level in whatever sport she chooses. 
Makes it look easy, whatever “it” is. 
(2) Very fast reaction times. 
(3) Loves the physicality of sport and has a competitive, athletic mentality from a very young age. the child who always wants to go to training and chooses to do more on her own time because it’s her favorite thing to do.  This is underrated IMHO — you can have the first two, but without this, it doesn’t matter. I say this b/c I have one child who had 1 & 2 but not three, and one child who had all three, and the difference between the two of them was easy to see as they grew through adolescence.  [/quote]

The thread is about natural athlete but quickly devolved into opinions about elite athletes--many of these comments and posts are dumb, and this one is the dumbest IMO, especially "the child who always wants to go to training and chooses to do more on her own time because it’s her favorite thing to do."  That has nothing to do with natural athletic ability and potential.

A natural athlete has tremendous potential and its often due to genetics: speed, reflexes, body type (aka other advantages that can't be coached/learned like height or balance etc); they can be competitive without having to train or learn as much. If they choose to train etc then they have the better potential to become elite in their sport. But the natural athlete has nothing to do with points 1 and 3 of that prior post. Ridiculous.[/quote]

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