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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not get him private lessons at 8! This is rec basketball and he’s a beginner. Hes fine.  Let him play and have fun.  No one cares.  Soon anyone serious will go to more competitive teams. There is plenty of time for private lessons when he’s older if he asks for them. [/quote]

I disagree.  Think about it - DH was good enough to play D1 basketball (but played a different sport that gave him scholarship money).  We have a basketball hoop in the driveway, and he loves to go out and shoot hoops for stress relief.  The kids often join him, and he corrects their form.  How is another kid who loves the game but whose parents never played going to look on a team of kids like ours?  The odds are completely stacked against them.  If money is no issue and you can find someone who connects with your kid, why not give them lessons?  My neighbor hired a high school tennis player to hit balls with her 8-year-old. It's going great, and she now has a mentor.   [/quote]

On the lessons vs. no lessons at 8 - the quality of coaching in rec varies a lot. Maybe you have a good coach who's willing to spend sometime growing everyone's skills and makes sure the ball is spread out - that was our experience our first year in rec when our oldest was 8. The next year, the coach mostly paid attention to the better players. Neither my wife nor I are casual b-ball players so there's that. In contrast, he started swimming at around 7 and has been surrounded with good coaching and I was able to give him pointers. Fast forward now, he's no b-ball standout, but he's able to hold is own in the neighborhood and at school in pickup games and enjoys playing. So maybe things could've evolved differently had someone helped him a long with some basic pointers.

If you want to get your kid lessons, go for it. I do think there's a correlation between being good at an activity/enjoying that activity. At least for swimming, it's important to get the technical foundations down at an early age.[/quote]

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