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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You clowns buy into team sports and end up getting cut and fat and out of shape later in life [/quote]

I want to move my kids from basketball and football to golf + tennis.  And dad played in college. I just have a gut feeling it's not worth it and they could be just as happy with an individual life sport. [/quote]
Sorry meant to add dad played football in college. He doesn't do any sports now. What a waste. Seems like individual sports just have lifelong benefits. Our golf and tennis team are hard to make but at the min. at least you can play post HS and college. [/quote]

Golf a kid will play for life...because you can play a competitive game with other competitive golfers or you can easily play for fun with scratch golfers.  Also, it's not like a competitive game of golf involves sprinting on the golf course...you can still walk leisurely (or now rent a cart) on the course.  Honestly, it's hard to really be able to say that you are working out as a 50 year old because you continue to play golf.

[b]Plenty of former tennis players don't play that often...plenty of former swimmers don't really swim in anything resembling training anymore..etc.[/b]

Lots of former basketball players still play basketball as adults.  Not sure why you would think that isn't fairly popular for adults.[/quote]

They don't swim or play tennis everyday but they do swim or play tennis regularly.

Golf and tennis are the two sports that you can play for life.  As you get older, you can switch over to pickleball if tennis is too much for you.  Golf and tennis are two of the sports that are objective and not subjective.  The coach can not cut you from the team and put another inferior in the team because the scores do not lie.  That being said, they are two of the hardest sports to make in high school, especially if you live in wealthy areas, and due to a small roster size.[/quote]

Golf and tennis are two of the hardest HS sports to make? LOL! No.[/quote]

You must go to a poor school [/quote]

+1  That poster must had gone to a poor school.

Go to McLean, Langley or Oakton HS with almost 3000 students and looks at the roster of the tennis/golf teams.  There are 10 players on the varsity golf team, I think.  The chance of making the golf team is  10/3000, and just about everyone in those areas have $$$ to private training and coaching.  [/quote]

Isn't that the definition of not fair.  Just to be clear.  What does "private" mean private means not publicly available.  So, by definition private training and coaching is not "fair", because not everyone has an opportunity.  [b]In this instance the unfairness is not due to some innate talent, but due economic and political station of those who can afford private coaching and training as well as just greens fees.[/b]  EG it doesn't have anything to do with the sport as to why some kids get to make the team and others don't.  It would be another if it was an innate talent or skill that could be acquired through common low-cost activities.  EG go running get faster lift some weights get stronger.  Shoot a basketball get better at shooting a basket.

Some team sports seem inexpensive eg soccer.  Anyone can wear out a soccer ball, but there is a substantial component that has to be learned by interacting within a team.  EG the MSI travel coaches' kids (paid coaches and private club owner not just parent coaches) were on my kid's team they felt very strongly that my kid should play defender, but she was the only one of the younger kids playing up a year to score a goal.  One of the kids with, parent coach, started at striker nearly every game despite being older and didn't score a goal the entire season and was repeatedly tackled whenever they got the ball to her.  Soccer they don't really care if they win.  Soccer isn't so competitive here.  It is generally run by private clubs and there is someone who will take your money, but I'm not paying for that.

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That might be your definition of "unfair" but to others, someone who did nothing to achieve their height or stature (which is almost always an advantage) other than to have had tall parents, might be the definition of "unfair". In both cases the kid has no control over these factors (genetics and finances). In which case "fairness" is an illusion regarding sports. There is always going to be inherent unfairness because every kid has different genetics and HHI.[/quote]

I think people underestimate the effort that tall people have to put in to get the results.  I go spinning.  The instructor said big hill 120 watts, for me 120 watts is easy, to me a big hill is more like 240+ watts.  I looked it up online there are professional cyclists that push that many watts.  The point is to ride up that hill or run down the court it takes twice as much effort.

Go pump some iron, spin 240+ watts now let's play basketball.  There are plenty of short dynamos out there.  Short people just are not used to consistently having to put in that much effort, whereas tall people have to be much more coordinated and stronger just to learn to walk for example.  That is my opinion, they learn from an early age how to put in effort.  Catch a ball, jump, shoot, none of these things are easier because kids are tall.[/quote]

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