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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An athletic kid at 10 can start a new sport and do well. This is especially true of girls, sports where there aren't huge numbers of competitors, sports where raw athletic ability outweighs technical skill (e.g. soccer and basketball), and sports where people usually start later, anyway (e.g. wrestling).

Johnny Weir got a package of group skating lessons at 10 and won the US men's figure skating title three times.

Mason Cox, a pro Australian Rules Football player from the USA, was only a couple of months from hearing the sport existed before scoring his first goal in his first game, in front of ten thousand+ fans.[/quote]

The thing that most people don't want to hear is that genetics trump hard work and dedication 9 times out of 10 in sports. A kid can constantly train and be dedicated from the earliest age possible and a naturally athletic kids who is bigger, stronger, and faster and pick up a sport and take the dedicated kid's roster spot without much effort. Around middle and especially in high school you see a lot of this. [/quote]

This is so true.  [/quote]

I agree this is likely but I l think for kids like mine, with diagnosed motor delays, that sports as extracurriculars with no pressure will open her life up and let her see she can play for pleasure and health. I hope. Mine is very young and small for her grade and can’t conceptualize yet that she is not likely to be the best and she is not a natural athlete. But most are not. There are pleasures and things you can learn apart from being “the best,” right?[/quote]

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