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[quote=Anonymous]True.  But natural talent isn’t enough. You need the ambition and drive to go with it.   My mother grew up in rural Canada.  Not many opportunities for organized sports. Her doctor said if she was born at a later date she could have been an incredible athlete based on her genetics. We are more athletic and artistic as a family and less academic.

[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][/quote]

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