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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But your kids are still unathletic and won’t even play high school . Why put in such effort shoulder 🤷‍♀️ [/quote]

I think because you don’t know at age 8 whether the kid will make the high school team. But if they don’t learn now their chances are pretty slim. [/quote]

That’s not true.  An 8 year old can be coached 5 days a week for years and still not have what it takes.   The kid who started at 12 years old who played rec ball and neighborhood ball comes in with unmistaken potential and talent.  He’ll be on varsity as a freshman. The 8 year old who gave it all he had won’t be.  [/quote]

This is both true and false…

Intensive training at 8yo is a waste for most sports, absolutely. But these days- age 12 is too late to start from scratch in many sports (not all) and have any expectation of playing in HS. Few kids will be able to begin a sport for the first time and then be able to make varsity 2 years later. That is crazy talk unless it is a tiny high school or unpopular sport.

There is a happy medium: rec sports to learn fundamentals -until the preteen years. Then reevaluate based on the kid’s interests and presumed talent levels. [/quote]

There’s definitely a happy medium.  It’s not going back to the days when school sports started in middle school and the talented ones went on to a professional career.  But it’s also not the case that someone can spend money and make their average child as good as the talented ones.  [/quote]

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