Reply to Why Does "Lacrosse Culture" in Highschool and College seem to be so BAD these days?

Forum Index » Lacrosse

Reply to "Why Does "Lacrosse Culture" in Highschool and College seem to be so BAD these days?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My son played LAX for three years. He was terrible. He had the skill and physicality, he just wasn't aggressive enough according to the coaches. He ended up being bullied in school by the co-captains of the team, both sons of the two coaches (two very little men) . 
The arrogant little team mate shytes made his life miserable in school and socially. He was hit, tripped and kicked in the hallways between classes. The LAX guys recruited their friends and they ganged up on him mercilessly.  The upshot is that the stereotype can be accurate, especially when perpetuated by the Dad \ coaches that think they are teaching their sons to be "men.

I pulled my son out of LAX and attempted to help him through his troubles using recommended contemporary interventions. I spoke to the school but they were useless. The bullying continued. I realized that this needed to be addressed in the old fashioned way, as my old Irish Gran used to say "the best cure for bullying is a punch in the mouth".  I grew up boxing and practicing other combat sports as well. With a lot of apprehension I enrolled the lad to the local old school boxing gym. I explained the problem he was having to the coaches and they worked with him. It turned out that he was a natural, lol.   It gave him the confidence to deal with his tormentors directly, it was a bumpy couple of week. 3 fights - 3 suspensions. But the bullying immediately ended.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics