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Anonymous wrote:We stopped hitting False8 trainings because my DD said the coaches only cared about the best players. She never felt welcomed...too many kids in the program, her concerns as a 10 year old were never really addressed. She was just told to do it faster. But I observed they didn't really care about her or technique. Lots of 7-9 year olds working hard and only a key number of kids were featured on IG. My kid felt lost in the sauce. She liked some of the other players, but she did sloppy reps and no one ever corrected her of cared if she did it anything well.

But they are seriously trying to put pressure on 9 and 10 year old kids, when those lessons are best suited for kids post puberty. Your post is not surprising as there is room for improvement and genuine engagement. The head Coach has angry teenager vibes and the other coaches barely coach.

Quality has been downhill for a while. Coach only cares about content content content

Anonymous wrote:We stopped hitting False8 trainings because my DD said the coaches only cared about the best players. She never felt welcomed...too many kids in the program, her concerns as a 10 year old were never really addressed. She was just told to do it faster. But I observed they didn't really care about her or technique. Lots of 7-9 year olds working hard and only a key number of kids were featured on IG. My kid felt lost in the sauce. She liked some of the other players, but she did sloppy reps and no one ever corrected her of cared if she did it anything well.

But they are seriously trying to put pressure on 9 and 10 year old kids, when those lessons are best suited for kids post puberty. Your post is not surprising as there is room for improvement and genuine engagement. The head Coach has angry teenager vibes and the other coaches barely coach.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We stopped hitting False8 trainings because my DD said the coaches only cared about the best players. She never felt welcomed...too many kids in the program, her concerns as a 10 year old were never really addressed. She was just told to do it faster. But I observed they didn't really care about her or technique. Lots of 7-9 year olds working hard and only a key number of kids were featured on IG. My kid felt lost in the sauce. She liked some of the other players, but she did sloppy reps and no one ever corrected her of cared if she did it anything well.

But they are seriously trying to put pressure on 9 and 10 year old kids, when those lessons are best suited for kids post puberty. Your post is not surprising as there is room for improvement and genuine engagement. The head Coach has angry teenager vibes and the other coaches barely coach.

This sums them up completely! They prey on parents who have FOMO or just want their kids to be IG famous. I think they had good intentions when they started out but social media and the business aspect of it got to their heads.

Its definitely interesting to see that certain kids aren’t held to the policy that you can’t play for another team. How many people honored that policy and are now left out because False8 made exceptions for their special players.

Anonymous wrote:This is our first experience with F8 and it will be our last. They do this big song and dance about how important it is to attend practice so you can learn their super special methodology and yet they promote kids who rarely, if ever, show up to practice. Why set expectations you are just going to disregard? The owner is trying to make F8 a premier training program but such actions undermine its credibility and integrity. Like others have mentioned, it is good marketing but it papers over a lack of professionalism and substance.

Anonymous wrote:They already have their set of super star kids which are typically the best kids in the age group and they keep promoting them when in reality they never trained or developed them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We stopped hitting False8 trainings because my DD said the coaches only cared about the best players. She never felt welcomed...too many kids in the program, her concerns as a 10 year old were never really addressed. She was just told to do it faster. But I observed they didn't really care about her or technique. Lots of 7-9 year olds working hard and only a key number of kids were featured on IG. My kid felt lost in the sauce. She liked some of the other players, but she did sloppy reps and no one ever corrected her of cared if she did it anything well.

But they are seriously trying to put pressure on 9 and 10 year old kids, when those lessons are best suited for kids post puberty. Your post is not surprising as there is room for improvement and genuine engagement. The head Coach has angry teenager vibes and the other coaches barely coach.

This sums them up completely! They prey on parents who have FOMO or just want their kids to be IG famous. I think they had good intentions when they started out but social media and the business aspect of it got to their heads.

Anonymous wrote:We stopped hitting False8 trainings because my DD said the coaches only cared about the best players. She never felt welcomed...too many kids in the program, her concerns as a 10 year old were never really addressed. She was just told to do it faster. But I observed they didn't really care about her or technique. Lots of 7-9 year olds working hard and only a key number of kids were featured on IG. My kid felt lost in the sauce. She liked some of the other players, but she did sloppy reps and no one ever corrected her of cared if she did it anything well.

But they are seriously trying to put pressure on 9 and 10 year old kids, when those lessons are best suited for kids post puberty. Your post is not surprising as there is room for improvement and genuine engagement. The head Coach has angry teenager vibes and the other coaches barely coach.

Anonymous wrote:I am pissed that we had to agree our kid would not play with another futsal program and half the IG girls are playing with Ballers Elite/BEAST. Hot take: BE will franchise or affiliate with F8 in the near future. Both chasing all star instaclout

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone get to play on different teams. It seems like they mix ages and teams.

No they don’t mix. We are looking at other futsal clubs and having my child leave the program. I think coaches should practice what they preach on Instagram.

I also agree. A typical False8 session: (A parent's perspective)

40-50 kids arrive.
Warm Ups.
-Demonstrations are completed by the same kids over and over, the IG kids.
IG Kids are put into 1 or 2 groups.
Everyone else is split into other groups.
Kids do all the circuits.
They film the IG kids for a post that day.
Your kid is left keeping up with the other kids.
Concluding session and motivational speech by 1 Coach.
-End result: 10 kids feel like they belong, 40 kids are just grinding away doing sloppy reps wondering why they signed up.

Some pros: The fitness is high level, lots of touches, motivational speech at the end
Big areas to improve: Newer kids might feel invisible, the secondary coaches (station coaches) just keep the kids moving, its so much hustle for little kids, some might not want to come back, parents who are juiced in/ bulldozer parents who talk to the instructors before hand seem to have their kid featured more, this is a Type A dog-eat-dog training program

Personally, we Love/ Hate it. My kid doesn't want to go unless they have a good friend going too. And it takes a bit to convince other parents to send their kids as they have a negative rep for the older kids & families (that is why they primarily only have little kids attend (u8-u10). We just do the random sessions and are not on the Futsal program.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone get to play on different teams. It seems like they mix ages and teams.

No they don’t mix. We are looking at other futsal clubs and having my child leave the program. I think coaches should practice what they preach on Instagram.

I also agree. A typical False8 session: (A parent's perspective)

40-50 kids arrive.
Warm Ups.
-Demonstrations are completed by the same kids over and over, the IG kids.
IG Kids are put into 1 or 2 groups.
Everyone else is split into other groups.
Kids do all the circuits.
They film the IG kids for a post that day.
Your kid is left keeping up with the other kids.
Concluding session and motivational speech by 1 Coach.
-End result: 10 kids feel like they belong, 40 kids are just grinding away doing sloppy reps wondering why they signed up.

Some pros: The fitness is high level, lots of touches, motivational speech at the end
Big areas to improve: Newer kids might feel invisible, the secondary coaches (station coaches) just keep the kids moving, its so much hustle for little kids, some might not want to come back, parents who are juiced in/ bulldozer parents who talk to the instructors before hand seem to have their kid featured more, this is a Type A dog-eat-dog training program

Personally, we Love/ Hate it. My kid doesn't want to go unless they have a good friend going too. And it takes a bit to convince other parents to send their kids as they have a negative rep for the older kids & families (that is why they primarily only have little kids attend (u8-u10). We just do the random sessions and are not on the Futsal program.

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Anonymous wrote:How much is everyone paying per tournament? I wonder if parents are paying different prices

I belong to the privilege group so we don’t pay anything and get clout exposure online.

None of the kids with privileges are here on DCUM and talk like that. When you get free stuff, you don’t flex as you are not aware who else gets the perks and you don’t want to lose it.

Plenty of 2nd team parents who troll like this.

Fruit does not fall far from the tree.

2nd rate troll parenting = 2nd rate players whose parents are left to troll innocent parents asking legitimate questions.

PP doesn’t understand that it’s the third and second team parents (myself being one of them) that help fund the program and first team players