Hi, Guest
02-05-2007, 04:03 AM
Nos I'm -partially- against the competitive sports system in grade school and high school as well...
I feel the need for there to be one for the top athletes and theres no denying that. They deserve their place in the world if they were born with the gifts and talents to be full time athletes. But I feel the gap is too great between those top athletes and the non athletes that the system doesn't work like it should. It leads to discouragement, lack of self respect, no visible goals and so many other things that every kid growing up should have the opportunity to have via athletic systems. Growing up I was the jock always, and I saw so many of my friends just become out of shape because there was no sport for them. Sure they became more arts related, or computer related or whatnot, but those are above and beyond the base of our lives which is how healthy we are.
I try to show kids another route.. I'm developing a pretty scalable program that should work for people with very little exercise all the way to your top athlete. ! Through this I try to show them they can achieve anything they want out of life. That anyone can be healthy, in shape, run fast, jump high, climb that thing.. whatever these kids can dream. From there, they can go anywhere, and if a kid who has never really exercised before gains a little confidence through that, I believe it can change so many more aspects of their lives. I try to lead in a way that every time a person leaves a session with me, they do something brand new, so it wasn't just, "yeah we did exercise", but rather it was "Wow I did this thing I didn't think I could do" or "Wow Dan pushed me and I thought I wasn't going to make it but I did"....
Like you said... all kids should be able to join FUN programs that no matter what skill or what they want to achieve. The goal is just to get them active, laughing and smiling.
It's definitely not the money route, but I find such passion helping kids and teens that I feel if I wonder from this dream to go do movies or stunt work or other things, Ill feel as if I sold out on life.
I feel the need for there to be one for the top athletes and theres no denying that. They deserve their place in the world if they were born with the gifts and talents to be full time athletes. But I feel the gap is too great between those top athletes and the non athletes that the system doesn't work like it should. It leads to discouragement, lack of self respect, no visible goals and so many other things that every kid growing up should have the opportunity to have via athletic systems. Growing up I was the jock always, and I saw so many of my friends just become out of shape because there was no sport for them. Sure they became more arts related, or computer related or whatnot, but those are above and beyond the base of our lives which is how healthy we are.
I try to show kids another route.. I'm developing a pretty scalable program that should work for people with very little exercise all the way to your top athlete. ! Through this I try to show them they can achieve anything they want out of life. That anyone can be healthy, in shape, run fast, jump high, climb that thing.. whatever these kids can dream. From there, they can go anywhere, and if a kid who has never really exercised before gains a little confidence through that, I believe it can change so many more aspects of their lives. I try to lead in a way that every time a person leaves a session with me, they do something brand new, so it wasn't just, "yeah we did exercise", but rather it was "Wow I did this thing I didn't think I could do" or "Wow Dan pushed me and I thought I wasn't going to make it but I did"....
Like you said... all kids should be able to join FUN programs that no matter what skill or what they want to achieve. The goal is just to get them active, laughing and smiling.
It's definitely not the money route, but I find such passion helping kids and teens that I feel if I wonder from this dream to go do movies or stunt work or other things, Ill feel as if I sold out on life.
Dan, Your friendly neighbourhood asshole. 
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I do installs and build FG stuff, pm me if you need help with anything. Im cheap.