| We all know it is important to keep our youth athletes safe and healthy. This is especially important as they all seem to be involved in more sports for more of the year than ever before and the level of competition is ever increasing. April is National Youth Sports Safety Month and good time to remember and reinforce some safety basics. More...Posted On: 3/31/2007 | Posted By: sportsaholic@softwerkz.com | Permalink
With all the writing that I do stating how deplorable the state of youth sports is today. How parents of youth athletes are raising a generation of spoiled, morally deprived children who lack good sportsmanship I started to think that I was being too cynical. Taking it just a bit too far for all of the good that healthy participation in sports brings to our children. BUT, I found an organization that has taken it one step further. More...Posted On: 3/31/2007 | Posted By: sportsaholic@softwerkz.com | Permalink
Not everyone takes youth sports so seriously, and rightfully so. Youth sports parents can be a pretty comedic group worth of ridicule. Spoof.com brings up a good point though. Alot of players, coaches and parents can be too consumed with the victory and the trophy and alot of programs are overly consumed with making sure that every player gets a trophy regardless of merit. I know that once my son leaves for college we'll be contributing to the overflow of our nations landfills. More...Posted On: 3/30/2007 | Posted By: sportsaholic@softwerkz.com | Permalink
We all have a theory on what really matters to our youth athletes. But as parents what matters to us? One of the things that we (parents) commonly think that our children get from sports is a heightened sense of character and moral fiber. More...Posted On: 3/30/2007 | Posted By: sportsaholic@softwerkz.com | Permalink
The concept of what matters to our youth athletes doesn't seem to be lost on the experts out there. No, I am not talking about the parents with three kids all in elite sports, traveling the country for different sporting events. I am talking about the doctors, the coaches and the educators out there who have studied youth athletes, parents of youth athletes and the whole of youth sports. Dr. Nick Eliopulos has written another such article that has some interesting perspectives and is worth the read. You can find the article at http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/EDIT02/703300327/1090/EDIT. More...Posted On: 3/30/2007 | Posted By: sportsaholic@softwerkz.com | Permalink
Violence in youth sports seems to be on the increase now more than ever. This isn't a new idea. Its even been discussed in this blog previously. Part of what we see happening is that the opposition is becoming the focus of all the agression; viewed as someone that needs to be defeated at all costs and that failure is not tolerated. Eventually, players will become fed up with all of this and quit the sport. What seems to be lost on people today is that without an opponent there would be no competition. Think about what it would be like to try to hit a baseball without a pitcher to pitch it or how much fun it would be to just shoot a puck up and down the ice without anyone on the other side to stop it. A girls basketball team in Washington state has taken a step in correcting this problem and set an example for all youth athletes and parents to follow. More...Posted On: 3/25/2007 | Posted By: sportsaholic@softwerkz.com | Permalink
The people at midwestyouthhockey.com have a blog and there is a February 17, 2007 entry titled "Perspective" that deals with this matter from another person's perspective. Check it out at http://midwestyouthhockey.com/blog.php. More...Posted On: 3/4/2007 | Posted By: sportsaholic@softwerkz.com | Permalink
When i was a kid, growing up and playing hockey, there weren't that many choices in the way of sticks. If you were like me, chances are you picked up a straight blade stick and either got dad to heat and curve the blade or you got real ambitious and did it yourself. Now there are more choices and a whole range of prices. More...Posted On: 3/4/2007 | Posted By: sportsaholic@softwerkz.com | Permalink
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| Youth sports is a huge business and is growing every day. Every year millions of parents spend alot of money on equipment and fees and countless hours travelling to and attending sporting events in order to give their kids the chance to play team sports and participate in organized individual competitions. At the same time, those kids are spending countless hours practicing and competing in individual and team sporting events. While an increasing number of children and adults experience poor nutrition, poor physical fitness and are becoming increasingly more obese, the participation of today's youth in HEALTHY physical activity, sports and competion becomes increasingly more important. The goal of Youth Sports Watch is to find and bring to you the best news, resources, entertainment and sports equipment prices and information related to youth sports.
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