There are LEVELS to why the answer is a defenitive NO.
“Selling sport specific lessons on top of the abundance of sport specificity our kids are receiving in the modern era because “you can” doesn’t make it right.
You’re not the knight in shining armor you think you are.
You’re draining our kids depleted cups & don’t even know it.”
-Ray Zingler on X
Are you truly after what’s best for the kids & their development?
Or are you after what’s best for you financially and what you “can” justify getting away with?
Of course, they’ll tell you they’re after what’s best for the kids & their development, because nobody is going to openly admit they are after serving their own self-interests, but much like we learned in elementary school, actions speak far louder than words.
Look at the landscape, globally, from an unbiased perspective.
Our kids are playing higher volumes of specific sport than they ever have in any other time in human history, meaning they are subjected to an IMMENSE volume of sport specific instruction 12-months a year.
Do you really believe “the keys that hold their potential” are found in additional sport specifics that they are ALREADY getting far too much of without the additional money grabs?
Especially kids who fundamentally lack the requisite levels of general physical preparedness for any of the specifics to matter?
Of course, you can fool naïve parents into thinking little Timmy needs you to watch him hit off the Tee for 30 minutes, or grab a quick $75 bucks from Sarah’s mom to watch her tip toe over hurdles with a lacrosse stick in her hand, but is this really what’s right? Is this really what’s going to move their performance needle?
If you say, “yes”, you’re either dumb and/or wrong, but probably both.
It’d be no different than me, a physical preparation coach, telling a kid who is MORE than physically prepared, who prioritizes S&C annually, multiple times per week, that “hey buddy, we need to up your training from 4 days a week to 6 days a week to really maximize your performance. I know this will come at the expense of minimizing your skill work even further, but it’s probably best for you…”
I mean what the hell?
I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
Just typing those words punched my character in the face.
Yet charlatans, everywhere, every day, pay their lifted truck payments on the backs of stealing from kids’ development.
More is not better.
Better is better, and we’re focusing on the wrong things to achieve better.
Real Development > Charlatan “Skill” Lessons.
