- Jan 20, 2010
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lacking empathy? Perhaps I lack it because I'm driven to succeed and excel no matter what it takes. I don't know about where you guys are from, but around here real sports have real requirements when it comes to making a "travel" team. Whether it be soccer, volleyball, softball, baseball, lacrosse, or field hockey, EVERY single "travel" team has cuts. If you don't meet the skill requirement, you don't make the team. It's as simple as that. Nobody is excluding them from taking a tumbling and stunting class at the gym. Just like nobody is preventing me from taking a volleyball class to learn to play a sport I've never played before since I so desperately need to do it (relating back to everyone's wonderful examples). At 14+ years old, you should be able to take critique and understand what set skills are. And more importantly, you should understand why you don't meet them. Like the saying goes, you can always teach an old dog new tricks. If they want it as bad as you guys make it out to be, they'll learn it. Trust me on that one. And if they don't? Well maybe that's the start of the life lesson that sometimes, no matter what people tell you, your best will just never be good enough. It's harsh, but it's the truth. Every other sport let's their kids learn it, why can't we?
Actually, the saying says "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."