Older players info

Hi Seadog

Thanks for the link. Delightful.

Working with the older kids,(thirteen to millionaire), I always found that the toughest things are, respectively:

A. How to "un-teach" the techniques that are in the long run, self defeating.

B.How to inject "fun" back into the game.

C. How to get the kids to trust that I only want them to reach their own God given potential, after the egomaniacal knothead "coaches" have had a run at them.

D. Recognizing their strengths and getting them to play "to them"

E. Recognizing their weaknesses, and helping them "play away from them".

F. By the mid teens, many of the kids have reached a point where "teaching" is not so much an issue as "specific coaching" ie: individual attention to that kid's game, (or lack of it).

Bottom line, the game is now competing with "wow, she is really something", (girls or boys), or "wow, I would really like to be a doctor", (college coaches like their athletes to be in basket weaving majors so as not to interfere with practice. Most of them absolutely detest majors that require lab time during practice...and so-called "student-athletes" are anathema.)

So...your post is extremely on the point. Thank you

Best regards
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