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The Importance Of Fighting To Win In Youth Sports

Lot's of people say that young people in youth sports shouldn't care about winning. But the fact is, kids know when they are a success. Kids want to win.  Winning and seeking to win is written in our genes and in our bloodlines.  Our ancestors won over 6 other prehuman groups.  To the winner belongs the planet.  We know that winning means a better, a better chance for our children.  That is why we are willing to pay so much money to our professional athletes. Because they win and give us the Power of Sport.

In The Soccer Parents Club We Define Winning Differently

Winning is defined in the Soccer Parents Club as:

A soccer team playing a game where each soccer athlete realized he was practicing for life, sought to give his peak performance, built the self esteem of his fellow players, was loyal to his team, learned at least one way to improve his or her game,  and obeyed his coaches instructions.

One week my grandson played soccer in a game on Saturday. His team lost. He came home demoralized. And this from a child who has had as many as 60 stops in a game with good teams. He felt like a failure. It was not his failure, it was the failure of those whose job it was to help him succeed.

When we got home that night, I worked out with him for over an hour. We went over the things he had not executed correctly. Why was I willing to give so much time to working with him? After all it’s only a kid’s soccer game?

Every event in our lives has importance. It’s important to win a speech contest because it will give us the confidence to make the presentation of our ideas to our superiors or potential clients. Because every time we win at something, it give us the strength to try again, to keep on trying, to persist. I always tell him "Everything we do is practicing for life".

There are three parts to learning - body, mind and spirit. Every event of our lives are stored somewhere in our memory bank. We remember every loss, every failure, and we remember every triumph. But if we are in family or group that emphasizes our failure, we learn to replay those failure over and over again. And every time we run through an event, it creates deeper and deeper memory grooves. and those memory grooves about failing can make us gun-shy. Losses accumulate and begin to spill lover into other things.

Practicing for life. What does that mean and why are youth sports so important in training children to deal with life?

Success builds the person up inside, makes them feel like keeping on in spite of adversity and setbacks. Failing lowers the person’s life energy. "Why bother trying if I’m going to fail anyway?" Learn through youth sports. These are today the major place where our youths are training for life. Someone said, "Winning isn’t everything, winning is the only thing."  That is not true.  Someone else said, "It's not reaching my destination, it's the quality of the journey".  That is the true way of winning.  

Seeking to win is not necessarily about defeating an opponent. Many world class athletes at the top of their game have no one to defeat. They seek to win over their previous performance, to achieve their personal best. And that is what we mean by winning here.  Going out all the way. Giving it your all. Performing at your highest possible level.  The fact is, you are not always going to win. 

But youth sports should give us a chance to win 51 percent of the time. You see that’s all your body need to feel like a success is to win just 51 percent of the time.

Why is this important that kids win? Kids magnify everything. They think they are the center of the universe. When your team loses, you feel like you are the one who failed. You feel like you have let down your side, The self esteem in the group goes down. 

Now a wise coach or leader knows that sometimes the team will lose. When the team loses, now is the time to get your players together and go over the loss. Get a chalk board or flip chart page. Show them how to correct the mistake. Explain to them that when we learn, we usually don’t get it right the first time.

Explain that the game is like life. When we try something new, start our own business, start a new job, chances are we are not going to perform perfectly. Losing a game or project is like falling off a horse. We’ve got to get back on. But you can’t do it exactly the same way you did before, or you’ll just fall off again. We need to know how to do it right the second time.

But when something goes wrong in a game, in a project, in a small business, now is the time you can pull yourself back, look at what happened and correct it. So you don’t make the same misstate twice.

Johnny lets a ball get through his position. So the coach says, "We've learned something here".  We got a handle on what has been happening.  I couldn't figure it out before, but now I see the problem.  Johnny, maybe if next time you move to the left, or you move to the right." Then demonstrate to Johnny what you want him to work on. 

Tell him he did pretty good. But my job as your coach or team leader is to make sure that every time you practice you do your best., Let’s face it Johnny even in the top pro leagues they lose games. It’s a rare team that never loses a game. And when a team does go through season without losing a game, it is a big event.

Tell them, "If your team loses, it’s not because they did not have the practice or skills to win. Something the rhythm is just off. Or some of your players had a bad day. It’s not their fault. At your level, you are in the learning curve at the bottom. So of course you don’t know how to do many things. That’s why I am your coach, team leader, manager.   My job is to help you succeed a little bit more each time."

Every time you lose, or miss a shot, or miss a basket, or fumble the ball, or get sacked, it is stored in your body memory. It can be a catalyst to practicing it right. If your leader positions it right in your mind by telling you how to do it right the next time. Larry Bird shot a thousand baskets every morning. That’s why he became so great.

But if his team had never won a game, he might have left the game before he became the great player he was.

Winning gives self esteem energy. Winning causes the team to have a following which build up self esteem in the members of the group. The more you win, the better you feel, the more willing you are to keep going on, the he more willing to try new and innovative things. A losing, demoralized team tends to become more conservative, less creative, less innovative. A highly motivated winning team will try new things because they are not afraid inside.

That is true preparation for life. The young athlete learns that if he performs, he will gain the approval and support of other member so the group. Win the contract and now there is money to pay employees, expand the plant, hire more people, provide better for your family. Lose it, and you may just go out of business, put people out of work.

So help your soccer athlete learn to seek to win.  But to take each time he plays as a lesson in finding out how he can reach his "personal best" the next time out.

Winning is very important.

What would prevent youth sports from helping young people to learn the true rules of life? Well, maybe if the coach or team leader does not build their self esteem. Maybe if the team leader uses negative self esteem lowering words. There is saying, once bitten, twice shy. The burned child fear the fire.

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