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Post by Vballin on Apr 8, 2016 0:13:28 GMT -5
Those stories, if true, are not good. Crazy punishments, weird consequences. Agreed. Not good. Weird. Not somebody I'd want to play for. But not abusive in my opinion. It is disgusting. Abusive doesn't have to be physical. He sounds like a mentally abusive bully who gets off having power over these girls. I also know a girl on the team from my club. He needs to get that temper in check.
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Post by wayout on Apr 8, 2016 13:56:58 GMT -5
All the best to her. Sounds like she made the right decision. I hope the incident mentioned in the article is a rare exception. I always wonder what's the rationale behind punishing a whole team for one player's mistake. Is it to amplify her feeling of guilt, nurturing the fear that her teammates might hate her for it? Seems like a dangerous path to me as not everyone takes such things lightly. I think it is used more to say that if one fails we all fail, just like if one succeeds we all succeed. And I think it is used more when a player is having an attitude or multiple offenses in one practice, not just because they missed one ball. I hate to break it to some of you but your daughters do not show up to every practice ready to work hard and they are not always polite and respectful of their coaches. Sometimes coaches use physical punishment to get their attention. This is not abuse. Like I stated before, our livelihoods depend on how these players behave. Just one instance from my playing days... In a spring tournament my team missed 28 serves (I don't remember how many I missed, but that is irrelevant). The next practice we had to run 28 sprints (we usually ran 10 sprints as part of our weekly conditioning). It sucked. But we all paid better attention to our serves, and our coach made us understand how important it was to them that we not miss so many serves. A sentiment that I am sure they tried to instill in us before making us run a lot. But we didn't listen until we were punished for it. Let me be clear, my coaches were great! And this is not something that happened everyday, the article does not say if it happened every once in a while or if it was a daily occurrence. If it happened everyday then yes it would be terrible to play for that coach. But if it happened a couple times in the 2 years she was there then then I wouldn't call it abuse.
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