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Post by James B on Apr 14, 2003 13:31:54 GMT -5
How do you get boys in a team to bond? You cant have sleepovers or take them to amusement partks because they are boys. Any ideas?
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Post by IdahoBoy on Apr 14, 2003 14:08:04 GMT -5
Give them a common enemy. Either that, or threaten them with an enema.  Seriously though, a common enemy or archrival is a good bonding introduction. I suppose you could drop them off in the middle of the woods with a pocket knife and a piece fo binder twince and tell them the pick up will be in 3 days 20 miles from the spot you left them. (The common enemy in this case would be nature). Just a suggestion, although, I hear that people in other states look down on Idaho tactics such as these. I don't know what the big deal is, I really don't. The 5th grade club girls team made it out with only 5 casualties (2 from wolves, 1 from a grizzly bear, and the other two fighting over a half a comb they found on the side of the road). The surviving 8 though, after 2 months in the hospital all beat my club team the other week. |
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Post by vballmom on Apr 14, 2003 14:22:32 GMT -5
How old are they? My son's club coach - when he was 17 and 18 - had a 12 hour practice on a Saturday. They all met at someone house early in the morning and went for a three mile run. After they cooled down, they had a nice breakfast together - provided by the parents at the house or by the coach at his house - wherever it was that they met - after breakfast, they went to the gym for some volleyball practice, then to lunch, then to a field to do some "trusting" excercises - then back to the gym for some more volleyball or to a sand lot for some two's - then to dinner. It was a very long day, but a very good one. I've done some of this on a smaller scale with my girls JV high school team.
Good luck!!
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Post by James B on Apr 14, 2003 14:32:06 GMT -5
15 and 16 year old boys. Our club is made up of boys from 4 different high schools and it's very cliquish. It's hard to get them to get along.
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Post by vballmom on Apr 14, 2003 15:33:56 GMT -5
I understand Give the all-day Saturday practice a try. Get one of your most helpful parents to be the meeting place and ask them to cook breakfast while you all are out on your run. Have all of the guys bring money to give the host parents to cover the cost. They should also bring extra clothes to change into as the day goes - don't want them to stay in the same wet/sweaty socks, shirts and shorts all day. |
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Post by Eater on Apr 14, 2003 20:12:18 GMT -5
Kick their ass in practice for a few weeks. They'll hate you, but they'll get along with eachother well. Nothing brought me together with my teammates like getting reamed by the coaches and running around on the field for hours. Good times.
I hate those stupid fake games some coaches make you do, where you have to fall off backwards from something and trust your teammates to catch you, things like that. They're so fake, and too short term to mean anything. Bonding takes time-unless you take Idahoboy's suggestion, that'd be a quick way to bond them.
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Post by Jobe on Apr 14, 2003 21:19:55 GMT -5
For me, it wasn't hard to bond with a kid if they were good at volleyball. I remember my team had clicks but on the court, we respected each other for our abilities. We never had any problems because of the mutual respect on the court, even if we knew off the court we would never hangout.
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