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shardian:
That's about the same thing anyone who doesn't understand the game says...

I thought the same way until I took an 'easy A' soccer class in college, then played intramurals. I liked it as a kid (Tab Ramos FTW!), but I couldn't play locally. I LOVED it after getting to play with and against some actual talented folks.

Schmokes: We've had our daughter in the pool on a regular basis since she was 3 months old or so. We've been slacking lately though. They're real sticklers (read that as prudish morons) about flotation devices, which inhibits her from learning at the Y. While at a hotel pool recently, we put some arm floaties on her and she swam all over the pool on her own - jumping in and everything at 2.5 years. She wouldn't let anyone even touch her she was being so independent! Only thing they allow at the Y are those cumbersome built in float suits. They are useless, and I'd bet money she'd drown in one of those things if on her own the way they float her. We haven't been back to the Y since the hotel pool thing, so it will be interesting to see how she does. I fully expect her to be swimming laps in the family pool 2' end by the time she is 3.5



--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 03, 2009, 10:55:16 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 03, 2009, 10:40:19 am ---
I was always bored with soccer.  Really, really bored.  It wasn't much different than plain running.  Every instinct I had when approaching the guy with the ball screamed knock him on his ass.  I was much better suited to hockey and football.

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Soccer really just amazes me.  The ball is magnetic and attracts every player that's within 50 feet of it. 

Otherwise they stand around doing nothing.


All the way from little kids to professionals.


 :dizzy:

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saint:

--- Quote from: shardian on November 03, 2009, 11:13:12 am ---That's about the same thing anyone who doesn't understand the game says...

I thought the same way until I took an 'easy A' soccer class in college, then played intramurals. I liked it as a kid (Tab Ramos FTW!), but I couldn't play locally. I LOVED it after getting to play with and against some actual talented folks.

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True that! I've got a new appreciation for the game watching my son play through the years. A lot of strategy and tactics involved.

saint:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 03, 2009, 11:26:00 am ---Sure, and there's strategy and tactics in baseball, too.  It doesn't make that sport interesting.

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No, but it does make this statement:


--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 03, 2009, 10:55:16 am ---Soccer really just amazes me.  The ball is magnetic and attracts every player that's within 50 feet of it. 

Otherwise they stand around doing nothing.

All the way from little kids to professionals.

--- End quote ---

flat out wrong.

ChadTower:

I appreciate the strategy and tactics in soccer.  I appreciate the strategy and tactics in golf too.  Don't want to play that either.

shmokes:
Singling out soccer as magnetball doesn't even make any sense.  The same thing applies to every team sport.  You can't just have a clusterfuck of everybody scrambling for the ball like smear the queer or capture the flag.  That would leave the rest of the court/field wide open.  Of course only the players near the ball go after it.  The other players are minding their positions just like the goalie minds the goal rather than running across the field after the ball.   ???

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