Semi-OT: Warren now attending HS in NJ

[jaydogsmooth1]

Locally in Rutgers area, Rover's International Soccer is awesome. Fun. And a NJ youth soccer hall of fame soccer coach who also was nominated by red bulls for an mls community service award.

My 6 year old loves it.

Facebook.com/roversSoccer/

Spencer Rockman

Thx bud, will check it out!

 

[RUskoolie]

It's not just team sports.
Gymnastics is crazy as well.

My daughter is 6yo (going into 1st grade).
Some of her friends are pretty good at gymnastics.
They are on the "pre-squad" next year and will even have competitions this upcoming year.
They have 9 hours of practice/training per week starting in August.
At 6 years old.
That's more than I had basketball practice in HS I think.

Our daughter recently tried out for a lower program at the gymnastics gym - but they didn't say what the time commitment was other than it's a full year expectation (not like her normal classes where she can drop at anytime).
We're waiting to hear if she made the team or not.

We are lucky in that both our kids are well advanced for their grade levels so significant sports time commitments shouldn't be a problem yet.

Gymnastics is actually much different because the girls peak so much earlier. You peak at 14-15 so yeah, if you are serious you kind of have to commit like that unfortunately to start to develop your skills. My wife was a gymnast at RU.

 

[wheezer]

i tried to steer my daughter away from gymnastics when she was young after hearing similar stories regarding hours

My neighbor has a high school daughter playing on a summer softball traveling team

The coach scheduled a practice on a Sunday at 8 am, the memorial day weekend

I think he got all the girls to show up due to the threat of being benched if you did
Not, but forget about a holiday away for the family