Wussification of America...camps

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Spartacavolus

Spartacavolus

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These damn camps. Kids are on their first day off school and all they talk about are playing video games and camps, and even video game camps. Since when do you have to go to a freaking camp to go outside? 3-4 day camps for swimming, basketball, baseball, football, soccer, etc. How about neighborhood camp? Get the hell out of the house, go to billy's to hoop, go play some stick ball at Sean's, raid the rich kid's fridge, jump in somebody's pool, whether you know them or not, do some jumping on some bikes, end with a little tackle football or maybe a little scrum with a neighborhood kid and you've knocked out about every sport or exercise possible and had a blast. That's how you learn to play ball, not in some bs 3 day camp for $150.
 
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I used to waste summer days doing all of the above, plus catching critters and fishing. Good times. Wouldn't have traded it for any camp.
 
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Went to one stupid church camp for a week. Worst week ever.

Take the country over the city as a kid any day.
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Summer camps were awesome. Actual camping in tents, poking at snakes with sticks, fishing, swimming in unhealthy rivers. Nice.
 
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pl3 said:
That's how you learn to play ball, not in some bs 3 day camp for $150.
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disagree completely. Camps were very beneficial to me when playing sports. We even went to them as a team

heck I even put on a couple while in HS
 
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Im a firm believer that American's are fat because they learn from childhood that everything you need can be done from a chair on a computer or a smart phone. What happened to swimming at the lake in the summer or playing ball with your buds......with this said I am going fishing tonight.
 
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pl3 said:
These damn camps. Kids are on their first day off school and all they talk about are playing video games and camps, and even video game camps. Since when do you have to go to a freaking camp to go outside? 3-4 day camps for swimming, basketball, baseball, football, soccer, etc. How about neighborhood camp? Get the hell out of the house, go to billy's to hoop, go play some stick ball at Sean's, raid the rich kid's fridge, jump in somebody's pool, whether you know them or not, do some jumping on some bikes, end with a little
tackle football or maybe a little scrum with a
neighborhood kid and you've knocked out
about every sport or exercise possible and
had a blast. That's how you learn to play
ball, not in some bs 3 day camp for
$150.
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Amen brother, Amen!!!!
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lylsmorr said:
Summer camps were awesome. Actual camping in tents, poking at snakes with sticks, fishing, swimming in unhealthy rivers. Nice.
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That was called my back yard. Ah, the joys of small Mississippi towns.

I guess if that wasn't an option then camps could be a good supplement.
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utvolpj said:
disagree completely. Camps were very beneficial to me when playing sports. We even went to them as a team

heck I even put on a couple while in HS
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Ask the pro basketball, football and baseball players where they honed their craft before the age of 13 or so.
 
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They probably don't even have a guy with a hockey mask hiding in the woods at camp anymore.....sissy's
 
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fl0at said:
That was called my back yard. Ah, the joys of small Mississippi towns.

I guess if that wasn't an option then camps could be a good supplement.
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Grew up in the city limits here. I'd go every other weekend to a friends house and do those things, but these camps were a big group of my friends that would go and do those things.
 
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pl3 said:
Ask the pro basketball, football and baseball players where they honed their craft before the age of 13 or so.
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1) you never put an age to it so if we're saying these are 5yo then that's different

2) I went to camp with some

3) they were probably playing travel leagues in the summer
 
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I hunted, fished, and slept in a tent, without going to some place to sing Kumbaya. I wallered(wallowed) in gumbo mud and swam in muddy river water. Faught skeeters the size of VW bugs. Ran trot-lines for catfish. Cooked meals over an open fire.

Damn, I had it good!!
 
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lylsmorr said:
Grew up in the city limits here. I'd go every other weekend to a friends house and do those things, but these camps were a big group of my friends that would go and do those things.
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Least you got a good outdoor education, then. Though, no outdoor education can be complete without spending all afternoon looking for the two arrows you lost in the woods, since you only had three.
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CountVolcula said:
I hunted, fished, and slept in a tent, without going to some place to sing Kumbaya. I wallered(wallowed) in gumbo mud and swam in muddy river water. Faught skeeters the size of VW bugs. Ran trot-lines for catfish. Cooked meals over an open fire.

Damn, I had it good!!
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what were you hunting in the summer?
 
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CountVolcula said:
I hunted, fished, and slept in a tent, without going to some place to sing Kumbaya. I wallered(wallowed) in gumbo mud and swam in muddy river water. Faught skeeters the size of VW bugs. Ran trot-lines for catfish. Cooked meals over an open fire.

Damn, I had it good!!
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Ever cook and eat a robin you shot with a BB gun over a Coleman camp stove?

Can't do that at camp.

We had it good. Feel for those that don't have that luxury.
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Lol we still go frog gigging here were I live. I know we are redneck. I live about 5 minutes from a 170,000 acre WMA......Maybe I can find today's youth a frog gigging app for there phone.
 
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Just a quick anecdotal story on this subject. My son plays baseball in the local league here. He's eight. A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a tournament, so we were at the ball fields all day, along with most of the other players on his team. Those boys spent the entire playing pick-games on whatever field happened to be empty. Well, when it came time to play their real game, they came out on the field and put an ass-whippin' on the other team like I've never seen them do before. They were fired up, having a blast, laughing and in sync from all those pick-up games earlier in the day and apparently it carried over. I can't help but think unorganized neighborhood ball is vastly underrated in sports development. That's all a did as a kid.
 
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jamesd1628 said:
Just a quick anecdotal story on this subject. My son plays baseball in the local league here. He's eight. A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a tournament, so we were at the ball fields all day, along with most of the other players on his team. Those boys spent the entire playing pick-games on whatever field happened to be empty. Well, when it came time to play their real game, they came out on the field and put an ass-whippin' on the other team like I've never seen them do before. They were fired up, having a blast, laughing and in sync from all those pick-up games earlier in the day and apparently it carried over. I can't help but think unorganized neighborhood ball is vastly underrated in sports development. That's all a did as a kid.
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it helps but playing together as a team (organized or just backyard) is much more beneficial. Plus you don't learn fundamentals or strategy from your friends
 
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utvolpj said:
it helps but playing together as a team (organized or just backyard) is much more beneficial. Plus you don't learn fundamentals or strategy from your friends
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I'm sure it's good to have both. It just seems that nobody wants to play in the neighborhood anymore just for fun. If it's not an organized game or practice with the full team, then it's nothing. I've just never seen those boys have as much fun playing as they did that night, and it showed up in their performance.
 
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