KIN 312M Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Late Bloomer, Think Small, Palpation
2 Nov 2016
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Day 8 5/10/16: Ch 4 Health
Problem - Kids are leaving sports
● 2.6 Million fewer kids playing these sports alone in the past 5 years
○ All sports not just football (basketball, soccer, track/field, baseball, football,
softball)
● Why? - competitive structure and emphasis on early specialization
○ Sports cost lots of money now (impacts participation rate)
● Model is broken (pyramid model)
○ Tons of people play when young then at each ‘jump’ up people are weeded out
for different reasons (disability, average ability, low income, injury, late bloomer)
○ Push out kids who want to play
● Solution: Sport for all, play for life (square model)
○ Produce athletes for life
○ Mostly rectatinal with some competitive and a few elite, and all having physical
literacy
■ Teach people building blocks of movement
Small Changes - Big Impact
● Ask kids what they want/fun: social bonds and access to the action
○ Fun: trying your best, coach with respect, playing time
○ Less Fun: Winning, tournaments, medals/trophies
● Reintroduce Free Play, some barriers are...
○ Single or dual working parents: without supervision it's easy to tell kids to stay at
home after school
○ Professionalization of parthood: culture pressure on parents to create super
achieving kids
○ Impact of standardized testing mandates: federal law promoting academic skills
let to cuts to PE/recess
○ Competition for college admissions: pickup hoops doesn’t build a student’s
resume wo why invest time/resources?
● Encourage Sport Sampling: benefits of sampling a variety of sports → it's better to try a
few than to focus on one early
○ Opposite of early specialization
○ More options mean more kids will find a sport they like
○ Play sports longer throughout life
● Revitalize in Town leagues: income impacs sport palpation
○ Percentage of core participant by household income
○ Club/travel model excludes those without the funds
● Think Small: more fun with less space
○ Don’t use full courts for full games with adult rules
○ Games that build skills and involve more people in the same amount of space
■ Especially in urban settings
● Design for Development: Design for Development
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Document Summary
2. 6 million fewer kids playing these sports alone in the past 5 years. All sports not just football (basketball, soccer, track/field, baseball, football, softball) Competitive structure and emphasis on early specialization. Sports cost lots of money now (impacts participation rate) Tons of people play when young then at each jump" up people are weeded out for different reasons (disability, average ability, low income, injury, late bloomer) Push out kids who want to play. Solution: sport for all, play for life (square model) Mostly rectatinal with some competitive and a few elite, and all having physical literacy. Ask kids what they want/fun: social bonds and access to the action. Fun: trying your best, coach with respect, playing time. Single or dual working parents: without supervision it"s easy to tell kids to stay at home after school. Professionalization of parthood: culture pressure on parents to create super achieving kids. Competition for college admissions: pickup hoops doesn"t build a student"s.
