Dad advice sharing thread.
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@nepia said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@paekakboyz said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
I remember taking extra clothing to school to cover for the inevitable ripped shirt during lunchtime bull-rush. Good times!!
mum used to stich mine back together. lunch time league did for more than bullrush i think. Our lunchtime league games were brutal.
At high school our league games got pointless as no matter who started the game everyone would just join in and it would wind up being 30 on 30 across ways on the field. My mates and I started going to the edge of the field in the hope that all the lazy buggers could't be bothered walking out that far.
ours were similar. Or smaller games would merge in to big games. And someone would invariably get fucked up.
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@paekakboyz I remember discussions with mum about clip studs under the shirt buttons to alleviate hertask of sewing buttons back on every night.
Good times
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Man, lost my fav hypercolour t-shirt during a particularly brutal session. Probably for the best looking back on it!!
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I vividly remember getting through an intense BullRush session when I was six and as we were walking back to class, I was with my mate rex who was shorter than me and I said something like 'good game shorty' to which he replied "i'm not short" and judo flipped me and broke my collar bone! He then pleaded for me 'not to tell'. He was a mate so all good. I must have had a good complex mind back then
It was never the bullrush that was dangerous!
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I know right!
This one lunchtime whilst doing Dungeons and Dragons the Chess club guys starting talking trash to us so I was like totally " know you are said you are but what am I?". They backed down. Checkmate bitches. -
@baron-silas-greenback that's not what chess club told me.
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Farken cracked it on the weekend with the pre match pep talk. Always try give the lad a bit of a rev up on the way to the game and try and inspire him to put in a good performance.
Usually its very much "do this", 'don't do that' sorta stuff and basically telling him to make sure he gets involved and not swan about in the backs. This week I was crapping on (pretty much all I do) to him about leaving everything out on the field in terms of his effort. I said "if you were to sit back and watch a replay of the game, how would you want to feel about how you played? What would you want to see?" Immediately he said that he would want to feel proud of his efforts and not be seen to be slacking off. I said "That's a good idea Phin, make yourself proud of your performance"
Well what a game, 4 tries and could have been 5 (just touched the sideline apparently). 14 tackles, multiple good runs, clean passing and catching, lots of support. It really was something to behold. He knew it to. When he came off at the end of the game he gave me one of those smiling nods (kinda led by the chin and eye brows at the same time), you know the one. He was chuffed and quite frankly so was I. Only cost me $4.80 too in performance payments.
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@JK bro that is awesome. Well done Phin!
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ha my boy picked up an injury trying to tackle the biggest kid in the other team (who was basically my size sans a few kgs)
He did say to me on the drive home it was kinda his fault as he saw the big guy coming at him and he hesitated and then didn't fully commit...I told him it was also just bad luck and these things happen.
So the size thing does make it a bit more interesting though. This team was BIG, a country team who had 3 kids who had been both age and weight dispensated (must be 12 on Jan 1 and under 70kg) our only dispensated kid missed out because he was born a month before 1 Jan, and is 37kg, our biggest kid is 62kg.
If those boys hadn't been dispensated for the club, they wouldn't be able to play this season as their club didn't have the team up the age group for them.
We have a few decent sized kids, but nothing like these boys, and it becomes quite intimidating and no amount of 'bigger they are harder they fall' type talks makes much difference.
With 10 to go we were down by 5 I think, then 2 of our bigger boys had to come off, which is where the intimidation thing happens as the other kids look to these guys lining up alongside them and gives them confidence, but as soon as they were off the field, psychologically, the big boys in the opposition seemed that much bigger and they scored 3 tries in 5 mins.
This other team hasn't lost yet, probably wont, we lost 31-19, but the boys were pretty well beaten physically and mentally after this one, that will be what training this week will be about, picking them up.
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@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@paekakboyz said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
I remember taking extra clothing to school to cover for the inevitable ripped shirt during lunchtime bull-rush. Good times!!
mum used to stich mine back together. lunch time league did for more than bullrush i think. Our lunchtime league games were brutal.
You jersey-grabbing bogan leaguie, North Island motherfuckers.
No-one at my school ever got ripped clothing - we would have been thrashed by the Headmaster - not for wrecking people's clothes but for poor tackling technique.
Hit them hard with the shoulder - just above the knee - with a bit of luck they'll also get a dead leg and be unable to run for five minutes.
Little Canterbury automatons were we.
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@taniwharugby said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
ha my boy picked up an injury trying to tackle the biggest kid in the other team (who was basically my size sans a few kgs)
He did say to me on the drive home it was kinda his fault as he saw the big guy coming at him and he hesitated and then didn't fully commit...I told him it was also just bad luck and these things happen.
So the size thing does make it a bit more interesting though. This team was BIG, a country team who had 3 kids who had been both age and weight dispensated (must be 12 on Jan 1 and under 70kg) our only dispensated kid missed out because he was born a month before 1 Jan, and is 37kg, our biggest kid is 62kg.
If those boys hadn't been dispensated for the club, they wouldn't be able to play this season as their club didn't have the team up the age group for them.
We have a few decent sized kids, but nothing like these boys, and it becomes quite intimidating and no amount of 'bigger they are harder they fall' type talks makes much difference.
With 10 to go we were down by 5 I think, then 2 of our bigger boys had to come off, which is where the intimidation thing happens as the other kids look to these guys lining up alongside them and gives them confidence, but as soon as they were off the field, psychologically, the big boys in the opposition seemed that much bigger and they scored 3 tries in 5 mins.
This other team hasn't lost yet, probably wont, we lost 31-19, but the boys were pretty well beaten physically and mentally after this one, that will be what training this week will be about, picking them up.
My son's team don't have a gram of fat on them and it's basically impossible to separate backs from forwards. It's straight out bizarre. They all look exactly the same, just some slight differences in height. Makes it very difficult against bigger teams, particularly in the scrums. They're a well drilled team and have some good players but I think it might be a long season.
A scrum was driven back and collapsed on the weekend and for a second there I thought my son had a neck injury. Luckily it was just a strain (chicken winged). But damn it's scary when that shit happens. Would never let him near the front row.
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@jk said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
Farken cracked it on the weekend with the pre match pep talk. Always try give the lad a bit of a rev up on the way to the game and try and inspire him to put in a good performance.
Usually its very much "do this", 'don't do that' sorta stuff and basically telling him to make sure he gets involved and not swan about in the backs. This week I was crapping on (pretty much all I do) to him about leaving everything out on the field in terms of his effort. I said "if you were to sit back and watch a replay of the game, how would you want to feel about how you played? What would you want to see?" Immediately he said that he would want to feel proud of his efforts and not be seen to be slacking off. I said "That's a good idea Phin, make yourself proud of your performance"
Well what a game, 4 tries and could have been 5 (just touched the sideline apparently). 14 tackles, multiple good runs, clean passing and catching, lots of support. It really was something to behold. He knew it to. When he came off at the end of the game he gave me one of those smiling nods (kinda led by the chin and eye brows at the same time), you know the one. He was chuffed and quite frankly so was I. Only cost me $4.80 too in performance payments.
Any new Instagram videos? The one from last year was bloody impressive.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
Any new Instagram videos? The one from last year was bloody impressive.
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@rancid-schnitzel up until last year, all the boys in our team were pretty much same height, similar weight (were about 7 in the team last year that had been there since they were 5)
One of our best players last year was a lightweight that played at 8 (even this year he is still only 43kg this year, but has moved out 1 spot to 9, but tackles his heart out week in week out, never gives up) his twin played at 13, mind you, both of them stood out from the day they started ripper rugby when they were 5.
They only started pushing in scrums at U12 I think it was and then is limited to 1m.
I've been teaching them scrumming technique and more importantly, falling technique for when the scrums collapse to minimize risk of injury.
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@taniwharugby said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
One of our best players last year was a lightweight that played at 8 (even this year he is still only 43kg this year,
My son played two seasons ago - and the best player was the smallest on the team. Ran hard, tackled like a demon, and was effective all over the paddock. Awesome to watch, and great to see a little guy do well.
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@nzzp yep he plays reps too and isn't afraid of knocking over guys 25+kg heavier than him.
He is a machine too, won the Northland Yr 7 Cross Country last year too, and then found out 2 weeks later the pain he had had for a month was a phoenix palm spike over a CM long stuck in his foot.
He has just started to get a bit of mongrel to him now too.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@jk said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
Farken cracked it on the weekend with the pre match pep talk. Always try give the lad a bit of a rev up on the way to the game and try and inspire him to put in a good performance.
Usually its very much "do this", 'don't do that' sorta stuff and basically telling him to make sure he gets involved and not swan about in the backs. This week I was crapping on (pretty much all I do) to him about leaving everything out on the field in terms of his effort. I said "if you were to sit back and watch a replay of the game, how would you want to feel about how you played? What would you want to see?" Immediately he said that he would want to feel proud of his efforts and not be seen to be slacking off. I said "That's a good idea Phin, make yourself proud of your performance"
Well what a game, 4 tries and could have been 5 (just touched the sideline apparently). 14 tackles, multiple good runs, clean passing and catching, lots of support. It really was something to behold. He knew it to. When he came off at the end of the game he gave me one of those smiling nods (kinda led by the chin and eye brows at the same time), you know the one. He was chuffed and quite frankly so was I. Only cost me $4.80 too in performance payments.
Any new Instagram videos? The one from last year was bloody impressive.
Nah mate. He did ask to see the video after the game and was disappointed when I said I didnt film anything. Think I was too in awe!
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@jk said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@jk said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
Farken cracked it on the weekend with the pre match pep talk. Always try give the lad a bit of a rev up on the way to the game and try and inspire him to put in a good performance.
Usually its very much "do this", 'don't do that' sorta stuff and basically telling him to make sure he gets involved and not swan about in the backs. This week I was crapping on (pretty much all I do) to him about leaving everything out on the field in terms of his effort. I said "if you were to sit back and watch a replay of the game, how would you want to feel about how you played? What would you want to see?" Immediately he said that he would want to feel proud of his efforts and not be seen to be slacking off. I said "That's a good idea Phin, make yourself proud of your performance"
Well what a game, 4 tries and could have been 5 (just touched the sideline apparently). 14 tackles, multiple good runs, clean passing and catching, lots of support. It really was something to behold. He knew it to. When he came off at the end of the game he gave me one of those smiling nods (kinda led by the chin and eye brows at the same time), you know the one. He was chuffed and quite frankly so was I. Only cost me $4.80 too in performance payments.
Any new Instagram videos? The one from last year was bloody impressive.
Nah mate. He did ask to see the video after the game and was disappointed when I said I didnt film anything. Think I was too in awe!
But what D & D class does he play?
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Had the last tournament of the year yesterday. It was his home one. He was his usual self for the first 2 games. After lunch I took him and a couple of the other kids who avoid contact and did some mauling and tackling drills with them to get them super fired up. The 3rd game was much better got into some of the mauls and seemed much more interested.
Then the final game he made a great tackle with the smallest fellah in the team coming over the top to help him out. Then in the last play of the game he ripped the ball from the opposition on our goal line it fell at his feet. He looked at the ref then picked it up and went the length of the field to score.
Of course he does this at the one game his mum comes to watch, so I get the whole. I don't know what you're talking about he seemed fine to me speech the way home.
He was super happy so I picked him up a club cap which he wanted to sleep in, and is already talking about the boys coming back for next seasons under 7's.
Will spend the summer doing more ball skills and getting the middle boy pumped up for his debut.
He will be a different proposition. Once at school someone was bullying the oldest, who is 2 years above him. He tackled the kid to the ground and just started mashing him with his head. The teacher was not impressed. Dad let him ride in the front seat for a week though. Bully won't even talk to the oldest now out of fear.
Just glad I am not coaching him, when he doesn't want to do something he is the most stubborn angry 4 year old I have ever seen. His best mate is a little girl though and she seems to be able to control him. Might ask her parents if she would be keen to play.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@jk said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@jk said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
Farken cracked it on the weekend with the pre match pep talk. Always try give the lad a bit of a rev up on the way to the game and try and inspire him to put in a good performance.
Usually its very much "do this", 'don't do that' sorta stuff and basically telling him to make sure he gets involved and not swan about in the backs. This week I was crapping on (pretty much all I do) to him about leaving everything out on the field in terms of his effort. I said "if you were to sit back and watch a replay of the game, how would you want to feel about how you played? What would you want to see?" Immediately he said that he would want to feel proud of his efforts and not be seen to be slacking off. I said "That's a good idea Phin, make yourself proud of your performance"
Well what a game, 4 tries and could have been 5 (just touched the sideline apparently). 14 tackles, multiple good runs, clean passing and catching, lots of support. It really was something to behold. He knew it to. When he came off at the end of the game he gave me one of those smiling nods (kinda led by the chin and eye brows at the same time), you know the one. He was chuffed and quite frankly so was I. Only cost me $4.80 too in performance payments.
Any new Instagram videos? The one from last year was bloody impressive.
Nah mate. He did ask to see the video after the game and was disappointed when I said I didnt film anything. Think I was too in awe!
But what D & D class does he play?
What what?
