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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Rise up and burnouts
By Tangotiger, 12:56 PM
Goalies always have the best stories. I wonder how often a 13-yr old scrimmages with professionals?
And 19-yr olds that burnout from playing hockey?
It is something the greatest player in history, Wayne Gretzky, talked about repeatedly: How teenagers should be exposed to many different sports as they develop, and that the answer sometimes was to do less sport-specific training in order to develop all-round athleticism and maintain a healthy love of the sport in which their primary abilities lie.
Fun, something else Gretzky stressed, generally doesn’t get mentioned nearly enough these days, either.