SDI Sport Development International SDI
The Sport Training Optimization Experts
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The Sport Training Optimization Experts |
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Youth
Multilateral Sport
Development: The Child & Junior Athlete Path to Success |
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Sport Development International encourages parents and coaches to introduce children from 6 years of age and up to a variety of physical activities with the simple aim of motivating the children to enjoy and have fun exercising, while evidently developing their motor abilities in the process. Youth sports has to be free of performance duties where too much stress is put on the children with organized training geared towards competition and winning. We designed specific programs to fulfill the ultimate goal of developing well balanced general athletes prior any specialization in a sport. The actual plague of sport development is the "acute championite" nurtured by societies acknowledging and rewarding instant success rather than the long term benefits of a thorough educational process. Because critical thinking has become obsolete in modern societies ruled by merchandizing and corporate will, there also goes most of the education systems albeit being the supposed guarantors of the citizenry well-being. Modern societies evolve and thrive upon lies and myths told over and over again and made to be believed by a population whose addiction to consumerism and pursuit of induced egoistic goals is second to none. Sport is no longer seen as the valuable development of a group of Human Beings in a specific socio-cultural context, but rather as a mass entertainment trapping itself and all which is surrounding it into a downward spiral of deceptions, where even cheating is mostly seen as being part of the game to achieve the expected end results at any cost. We, at Sport Development International do not adhere to the non-sense being told and seen on a daily basis. Our purpose is to help supportive parents and coaches to develop progressively and in a stress-free environment all the necessary motor and biomotor abilities children need to acquire in order to become the confident persons ready to make the right decisions in their forthcoming lives. Simply because it often comes to simple decision making matters, both in sport and life, having potential drastic influences on short, medium or long distance outcomes, it often comes to make the right decision at the right time. Without the necessary preparation, these decisions will be left to chance. Is it fair?.. Don't we have the responsibility to educate our young athletes to make the correct decision willingly and after mature reflection? Sport is the very best "school of life" where confident, well trained athletes will make the correct decisions. We see it as a life rehearsal ground, not as a factory to produce hypothetical champions . This fate will surely replicate in actual life as our young athletes will have developed the genuine self-confidence and knowledge to cope with the challenging situations life will inevitably bring. From there, the bases of success are established. If the foundations are strong, success will take care of itself. No need to think about it. It's all about attitude and awareness. It is our role as responsible adults and educators to ensure that we leave that heritage to our kids. What should be left behind us is not made of brick and mortar but rather should be a spiritual legacy. We can make an attitude and behavioral difference with the kind of sport we teach. It is not much, but it should be part of a better overall educational system... We didn't invent anything new. We put together existing developmental ideas into a progressive systematic program enhancing step by step the physical, mental, technical and tactical abilities of the young athletes. Our priority is to help parents and coaches to train sound athletes. Look at it as a chain of events where we would forge and build the chain link by link with the best metal, the best tools and the best know-how of the trade. Like in the making of a handicraft master piece, nothing happens over night because all segments of the process take time to refine. But once finished, the end product is unmistakable with a mass produced item of the same kind. Once all the links are put together, the chain will resist the centuries to come, and so will our athletes. For any inquiries, please contact us at: info@sportdevelopmentinternational.com
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Sport Development International, 2007, 2008 |
