What kids of sports do your kids play, and what are your thoughts on it? Wife wants to enroll my son in little league (baseball). Was never an organized sports player myself. My friends and I played paintball and airsoft instead.
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As someone else said swimming is a MUST. After that depends on the kid. If they lack confidence or are small, martial arts can be good and so can "ninja class", which is like obstacle course and climbing stuff can be great, especially if they are really cautious, scared of things, but mainly the goal is to get them running around and enjoying exercise and you don't want anything that could inhibit their love for it and you don't want to force it.
Gifted athletic kids probably benefit the most from early team sports because these kids are always going to have their asses kissed by their peers. Being a part of a team, not having it be all about themselves is a good thing.
Soccer into basketball is probably the best and cheapest because the kids run so much. Kids are either going to love or hate basketball because it's so athletic and size driven. Other sports can be learned, kids can compete more through drive and dedication, perfecting a role, so switching to them can be good and it might take time to find which sport that is. In a cold state like mine it might be Hockey.
Football. I would wait the longest on that and fore more than just health concerns. It's so specialized and so easy to learn a position (at least at Amateur levels) that they can pick it up later instantly. Playing all the other sports is great for development and coordination and if you have a BIG boy, lineman type family, you want those boys playing basketball for the cardio, footwork. Height is everything in early basketball anyways, so it can be good for their confidence to. Kids like to pick on anything "different" and big kids can get picked on to.
We started a ninja warrior class but I took him out of it. It was at a gymnasics place and I dont know why but its like jew central in there. The other kids in the class were extremely misbehaved and were just running amok while some teenage girl repeatedly and uselessly told them to stop. So most of the time my son was just waiting patiently to do the thing while the teacher was distracted by the other kids. Needless to say we dropped that quick. The obstacles were also just upper body everything. Not high skill, just monkey shit basically. My son's already ripped enough from the usual boy roughhousing, he doesnt need strength training.
Gifted athletic kids probably benefit the most from early team sports because these kids are always going to have their asses kissed by their peers. Being a part of a team, not having it be all about themselves is a good thing.
Soccer into basketball is probably the best and cheapest because the kids run so much. Kids are either going to love or hate basketball because it's so athletic and size driven. Other sports can be learned, kids can compete more through drive and dedication, perfecting a role, so switching to them can be good and it might take time to find which sport that is. In a cold state like mine it might be Hockey.
Football. I would wait the longest on that and fore more than just health concerns. It's so specialized and so easy to learn a position (at least at Amateur levels) that they can pick it up later instantly. Playing all the other sports is great for development and coordination and if you have a BIG boy, lineman type family, you want those boys playing basketball for the cardio, footwork. Height is everything in early basketball anyways, so it can be good for their confidence to. Kids like to pick on anything "different" and big kids can get picked on to.