I have been involved in organized sports my whole life and now I am involved with my own kids. Over the 12 years my oldest son has been involved in many different sports. The on thing i have come to realize is getting kids hooked on a sport is easy. Getting parents hooked on the sport is difficult. Parent these days (for the most part) want the easy way out and I have sometimes been guilty of this. Putting the lids on the playstation and going to do your own thing is easy. Technology is a kill of all sports. If there is a way to get parents invested in the sport to where they actually want to be involved then the sport will grow. Parents won't mind spending the money. But there lies the problem. I got involved with riding because I loved it when I was younger. Bought 3 bikes last year for me and my boys. We got them without thought of racing. Just having fun. Now we where all planning on doing our first race this summer till coved19 told us no. We have looked for ways to get better, clinics, coaching, ext. We where having a huge prople finding programs that would be beneficial and zero qualified or standardized coaching. Maybe this would be a good place to start.
I have been involved in organized sports my whole life and now I am involved with my own kids. Over the 12 years my oldest son has been involved in many different sports. The on thing i have come to realize is getting kids hooked on a sport is easy. Getting parents hooked on the sport is difficult. Parent these days (for the most part) want the easy way out and I have sometimes been guilty of this. Putting the lids on the playstation and going to do your own thing is easy. Technology is a kill of all sports. If there is a way to get parents invested in the sport to where they actually want to be involved then the sport will grow. Parents won't mind spending the money. But there lies the problem. I got involved with riding because I loved it when I was younger. Bought 3 bikes last year for me and my boys. We got them without thought of racing. Just having fun. Now we where all planning on doing our first race this summer till coved19 told us no. We have looked for ways to get better, clinics, coaching, ext. We where having a huge prople finding programs that would be beneficial and zero qualified or standardized coaching. Maybe this would be a good place to start.