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[...] A Youth Elite Athlete ? Posted on September 28, 2008 by trackmom Dr.Kwame Brown of the Blog Move Theory wrote this provocative ,insightful perspetive on the “Elite Youth Athlete” in [...]
[...] Dr.Kwame Brown [...]
Hi Dr Brown, I was in the process of looking for what is out there about “balance” and I came across your website via a number of others, following the links. I’ve done some work with children, not a lot, I’m primarily focused on working with adults. I teach yoga and I’m also working on a movement practice called “dance of shiva”. It’s like doing math while using the body or using the body to do math. I had a short stint teaching it to some young children in combination with yoga and they seemed to enjoy it but more to the point is that the exercise itself helps to improve coordination, balance and helps the practitioner to think in terms of what is possible as opposed to what is not. The nice thing about this exercise is that the learner can self correct once they’ve learned the basic moves. I’m still working on the website for this exercise but I think there is enough there right now for you to get an idea of what this “dance” is about. If you think this could be of interest to your audience or would like me to write an article for you website I’d be more than happy to do so.
Sincerely
Neil Keleher
1. Youth elite athletes are actually rare breeds that parents give subsential amounts of diets to help build a potential recruit for coaches, but age is a factor depending on the amount of how much protein or vegetables or vitamins that help promote a elite athlete growth and grades are always a factor.
2. The message that were sending athlete are to push yourself as if you were taking a test in school that will be beneficial to your future. Life is only a test that throws obstacles in front of you an with every wall that stands in the way of success obviously means “How hard are you willing to work to knock those obstacles down without doing a great deal of damage to your image and when I say image I mean character.”
I find your perspective interesting, and it seems to be based on two assumptions:
1) Life is nothing but obstacles
2) To gain the ability to get around obstacles, one must constantly be tested in an intense competitive way.
In my opinion, those two assumptions are erroneus. Life not only includes obstacles, but nurturing and help as well. Not a single one of us are truly alone.
To address your second assumption, it is actually play that has been proven to confer the ability on children to be more creative and perservering in their solutions to problems.
This dance is basically a hindu dance that is basically a concentration event with variety of moves that focuses your strength on balance as you were taking a picutre, but slowly moving around the floor to better your coordination and strengthen minds focus and the bodys muscles. Could actually benefit all athletes.
Hi Dr Brown, I was in the process of looking for what is out there about “balance” and I came across your website via a number of others, following the links. I’ve done some work with children, not a lot, I’m primarily focused on working with adults. I teach yoga and I’m also working on a movement practice called “dance of shiva”. It’s like doing math while using the body or using the body to do math. I had a short stint teaching it to some young children in combination with yoga and they seemed to enjoy it but more to the point is that the exercise itself helps to improve coordination, balance and helps the practitioner to think in terms of what is possible as opposed to what is not. The nice thing about this exercise is that the learner can self correct once they’ve learned the basic moves. I’m still working on the website for this exercise but I think there is enough there right now for you to get an idea of what this “dance” is about. If you think this could be of interest to your audience or would like me to write an article for you website I’d be more than happy to do so.
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