RE: Sporting memories: you need to train like crazy
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This is not that common today with kids being able to play so many sports and it is slowly being lost due to parents having such busy lives. I can recall playing tons of sports growing up whether it was tennis, football, cricket, swimming or rugby and this was not down to my parents, but me as a kid growing up joining my friends playing sport. I have noticed most school facilities are closed over the weekends and school holidays which was our play ground and this has taken away something special we had experienced. Kids back in the day had computer games, but if it was a choice playing a sport outside or a computer game sports would always win.
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I have no kids so I wasn't really sure about this but I think we can just look around and realize that what you are saying is true. When I was a kid we would go and look for pick up games with strangers and it would be fine, today those aren't likely to exist. Screens exist and this is where most people, including young people, are likely to spend their time. They are victims of their environment. When I was young there were videogames and screens as well, but we couldn't just play or watch anything we wanted any time that we wanted. This encouraged us to get out there and do something more interesting. I don't think at any point in my sporting career that being in good shape was ever even a consideration of mine. I just enjoyed playing a lot.
I was exactly the same as you always active and therefore was always very fit. Playing sport or sitting in front of a screen was always going to be sport as the winner.