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You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains. - Link Wray 

Here at CoachKidsSports.com we love kids sports because it is sports for sports sake.  No big contracts, no ego's — well, except certain parents, present company excluded of course…

That's why I cruise the internet looking for what other people are saying about kids sports, be it coaching or watching.  I bundle it up and give it to you — free…  don't worry I make it up in volume…

At Anti-Ageing, he has tips on how to videotape your kid's sports.  He has two decades of experience as a network cameraman, but his first piece of advice is one I can get behind…

My first suggestion for shooting your kids sports activities is to go watch TV.

I think I can handle that…  Actually his advice is more practical.  He wants you to understand the process — good advice for any endeavor.

Really watch how they make it interesting at the top level. Then watch the news and see how they cover the games from a news perspective. Don’t pay attention to the content; just watch how it develops visually.

He continues on about finding the excitement and action in the game.  After all, you aren't documenting the Super Bowl, you are shooting video of a bunch of kids playing a sport.  If you don't find the action and excitement, you just wasted an hour watching the game through a view finder…

You can find the entire article here:

http://aanine72417.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-shoot-video-of-your-kids-sports.html

Christine at Cinnamon Spice tells about how her love for kids sports comes from her father.  She also shares a couple of quotes from Jim Harner's book, Soccerhead.  One of them rang true to me:

"The problem faced by the kids always change, but for the coach the hardest part is always the same: keeping the grown-ups happy…….a youth soccer coach spends more time tending to the needs of the adults than to those of the children. If a team has twelve kids, the head coach has to manage up to twenty four adult egos, and that's before you start counting the grandparents"

I wasn't kidding last week when I wrote that your parents are on the team every bit as much as the kids.  Just like kids, you will have some that are easy and some that aren't.  The quicker you can identify the tough ones, the easier time you'll have handling them — but I can't guarantee easy…

You can find the entire article here:

http://tc-cinnamonspice.blogspot.com/2006/08/looking-back-looking-forward.html 

Under the category of Don't comes a news article courtesy of our friends at BfloBlog.com.   

A baseball coach was charged Thursday night with menacing and harassment after he attacked a player's father with a baseball bat, according to police. 

Somehow I don't think John Wooden would approve…

You can find that entire article here:

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060805/1045134.asp