Author Topic: Proud father moment (Read 1006 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** September 19, 2005, 08:47:05 AM »

My son is playing his first year of Jr. football. Here is an excellent run for a huge 17 yard gain: (Warning: 2mb gif format, series of photos)
He cuts inside, the next guy that tries to tackle him he does a spin move, they finally get him after a huge gain.

http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Good_Run.gif

Here is his first touch down ever!
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/gggif.gif

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #1 on:** September 19, 2005, 08:56:49 AM »

Uh.. I thought you're only supposed to torture house guests with old home videos..

Glad to see you've managed to bring up a decent child. Too many people these days can't. WTG Rip!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #2 on:** September 19, 2005, 09:00:35 AM »

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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Uh.. I thought you're only supposed to torture house guests with old home videos..

Glad to see you've managed to bring up a decent child. Too many people these days can't. WTG Rip!

I can't say enough about the coaches, they continously stress rule number 5.."Never quit", and they preach to the kids about this in football, in school work, and in their lives when they mature. Every practice they discuss "never quit". Hats off to an excellent coaching staff.

Oh, and we won 31-0 on Sat.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #3 on:** September 19, 2005, 10:33:26 AM »

WTG rip. Cool photos too. I can't wait till Gunslinger Jr can play sports. His mom wants him to play soccer but I decided to quote my father "no son of mine is playing commie-ball"

Ripsnort · « **Reply #4 on:** September 19, 2005, 10:38:57 AM »

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WTG rip. Cool photos too. I can't wait till Gunslinger Jr can play sports. His mom wants him to play soccer but I decided to quote my father "no son of mine is playing commie-ball"

'Luck on that Gun. Thanks for the kind words.

You have to guage your son as he matures,. My oldest is the typical Alpha Male type. He begged and begged to play tackle footbally for a year, we finally let him. The youngest doesn't like team sports as much, he's played two years of soccer and baseball, but he's not interested in baseball anymore. So, we won't force him to play. He still likes soccer but he's not the Alpha Male personality that his bigger brother is...he is into "individual sports" like swimming.

Simaril · « **Reply #5 on:** September 19, 2005, 10:56:19 AM »

One real advantage of "commie ball" -- physical size is much less important than it is for other primary US sports, like footabll and basketball. Skill can be developed by hard work even without having been blessed with statistical outlier size, which lets smaller kids have an opportunity to excel.

Plus, around here, teh soccer players have this alternalive music look that is much cooler than the typical jock persona..

And Rip -- WTG on the run! Can imagine the way it felt to watch it happen from the stands!

Gunslinger · « **Reply #6 on:** September 19, 2005, 11:24:04 AM »

also that's cool that the coaches "mentor" as much. Alot of people do not realize how much influence a sports caoch can have on a youngin early on in life. To this day I regrett quiting football. My freshman year I broke my collar bone and dislocated my shoulder all in one hit. The coach and the trainer wanted to set it on the field and I wasn't having that. Left the game, walked home and asked my mom to drive me to the hospital.

She had this utter look of horror and confusion on her face that I will never forget.

Next day I turned in my pads and was done with sports all together. No football, wrestling, or track. My senior year I contemplated going out for cross country to help train for bootcamp.

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I don't really have a problem with soccer. My dad hated the sport because they took up our practice fields all the time in peewee league.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #7 on:** September 19, 2005, 11:27:18 AM »

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And Rip -- WTG on the run! Can imagine the way it felt to watch it happen from the stands!

Thank you! And I have the privelege of being on the sidelines with the kids, thus my close up shots. Only players, coaches and camera man allowed on the sidelines.

Here is a direct link from our webpage to all the shots I've taken from Training camp in August all the way through to Sat. Its updated weekly.
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=8238651&uid=2726312&members=1

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** September 19, 2005, 11:29:23 AM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger

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I don't really have a problem with soccer. My dad hated the sport because they took up our practice fields all the time in peewee league.

OMG! LOL! That happens to us ALL the time! Freaking Soccer heads get priority over most of the practice field, we get alittle tiny piece of the field. Funny part is...they hardly even USE the whole field! 11 of them and 45 of us...go figure..

Nilsen · « **Reply #9 on:** September 19, 2005, 11:30:29 AM »

Good stuff Ripsnort, congrats.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #10 on:** September 19, 2005, 11:46:03 AM »

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Good stuff Ripsnort, congrats.

Thanks Nilsen.

Gordon only touched the ball 4 times when playing offense. (he's a second string player), but....those 4 carry's gave him 34 yards and a TD, a 8.74 avg yard per carry. Something tells me he'll be a starter next year.

He also sacked the QB on a Safety Blitz.

Iceman24 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 19, 2005, 01:05:11 PM »

back in h-school my coaches made me play commie ball lol ( soccer ) just to help get better footwork, omg i hated it. I was a 6'5 290lb defensive end and offensive takcle and I had to go run around and kick a soccer ball with a bunch of smaller faster guys lol it sucked... And when track & field season came around I threw shotput and discuss but always had to work out with the runners, Mon-wed-friday i had to work out with the milers and on tues and thursday the 100 yard sprinters. I thought they were punishing me but I would have never been able to play college ball at UT without it, it made me so much quicker and balanced I would recommend it to anyone, even if you don't like the sport.

Curval · « **Reply #12 on:** September 19, 2005, 01:10:09 PM »

Great pics Rip!:aok

The kids on the opposing team need to learn how to tackle though...maybe they should take up rugby. Too much trying to grab shoulders and bring them down (at least in the top series of pics). That is hard, particularly if you aren't the biggest guy around. Grab both legs and hold on tight and there is NO WAY the runner is going anywhere.

Iceman24 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 19, 2005, 02:10:59 PM »

hitting and tacking power in football is all about quickness and leverage... If you are faster and lower than the other guy at the point of impact, he's the 1 that will be hurting. Velocity X weight = Force of Impact... But what this formula forgets is leverage, if 1 player hits another with perfect form, head up, rear down, and sticks his face mask in the others chest, the guy lower will win 90% of the time. Unless the other player is just way bigger than the other, like twice the size... I used to coach a peewee team a year ago and I went into it with the mindset to just let these kids have fun and just teach em the basics, proper form and hitting stances, never made em run allot of sprints or anything, the kids just loved it, they loved coming to practice. I never had a problem with any parents wanting there kids to play more or less, it was just a really good time for everyone involved. We went 7-3 but like I said I wasn't concerned with winning and losing, but some of these other teams had coaches screaming at there kids, cussing at them at times, you could just see that those kids were not having any fun at all. I think thats really sad because thats when football is the purest and those kids will grow up with a negative impression of football and most likely not play Jr. or high school ball. Once the kids get into highchool you can start making a huge deal about winning, but other than that just let em have fun. The worst thing is when a parent trys to play through there kid, luckily I didn't have any of those on my team

Iceman24 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 19, 2005, 02:23:20 PM »

tell your son I said nice moves... I see a nice Walter Peyton stiff arm on #35 and then a great Barry Sanders spinorama. Tell him to keep that arm in until the defender gets close then stiff arm, especially with that nice forearm pad your son has on he should be able to put a nice punch/stiffarm on a defender and not hurt his hand. Tell him to keep it tucked until the last second then try and punch the other player in the head. Its a running backs best friend and unless the defender sees it coming is caught completely off gaurd and off balance. And always tell him to run low or as low as he can without falling over, thats how running backs put punishment on defenders, they run into them real fast/hard, while staying lower... it also makes the back allot harder to tackle because all of his momentum is moving foraward. Look at any good running back in the NFL... Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Jim Brown... They all ran real low to the ground, kept the center of gravity real low and it made em real hard to tackle, thats how they seemingly bounce off of defenders, there actually hitting them really hard and knockin the defenders back and they can't tackle them... Thats the only thing I would have him work on, running way high like that is just asking for a kill shot by a defender, may be a lil faster runnin like that, but just asking for a shot in the chest/stomach