Summer Sports
Bleacher Talk
March 22, 2009
Summer Sports
School is out for most, if not all students. The heat has started to make its presence felt and the children are starting to get bored. Yes, it’s summer already. And what does that mean for us in sports? Simple. More sports!
When kids don’t have classes and need to be productive over the summer, sports clinics are almost always the first set of activities that parents look for. And this is something Cebu will never fall short of. Cebu has a clinic for every major sport with the most popular events having the most number of clinics.
We all know how basketball clinics are all over the place every summer. Parents have a wide range of choices of summer programs to choose from for their children. They can go to the Milo-sponsored BEST basketball clinic, better known as Milo BEST, a regular feature in Milo’s summer sports program. They can also go the likes of the Sunsport clinic run Jojo Romarate, the Hapee-Online Clinic of Mark Tallo, the Talamban-based clinics of Roland Remedio and Sesum Asignar or Larry Villanil’s Power Play Camp in Lapulapu. Ramon Fernandez also has his set of clinics as do ex-PBA stars Rhoel Gomez and Al Solis. Aside from all these, schools with basketball programs will also have their respective basketball clinics that are usually open to the public. Don Bosco, Sacred Heart School Jesuit and the University of San Carlos (North and South) will surely have their own summer camps for both beginners and the serious players who play for the school’s colors.
Swimming is also another popular sport that usually gets a lot of students in the summer. For one reason or another, parents usually want their kids to learn how to swim, even if not for competitive purposes. Swimming also becomes one of the best ways to “cool off” the summer heat. The Cebu City Sports Center (Abellana), Sacred Heart Center, YMCA, and the various private clubs are the “go to” venues for swimming. It is no longer surprising to see the splashing of water and the sounds of kids filling up the swimming pools this summer.
Tae kwon do, tennis, golf and the various forms of martial arts and more sports all have each its own set of summer clinics. Athlete-students come and go to learn the sport. Some go on to pursue their favorite sports seriously, while others don’t last long and look for other events that catch their interest.
But here’s a challenge that I’d like to throw to all organizers of summer clinics. If you take a closer look at summer sports activities, you’ll realize that if organized well, these can be the source or training ground of the country’s future gold medallists or world-class athletes. When one learns to play a particular sport at a young age, coaches or trainors must always be on the look-out for those future world beaters right among their lot of students.
Let’s all make it a commitment to always be on the look-out for those extraordinary talents who stand out and are heads and shoulders better and more talented than the rest of the field. Some others may not be as talented, but have the tremendous potential to bloom later in their young sporting careers. Coaches have the unique ability to spot extraordinary talents, and they shouldn’t put this to waste. After all, a simple missed opportunity could also mean a missed gold medal in the future. We all know how Tiger Woods excelled in golf at such a young age and how he was discovered when he was only a kid. And where did he learn the game? Right there with his father, and I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these sessions were at a club’s summer program for kids.
By treating our summer clinics this way, we’ll add a new twist to why we conduct summer clinics. Trainors shouldn’t be there only for the money. That’s a valid reason, but if it’s the only reason, trainors won’t last long this way. There should be a deeper motive to be serious with summer clinics. For this year, let’s change that then go out and actively look for those genuine blue chip prospects out there among our students.
In the end, you’ll be glad to have contributed to the future of Philippine sports.
oOo
Time-out: The Milo BEST Basketball Clinic will be held March 30-April 4, 2009 at the Capitol Parish Gym. For more information, please contact 516-9036, 0918-939-4846 or 0923-342-8193. >>> You can reach me at bleachertalk@yahoo.com.
March 22, 2009
Summer Sports
School is out for most, if not all students. The heat has started to make its presence felt and the children are starting to get bored. Yes, it’s summer already. And what does that mean for us in sports? Simple. More sports!
When kids don’t have classes and need to be productive over the summer, sports clinics are almost always the first set of activities that parents look for. And this is something Cebu will never fall short of. Cebu has a clinic for every major sport with the most popular events having the most number of clinics.
We all know how basketball clinics are all over the place every summer. Parents have a wide range of choices of summer programs to choose from for their children. They can go to the Milo-sponsored BEST basketball clinic, better known as Milo BEST, a regular feature in Milo’s summer sports program. They can also go the likes of the Sunsport clinic run Jojo Romarate, the Hapee-Online Clinic of Mark Tallo, the Talamban-based clinics of Roland Remedio and Sesum Asignar or Larry Villanil’s Power Play Camp in Lapulapu. Ramon Fernandez also has his set of clinics as do ex-PBA stars Rhoel Gomez and Al Solis. Aside from all these, schools with basketball programs will also have their respective basketball clinics that are usually open to the public. Don Bosco, Sacred Heart School Jesuit and the University of San Carlos (North and South) will surely have their own summer camps for both beginners and the serious players who play for the school’s colors.
Swimming is also another popular sport that usually gets a lot of students in the summer. For one reason or another, parents usually want their kids to learn how to swim, even if not for competitive purposes. Swimming also becomes one of the best ways to “cool off” the summer heat. The Cebu City Sports Center (Abellana), Sacred Heart Center, YMCA, and the various private clubs are the “go to” venues for swimming. It is no longer surprising to see the splashing of water and the sounds of kids filling up the swimming pools this summer.
Tae kwon do, tennis, golf and the various forms of martial arts and more sports all have each its own set of summer clinics. Athlete-students come and go to learn the sport. Some go on to pursue their favorite sports seriously, while others don’t last long and look for other events that catch their interest.
But here’s a challenge that I’d like to throw to all organizers of summer clinics. If you take a closer look at summer sports activities, you’ll realize that if organized well, these can be the source or training ground of the country’s future gold medallists or world-class athletes. When one learns to play a particular sport at a young age, coaches or trainors must always be on the look-out for those future world beaters right among their lot of students.
Let’s all make it a commitment to always be on the look-out for those extraordinary talents who stand out and are heads and shoulders better and more talented than the rest of the field. Some others may not be as talented, but have the tremendous potential to bloom later in their young sporting careers. Coaches have the unique ability to spot extraordinary talents, and they shouldn’t put this to waste. After all, a simple missed opportunity could also mean a missed gold medal in the future. We all know how Tiger Woods excelled in golf at such a young age and how he was discovered when he was only a kid. And where did he learn the game? Right there with his father, and I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these sessions were at a club’s summer program for kids.
By treating our summer clinics this way, we’ll add a new twist to why we conduct summer clinics. Trainors shouldn’t be there only for the money. That’s a valid reason, but if it’s the only reason, trainors won’t last long this way. There should be a deeper motive to be serious with summer clinics. For this year, let’s change that then go out and actively look for those genuine blue chip prospects out there among our students.
In the end, you’ll be glad to have contributed to the future of Philippine sports.
oOo
Time-out: The Milo BEST Basketball Clinic will be held March 30-April 4, 2009 at the Capitol Parish Gym. For more information, please contact 516-9036, 0918-939-4846 or 0923-342-8193. >>> You can reach me at bleachertalk@yahoo.com.
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