"Money Hustard" (moneyhustard)
08/20/2014 at 21:03 • Filed to: None
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"Money Hustard" (moneyhustard)
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If this doesn't choke you up a little, you've either never played a sport competitively or there is something wrong with you. A good coach is really hard to come by, but I've had a few. It's extremely important for young people to understand what this guy is saying, but it's advice and wisdom that can only really sink in at very rare moments in a young person's life.
If you have some free time, and know a little something about a certain sport, give coaching a shot. It's hard, thankless, time consuming work, but if you're good at it, you can make a real impact in someone's life. You'll never know if you're good at it unless you give it a try. If you're in the US, your local Boys and Girls Clubs and recreational leagues need your help, no matter where you. Even if you aren't all that great at it, caring can go a long way.
Think about it about it over a pair of 1934 Hispano Suizas that were both ordered by Anthony Gustav de Rothschild and were coach-built by by Fernandez et Darrin. The J 12 was used for less formal occasions when driven by the owner, and is equipped with a V-12 engine. The K 6 is on an identical chassis, but built with the more formal Coupe Chauffeur body for the occasions when a chauffeur was utilized, and is powered by the company's straight six cylinder engine. They were spotted in Heaock Classic's area at Pebble Beach this past weekend.
Bad Idea Hat
> Money Hustard
08/20/2014 at 22:13 |
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You can tell good coaches from bad coaches by how they handle the tough losses. A tale of two hockey coaches:
My bantam travel coach can be summed up by one story; the time he told me to go put a kid out of the game. Anyways, we lost the finals of a tournament in Detroit that, really, we should have won. From what I remember, a lot of us losing had to do with piss poor coaching. Our post-game speech was basically "only one of you are good enough to move on to the next level, the rest of you are going back to house. Now sit in here and let that sink in." I think we broke the record for simultaneous jerking-off hand motions the second he left.
My high school coach sophomore and junior years was different. We lost basically the same tournament, in the finals, this time in Chicago. It was a great game, punctuated by the fact that we only had one goalie, he got stuck in traffic on the way to the rink, and I was the backup with 0 minutes of ice time. Thankfully I only had to stop one shot before he got there.
We lost 3-2. This time, the speech was about how we had exceeded expectations all year, and that even though we would miss the departing seniors, we had a good core group of guys that would take us anywhere we wanted to go. Sky's the limit, proud of us, etc. And we did have a damn good team, who managed to not allow a goal for seven straight games.
Too bad the parents fucked that up. Good god, that's another story.
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Money Hustard
> Bad Idea Hat
08/20/2014 at 22:35 |
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Yeah, I'm not sure who had a bigger impact on the person I am today, the good coaches or the bad. I'd like to think it's the good, but there is no doubt a few of them messed me up. If you tell a kid they suck at something, there's a good chance they are going to believe you.
That belief can hold someone back.