12-12-2021, 09:40 AM
So as many know, my family moved fo Maui from So. CA. a few years ago. My son (who has played football since he was five)
caught on with the local Pop Warner team, and Central Maui “Big Boys” (8th going into 9th grade)
COVID then pretty much put an end to his freshman year, nonetheless he weight trained at home and worked with a couple of the Maui HS coaches who run a linemen program here called “Tribe”
This is his sophomore year, and he was one of just a handful of sophomores to make varsity. At the start of the season he was fighting with a junior for starting DE. Kyle (my son) is 6’, 180 (just turned 16) and was trying to take a juniors job at 6’ 3”, 320. Now you would think this would be a slam dunk for the junior, but not so....Kyle is fast off the ball, runs a 4.9 40, and is slippery. nonetheless he was 2 at LDE, to spell the junior when he got gassed. When he went in, he did great, several solo tackles, TFL, didnt lose contain, etc.
Third game of the season our center got injured. (Also, was struggling - sailing snaps, missing assignments) There really was no backup, so Kyle said he would finish the game at center. He took the wristband, went out early before the end of halftime to practice and finished the game without any missed snaps, or assignments, he took to it quickly.
Next game he started at center, and held the starting center spot for the rest of the season. He graded out each week with the highest blocking percentage, and has started making line calls (inside zone, Ace, duece, ram, lion, solo, man). hes fast enough to scrape and get to the second level, or make the line call when defense send a blitz. He calls out MDM, and gets into players heads. (To the point where a kid punched him in the chest, and Kyle said “Thanks for the first down bitch”. the kid was ejected and then started razzing the LB that replaced the one tossed.
After the last game my wife came up and said, “is Kyle a poor sport?”
I tried explaining the details of head games / talking shit in the trenches / finding your “nasty” but she didnt understand it.
You WANT nasty, bad attitude, self-confidence, otherwise grab some bench.
so......what are kiddos doing that youre stoked about?
V83
caught on with the local Pop Warner team, and Central Maui “Big Boys” (8th going into 9th grade)
COVID then pretty much put an end to his freshman year, nonetheless he weight trained at home and worked with a couple of the Maui HS coaches who run a linemen program here called “Tribe”
This is his sophomore year, and he was one of just a handful of sophomores to make varsity. At the start of the season he was fighting with a junior for starting DE. Kyle (my son) is 6’, 180 (just turned 16) and was trying to take a juniors job at 6’ 3”, 320. Now you would think this would be a slam dunk for the junior, but not so....Kyle is fast off the ball, runs a 4.9 40, and is slippery. nonetheless he was 2 at LDE, to spell the junior when he got gassed. When he went in, he did great, several solo tackles, TFL, didnt lose contain, etc.
Third game of the season our center got injured. (Also, was struggling - sailing snaps, missing assignments) There really was no backup, so Kyle said he would finish the game at center. He took the wristband, went out early before the end of halftime to practice and finished the game without any missed snaps, or assignments, he took to it quickly.
Next game he started at center, and held the starting center spot for the rest of the season. He graded out each week with the highest blocking percentage, and has started making line calls (inside zone, Ace, duece, ram, lion, solo, man). hes fast enough to scrape and get to the second level, or make the line call when defense send a blitz. He calls out MDM, and gets into players heads. (To the point where a kid punched him in the chest, and Kyle said “Thanks for the first down bitch”. the kid was ejected and then started razzing the LB that replaced the one tossed.
After the last game my wife came up and said, “is Kyle a poor sport?”
I tried explaining the details of head games / talking shit in the trenches / finding your “nasty” but she didnt understand it.
You WANT nasty, bad attitude, self-confidence, otherwise grab some bench.
so......what are kiddos doing that youre stoked about?
V83
