Hello all once again. I received some nice e-mails from people regarding the post on Basketball in Mid Wales (I think you have to register with Blogger.com or something to post a comment on the blog itself), so I've decided to try to update this at least every other day from now on with new content.
For those that don't know me, my name is Guy Evans. I have set this blog up to promote my basketball club, the Newtown Titans. My basketball background, playing-wise, includes being a Welsh international, winning the British Universities' Championship at the University of Worcester and being one of only 4 Welsh players to attend the Great Britain U20 trials. This past season I also became the youngest coach in the EBL (English Basketball League) as player-coach of the Worcester Wolves II's. There's about 8000 things I could say to continue here but I'm not going to bore you (I'm boring myself already). From September, I will be working at the University of Worcester on the School of Sport and Exercise staff, assisting with the delivery of the Sports Studies course specifically. In the short-term (before September), I'm working out about 4 hours a day for the next basketball season, and doing my darndest (I never use that word in real life) to increase the numbers of young people participating in basketball in Mid Wales. The latter has become more or less my personal mission statement for a while now.
Which leads me on to my topic for today. This one is directed to the adults out there. You know, those 18 and up? I want you to think about how you act, and how the outside world perceives you (Editor's note: I'll be talking about a lot more than basketball in this blog). A lot has been written over the past two years or so about the damaging effects today's youth has on society, and there's no doubt that there's a lot of troubled kids out there. However, has anyone stopped to realise that these 'thugs' will very shortly be the next band of 'grown-ups' shaping the world that we live in? And, in the meantime, these same young people have today's adults to look up to for an example.
I'm writing this because if I think of the people that have had a positive impact on my life, they all have the same things in common: at heart, they are good people; they are responsible; and they command respect just by being who they are. As a kid and later as an adolescent, I was fortunate enough to have so many positive 'role models' to look up to. These people all knew that they were in a position to be viewed in this way, and behaved accordingly. They were themselves. They were honest. They were good people.
With each passing day, we get closer to the world being owned by the youth. That's a lot of responbility. Who's going to be the one to show them how to handle it?
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Good lyrics, Guy. I agree. Children are born good and what they see they imitate. I think it is really important that there are adults who live fully but not in a selfish way. We play basketball because it is fun, yes. But also, we have learnt the value of positivity (if that is a real word!)When you go for a jump shot you must visualise it going through the hoop and truly believe it will. If you think you're going to miss, you most surely will. Similarly, we have learnt about teamwork, helping out our mates, building up those who lack confidence, 'psyching up' the team. We have discovered that the fittest players win because they keep going longer and don't give up.
There are many adults who have not learnt these lessons and, therefore, do not give that important role model.
Do you think that any adults who may read this would like to come to learn/re-visit basketball? Would Newtown Titans be able to accommodate this?
Hi Tim, thanks for your comment and I like the basketball to life metaphor, it definitely works well. As for any adults who may read this and their involvement, I'm definitely looking into setting up something for the 'senior' players once we get our summer coaching programme out the way so stay tuned!
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