Coaching

.flex_column.av-av_three_fourth-53b0b300fb3685750664fb085c5ad19d{ border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; } There is nothing more rewarding or more likely to make me bananas than having the opportunity to coach my kid's teams. The Bumperpodcast with Natty Bumpercar is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals! You should send us an email to [e-mail]. We're here and we're listening! Go like our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheBumperpodcast/)!! Also, The Bumperpodcast can now be found on the https://non-productive.com/ network. Yay!!!! Also, also, we have a Patreon page now!!! https://www.patreon.com/nattybumpercar Another story about saving baby animals! A feel good story! Previous episode! Show Transcript: Natty Bumpercar 0:04 Let's talk about coaching. Let's talk about being a coach and the expectations of being a coach. Hi, everybody, it's me Natty Bumpercar. The bumper podcast. And I have been honored to I was the coach of my kids basketball team. And I had never played basketball. So that one was a little bit challenging. But I know enough about basketball that I could kind of, you know, wing it a little bit. But then the opportunity came up to coach his soccer team. And I played soccer, most of my life from growing up up until I think, junior year of high school or so. And loved it, loved it to pieces. And so when I found out they were looking for soccer coaches, I was like, Yeah, sign me up, you know. And it's funny, because, you know, the organization, I wasn't given any information, it was just like, sure your coach, show up. And I was like, okay, I can do that. And so I show I showed up the first day, and I got my team. There, the great team, great ghosts, was what is when I call them, I made a little I was like, You guys are the great ghosts. And they were like, okay, and then one kid was like, I want to be a great goose. And I was like, fine, I don't, whatever, that's great. And I had to learn all of their names, I made him stand in a line. And I because I think it's important, right? That these are these are you want them to feel, you know, like, they're part of the team, like they belong, like they have their own identity. And so they went through their names. And and whenever anyone would say their name, I would say, All right, everybody say hello to Tom, there's no tom, but I'm not gonna give you the kids names, because that would be untoward. But you know, and so then they would all introduce themselves. And then we kind of found out, you know, who was in third grade? Who's in fourth grade? And do you go to this school? Do you go to that school, just to kind of, you know, establish who everyone was, and try to build a tiny report. And the time that I had. Now, the first week was was was bananas, because we had two practices and three games within the span of seven days. So it was like, Hey, you're not playing soccer. And then all of a sudden, it was like, hey, guess what, you're doing soccer every single day of your life. And it was hard because the kids were getting very frustrated and tired. You know, because they're running around, they're playing hard. And, and when it's almost every day, there's just no break. So they don't get a chance to, to kind of come up, come back, relax, whatever. But the thing is, is we've, it's great. It's great fun. And I the reason I don't know if you can hear it in my voice, but it's a little bit raspy is because I basically scream, and from the time the game has started, maybe even a little bit before until the game has ended. And it's not because I'm angry. It's I am out there. And I, I really take a lot on like, I feel a real responsibility to, to get these kids to learn and to motivate them and to try to get them into spots where they can best, you know, have the chance for success. And it's difficult.