Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
[quote=Anonymous]All of you crying about holdbacks sound worse than the very few parents who support it. Life isn't fair. Adjust and move on. The kids will be stronger for it.

If they don't get maimed along the way, sure.
Safety is a concern bozo.

C’mon man admit it, you grew up playing Dungeons and Dragons in your fort in the backyard. Week to week the worst injury I see in youth lacrosse are kids getting hit in the stones by the ball. And no my kids aren’t holdbacks and no I don’t support it blah blah blah. But I simply don’t see kids getting “maimed” in a sport where a push in the back draws a flag
the joke about holdbacks is that people truly do it for the outside chance their kid will be a good athlete as a child (moms and dads dreams) thats the true stupidity of it all. Instead letting the kid develop naturally see where he/she stands senior year maybe then pg a a year accomplish the same thing by then at least you will have a true idea if he/she will be a "player" thats the right way to do it, not the current way where its done so little Johny can be the best lax player on a 7th grade team...thats dense and parents need to get a clue . I agree nobody is getting maimed in lax it's not that type of sport , the kids are getting burnt out from the over playing but not maimed. I ve heard so many stories of kids going to college to play lax then giving it up b/c they were tired of it after playing year round for 10-12 years of their lives. Create well rounded athletes thats what needs to be the focus ,not a laser focused specialist lax player as kids. We can look back at our sports lives and remember the kid who was the great player in 6-8th grade and got to high school and just disappeared.