Spring hockey starting this week at the high school. No cuts in the spring.
I've officially stepped back and am not planning stuff for him or nagging him to work on his skills, skate, whatever. He's going to suffer for it in terms of development, but it was just causing too much friction between us you recommended this approach and you were right, thanks). If he doesn't make the team in the fall, so be it. I'd rather him focus on other stuff, anyway. It'll be painful, but hopefully he'll grow from it.
Went and watched our neighbor kid play for the freshman baseball team this afternoon (my son's best friend). Damn these kids are huge for freshman. Every kid on both teams had very well coached batting stances and sweet swings, too. Weirdly, though, the pitchers were uniformly awful. No one, apparently, pitches from the wind up any more, it's all from the stretch, and all the kids' pitching forms were terrible. I saw the same thing when I coached here--kids using all arm, standing nearly straight up, no lower body, little to no hip rotation. I think they spend all their time and money on hitting lessons.
