Today was Braxton's first day of soccer! The weather was perfect, although the grass was a little wet. There were probably 75 parents and other family members milling around. Even grandma Virginia came to watch!! When it was time to start, they broke them into teams of 7-10. Once they were in their teams, they did some fundamentals. They dribbled the ball, the stopped and put the head, hand, elbow, whatever the coach called out, on the ball. It was pretty cute to watch. Then they played a game where they dribbled the ball down the field and the coach tried to kick it away from them. if the coach kicked it, then that player became a lion (or wolf or bulldog, it changed each time) with the coach and tried to kick the ball from the other players. the last player with the ball won! It was pretty cute, but Braxton has absolutely NO urgency. he was always the last player to the other side. He sort of walked and kicked a little bit. Not fast at all. but since he loved being a wolf, it was okay!
Lilly on the other hand was all over the place. She ran up a hill probably 9 times and then ran back down it. Somewhere along the line she must have ran into a sticker patch. she had stickers all over the bottom of her pants. After soccer we killed a little time before karate. braxton did GREAT at karate, and even got to be one of the leaders for warmup. he did a great job!
the battery died in our camera, so I only got a few pictures of soccer. Our new camera will be back before next weeks soccer clinic, so hopefully we will have better pictures!
Happy Fall Everyone!
All of the parents and players getting ready to start.
waiting for the coaches to tell them what to do.
And KICK!
Put your head on the ball!
Now your elbow!!!
Dribble Dribble Dribble!
Kick!
No comments:
Post a Comment