2023 Look Ahead / Alcohol & Exercise / Early Specialisation Discussion / Damar Hamlin
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Playing Soccer for US Listeners Could Give You a Different Skill Set
Tiger Woods was a relatively late specialist in tennis. Roger Federer was a very good soccer player and so he was a classic example of somebody who is actually the norm. If your child is absolutely obsessed about a sport then by all means feed their interest but try and also introduce a little bit of variety it'll help them in the long run. You don't want to produce world class 16 17 year olds I mean maybe you do maybe that's your goal but I think you'd follow on a world class 26 year old than a 17 year young.
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