Every couple months we get Callie and Carter into some sort of sporting class. They both started with swimming lessons and 'Boots to Blades' skating as well as multi-sport which was a mix of soccer, floor hockey, basketball and many others. We'll keep them both in swimming but we've also been watching to see what activities they'd like to continue. Callie has moved on to dancing which includes two class on Saturday's now. Tap Dancing at 9:15a and Ballet at 11:00a. For Carter it has been pretty easy figuring out that he'd like to go with soccer. Whenever there is a ball he's out there kicking.
We've probably dealt with a couple dozen different teachers now through the Surrey leisure programs. The swimming and dancing teachers have been pretty good but we were really getting varying degrees of quality for things like Multi-Sport. I wasn't expecting much better for this soccer class since it's for ages 2-4 and it's indoor. I was pleasantly surprised however with his teacher. She had a very clear plan for the first class and even though the ages were quite varying she was still able to keep the class together and moving. It helps that we're still at a stage where the parents are out there helping each kid.
By the end of the class she had taught them three important skills. The first skill was stopping the ball. I thought this was very ambitious but quite a few kids figured it out. Carter fell down a few times but he was eventually stopping with the best of them. She then moved on to 'little kick, little kick'. Carter has always been more of a 'big kick, run' kind of player so it took a bit to slow him down and then when he did he was only moving the ball about 2 inches at a time. The final skill was 'Blast Off' where they put the ball up on a flat cone and kicked as hard as they can. She brought it all together with a 'Little kick, little kick, stop, blast off' exercise. This should be a lot of fun.
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