Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:19 am

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:56 pm Congrats, dude. Looking forward to the 2:00 AM posts. Then the 3:30 AM posts. Then ...

It's 2AM.....

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:41 am

The girl put in one of her best performances in a long time this weekend. She has a new spark after going to watch our HS girl's varsity game last week, and she saw 3 of her former teammates starting as Freshman. She also watched part of the JV game and was horrified by the level of play and desperately wants to avoid JV. At first I was excited to see three freshmen starting (the current batch of 9th graders has an unusually high number of kids playing club), then I realized all 3 starting freshmen play the positions my daughter plays (both strikers and left wing). One of the strikers is phenomenal and I'm predicting she shatters the all-time goal record. She scored two in that game. She is close to 6 foot tall and built like Haaland with extremely good foot skills. Hoping my daughter isn't blocked out her first 3 years.

I finally figured out the screen capture function, but the video is choppy. Uploading to Youtube made it blurry. Hoping for some advice on the video quality, as the actual recording is fantastic quality.

Anyways, her team is in black. She has the bright blue shoes, saves the ball from going out as the video starts. She scored the first two and had a great left footed cross from the end line over the goalie to assist on the third. And my wife didn't want to let her play as she had a cold.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:43 am

Wait...did you film with an actual camera? Because using your phone would have been super easy to upload I feel like in this situation, if you used it.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:51 am

I'm guessing that was footage from the team's camera? Shit getting fancy out there.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:55 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:41 amOne of the strikers is phenomenal and I'm predicting she shatters the all-time goal record. She scored two in that game. She is close to 6 foot tall and built like Haaland with extremely good foot skills. Hoping my daughter isn't blocked out her first 3 years.

"If my kid had half of your daughter's talent, we'd be exclusively playing club matches. There's just nothing to gain dominating high school teams."

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:55 am

Golazo!

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:56 am

Nice man!

Our youngest got put in as goalie. This is the first year they're playing with goalies. She did very good not seeing a single shot, but was actually paying attention the whole time!

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:57 am

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:43 am Wait...did you film with an actual camera? Because using your phone would have been super easy to upload I feel like in this situation, if you used it.

One of the parents has a Veo camera that films the entire game, automatically flags clips and keeps all sorts of stats and analytics. The coach requires the girls to watch every game and come in with notes of specific times they could have done something better. Camera even has a radar map of where every player is on the field (and now you can add the refs to see they were out of position on blown offside calls!). It even has a mode you can control the camera to see what was going on off screen. It films the entire field, but the video focuses on the ball and follows the play. Cool feature, I was able to use it to pull clips from the field next to her when a friend played one field over at a tournament. (Father wanted a clip of an obnoxious teammate skying a PK).

Anyways, the guy is trying to figure stuff out still. Guy who owned the Veo last year left the club. The way he emailed the link, I can't automatically download clips. I'm not going to sit there and hold my phone up trying to get clips.

The other fun feature with the Veo is the new and improved microphone. It picks up conversations very clearly from far away. It's inevitable someone will get caught saying something horrible. It tends to lock in a few people's voices and seems like it goes for higher pitched voices. I'm happy it doesn't pick me up often, but I'm very aware of it.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:00 am

Giff wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:56 am Nice man!

Our youngest got put in as goalie. This is the first year they're playing with goalies. She did very good not seeing a single shot, but was actually paying attention the whole time!

As a guy who coached soccer when my daughter was 5 - 10, that is a HUGE accomplishment. Girl's soccer goalies can write their own ticket anywhere, so keep that in mind. I've seen some terrible goalies get inundated with recruiting calls and offers to play for free at all the big clubs around here. Every club is always looking for a goalie.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:00 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:57 am The other fun feature with the Veo is the new and improved microphone. It picks up conversations very clearly from far away. It's inevitable someone will get caught saying something horrible. It tends to lock in a few people's voices and seems like it goes for higher pitched voices. I'm happy it doesn't pick me up often, but I'm very aware of it.

Oh man that would have been incredible to have some games.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:01 am

That is insane. Just five years ago when my youngest was in travel volleyball it was just parents with Ipads for "recruiting" clips. None of them went on to play volleyball past high school.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:02 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:00 am
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:56 am Nice man!

Our youngest got put in as goalie. This is the first year they're playing with goalies. She did very good not seeing a single shot, but was actually paying attention the whole time!
As a guy who coached soccer when my daughter was 5 - 10, that is a HUGE accomplishment. Girl's soccer goalies can write their own ticket anywhere, so keep that in mind. I've seen some terrible goalies get inundated with recruiting calls and offers to play for free at all the big clubs around here. Every club is always looking for a goalie.

He should fly nonlinear out for a session or ten.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:03 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:00 am
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:56 am Nice man!

Our youngest got put in as goalie. This is the first year they're playing with goalies. She did very good not seeing a single shot, but was actually paying attention the whole time!
As a guy who coached soccer when my daughter was 5 - 10, that is a HUGE accomplishment. Girl's soccer goalies can write their own ticket anywhere, so keep that in mind. I've seen some terrible goalies get inundated with recruiting calls and offers to play for free at all the big clubs around here. Every club is always looking for a goalie.

Preach.

Even on the boys side... being a decent or above goalie opens a lot of doors.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:09 am

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:55 am
The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:41 amOne of the strikers is phenomenal and I'm predicting she shatters the all-time goal record. She scored two in that game. She is close to 6 foot tall and built like Haaland with extremely good foot skills. Hoping my daughter isn't blocked out her first 3 years.
"If my kid had half of your daughter's talent, we'd be exclusively playing club matches. There's just nothing to gain dominating high school teams."

Fortunately they made a change a few years back, and clubs don't have Fall seasons past U-14. They hold a shortened season in late October or whenever varsity ends, then play in the Spring. Used to be the top leagues didn't allow kids to play for their school teams. This girl is playing on the best team in the state. I know they won regionals and went pretty far in the National Championship tournament.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:16 am

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:01 am That is insane. Just five years ago when my youngest was in travel volleyball it was just parents with Ipads for "recruiting" clips. None of them went on to play volleyball past high school.

When the camera holder announced he was leaving, I looked into the costs and another brand called Trace. The features on the Trace camera are off the fucking charts. The club Girl Haaland plays for (PDA) uses Trace and installed giant metal poles to hold the camera on all of their fields. You give a tracking strap to every player, and it automatically generates a report with distance run, top speed, passes made and connected, touches, runs... It also compiles an individual video clip for each player with every touch they had. You can make clips with a ring of light highlighting a particular player through the clip. It's crazy. We know a girl on an older PDA team and her mother posts clips on Facebook from the Trace camera, and the quality is unreal.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:33 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:03 am
The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:00 am
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:56 am Nice man!

Our youngest got put in as goalie. This is the first year they're playing with goalies. She did very good not seeing a single shot, but was actually paying attention the whole time!
As a guy who coached soccer when my daughter was 5 - 10, that is a HUGE accomplishment. Girl's soccer goalies can write their own ticket anywhere, so keep that in mind. I've seen some terrible goalies get inundated with recruiting calls and offers to play for free at all the big clubs around here. Every club is always looking for a goalie.
Preach.

Even on the boys side... being a decent or above goalie opens a lot of doors.

Nice. She loves soccer, but not so much the running. She might really enjoy it.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:52 am

Can confirm goalie need. Kids team is killing it (1-1-1.. so relative) but theyre bouncing back and forth between the top team backup and year below. The only kid theyve got that can even play goalie is their best CB so no go. Yes, she will have cool opportunities for fun and friends... no, she better not be under 5'5" or so by 13.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 3:52 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:33 am
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:03 am
The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:00 am
Giff wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:56 am Nice man!

Our youngest got put in as goalie. This is the first year they're playing with goalies. She did very good not seeing a single shot, but was actually paying attention the whole time!
As a guy who coached soccer when my daughter was 5 - 10, that is a HUGE accomplishment. Girl's soccer goalies can write their own ticket anywhere, so keep that in mind. I've seen some terrible goalies get inundated with recruiting calls and offers to play for free at all the big clubs around here. Every club is always looking for a goalie.
Preach.

Even on the boys side... being a decent or above goalie opens a lot of doors.
Nice. She loves soccer, but not so much the running. She might really enjoy it.

This might sound a little silly, but... Bear with me.

Make it a game for her to jump and touch EVERYTHING. Door frames, tree branches, signage as you're walking down Main Street, the lower part of a basketball net (eventually), the bottom of the backboard, eventually the rim (I mean, if she's got some Spud Webb action going on.) Goal is to get her to be able to cover the upper part of the goal some years down the road.

Just in general, get her pumped about jumping. Girls, much more so than boys, are not taught or encouraged to jump. I was able to get decent air at a pretty young age, and then to almost be able to dunk a basketball in high school (could dunk a tennis ball), because I'd been using those muscles for most of my life.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 8:29 am

That’s funny because she already does that! I still remember how pumped she was when she could first reach the cord to our attic stairs. Thanks for the tip!

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 9:17 am

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:43 am Wait...did you film with an actual camera? Because using your phone would have been super easy to upload I feel like in this situation, if you used it.

Great news, AB. We played around with the app at practice and figured out the camera owner has to hit save on the flagged highlights to allow the rest of us to download directly from the video link. He can't make it to our Columbus Day tournament, so he is buying a simcard for the camera so he can watch live. These things are getting crazy, but it's so much more fun than doing work.

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:30 am

My baby boy (26) has a job he loves that is 100% remote. He's off to Italy tomorrow for a 3 month stay in a hill town in Liguria. Air BnB is half of what he'd be spending for a place in Toronto. And his place has a patio with a view of the hills and the Mediterranean.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:52 am

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 5:30 am My baby boy (26) has a job he loves that is 100% remote. He's off to Italy tomorrow for a 3 month stay in a hill town in Liguria. Air BnB is half of what he'd be spending for a place in Toronto. And his place has a patio with a view of the hills and the Mediterranean.

That’s a genius way to live.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:06 am

Yeah - that’s absolutely a tremendous life hack.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:26 am

Live. Laugh. Log on remotely from fucking Italy.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:32 am

rass wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:26 am Live. Laugh. Log on remotely from fucking Italy.

"Live, Laugh, Liguria" probably fits better on the sign. But, Americans' knowledge of foreign countries...

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:41 am

That’s so fantastic, *I’m* proud of him.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:59 pm

Yeah, that’s great. I trust he’s not paying rent on a place back in Toronto.

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 2:33 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:59 pm Yeah, that’s great. I trust he’s not paying rent on a place back in Toronto.

Nope.

And he's paid in those sweet, sweet US greenbacks.

It really is a genius move. He's thinking of spending a month or so back here when he returns from Italy but wants to spend the spring and summer out west in the mountains. (the wi-fi enabled mountains of coure)

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:56 pm

How long is he allowed to stay and work in Italy? What are the rules and requirements regarding work visas?

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Sun Nov 20, 2022 6:48 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:56 pm How long is he allowed to stay and work in Italy? What are the rules and requirements regarding work visas?

3 months without a specific work visa.

Any longer than that and he'd have to deal with red tape and bureaucracy - so bad that a lawyer friend of mine who's lived and worked in Italy and Spain compared it to the circles of hell.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:30 pm

GF's daughter Robin is having a mid-life crisis at age 30. She got engaged last spring, and bought a house in Sisters, OR (couldn't afford anything in Bend) with a lot of financial help from her father.

Now the house has become a huge sticking point with her fiance (he's saying he was "forced into" moving to Sisters) and he's also been fired for the second time since they finished grad school and has been out of work since July. And she left her job at Hydroflask about a month ago and is working for an online ad/marketing agency now.

Robin's been back visiting for a couple of weeks now, and hasn't said anything about her fiance. I would guess they'll break up when she goes back to Oregon after Thanksgiving.

I'm just trying to mind my own business and give her and her mom plenty of space to talk about things.

eta: Forgot more mid-life crisis stuff...she wanted to get her first tattoo yesterday (the shop here in Nevada City was closed) and this morning they went to church.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:43 pm

That girl seems like she's got everything going for her except for this dip shit.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:48 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:43 pm That girl seems like she's got everything going for her except for this dip shit.

Pretty much...

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:02 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:48 pm
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:43 pm That girl seems like she's got everything going for her except for this dip shit.
Pretty much...

Tough to get the "more fish in the sea" message across, even to those who should have the easiest time finding another fish.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:36 am

While I was not in attendance, the 12-year-old ordered a steak for dinner last night - looked like medium rare!

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:30 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:02 pm
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:48 pm
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:43 pm That girl seems like she's got everything going for her except for this dip shit.
Pretty much...
Tough to get the "more fish in the sea" message across, even to those who should have the easiest time finding another fish.

Well...we think that might be part of the issue. There's a guy hanging in the wings...a former co-worker, ex pro hockey player...who she's been hanging out with a lot. She swears they are "just friends", but he was going to come up to Seattle last weekend, and get us all Kraken tix (I guess he used to play in the Wild organization), but my GF told her that was wildly inappropriate, and pretty much said that she was having an "emotional affair".

Its a mess, to be sure.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 10:40 am

GF's daughter had a 3 1/2 hour phone call with her fiance last night. That's not a good sign for things.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 10:59 am

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 7:49 pm He announced. McNeese State.

All conference as a freshman. Hopefully, he'll keep this up and his eventual plan to grad transfer to an FBS team will come to fruition.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 1:28 pm

That’s great DSG.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:17 am

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:30 pm GF's daughter Robin is having a mid-life crisis at age 30. She got engaged last spring, and bought a house in Sisters, OR (couldn't afford anything in Bend) with a lot of financial help from her father.

Welp...she ended it yesterday. The GF had the long tearful phone call with her tonight.

So what's the social media protocol here...do I just quietly unfriend him and his parents?