I'm Not Ready
As I've said before, I'm so glad to have 8U softball in my life for now. It's always so refreshing to see the excitement of the players at this age! This past weekend, two of my daughters participated in their first 8U games of the season (I'll share a few pictures later this week).
Just a few weeks back I mentioned a few Sue Enquist Video clips. In one of them she talks about how preparing for a game helps take away anxiety and nervousness. I had just talked to the high school players I coach about this topic not long ago as well. So I found it quite interesting when, on the way to school on Friday morning (the day before my daughters first games), out of the blue my 6-year-old says,
"Mom, I'm not ready."
"Not ready for what?" I ask her (we weren't even on the subject of softball, we were just listening to music, riding in the car).
"For my game tomorrow," she says.
I didn't know what to say. My first thought was that it was obviously bugging her if she was thinking about it when we weren't even in a softball setting. Then I immediately began wondering what it was that was making her feel like she wasn't ready. I just couldn't imagine what would be going through a 6-year-old's mind to make her think that she wasn't prepared enough for her first game of the season.
All I could think of to tell her was that she'd been doing lots of practicing in all these weeks leading and that I was sure she would do fine. I was just surprised that she would give any thought to whether or not she was "ready."
She ended up doing quite well though. She played outfield so she didn't have any action on defense, but out of the 3 times she went up to bat she got on base twice. I have no idea if she got on on actual hits or on errors because I wasn't able to make the game since I had a game of my own. My husband was there, but he didn't exactly give me all those types of details. He said she was 2-3, but he's not exactly a "real" scorekeeper and I don't even know if he knows all the rules about how to figure out hitting stats and such. I imagine there was some kind of error along the way in at least one of those plays, but it doesn't really matter. My husband did take a bunch of pictures for me so that I could "see" some of that day so I was happy about that.
This weekend, my game doesn't overlap with theirs so I'll be able to watch be there this time. I can't wait!
Just a few weeks back I mentioned a few Sue Enquist Video clips. In one of them she talks about how preparing for a game helps take away anxiety and nervousness. I had just talked to the high school players I coach about this topic not long ago as well. So I found it quite interesting when, on the way to school on Friday morning (the day before my daughters first games), out of the blue my 6-year-old says,
"Mom, I'm not ready."
"Not ready for what?" I ask her (we weren't even on the subject of softball, we were just listening to music, riding in the car).
"For my game tomorrow," she says.
I didn't know what to say. My first thought was that it was obviously bugging her if she was thinking about it when we weren't even in a softball setting. Then I immediately began wondering what it was that was making her feel like she wasn't ready. I just couldn't imagine what would be going through a 6-year-old's mind to make her think that she wasn't prepared enough for her first game of the season.
All I could think of to tell her was that she'd been doing lots of practicing in all these weeks leading and that I was sure she would do fine. I was just surprised that she would give any thought to whether or not she was "ready."
She ended up doing quite well though. She played outfield so she didn't have any action on defense, but out of the 3 times she went up to bat she got on base twice. I have no idea if she got on on actual hits or on errors because I wasn't able to make the game since I had a game of my own. My husband was there, but he didn't exactly give me all those types of details. He said she was 2-3, but he's not exactly a "real" scorekeeper and I don't even know if he knows all the rules about how to figure out hitting stats and such. I imagine there was some kind of error along the way in at least one of those plays, but it doesn't really matter. My husband did take a bunch of pictures for me so that I could "see" some of that day so I was happy about that.
This weekend, my game doesn't overlap with theirs so I'll be able to watch be there this time. I can't wait!
Labels: fastpitch, fastpitch softball, softball
posted by Stacie | 9:56 AM
2 Comments:
Hi,
I just found your blog and although I haven´t read a lot of it so far, I really enjoy it.
I´m from Germany, 25 years old, and play Fastpitch Softball myself.
I study at University, and we have an unofficial league of mixed college teams troughout the country. It´s not as competitive as official leagues, but as Sue Enquist says: The game is always the same.
Ich just watched the videos on her website and I, too, loved it. I just posted it to my team so they can prepare for our first tournament of the season, this weekend.
By the way, my name is also Sue, although it´s actually Susanne :-)
I´m a rookie in blogging, you can visit me, if you like at www.sue-bloggt.blogspot.com
Unfortunately, my blog is written in German...
I hope, I can keep learning a lot from what you write!
Eek - right about now I *wish* I could read and understand German.
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