My stepson just returned from a three day basketball camp. Granted, it was from 9 to 5, but he was able to come home with the husband and me in the evenings and be sent off the next morning with a snack and lunch from home. So he didn't even have to have "camp food".
Anyway, we enrolled him in basketball camp after he took such a liking to the sport-but didn't make the team last year. The camp focused on better ball handling and shooting skills. After Day One he came to the Jeep, stiff-legged and complaining. There weren't any cool kids, they worked him too hard, could he please not go to the next two days of camp.
We told him that Day Two would be better and his muscles would be more used to it-in fact they would stiffen up too much if he didn't try it again. So we ushered him out the door for Day Two with a lot of grumbling... but he was smiling when we picked him up from camp that day. He admitted to learning new skills, getting better at the stuff he had known, and his muscles didn't hurt too badly-but he couldn't wait to take off his basketball shoes.
Day Three didn't take any persuasion on our part to usher the little man off to camp-although he did know he was getting picked up at 3 o'clock instead of 5, but he came home, showed off some of the new moves he's learned and will continue to practice; and hopefully will take on basketball tryouts with a new confidence and make the team.
Thanks Advantage Basketball Camps!
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