Future Stars Camps Blog – Sports, Kids, Camp!

Thinkfun shares an interesting series of blogs about fostering life skills in children with fun activities.  Sometimes  teaching children simple life skills like laundry, cooking, and money management that can be taught as early as three is sometimes overlooked in the home and in school.  Having a young adult mismanaging their finances early in life is a situation that most would want to avoid at all cost.

If you are in the market for a fast pitch softball glove, you realize quickly that there are a lot of choices and reviews out there.  The price points are all over the scales for softball gloves like any other sporting equipment.  If your player is just starting out, you may not want to drop hundreds of dollars on gloves, so do shop around just in case your child plays for just one season.  Of course, as with everything else, you get what you pay for and a well broken-in glove that fits well goes a long way.

Meet Pablo Montesi, Tennis Club and Camp Director at Future Stars Camps, Southhampton.  This will be Pablo's 10th summer working alongside your children.

Baseball is a long-time American passion and pastime, whether you are watching or playing.  But like most sports, as easy as the players make it seem, there is a unique combination of skills and thought processes going on throughout the game amongst all the different players.  Play Famously, shares 5 tips from 5 different sports professionals for you to see if you can learn something from them to improve your baseball form.

Steam Powered Family shares some great tips to support you and your child work through their desire to just give up and walk away.  It's not easy to do, but here are a few of their helpful tips to guide you:

“The biggest reward that I’ve received in my life is that after running Future Stars for 36 years is that, I’ve come into the second generation of campers. Parents that attended are now sending their kids to the camp, because they love Future Stars and they fondly remember their experiences.”—Charlie VanDercook

Robert Green, golf enthusiast and tutor of Hitting the Green, shares some tips on how to get rid of the tension in your swing.  Robert shares, "No matter the skill level of the golfer, the duffed shots I see are almost always down to some form of tension in the swing. In the vast majority of cases this tension in the swing originates from the grip, with people of the mindset that if they put their full force into the swing they’ll inevitably get more distance. The swing just doesn’t work that way!"  So how can you achieve a solid swing that gives you distance and is tension free:

The  2021 World Games is being hosted in Birmingham, Alabama and for the second year, lacrosse is included in the program.  All the specifics of  the lacrosse competition have not been announced, but will be determined by the IWGA and the Federation of International Lacrosse.  The events will be from July 15-25, 2021.  It will be a landmark event, as the last time the World Games were held in the United States was in 1981.  The inaugural World Games was held in Santa Clara, California in 1981.

"Future Stars Camps has been around for 37 years and keeping it fresh while maintaining the values that have made this summer day camp a family tradition are why parents, who attended as kids, want their children to come here."  -- Jordan Snider

Why get your kids into baseball? It’s America’s greatest pastime!