Future Stars Camps Blog – Sports, Kids, Camp!

Athletic success can be achieved through a combination of factors, including genetics, innate talent, exacting coaching and practice, and just sheer luck.  "But performance is also greatly affected by what is between an athlete’s ears: mindset. An athlete’s state of mind is perhaps the single greatest factor that affects performance."  Can the mindset of a player be maximized by reducing the interference to their sports potential?

“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

National Scouting Report (NSR) shares varying perspectives on the commonly asked question as to whether it is "better to be single sport or a multi-sport athlete?" It is important to note that there is no simple answer and perhaps the answer lies more in knowing and understanding individual ambitions.

“Studies show that movement and stimulation of balance helps attentional disorders and improves reading.” C. Hannaford Ph.D

"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

Volleywood.net shared an IG post by Carly Wopat on how to increase your vertical.  Carly was the middle blocker and former star player at Stanford University.  "To preface this post, I am no master of the matter. But I do have a Human Biology Stanford degree w/ a concentration in human performance, I play professional volleyball & train daily, and I’m a major nerd when it comes to anything performance & health related."

Changing the Game Project shares insightful perspectives on how fun and competiveness should reside symbiotically in sports.  "There is this overwhelming myth in sports that fun and competitiveness cannot coexist. To have one, you cannot have the other, and at some point, we have to choose between whether we are there to have fun in our sports experience or to compete."  This myth must be false otherwise there would not be successful happy athletes.  Of which, we know there are many.

“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

The one-piece swim suit used to be the only option women had whether they were training for a race or competition, or swimming to be and/or stay fit.  Having the right swimming costume is important, so it's wonderful that now there is the extra option of a training bikini.  ProSwimwear shares some great reasons that you might want to consider using a training bikini:

Is there truth to what coach Bill Courtney says to his players in the Oscar-winning documentary, Undefeated, “The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.”  In an insightful article, on Positve Coaching Alliance, Jack Bowen, shares the merits of losses and wins.