The "Roll" of Athletic Tape
Greetings,
As I write this tonight, I'm coming off of a big loss for the volleyball team that I am an assistant coach for. We had JV & V matches tonight, in which we lost both of them. Tonight's losses got me thinking that I needed to just get some thoughts out there and express some stuff that you learn from sports and can apply to life.
My background in sports has covered the whole spectrum, from 'all sides of the bench', as I have said quite often. A lot of that time was spent as the team 'waterboy', the team manager of the sidelines & background prep, and as a student trainer to take care of injuries and do all the stuff that people don't see. I took that role with pride, from junior high through my college years.
Regardless if you are an athlete, a coach, or the team waterboy, you all have your role to play on a team. Even the stats people have a role to play. Without the stats being taken, there's no way to track progress and results of competitive play. So even something as simple as keeping score & stats are crucial to a team's functionality.
People need to step up in all their roles at times, even with things are at a place where you don't know what to do.
The bench needs to rise up the players on the field and support them.
The coaches need to help fire up, or calm down, an athlete on the team who's struggling.
The trainer needs to get water to the players, band-aids to the cuts & scrapes, and tape to wherever it can be used to fix a problem.
And somehow, I am going to talk about athletic tape here. Stick with me...no pun intended.
I swear athletic tape in the sports world is the 'glue' that can hold anything together sometimes.
If an ankle gets tweaked, sometimes a simple tape job is enough of a 'security blanket' to get an athlete through a minor injury.
I've even used athletic tape to create a shoestring to keep together a set of football shoulder pads.
It's come in handy hundreds of times to take care of an injury on the field or court.
So, even athletic tape can be a crucial fix to a problem that arises. It plays a role.
You take a simple thing like athletic tape, and you start to notice that most sports teams hardly go without it.
Perhaps its the common-bond it has amongst any sport. Athletic tape is used extensively from sport to sport. It plays it own unique role in sports. Go to a football game, you'll find athletic tape in use. A hockey game has it. Tennis has it, Soccer has it, Basketball has it, etc. It is hard to find a sport that doesn't have a training kit without athletic tape.
So, are you the 'athletic tape' on your team? Are you the 'athletic tape' in the game of life? Do you fit that role?
Or, are you the one who causes some problems that make others look for a fix of the problem through the use of 'athletic tape' from another person?
You can be a problem, or be a solution.
It's your choice.
In sports & in life, you need to fill the role you're called to do. It might take you a while to figure out what your role is, but sooner or later, you're going to have to be the 'athletic tape' to fill that role. That's just the way I see things a lot of the time.
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Run Strong, Run Fast...
Run So As To Win!
Coach Rick Karboviak
http://1MileNation.com
http://ASAPWorkouts.com
As I write this tonight, I'm coming off of a big loss for the volleyball team that I am an assistant coach for. We had JV & V matches tonight, in which we lost both of them. Tonight's losses got me thinking that I needed to just get some thoughts out there and express some stuff that you learn from sports and can apply to life.
My background in sports has covered the whole spectrum, from 'all sides of the bench', as I have said quite often. A lot of that time was spent as the team 'waterboy', the team manager of the sidelines & background prep, and as a student trainer to take care of injuries and do all the stuff that people don't see. I took that role with pride, from junior high through my college years.
Regardless if you are an athlete, a coach, or the team waterboy, you all have your role to play on a team. Even the stats people have a role to play. Without the stats being taken, there's no way to track progress and results of competitive play. So even something as simple as keeping score & stats are crucial to a team's functionality.
People need to step up in all their roles at times, even with things are at a place where you don't know what to do.
The bench needs to rise up the players on the field and support them.
The coaches need to help fire up, or calm down, an athlete on the team who's struggling.
The trainer needs to get water to the players, band-aids to the cuts & scrapes, and tape to wherever it can be used to fix a problem.
And somehow, I am going to talk about athletic tape here. Stick with me...no pun intended.
I swear athletic tape in the sports world is the 'glue' that can hold anything together sometimes.
If an ankle gets tweaked, sometimes a simple tape job is enough of a 'security blanket' to get an athlete through a minor injury.
I've even used athletic tape to create a shoestring to keep together a set of football shoulder pads.
It's come in handy hundreds of times to take care of an injury on the field or court.
So, even athletic tape can be a crucial fix to a problem that arises. It plays a role.
You take a simple thing like athletic tape, and you start to notice that most sports teams hardly go without it.
Perhaps its the common-bond it has amongst any sport. Athletic tape is used extensively from sport to sport. It plays it own unique role in sports. Go to a football game, you'll find athletic tape in use. A hockey game has it. Tennis has it, Soccer has it, Basketball has it, etc. It is hard to find a sport that doesn't have a training kit without athletic tape.
So, are you the 'athletic tape' on your team? Are you the 'athletic tape' in the game of life? Do you fit that role?
Or, are you the one who causes some problems that make others look for a fix of the problem through the use of 'athletic tape' from another person?
You can be a problem, or be a solution.
It's your choice.
In sports & in life, you need to fill the role you're called to do. It might take you a while to figure out what your role is, but sooner or later, you're going to have to be the 'athletic tape' to fill that role. That's just the way I see things a lot of the time.
-----
Run Strong, Run Fast...
Run So As To Win!
Coach Rick Karboviak
http://1MileNation.com
http://ASAPWorkouts.com
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