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Shirts vs Skins (1 Viewer)

jomar

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So I coach my oldest son's 3rd/4th grade basketball team. We're about halfway thru the season and had a practice tonight. We were going to scrimmage the last 15 minutes so I split up the teams. I'm trying to organize them for the jump and kids can't remember what team they're on or what position I told them to play (they all had different colored shirts). This is a parks and rec league and half the kids are clueless even halfway thru the year. We had wasted 2-3 minutes trying to get things straight with another couple to go probably when I split the teams again and told one team to take their shirts off and we'd play shirts vs. skins. Half the kids started laughing. Half of them team I told to take their shirts off didn't want to, a couple kids on the other team said they wanted to be skins. I needed even teams so in the end 3 kids played skins with 2 teammates with shirts and the scrimmage went smooth.

My son was on the skins team and after laughing at my idea, refused to take his shirt off. It never crossed my mind kids would have a problem with this. A couple had suggested it before in prior practices. Their reaction made me feel like it was an issue so I won't do it again, but I was surprised by the reaction. One of the dads of the shirtless kids came up to me and laughed about it but what are the chances another parent took offense? We're in a gym with 12-15 other adults in the room and it isn't like I was making the fat kids play skins. Like I said, I won't do it again but just wondering if some of these parents are the type that make a phone call on this. Was this out of line?

 
When I take my kid to swimming class out of the five little boys he's one of two who don't wear one of those swimming shirts. I don't know when this all changed.

 
Totally not out of line.

However, since you got weird reaction from this probably best just to ask kids to bring dark and light shirts to next practice then just split them up that way.

####### stupid but today you never know what will cause problems.

 
Frostillicus said:
When I take my kid to swimming class out of the five little boys he's one of two who don't wear one of those swimming shirts. I don't know when this all changed.
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Wait, what? They all wear swimming shirts? Is this because most kids are fat now?

I need another beer

 
What the heck? I can't get my son to keep his shirt on when he's playing sports...he'd think shirts v skins would be great. It would be the highlight of his week.

 
jomar said:
So I coach my oldest son's 3rd/4th grade basketball team. We're about halfway thru the season and had a practice tonight. We were going to scrimmage the last 15 minutes so I split up the teams. I'm trying to organize them for the jump and kids can't remember what team they're on or what position I told them to play (they all had different colored shirts). This is a parks and rec league and half the kids are clueless even halfway thru the year. We had wasted 2-3 minutes trying to get things straight with another couple to go probably when I split the teams again and told one team to take their shirts off and we'd play shirts vs. skins. Half the kids started laughing. Half of them team I told to take their shirts off didn't want to, a couple kids on the other team said they wanted to be skins. I needed even teams so in the end 3 kids played skins with 2 teammates with shirts and the scrimmage went smooth.

My son was on the skins team and after laughing at my idea, refused to take his shirt off. It never crossed my mind kids would have a problem with this. A couple had suggested it before in prior practices. Their reaction made me feel like it was an issue so I won't do it again, but I was surprised by the reaction. One of the dads of the shirtless kids came up to me and laughed about it but what are the chances another parent took offense? We're in a gym with 12-15 other adults in the room and it isn't like I was making the fat kids play skins. Like I said, I won't do it again but just wondering if some of these parents are the type that make a phone call on this. Was this out of line?
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I get older and the shirtless boys stay the same age.

 
You could buy some red mesh jerseys off of Amazon for cheap. That's what NFL teams use to differentiate teams in training camp, so I think it would be a pretty effective and cheap solution for 3rd graders.

 
They don't do shirts and skins anymore. You have buy pinnies for them. We get reversible shirts for Rec teams now to cover it. Some kids go to the locker room just to switch colors.

It is really dumb, but that us how they do it. They also don't shower after gym class.

 
Annyong said:
Frostillicus said:
When I take my kid to swimming class out of the five little boys he's one of two who don't wear one of those swimming shirts. I don't know when this all changed.
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Wait, what? They all wear swimming shirts? Is this because most kids are fat now?I need another beer
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I thought the purpose of swim shirts was so you did not have to worry about having to reapply sunscreen on them every couple of hours?

 
knowledge dropper said:
Annyong said:
Frostillicus said:
When I take my kid to swimming class out of the five little boys he's one of two who don't wear one of those swimming shirts. I don't know when this all changed.
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Wait, what? They all wear swimming shirts? Is this because most kids are fat now?I need another beer
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I thought the purpose of swim shirts was so you did not have to worry about having to reapply sunscreen on them every couple of hours?
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It is, we use one on my 1 year old son. I wonder if kids just get so comfortable with them that associate them with swimming? Not sure, but I noticed the same thing with the older boys at my daughters (indoor) swimming lessons.

 
we did this all the time in HS and college.. I preferred being on 'skins' because I hated guarding posting up sweaty hairy dudes

 
Patriotsfatboy1 said:
They don't do shirts and skins anymore.

It is really dumb, but that us how they do it. They also don't shower after gym class.
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this is what my wife said when I told her the story. 'oh, they don't do that anymore'. what?

I got kids running around and others standing around and I'm yelling at some kid to play defense when it turns out he was actually on offense. kids passing the ball to kids on the other team because they have no idea who's on their team. this seemed like a simple on-the-spot solution.

 
also, this is 3rd/4th grade so it isn't like these kids are sweating much. other than my kid, the other one who didn't want to lose the shirt was my best player. a tall, fit kid who looked like he was going to cry at the suggestion. he said he didn't want to and I said 'then don't', but was surprised by his reaction. maybe he has a 3rd nipple?

 
Parrothead said:
we did this all the time in HS and college.. I preferred being on 'skins' because I hated guarding posting up sweaty hairy dudes
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Same here on the skins. Hated being shirts and having to guard a sweaty body.

I don't think it should be a big deal with 3rd/4th graders, but you're smart to discontinue it after getting some kickback.

 
Did this all the time playing soccer as a kid. There were always 2 specific kids who refused to take their shirts off, so they were always on the Shirts side...I remember one of them was a little heavier. The other one wasn't...When I was a kid, I never got it, and they were teased for not wanting to take their shirts off.

The irony is that they likely didn't want to take their shirts off because they were embarrassed of being made fun of...the reality is that they got picked on because they didn't want to take their shirts off, not for what they might look like with it off...I don't think any of us cared what they looked like with it off.

This is a situation where, when I was a kid, I didn't understand what the big deal was, and I thought it was strange of them. Now, as an adult, I get it. I still wouldn't feel odd doing this, but I get why some would, so who am I to judge.

 
Kid got dubbed thunder #### because of this...Needless to say we got a talking too. Not a big deal probably but get some cheap pinnies

 
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