One meaningful topic that I have covered in class was about verbal aggression within the coach-athlete relationship. It is relevant to me because I deal with this dilemma every day at my baseball practice. My coach is the type of coach to use verbal aggression because he thinks it will get the most out of his players. He believes his job is to make his players reach their highest potential and the only way he knows how to do that is to be hard on us.
Playing for him is both difficult and miserable. My coach takes the fun out of the sport I once loved and had fun playing, which is baseball. Now baseball feels as if it is my JOB and I am forced to go out to the ball park every day. The data that I found in the coach-athlete relationship article is still proving to hold true in the experiences I am going through. I am finding that all of the players on our team despise our coach and passionately disagree on his coaching styles. I find that players become more worked up about how much they hate our coach than actually getting better with baseball and having fun with what they do.
However, if I can pull out anything that may seem positive about this situation, is that if I can play for this coach, I can play for anybody. All I need to do is keep telling myself that this situation is preparing me for the furute and it keeps me going.
I had the same feeling with my kickboxing coach when I was training for some of my matches. He use to actually get in the ring with me and spar. And he would literally kick my ass from corner to corner. But, he would also yell at me at the same time while he's doing it. I understood he wanted me to get better, but he was a complete dick about the whole thing. I understand what your going through.
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