Not sure what a hockey parent is, but I do have an idea because we have a dad that goes off on his kid in the gym all the time. The kid started training at the same time as Cora, for a whole year and half, they were evenly skilled. When they roll, it would be like a roster fight with no one really winning. Everytime he spar with Cora, his dad always shout out instructions and frustrations at the kid. Meanwhile I'm sitting there quiet and thinking "OMG!!!!". Needless to say the kid didn't enjoy being screamed at all the time. And it make everyone there even the coach feel uncomfortable even though the kid wasn't loosing to her. However, when this past summer started, I started Cora on that intensive training at home everyday for 2-3 hours a day. Little by little, her skill improve and she starts tapping him out, which make it worst for the boy. By mid summer, he was no match for Cora as she got stronger and stronger with her legs and squeezing power. When the dad realize that his son is no match for Cora, he put him on their own intensive training. He told me that he made the boy ran 2 miles and then do this monkey bar training in the hot texas heat. The poor boy come to the gym with blisters all over his palms. I feel so bad for him. I don't do that to Cora, all we do is work on techniques and she use me as a practice dummy so she can learn to squeeze. I don't believe in extra conditioning or strength training as she get plenty of that at the gym already and I'm afraid that might stun her growth like it did to me. So anyways by the time the kid get to the gym, he's so tired and blistered up that most time he get tapped out in seconds, which infuriate the dad even more. ANd the crazy cycle starts again. He is basically why I put music over all the gym noise so you good people don't have to hear all that nonsense. Now what makes it worst is that we found the Rubber Guard system and that even drive him even more crazy because all summer he's been trying to teach his kid the Gogoplata, but the kid is not understanding it or is being taugh the wrong way. I told him, he need to teach the basic technique first, if his son can't do a proper armbar or triangle, why teach him the gogoplata?? He didn't listen. So when Cora pull the Gogoplata on the boy.... you can guess what the gym sound like.... sometimes I feel so bad for the boy that I ask Cora to take it easy on the boy and let him win once or twice to make him look good for his dad. But Cora is also stubborn, she been battling with him for over a year and she just will not ever let him beat her...ever.... she wants him to learn how to win just like she did. What can I say to that???
here is a vid of them sparring.... from day 1 of her Rubber Guard to 6 wks later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFeYjQiSqkk
As you can see even though she have him in an armbar all stretched out, he just won't tap because he is scared of his dad. But I always tell Cora not to pull on the armbar because she already hurt him more than once already because he refuse to tap. So now I dont even want her to go against him. ANd if they do go against each other, she have to get the coach to come over to make him tap because she doesn't want to hurt him again.
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