SPORTS SAVVY All true-blooded American youth - boys and girls alike; young men and young women - our leaders for Tomorrow should, early in life, select a sport as their favorite special body-builder and stick with it through all of the grim, vicissitudes known, generally as the "thick and thin "of a particular sport until they stand a adored and honored as Grand Champions among athletes of their chosen field of action!
It seldom, if ever takes placed with anything nearing perfection in our costly society. The really smart kid in today's world; the wide-awake potential sports star in the future sports whirl learn to live with the idea that he or she had best choose whatever Mom or Dad thought they had wanted to become.
In that way you get you get initial start expenses taken care of without any lemonade stand selling or deals of all sorts. The young boy who stands firm and sounds off steadily and with enthusiasm as a pilgrim on his way to Big League Mecca. Dad will applaud. Dad's assistance becomes ; the young girl can choose La Crosses, soccer or basketball and Mom will react in much the same manner. It is, most often, the expense ...the cost - which forbids a young person from by being active in a sport.
What about newer sports? How about making a name in Skateboarding, for instance. One young man I know tried golf recently and liked if very much but lost interest when he checked to see what it would cost to get get outfitted and to join a golf club so he would have a place to play.
He fount that boards cost from $99.99 to $124.99 and up. You will need an axle arrangement front and rear at $30.00 or so each; wheels will be essential - $12.00 to $20.00 per set of four and you will need more than two or three sets because they do wear rather steadily. A good repair kit is needed which always includes a First Aid Kit.
Much of skateboarding expense depends on the climate where you do you ups-and-downs: shoes are forty to $99.99 in one catalog I see pants, shirts, sweats, jackets, hoods, gloves, boots - all around half a hundred - goggles, crash helmets, heel sparklers, and other such goodies.
If you tire of simple board skating you can do you thing on ice, too. For less than two hundred dollars you can own a skateboard with four small skis where wheels ought to be or one, long ski.
Add all of those costs that up - for several years. Small wonder that we are rapidly becoming a nation of sports watchers rather than active participants on the courts and on the fields.
A.L.M October 1, 2005 [c472ds]
