I had a similar experience and I ended up disliking sports for most of my youth years due to the sports coaches being incredibly aggressive and humiliating. I remember that in 1st grade I was supposed to run across the field, and the coach found out that I didn’t know how to sprint properly. She stopped the entire class, put as all in a line, took me out of it and told me to run while the others were supposed to watch. She proceeded to ask me: Did you run correctly? To which I have answered yes. She gave me one of those aggressive looks, and then asked one of his favorite students to run. He knew how to propel himself, how to move his arms around the body and how to sprint properly. I didn’t. She looked at me after his demonstration and started yelling and humiliating me in front of the others. And that was just one of the experiences.
What I disliked the most about coaches was their lack of reaction when students would humiliate or hurt others. There were a couple of over-sized girls in my class who were always picked on by the bullies, yet the instructor did nothing. Sometimes he even joined the laugh, humiliating them.
Maybe we ask ourselves where this is coming from? I believe they are shitty individuals, but they might have also looked at the coaches of professional gymnasts (Nadia Comaneci, Dobre, etc.) and how they abused their students who ended up getting good grades.
I had a similar experience and I ended up disliking sports for most of my youth years due to the sports coaches being incredibly aggressive and humiliating. I remember that in 1st grade I was supposed to run across the field, and the coach found out that I didn’t know how to sprint properly. She stopped the entire class, put as all in a line, took me out of it and told me to run while the others were supposed to watch. She proceeded to ask me: Did you run correctly? To which I have answered yes. She gave me one of those aggressive looks, and then asked one of his favorite students to run. He knew how to propel himself, how to move his arms around the body and how to sprint properly. I didn’t. She looked at me after his demonstration and started yelling and humiliating me in front of the others. And that was just one of the experiences.
What I disliked the most about coaches was their lack of reaction when students would humiliate or hurt others. There were a couple of over-sized girls in my class who were always picked on by the bullies, yet the instructor did nothing. Sometimes he even joined the laugh, humiliating them.
Maybe we ask ourselves where this is coming from? I believe they are shitty individuals, but they might have also looked at the coaches of professional gymnasts (Nadia Comaneci, Dobre, etc.) and how they abused their students who ended up getting good grades.
so gross! and absolutely a pattern of humiliation