Comments on: Where are all the players these days? https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/ Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:25:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tweets that mention Where are all the players these days? -- Topsy.com https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-789 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:25:02 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-789 […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Karol Gajda, Kenny Eller, Kenny Eller and others. Kenny Eller said: RT @MarkPowers: Where are all the players these days? http://t.co/8qmGvCY by @KennyEller << I see this all the time in the music world, too. […]

]]> By: Kenny Eller https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-787 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:30:47 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-787 In reply to Dean.

Na, no gyms are open around here, so that’s not it. I’ve actually checked with others and it’s happening all over! Kids are not outside anymore:).

You ever see any courts always busy around you? The courts were always busy around here back in the day.

Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Kenny Eller https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-786 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:26:36 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-786 In reply to Charissa Eller.

Yeah, I guess the only place you could find any competition might be leagues. I never see anyone decent playing tennis either.

Maybe we can get Karol to cover one half and me and my bro can cover the other half and give you a decent game. :-). I think I still have my federer gear around somewhere!

]]> By: Dean https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-785 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:26:14 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-785 Maybe they are all gym rats (literally) – or maybe you need to take this study out to check up on other schools too, could just be a neighborhood thing.

]]> By: Charissa Eller https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-784 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:17:55 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-784 Well, I never played basketball, but I played tennis everyday, twice a day throughout most of my childhood. However, I don’t even pick up a racket now…interesting, huh?

]]> By: Kenny Eller https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-783 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:19:25 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-783 In reply to dani.

Nothing wrong with pagers for you and Karol I guess haha, though when did you have a pager (elementary school) haha! 😀

Midnight basketball at the YMCA? Nice! Only midnight thing they offered for us growing up was skating:-/. I wanted to be Jordan not a roller skater:)

]]> By: dani https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-782 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:13:09 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-782 Haha what’s wrong with pagers!!? I thought I was so cool… 😉
anyways, great post and so true! I remember in middle school the “cool” thing to do on a saturday night was midnight bball at the ymca!

]]> By: Kenny Eller https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-780 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:59:21 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-780 In reply to Mark Powers.

Yeah, seems like that is pretty typical these days. Like Jim brought up earlier, the gaming has a quicker rewards system than actually doing the real thing. Sad. 🙁

It seems as thought a private lesson student would be more dedicated, but maybe he/she isn’t paying for the lesson?? Anyway, keep at it man. You’re making a difference!

]]> By: Mark Powers https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-779 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:03:51 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-779 Interesting topic you bring up here, Kenny. I see the exact same thing in the music world. Gaming & TV consume so much of my students’ lives. Just after the holiday break last year, I asked a private lesson student of mine if he’d gotten a lot of practicing (drums) in during the time off from school. He grabbed his forehead and said, “aw, NO man . . . I was so busy the entire break.” A few minutes later, in the middle of his weekly warmup exercises, he excitedly had to tell me, “dude, me and my friends counted it up, and we got like 30 hours in on RockBand in the last two weeks!” Um . . . am I wrong, or does something not compute here?

]]> By: Kenny Eller https://www.mevsmj.com/where-are-all-the-players-these-days/#comment-778 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:00:30 +0000 http://www.mevsmj.com/?p=2141#comment-778 In reply to Karol Gajda.

Haha, wow! I’m glad I missed that stage! 😉 Only guys I knew that had pagers were at the courts on the weekends and well, they most likely weren’t waiting for a “friend” or family member to call…if ya know what I mean. 🙂

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