No more "suicides"...welcome "ladders"

sluggers said:

When did it become politically incorrect to call "suicides" (running drill where you run to free throw line, half court line, other free throw line, and end line) suicides?

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At least 15 years that I know of.

I always thought suicides were very fitting. After you've done a few of them you'll think you're killing yourself with each next set you do. It's the only time in my life I've had to throw up from exercising. (High school basketball.)

uncdrew said:

I haven't heard any complaints about the term "suicides" for this drill. Sometimes the backlash is much more wide-spread than initial complaint. I think anyone complaining a bunch on either side is absurd.

Call them "suicides", call them "progression sprints", call them whatever you want. Who cares?

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Breathers....????

quincy said:

Bunch of students want predators to change their name, they have a big cat on their uniforms.

How that becomes sexual predator is beyond my understanding.

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Right?

So we talk about being a predator/hunter or being in predator mode or hunter mode.... hunting the yellow ball. We use the terms interchangeably... talking about things like lions or panthers....hunting their prey.... I reminded a player from the 3B box to be a predator...after the game the mom says to me...."Ya know you really shouldn't refer to 13 yo girls as predators"

W H A T?????

Good grief. ALL the girls know what we are talking about. I invited her to talk with her player about what I mean and what it meant to her daughter. The mom apologized the next time I saw her. BUT GOOD GRIEF!

So today I saw this on FB.



It made me laugh and it's what we've been preaching to my team

I thought of our conversations with our hitting coach....I sent it to him....

This was his reply...

"The way I look at it, their pitcher threw the first rock....my response is simple...it's game on! You aren't just fighting for yourself...you are fighting for your team. These ladies better get used to it.....that is life when they go to work later on. These companies fight against each other...not all companies survive....those that do survive need to fight more than most folks realize...."

Sweet Lou said:

At the risk of being too politically correct, Suicide is the #3 cause of death in America for kids age 12-19, behind only accidents and homicide. So I have no problem calling them something else.

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I don't either. And I've noticed that people who throw around the word "snowflake" seem very easily offended. Who cares if you call them ladders or suicides? Language evolves as we grow and change as a culture. That has always been the case, just as it's always been the case that there will be certain personalities that like to complain about "kids these days" and all things politically correct. And act as if being sensitive to the feelings of other people is somehow a sign of weakness.

Thank God they are not called cell phones

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I stopped calling them suicides when the cousin of one of my players killed herself. Politically correct or not, there are other perfectly good names that don't have a negative connotation.

When will it end? The day humans stop growing and changing. I wouldn't hold your breath.

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I never did "suicides", in hockey we called it the lightning drill, blue line , goal line, center ice, goal line, far blue line, goal line, far goal line all the way back. JV high school coach had a relay drill where you split team in 2, they place their gloves 10' apart from the foul line out (8 players=90' til farthest glove, you start with a ball in all the gloves, 1st pair takes the balls out 1 at a time back to the foul line, 2nd pair puts the balls back in and visa versa until everyone finishes. If she thought there was no effort in the previous game she'd stretch it out 15-20', I use the drill today as conditioning not for punishment. The team likes the competition.

I asked my DD about this. She's familiar with suicides but not ladders. She's 15 and we live in Seattle, one of the most PC places in the universe.