Lets see, pretty athletic guy, nothing amazing. Some sports while young but got really good and played club hockey at school.
I was a firefighter/paramedic and got hurt on the job. After the injury I tired a few time to make a comeback and work again. My knee just wasn't willing to let me. I had to give up my career. At less than 40 having to start over threw me for a loop and I was pretty depressed.
My DD started playing HS JV softball after giving the sport up for about 3 years. She came home after a game and said, "dad will you work with me to get better" since then me and her have spent a ton of time together, worked on her game and it has really given me a reason to function at my normal level. I'm hard on her sometimes in which I need to pull back, but after losing something so dear to me that I worked hard to get, I know you have limited time to do what you want. Now, don't take that wrong, I'm not a lunatic but I push her when she get in that 15 year old "I'll do it later" mode.
I have to deal with my knee pain and can't quite show her the correct movement on certain things my knee is better off now that before. I'm so happy that now at 15 with about a year of play time, my kid is better than me at this sport than I ever was at baseball (I don't tell her that) and I have a connection and something to talk about with her. Which wasn't always easy before she caught the softball bug.
I was a firefighter/paramedic and got hurt on the job. After the injury I tired a few time to make a comeback and work again. My knee just wasn't willing to let me. I had to give up my career. At less than 40 having to start over threw me for a loop and I was pretty depressed.
My DD started playing HS JV softball after giving the sport up for about 3 years. She came home after a game and said, "dad will you work with me to get better" since then me and her have spent a ton of time together, worked on her game and it has really given me a reason to function at my normal level. I'm hard on her sometimes in which I need to pull back, but after losing something so dear to me that I worked hard to get, I know you have limited time to do what you want. Now, don't take that wrong, I'm not a lunatic but I push her when she get in that 15 year old "I'll do it later" mode.
I have to deal with my knee pain and can't quite show her the correct movement on certain things my knee is better off now that before. I'm so happy that now at 15 with about a year of play time, my kid is better than me at this sport than I ever was at baseball (I don't tell her that) and I have a connection and something to talk about with her. Which wasn't always easy before she caught the softball bug.