Level 1: Players/Coaches who 'play hard'  …

• develop great playing habits,
• get noticed by knowledgeable coaches,
• make the All-Star Teams while growing up.

Level 2: Add a the drive to succeed at the highest level of the sport and a commitment to a daily practice routine, then the player...

• continues playing the sport into High School and College,
• may even get a College Scholarship.

Level 3: College players who never stop learning ...

• may reach the highest levels of the sport.

Playing Tip:  THE "PROCESS" PRODUCES THE "RESULTS"! Detailed playing mechanics is the backbone for all HowToPlay.com brochures.  Each HowToPlay.com brochure teaches the mechanical "process" used to produce All-Star playing "results".  ("Recommended Reading Lists" on each HowToPlay.com page are also excellent sources for playing mechanics.) "You cannot learn what you do not understand."

IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
Players make mistakes, but can still excel. Trying to play a sport without knowledge of how to play the sport causes mistakes to form early in the learning process. At a young age, these players get by because kids the same age are also learning the sport and making mistakes.

Bad habits form. When these mistakes go uncorrected, the mistakes become bad habits. These bad habits come back to haunt players in later years!

IN MIDDLE SCHOOL:
Bad habits become noticeable. As the players get older, these bad habits become more and more obvious when compared to players who have learned how to properly play the sport.

Making the All-Star Teams. Only players with exceptional track records make the All-Star Teams. These are usually the player with the better playing habits.  The players with bad playing habits fall further behind the other players, since, in an effort to win, the All-Star Team gets even more detailed coaching by some of the best coaches in the area.

IN HIGH SCHOOL:
Players get reduced playing time. The players who play the sport properly produce consistently better results than the players playing with bad habits.  Players with the bad playing habits, when they make a High School team, get less playing time. The Coach gives the better players more playing time.

Players stop playing the sport. Bench players do have a vital support function in sports, however, the players unable to accept this role stop playing the sport sometime during High School.

IN COLLEGE::
Intramural Sport’s Programs. Players with a love for playing the sport who continue playing their sport in an organized program end up in the College's Intramural Sport’s Programs.

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