The Road To Becoming A Tournament Champion

By Jeffrey Martin


Sports have been known to provide a healthier lifestyle to does who engage in it. Apart from all the health factors, sports are fun and an enjoyable experience for all. Especially when playing a sport built on teamwork. Whether it is football, baseball basketball, fast pitch, flag, football, golf, martial arts, lacrosse, soccer, slow pitch or volleyball. It is always fun when playing with a group of other individuals and you are up against another group who is willing to work together just to gain victory and that is the reason why USSSA Tournaments exist.

These tournaments they are not only won with great athleticism but also with great team work. How can one even win if he or she is against a team that works together and depends on each other credibility to win.

In a group competition one could not simply do everything on their own, every group sport there are different rules in how to play it. And every member is giving a significant role to play, take for example in a game of baseball you cannot be the pitcher and the catcher at the same time, and certainly not the basemen that are guarding the different base all over the court.

And if you enter a tournament with your team but all you are thinking about is self validation, to be known as the best of the best than maybe you should try sports that does not need a team. After all if your only thinking about winning on your own then it almost seems like you are only bringing along your team as an ornament, will not get you anywhere.

Though everyone is aiming for the overall price, but most teams in the tournament also want to grasp that sportsmanship vibe in the air and enjoy themselves while they are trying to reach the gold medal by the end of the tournament.

Competition is after all a way for at least to show the full extent of their athleticism and team coordination. It is not about boasting what you have accomplished on your own so far, but letting everyone know what you have developed together as a team.

And crowd your space, so you would lose focus, you have team mates near you, but you are hesitant to pass the ball to them because you want the recognition and take glory all to yourself. And with that kind of mentality you will surely be the reason why your team will lose.

There are some athletes these days that has a bad case of athletic ego, they usually get this kind of ego, when they start to think that they are just better than everyone else in the team. And with that kind of mentality one could never succeed especially when they are facing an opponent who believes and depends on each others skills.

And most of the time when facing defeat these athletes who do not have a sense of sportsmanship would result to violence and would cause a negative commotion. Which is not the way a professional athlete should act. Because to be an athlete means to be both skillful and dignified.




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