“I don’t have time to exercise at school, but I can’t improve my skills,”
laments a youth baseball coach. At the 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC), Korean baseball tasted a bitter failure.
The sluggishness of the national team can be explained for several reasons. First of all, the US field training did not go smoothly for reasons such as the weather. Excessive movement made it difficult for the players. Pitchers had a hard time adapting to the official ball. Since I couldn’t play a lot of practice games, my sense of the game came up late.로켓 토토
However, there is no big difference in opinion that the fundamental reason is the low level of Korean baseball. In particular, front-line leaders are saying that the situation is serious starting with youth baseball.
The government has reduced the number of days allowed to participate in competitions and training by advocating the protection of the human rights of student athletes and the development of student athletes studying. Student-athletes can exercise after completing their classes in the classroom.
It gets dark quickly 1-2 hours after class ends. Some schools with light facilities do better. Schools that do not have difficulties in training. The absolute time itself is insufficient for players to develop their skills.
It’s the same with pitchers. In order to improve control, you need to build up your stamina from an early age and throw a lot of balls to find your own sense. Excessive overwork should be avoided in the game, but training should be sufficient.
Park Gun-soo, head coach of Daewon Middle School, pointed out, “The reason why there are no good players in Korean baseball right now is the lack of training.
Athletes’ rights to education must be guaranteed. But simply tying players into classrooms isn’t the solution. You need to find a practical way to work hard and do the necessary studies at the same time.
Tommy Hyeonsu Edman, an incumbent major leaguer who joined the Korean national baseball team, majored in computer science at the prestigious Stanford University. He was good at baseball as well as his studies. He even graduated early with honors. The previous grade point average of 3.82 left the best grade in the history of the school’s baseball team.
If so, did Edman just sit in the classroom to study? no. He trains during the season and competes in competitions. He takes classes intensively using the off-season. Sometimes it is replaced with online classes or assignment submissions. Just because the class is not taken in the classroom does not mean that the academic management is lax.
How much you focus on your studies is a matter of individual student athletes. Academic level or achievement can be masked through rigorous assessment. However, it means that holding on to the classroom is not all. It is necessary to keep various options open so that you can catch both rabbits, sports and studies.
A parent of a youth baseball player confessed, “If the class time itself is important, I’d rather have a class that suits them separately after work.”