Coach Macho
aka Beardy Ryan
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- Oct 11, 2012
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I don't know where you live but growing up in Fort Lauderdale we used to hang-out on A1A aka "The Strip" all night.We still have a free martial arts program for kids in the town I live in.
During the summer, we get more kids, during school, we get less because of other sports.
Martial arts has a problem of over saturation. Too many dojos, too few kids. Even when we're running good, we consider ourselves full at 18-20 kids.
Played a **** ton of pool in the late 90s as a teenager, drag raced a lot. Pre teens in the early 90s, Arcades and mini golf was still popular.
What my old man gripe is, I don't see kids hanging out together a lot anymore. They want to do a bunch of their socializing online.
You put them together, its all awkward for 15 mins or so because they dont know how to communicate. ****, I'll wade in on my nieces friends and make dad jokes and act crazy, and they laugh at me but they loosen up and relax.
Just seems like kids are so damned uptight nowadays. Parents putting gps chips in their kids cars.
WTF.
We sat on the beach wall, walked around, played b-ball at the beach-side courts, cruised the strip in our cars, etc.
These kids don't even do that anymore.
I remember going to the beach around noon. Hanging out all **** day, walking the strip looking at girls. Then we'd go home, freshen up and come right back at night to cruise/chill.
It was not uncommon for us...in the span of one week to...hit the beach, play pool, go out to eat, go to a dance club, go bowling and play a bunch of pick-up b-ball. We'd easily knock all of that out in a week. These kids go a whole week and barely leave the **** house.