This week we talk with wrestling and football coach Gary Sirkel about the importance of contact sports in the development of mental and physical toughness, personal resilience, and leadership in youth. It is said that hard times create hard men (and women), while soft times create soft men (and women). In the scope of human history, mankind has never had it so easy in terms of raw survival. Are we soft?
Gridiron (American & Canadian) Football, Australian Rules Football, Rugby Football, Ice Hockey, LaCrosse, boxing, wrestling, MMA and other combat sports and martial arts teach invaluable life lessons. Sitting and looking at a device or computer screen is hardly a difficult, challenging, obstacle laden lifestyle, and it is devoid of the capacity to develop "true grit." Our ancestors would laugh at us.
Coach Sirkel is a long-time youth sports coach, and while primarily a football and wrestling coach, he has coached soccer, baseball, and softball. Gary is the married father of four children and is a grandfather. He is a Leadership Coach on the John Maxwell Team and is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
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