I can't be the only one. I took ballet for a year and a half, the half year because I quit. It was just so slow and boring, and all those ton-doos and foot positions to lifeless classical music.
I can't be the only one who crashed and burned at something.
And you?
ONCE UPON A TIME I PLAYED THE TRUMPET.....FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS.....I NEVER QUITE GOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE DAMN THING AND THE FIRST CHANCE I GOT I DITCHED IT.
shareMy younger son did the same thing. I loved going to his jazz band concerts but he got tired of the trumpet. In his case he went from having a great band teacher in middle school to a terrible one in high school (a teacher can make or break somebody's love for music) and I don't think that helped much.
sharea teacher can make or break somebody's love for music
I'm glad you had good teachers. What instrument did you play? I used to teach piano as a side gig and always tried to instill a love of music and never to make it a pressure cooker type situation. Most of my students are adults now and some of them still play.
shareViolin, guitar, trumpet, piano, euphonium, ukulele, clarinet, and I dabbled with other brass instruments. I also played the handbells...lol.
shareWow, that's really, really impressive! I think you might win the most varied musician award on this board. I used to play handbells, too, and would go to handbell festivals which were sometimes fun.
shareNot failed, unfortunately didn't stick with it.
Drums. I didn't want to keep doing the lessons because I was too into sports.
Who knows where it would have went if I stuck with it.
One found, as I got older, music ended up being a great love - plus I found I had good natural rhythm.
Maybe it could have went somewhere, who knows? Certainly, there was a much better chance to make it as a musician instead of a professional athlete.
Well it's never too late! Perhaps it could be a hobby now. 😁
shareFootball for me. I loved playing football as a kid, but I only played through 8th grade because I stunk at it (I was 6'1" but only weighed 157 lbs when I graduated high school...and 6'2 1/2" and weighed 168 lbs when I graduated college...I was a beanpole! Now I'm about 230 lbs, since I discovered how good a lot of food tastes! 😃). I had almost zero upper-body strength and got thrown around like a rag doll on the field (I was probably around 135-140 lbs in 8th grade). I ended up quitting football after the 8th grade, but played basketball and baseball through my high-school years (and a couple of years of baseball in college).
shareThat's impressive that you played basketball and baseball in high school and collegiate level baseball, though! Many people can't make that claim.
Your mom might have been glad you stopped football. 😁 That's one sport I'm glad my boys never showed an interest in.
Thank you! And, yes, I know exactly how you feel about it as a parent. A lot of my classmates that played football still have health issues related to it to this day (knee and concussion issues especially).
None of my boys play football either... but my oldest son has talked about trying out for the football team next season to be the kicker/punter (He's a soccer player also). I kind of hope that he doesn't do it, but I'll leave the choice up to him. I'm already there for "Football Friday Nights" with my middle son being in marching band, so we'll see, I guess. 😃
Hopefully the kicker/punter position would be a little safer. I don't watch a lot of football beyond my alma mater but I'm thinking they normally go after the ball rather than the kicker when they try to block the kicks. 🤞🤞
shareI got my boys out of football and into lacrosse which has the level of intensity and physicality that requires pads and a helmet but avoids the relentless collisions of football. I admit football is king in America but I’ve really come to love lacrosse even though I never played it as a kid myself
shareAwesome! Lacrosse is a sport that I don't know a whole lot about, but it seems like it's gained popularity in recent years. A lot of the "big schools" here in Columbus have high-school lacrosse programs now. I know it's not cheap... I've seen some of the lacrosse equipment at Dick's Sporting Goods. Good luck to your boys.
shareI tried a lot of sports with very little success. Despite my size I was not good at football, baseball or basketball. I tried skateboarding and broke my ass too many times so I quit.
Eventually I settled on shooting, hunting and fishing. These things I can do well.
I guess it's all a process of trial and error as we grow up, seeing where our strengths are. I've gone fishing a few times and always enjoyed it. It's one of those things I probably should do more. I always love being out on the water.
shareFishing is fun, a good day hiking and casting can land you a nice meal.
Be cautious if you and your husband ever want to buy a motor boat!
I made that mistake and that 19 foot Bayliner was up on blocks getting repairs more than it was wet, no kidding!
I finally traded it to my cousin for a fine Winchester .30-.30 lever action deer rifle and a cheap Japanese semi-auto 12 guage shotgun.
Now I just have a canoe and a Jon boat….NO motors ever again LOL!
I've only ever been fishing in a canoe and that worked out well. I get terribly seasick so I have to be in a vessel that doesn't move on a body of water that doesn't move. 😁
shareSome of my fishing buds get seasick. I do not but I’ve seen bigger dudes than me puke over the rails many times…they looked miserable😣
You might enjoy pond or lake fishing. you can have a nice picnic and stay put, no worries .
Yes! I meant to put that in my previous post. A canoe on the lake is perfect for me! 😊
shareI once went on a canoeing excursion with a couple of neighbors a la Deliverance https://moviechat.org/tt0068473/Deliverance. There were three of us in it. It was during March, the water was still cold, we were loaded with all manner of camping supplies and the river we were traveling had a strong current. At some point, the guy in the middle started rocking the boat and capsized us. I learned then that he couldn't swim and was in a complete panic, thrashing about. I went to him and pulled him to the overturned canoe where he could hang on. Rifles, fishing poles and all of that other gear went to the bottom. The three of us and the canoe (due to its buoyancy) survived.
In hindsight, I always wondered if his fear of the water was what capsized us. But if that was the case, why did he agree to that situation to begin with? 🤔
Glad you guys were safe! Maybe he was afraid to admit he was afraid of water. Or sometimes people don't even realize they're afraid of something until they get in the middle of it.
shareLike I said, that river had a strong current and we were moving with it, paddling in addition, so we were, "hauling ass", so to speak. I was in front, he was in the middle and the other guy in the tail end. Maybe it was all that speed and the fact that he couldn't swim that caused him to panic and tip us over.
That was a sketchy, neighborly relationship to begin with. We weren't friends and I was puzzled about why they invited me along for that trip. I was a Boy Scout as a boy, my dad became a scoutmaster after his retirement, I was into that sort of thing, so that's why I accepted the invitation.
As it turned out, within 2 years of that incident, they both ended up being murdered. 😲🤔
Get back on the board. I'm in the process of teaching my neighbour how to skate. He's a fucking natural lol. I just beat the mongo out of him. I love skating, just all around my streets 2 in the morning while cranking beats in my headphones. It's kinda beautiful.
shareFootball. I hate Football but tried out because I figured I'd give it a try and hoped I'd stop being called a faggot because I didn't like it. Neither of those got better and I quit. I don't like the sport and playing didn't help me build appreciation for it. It just wasted my time and made me hang out with people I disliked and who disliked me.
Positive note: I saw a few of those guys later and we made amends. We're not friends but it's good to see them doing as well as I am.
I'm really sorry that people talked to you like that. That's inexcusable. Teenage bullies can leave scars. It's good you were true to yourself though and quit when you realized it wasn't for you. It's also nice that you were able to have some more pleasant interactions with those people later in life. I think you're a very nice person and I'm glad you were able to have an opportunity to get some peace from that situation.
shareThat's growing up. You see people you had issues with and you learn to go along to get along. They had their B.S. to deal with too.
There was a guy who tried to drown me as a kid (he and his friendsthought it was funny). He lost a wife and child in a car crash. I may not like the guy, but no one deserves a tragedy like that.
You're right. Everyone is carrying some kind of baggage, some particularly heavy.
sharePiano. Despised having to practice.
jacotodd47 reminds me, briefly drums as well. No talent for music I guess.
Life's all about finding the activities that are right for us. I ended up taking piano long-term although by the time I was a teenager I was tired of practicing and admittedly didn't do a very good job of it, much to my piano teacher's chagrin. It is nice as an adult though to be able to sit down and play something when the mood strikes me.
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWYmUZTYE78
shareBelieve it or not that was one of the songs I used to play although not with his level of mastery. That second section requires hands with quite the wingspan because you have to play an octave apart with your thumb and pinkie, and I have small hands. It would have been helpful to have been Plastic (Wo)Man or Stretch Armstrong during that section.
shareI was in the Cub Scouts and Webelos and I don’t think I ever earned a badge.
shareDon't feel too bad. I was a Brownie and I'm sure I never got a badge. I wasn't very good at selling cookies either. I did, however, make a skirt once at Brownies out of fabric covered in pictures of vegetables. 😂
shareFor me it was soccer.
shareI played soccer in ninth grade and even was an occasional starter but then I transferred from a very small school to a very large school for the rest of high school and didn't even bother trying out. In retrospect maybe I should have. 🤔
shareYeah I was pretty good. Striker. But then my new hobby took over, smoking weed lol.
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