2 different worlds

Finally, our Flickr site is sync with the www, the blog, facebook and twitter pages :D
do check the pics and feel free to mail me any you would like to have there :)
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2 weeks ago I coached a training camp in Övik with players from 6 clubs. A week after I received a very upset email from a player's dad and another one from his coach. None were the least positive to my hard and "unreasonable" rules.. because tennis should be fun and "kids should be kids." What were the rules that drove the coach and the dad over the edge?
NO CANDY, CHIPS or SODA during the camp.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry while reading the mail.
The no candy rule was the reason the parent was forced to drive 100km to pick up his kid from the training camp and drive him home on that saturday.

Funny enough, while I was coaching the SALK Open team 2 years ago, I shared the floor with 3 teenagers from the same city, around 16-17 years old, who had nothing but burgers, pizza, sodas, candy and chips during the whole competition, and the 3 days before their next tournament. guess again if they made a good job in any of those tournaments!

Meanwhile, 150 km away we have players as young as 6 years old that freely enforce this rules on themselves already 4 days before their Musse Pigg competitions...