Comments on: My Dad the Sportsballer https://unwinnable.com/2012/11/29/my-dad-the-sportsballer/ Stories about Culture Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:32:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Wing Chun Nut https://unwinnable.com/2012/11/29/my-dad-the-sportsballer/#comment-51096 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:32:14 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=38177#comment-51096 You said "When I had the revelation that coaching baseball all those years had been about me and not about him, I realized that by the reductive act of labeling him a jock I’d thrown up a wall between the two of us. Dad wasn’t trying to share his love of baseball with me but his love of playing games, period, because he was a gamer just like I was. He just played different games."

Sounds like you had a great Dad.

I studied martial arts for years. I did it not so much for me but because I wanted to spend quality time with my son. I wanted to be out there on the mat with him, punching, kicking, grappling. I wanted to stick with him – all the way to Blackbelt. And I did.

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