More youth tournaments banning angry coaches

Any coach who needs to be aggressive, angry and yell at their players is not suited to the job. The best coaches are always calm and unemotional.

This is a great initiative.

Because then you are not prepared for the harsh realty of the real world and you end up with people who are hikkomori or worse.

As I said, any coach who needs to get emotional and angrily yell at their charges is in the wrong job.

A move in the right direction. I once saw a female volleyball game where the male coaches yelling abuse at players throughout the game and felt sorry for the players. Angry and abusive coaches should have no place in sports.

Perhaps, but these youth will encounter many situations where they have to deal with less than qualified people running things, especially in Japan where merit is not the most important factor to get into a position of power. So I think it's better to learn how to cope with this in a youth sports league where the consequences a are not that serious

If a coach has to use fear and intimidation to motivate his or her team, they are unqualified and should not be anywhere near athletes.

The consequences of having to deal with such a "coach" at a young age are very serious, and to think otherwise is just choosing to be ignorant of them. These types of coaches breed bullies and teach kids to hate authority figures.

Judo also has that problem. Luckily my children's Judo coaches are wonderful people. I saw another Judo place closer to our house but the coaches seemed less friendly so we went with the Dojo that was a bit further away. My kids are very happy with the Dojo and are doing fine. Having the right coaches makes a world of difference.

@Zorotogive all the delicate flowers participation trophies instead?

The above an example of lack-of virtue signaling from someone in the back-to-the-past movement. Can a society actually be made great again by having abusive coaches and physical education teachers, all under a repressive authoritarian system? I don't think so, but maybe that's why some authoritarian nations inject their athletes with steroids to try to compete with delicate flowers from other nations..

Because then you are not prepared for the harsh realty of the real world and you end up with people who are hikkomori or worse.

Quite the leap you made there. Maybe the coaches should beat them up and steal their pocket money too. It's for their own good etc

When my daughter played volleyball in JHS her coach was the most abusive , shocking disgrace.

I've ever seen.

I bided my time, took evidence and when my kids graduated I reamed her out and called her a disgrace in a meeting in the staff room.

Volleyball especially has some amount of nutters.

Its gotten better in basketball, but if its not the yelling and screaming, its running up the score on a weaker opposing team because they have a "must get ready for next game" attitude.

This is great. And if Japan eventually turns out like the U.S., they may need to ban angry parents towards referees.

Sad that this was not the default from long ago and that a former victim had to become important enough to fight against the practice.

Competition means giving a lot of importance to games, sometimes too much, and children could be excused from reacting inappropriately to a certain point, but coaches are adults and they should keep their emotions on check, feeling angry, disappointed, etc. is no excuse for them to vent on the children (or anyone for that matter) so banning them will do a lot of good.

Youth sports in Japan are not combined enough with the development of the child in their educational and emotional lives.

As per Japan, protocol is priority(not fun) that can lead to abusive coaching, a long time problem as well as the senpai/kouhai system, which can exacerbate abusive behavior by the players themselves.

And people seem to believe abuse equals disciplinary learning of a sport and those thing’s are mutually exclusive.

The scholar/athlete is not something that is valued enough in Japan.

cause then you are not prepared for the harsh realty of the real world

Followers of Andrew Tate, Steve Bannon, Jordan Peterson, and others in the toxic masculinty movementpushing for a return to the Iron Age. No wonder the extreme right are growing. Frank Zappa's "Bertram Redneck" comes to mind.

Good.

I second the motion with Fighto san.

Its gotten better in basketball, but if its not the yelling and screaming, its running up the score on a weaker opposing team because they have a "must get ready for next game" attitude.

I know what you are trying to say, but in basketball, what do you expect the "better" team to do? Even by subbing in the bench players, the score is more than likely to get run up.

Would you rather they just lay down? It's ugly to watch, but from all the games I have watched, participated in, on both sides, winning and loosing, it's just a part of the game.

Headline is kinda misleading. "Angry" is part of most team sports, can't have a coach too soft.

What we have in Japan is plainly abusive, sociopath people venting their life issues by abusing children, I guess it was last month, they showed on tv how a group of some 20 parents all allowed their children to be abused by one of those bald, short-legged, eyebrow-less thugs for the sake of team/championship or other nonsense for a long time and all in front of the parents.

He even said to one of the children: 生まれた時からダメなんだよ、生み直してもらえ (you're worthless from birth, ask your mother to birth you better next time!

This phrase is what it took to snap the parents back to reality.

I can never understand how some japanese can get so wicked, evil, for absolutely no reward at all.

@finally rich

Exactly! A simple yell to get ones motivation up after a loss in the locker room or telling players to run laps as punishment for doing something bad is entirely different from the moral/ abusive/ toxic harassments these POS coaches do to their players.

Some of these people should never be allowed near children in the first place!

I witnessed this myself. Adults raging at small children because of some bad form or missed play. No wonder these kids start to hate the game and abuse their kohai's as well. Rarely some lowlife trash parents even join in!

It's crazy man, they expect them to be robots following their every demand and instructions to the perfection.

Wish these kids had more mentors who supported them no matter the outcome.

Exactly! A simple yell to get ones motivation up after a loss in the locker room or telling players to run laps as punishment for doing something bad is entirely different from the moral/ abusive/ toxic harassments these POS coaches do to their players.

And it sounds all so natural that it makes you think if these people actually waste their poor time thinking about new words to abuse, writing down what to yell to other people and even rehearsing in front of a mirror.

Angry coaches, teachers, bosses or anyone of authority is a fundamental part of Japanese society. It's just that it has become less acceptable, mainly due to the Western movement toward respect and kindness of the individual at all times

Western "movement" lol

This is our nature, our mindset, what we actually are. But you're not one of us, how could you probably understand

I play baseball in a Senior over 60 league... we use the rubber "nanshiki" ball. Our coach... or at least one of them is one of those guys that just has to yell at players when they make a mistake. I mean, it is an over 60 league and we all just want to live out the rest of our years enjoying ourselves doing the hobbies we like. Most of the players are used to him but he does grind on others, including me. I know, I know, I should take it but I'm a grown man that does not like to be yelled at when I make an error or mistake. Especially if I'm there to play and try to enjoy it. I talk back to him and I confront him, because he makes errors too. The last time I spoke to him I told him, you need to speak to me in a regular polite way or do not say anything at all. Interestingly he somehow developed an injury after that and stopped coming.. the rest of the team seems to have no problem with that. Now we're all enjoying fun practices and games without some noisy bully yapping at us all the time.

Not sure why this is being voted down except for the tendency for some readers to downvote anything negative towards Japan.

Things get voted "down", like your post here, because you care about it.

It’s surely not working that way. What comes next? Accusing all parents who send their kids to the training grounds although it’s obvious that most of the kids want to play with phones or play stations instead? Or again accusing trainers when they demand changing clothes, carrying equipment, writing down notes, standing quietly in line for some explanation etc? Anything could be felt abusing or offending, the training , matches, competitions and also everything on the way there, on the way back from there and all other preparations and prerequisiting.

I hope this becomes more commonplace.

My young son really likes baseball and I play catch with him and take him to the batting centers quite often, but I'm very reluctant to sign him up for a team specifically because of this. Right now baseball is a fun thing that we enjoy together. The second he joins a team with one of these stupid disciplinarian coaches, baseball becomes something he gets yelled at for making mistakes while playing instead of something he enjoys.

No surer way to make a kid lose his love for something than that.

if coaches can't abuse these kids who are these losers going to take their frustrations out on next?

Unfortunately, the angry coach syndrome is endemic in Japan.

Its actually admired on many levels and I'm not sure when it started. I know that its commonplace in Korea and China as well.

Watch one of Ichiro's recent Asahi commercials and you can see the blowhard yapping angrily at some imagined underling in his coaching montage.

The sad thing as mentioned in a few of the comments is that this is engraved mentality here.

It brings back memories from my son's soccer team all managed by parents (coaches) that would yell to the team and to individual kids even after a win. It was for taking their level higher but doing this to small kids and depriving them from the joy of the sport was terrible. And that was even without harasement (words or punishment). So imagine even stricter coaches that aim some league or professional improvement.

Also my daughter quit her middle school volley team because of the soldier like hierarchy. I don't remember she ever complained of the coaches but environment was typically Japanese.

Moving to swimming team worked great as the relations were much more even and friendly.

Years ago my son was into Kendo, the senseis was strict but do not physically and verbally abuse the kds, but this one time our Dojo had a guest from Osaka dojo and we can't believe how the parents and teachers verbally abuse, torment and unbelievable . berate the kids for losing a match, Our Dojos kids was so scared and beg the senseis to not them practice with them.

Anybody who has witnessed a high school sports coach berating and belittling the students in their club knows this is a deep rooted part of Japanese sports.

Fighto!Today  07:07 am JST

Any coach who needs to be aggressive, angry and yell at their players is not suited to the job. The best coaches are always calm and unemotional.

This is a great initiative.

Sports and athletics are meant to teach kids competition, discipline, graceful losing, and it is meant to be FUN.

And coaches are also meant to set an example for the players.

At my own university the football coach was abusive to his players, stomping on a digital watch when the team losr, screaming like a baboon to them and even punching a player. He got fired for punching an opposing team player.

And then there's a loudmouth basketball coach who like the above mentioned. Also threw chairs, screamed and cussed. And some coaches try to push the idea that a game is 'war'. No it's not.

Crappy attitudes like that take the FUN out of sports and athletics.

At my own university the football coach was abusive to his players, stomping on a digital watch when the team losr, screaming like a baboon to them and even punching a player. He got fired for punching an opposing team player.

From what it sounds like, punching a player on your own team was not enough to get him fired. Which says a lot about the school as well.

Any time a coach behaves like a tyrant, they should be suspended immediately. Thereafter they need to do an anger management course and even better study Christianity.

...tournaments mandating the code of conduct for coaches were held in six prefectures...

Why isn't this code of conduct enacted across all prefectures for all sports in all schools and youth leagues?

Three goals - Any time a coach behaves like a tyrant, they should be suspended immediately. Thereafter they need to do an anger management course and even better study Christianity.

So close. But, ruined it at the end.

Any time a coach behaves like a tyrant, they should be suspended immediately. Thereafter they need to do an anger management course and even better study Christianity.

And right and I'll bet you want them to get nailed to the cross as punishment too! The LAST thing I want to see in Japanese sports is some religious nutcase preaching to the kids, that is in and of itself, cruel and inhumane punishment!

You guys are taking it out of context. I didn’t say become a Christian. I said study it. Plenty of people study Christianity and don’t become one. However it’s about learning about principles like treating people like how you would like to be treated.

it’s about learning about principles like treating people like how you would like to be treated.

Most people in the world do unto others as they would have done unto them. This is not something that we need Christianity to understand.

Three goals - You guys are taking it out of context. I didn’t say become a Christian. I said study it. Plenty of people study Christianity and don’t become one. However it’s about learning about principles like treating people like how you would like to be treated.

If one is going to study a religion in order to be more peaceful and content, an argument can certainly be made that Buddhism would be far more effective than Christianity in that regard.

These "angry coaches" need to do a lot more than study. They need to practice whatever methodology puts an end to their abusive and harmful behavior.

YubaruJan. 16  03:26 pm JST

At my own university the football coach was abusive to his players, stomping on a digital watch when the team losr, screaming like a baboon to them and even punching a player. He got fired for punching an opposing team player.

From what it sounds like, punching a player on your own team was not enough to get him fired. Which says a lot about the school as well.

He kept having victories but a bad season and punching an opposing player is what got him canned.