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Post by larrymoe on Mar 21, 2013 7:15:39 GMT -6
At our school not 1 kid showers. If they do they wear their swimming trunks in the shower. Afraid of being called "gay". When I was in school they called you names if you didn't shower. At my current school some kids shower after games, but never after practice. Mostly because half our kids get on a bus immediately after practice to go back to one of the two schools that coop with us. None of our local kids shower because the furthest away kid from the school lives about 7 minutes away by car. I don't require them to shower at the school, but do say we may have to do it if someone ever fails to take care of it at home and we start having outbreaks of stuff. We haven't had any. Worked at a school in the past where kids wore shorts in the shower due to the "gay" factor of showering naked. Same kids would frequently dry hump each other and grab each other's asses constantly. Have worked at other schools where being naked was no big deal to the kids. I've found places with good wrestling programs are usually the most secure with their manhood and are usually the biggest showering places. Probably because they're trained to be more vigilant in showering.
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Post by nhs40 on Mar 21, 2013 7:53:45 GMT -6
Most of our kids shower after every practice. You always run into a few kids that don't (and often will get teased by the others for not showering), but we try to explain getting bacteria washed off, any blood, etc. In saying that, we have had a couple problems the last couple of seasons with guys doing "weird" things. Much like some others describe, some of the kids "race" to be the first guy in, and then stay in FOREVER. We had to implement a policy that put a time limit on the amount of "shower time." If after 20 minutes everyone wasn't out of the showers, you would get some "individualized instruction time" on the field the next day. Worked fairly well.
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Post by fballcoachg on Mar 21, 2013 8:31:33 GMT -6
The only times I remember showering in High School was when we had a morning "boot camp" week for football and when we had swimming in gym and most kids left shorts on. I never remember anyone taking a shower after practice while I played and have never had a kid shower after practice going on my 6th year, 7th if you count student teaching. If we did morning workouts we would probably make it mandatory but I don't even think our facilities would support showers from a whole team. Come to think of it, some of our kids practically hide in their lockers if they have to get changed all the way.
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Post by fantom on Mar 21, 2013 8:41:01 GMT -6
The only times I remember showering in High School was when we had a morning "boot camp" week for football and when we had swimming in gym and most kids left shorts on. I never remember anyone taking a shower after practice while I played and have never had a kid shower after practice going on my 6th year, 7th if you count student teaching. If we did morning workouts we would probably make it mandatory but I don't even think our facilities would support showers from a whole team. Come to think of it, some of our kids practically hide in their lockers if they have to get changed all the way. My playing experience was the exact opposite. We showered after every workout. Whether it was a full practice, a walk-through, or an offseason workout, we always showered. That's why this "no-showering" thing took some getting used to.
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Post by fballcoachg on Mar 21, 2013 8:46:05 GMT -6
The only times I remember showering in High School was when we had a morning "boot camp" week for football and when we had swimming in gym and most kids left shorts on. I never remember anyone taking a shower after practice while I played and have never had a kid shower after practice going on my 6th year, 7th if you count student teaching. If we did morning workouts we would probably make it mandatory but I don't even think our facilities would support showers from a whole team. Come to think of it, some of our kids practically hide in their lockers if they have to get changed all the way. My playing experience was the exact opposite. We showered after every workout. Whether it was a full practice, a walk-through, or an offseason workout, we always showered. That's why this "no-showering" thing took some getting used to. It may be a generational thing. Our HC has brought it up before as well. He is in his mid 50s and we could be in a conversation as a staff, if he is about to shower he just undresses and walks over to the shower and goes about his business. However, myself and some of the younger coaches do the towel wrap thing. It's like the old naked dudes in the sauna I guess, just a generational thing and not quite sure how or why it started.
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Post by andrewestrada on Mar 21, 2013 8:46:44 GMT -6
I graduated in 12' and most of the kids from the junior class and the ones before us showered when we had weights and conditioning in the morning. Then after practices and games. We had two showers and most of the guys showered. And none ever wore shorts or anything. It has to be a cultural thing in the schools because at my school things like that were just normal. But as the you get guys come up they tend to wear swim trunks at first but after they are upperclassmen showering normal it gradually leads to everyone to shower without shorts on. If kids don't make a big deal about it, it doesn't tend to be a problem. I've seen instances where a younger kid will wear swim trunks constantly to the shower and an upper class man will talk to him about hygiene and the fact that it's normal to just shower without the shorts and normally that leads to the adjustment. A little bit of coaxing will help kids get past their fear that they might have of being seen naked in the shower. Kids not on a team may say it weird but kids on the team just see it as a normal thing to do so they don't listen to the kids that say its "gay".
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 21, 2013 9:08:22 GMT -6
Apparently Canada is extremely comfortable with its sexuality. Not every kid showers, but I've never seen anyone wear boxers in the shower, and I've never heard anyone be called gay for it. We even carried injured players into the showers on a few occassions.
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Post by fantom on Mar 21, 2013 10:03:16 GMT -6
My playing experience was the exact opposite. We showered after every workout. Whether it was a full practice, a walk-through, or an offseason workout, we always showered. That's why this "no-showering" thing took some getting used to. It may be a generational thing. Our HC has brought it up before as well. He is in his mid 50s and we could be in a conversation as a staff, if he is about to shower he just undresses and walks over to the shower and goes about his business. However, myself and some of the younger coaches do the towel wrap thing. It's like the old naked dudes in the sauna I guess, just a generational thing and not quite sure how or why it started. It's definitely generational. Guys my age or older just see it as normal. I shudder to think what would have happened to a guy who held his hand over his crotch as he changed or one who didn't shower. My freshman and sophomore years were spent at a small school that didn't have a separate shower room for the coaches so the HC showered with us (of course it's possible that that was his way to get us the hell out of there).
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 21, 2013 10:31:04 GMT -6
Apparently Canada is extremely comfortable with its sexuality. Not every kid showers, but I've never seen anyone wear boxers in the shower, and I've never heard anyone be called gay for it. We even carried injured players into the showers on a few occassions. America's the most oversexualized, yet uncomfortable with sexuality society probably in the history of the world.
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Post by spos21ram on Mar 21, 2013 10:37:14 GMT -6
In high school I rarely did because I just showered at home after practice.
In college we showerd all the time.
As far as the team I coach now. I'd say about 15 players shower daily after practice.
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 21, 2013 11:54:03 GMT -6
It is generational and regional
Being closer in age to HS kids than most on this board I can say I don't wanna shower in a group shower with everyone... I hate going to the gym and the old guys are naked walking around... it is weird for me... i don't want to see any part of a man's body ever
Again I know to most of you this is "normal" but whatever your definition of "normal" is in anything around you it is based upon the environment you were brought up in
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Post by mariner42 on Mar 21, 2013 13:11:07 GMT -6
When I coached in Oregon, our kids were a bunch of damn nudists. For HS kids, they were incredibly comfortable running around in their birthday suits.
In CA, NONE. For one, the hot water is rarely on because it costs money to heat the thing. Since cold water = uncomfortable for them, that's a dealbreaker. Another, I just don't think the kids around here are all that comfortable with the idea.
Our football guys barely use the locker room, so they're an oddity anyways.
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Post by irishdog on Mar 21, 2013 13:23:41 GMT -6
Two schools I've coached at most of the kids showered after workouts and practices (with the exception of a few freshmen). Three other schools I coached at only a few of the kids would shower after a workout, but most would shower after practices. Weird. At my latest school I think the older guys stay in the shower a little too long. I'm always barking at them to get out quickly so the others can get in. Again, just weird.
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Post by coachbdud on Mar 21, 2013 13:46:19 GMT -6
When I coached in Oregon, our kids were a bunch of {censored} nudists. For HS kids, they were incredibly comfortable running around in their birthday suits. In CA, NONE. For one, the hot water is rarely on because it costs money to heat the thing. Since cold water = uncomfortable for them, that's a dealbreaker. Another, I just don't think the kids around here are all that comfortable with the idea. Our football guys barely use the locker room, so they're an oddity anyways. A funny story about nudists One of our WRs is very comfortable with his body and is constantly naked and mooning/flashing teammates in the locker room Funniest kid I have ever coached, not a bad player, the highlight of one of our final team meetings was when another senior OL mentioned that over the course of their 4 years together he probably saw the WR's D!CK more than his own
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Post by fantom on Mar 21, 2013 16:52:21 GMT -6
When I coached in Oregon, our kids were a bunch of {censored} nudists. For HS kids, they were incredibly comfortable running around in their birthday suits. In CA, NONE. For one, the hot water is rarely on because it costs money to heat the thing. Since cold water = uncomfortable for them, that's a dealbreaker. Another, I just don't think the kids around here are all that comfortable with the idea. Our football guys barely use the locker room, so they're an oddity anyways. A funny story about nudists One of our WRs is very comfortable with his body and is constantly naked and mooning/flashing teammates in the locker room Funniest kid I have ever coached, not a bad player, the highlight of one of our final team meetings was when another senior OL mentioned that over the course of their 4 years together he probably saw the WR's D!CK more than his own Since I put on weight I have the same problem.
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Post by dytmook on Mar 21, 2013 17:37:44 GMT -6
We have some who do some who don't. When my brother played I know a bunch of the kids did because of my brother told me about their antics.
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Post by dubnicks on Mar 21, 2013 17:46:37 GMT -6
Do any of your schools require showering as part of the PE curriculum at any early age? I thought that may be part of the culture. Our kids I coach now don't shower much, but 10-15 years ago when I was in HS it was mixed with about half the team showering. For those that showered it was normal without anyone really being modest. Then again we had lots of towel fighting and thongs that came out after big wins.
I mention the early age question because we were taught to shower and self hygiene starting in 5th grade when we split the genders for PE. We were also from a rural farming community as well. We sometimes showered 3 times a day at school (after PE, after weight training class, after practice). The school also laundered all the towels.
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 21, 2013 18:34:56 GMT -6
Where I grew up, it was split. Those that were okay in the shower, those that were scared, and those that only got a bath at school. Yes, we had kids that did not hot running water in their homes. Some had no running water period.
I had sevaeral classmates that came to school early in the cold months to shower because the only water the had at home came from a creek or drawn well. They were uncomfortable being nude around others because they just didnt get nude period in their home lives.
But then I'm just a back woods redneck.....
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Post by jgordon1 on Mar 21, 2013 19:44:06 GMT -6
We use our shower room as storage space. When we had a long road trip and the kids had to shower they wore swim trunks. That seemed really weird. we had some kids shower ..mostly after lifting in the morning..some did wear swim trunks...thats just F'ed up
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Post by fantom on Mar 21, 2013 19:47:27 GMT -6
We use our shower room as storage space. When we had a long road trip and the kids had to shower they wore swim trunks. That seemed really weird. we had some kids shower ..mostly after lifting in the morning..some did wear swim trunks...thats just F'ed up Well, they're the ones who have to sit in class smelling their own crotches all day.
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Post by pvogel on Mar 21, 2013 23:08:13 GMT -6
I'd be surprised if the water worked in our locker room
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Post by jgordon1 on Mar 22, 2013 6:43:29 GMT -6
we had some kids shower ..mostly after lifting in the morning..some did wear swim trunks...thats just F'ed up Well, they're the ones who have to sit in class smelling their own crotches all day. these kids get more pu$$y than I could even imagine at that age
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 22, 2013 7:33:17 GMT -6
these kids get more pu$$y than I could even imagine at that age That's because the girls give it away like it will expire if they don't.
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Post by mrjvi on Mar 22, 2013 10:26:55 GMT -6
No one would have even talked about this topic in my young days. I'm 53. Strange world it has become!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 10:38:51 GMT -6
A few posters have hinted at it, but I wonder how much the facilities play into it? I've coached at a few places where the shower areas weren't kept up and I would have felt dirtier after showing in them...
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Post by fantom on Mar 22, 2013 11:13:16 GMT -6
A few posters have hinted at it, but I wonder how much the facilities play into it? I've coached at a few places where the shower areas weren't kept up and I would have felt dirtier after showing in them... With us it's kind of a chicken/egg thing. Our shower room is bad but that's because they stopped keeping it up after years of disuse. Plus, the showers that we used when I was in school were NOT plush. If you saw something that looked plush it was probably mold.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 22, 2013 13:20:25 GMT -6
A few posters have hinted at it, but I wonder how much the facilities play into it? I've coached at a few places where the shower areas weren't kept up and I would have felt dirtier after showing in them... Our showers are very nice. I use them pretty frequently when no one is around and I'm leaving from the school to go to a clinic or something. I also use them every Friday before games, but that's a luck thing.
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Post by gmitts on Mar 23, 2013 17:59:52 GMT -6
I would say about a 50/50 split during the week. Game nights it is more like 75/25 that do shower.
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Post by charger11 on Mar 23, 2013 18:41:13 GMT -6
They never shower! Not once in the past 10 years or so. When i first started coaching the entire team showered. The last team I coached that i remember showering as a team was 2002. I must be "old school" but I think it's "gay" to be afraid to.
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