This past week Ben has been attending Matt Harpring's Basketball Camp with a couple members of his comp basketball team. He has come home every day so happy. He absolutely loved the camp. He has learned basketball skills, and played in competitive basketball games. His team lost in the finals on the last day, but surprisingly, he was OK with that.
In addition to basketball skills, Ben has mentioned Matt Harpring's "pep" talk with them. He told them that attitude is everything. He stated that confidence and self perception determines your direction in life (maybe those aren't Ben's exact words), and the happiest people in life are those with great attitudes.
He also taught them that "attitude is altitude". Ben didn't understand this concept completely, so I looked it up on-line. It comes from Nick Vujicic who is a motivational speaker who was born without arms and legs. Nick states that "people can learn how to overcome adversity, persevere under any circumstances and attain the height of their ambition."
I was pleased to know that not only were basketball skills taught, but life skills as well.
P.S. I might have had a little crush on Matt when he was playing for the Jazz:)
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Crush on Matt? Come on mom! I hope he looked better back then than he does now....tshirt tucked into his bball shorts?! Yikes!
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