"Let's nap"

February 24, 2019 11:51 AM

4 Year Old Mic'd up at Hockey (SLYT)

Much cuter and funnier than the pros.

posted by lookoutbelow (16 comments total)

God I remember those hockey practices. The “one-two, one-two” of trying to learn to use both feet. You could see him using just one foot to push. Baby hockey players are cute.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 12:18 PM on February 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

*Owwww*
posted by scalefree at 12:31 PM on February 24, 2019

MetaFilter: Let's nap.
posted by scalefree at 12:32 PM on February 24, 2019 [7 favorites]

"I'm ok, it's ok".
posted by mce at 12:40 PM on February 24, 2019 [12 favorites]

This basically how I sound every morning when I wake up, especially the "let's nap" and "it's ok, I'm ok" parts.

When I went camping with my friend she thought there was a baby bear in the camp raiding the kitchen. Nope, just me waking up grumbling and making weird noises.
posted by loquacious at 12:57 PM on February 24, 2019 [4 favorites]

Now I understand why little kids get along with old people. We have the same self-talk. Our legs are tired and we need to pee.
posted by emjaybee at 1:38 PM on February 24, 2019 [19 favorites]

When I'm god emperor of the NSF I'm going to commission a bunch of scientists to study how much of the time 4 year old hockey players spend up on skates versus on their knees, or lying down, or in some other failure mode. I bet it's a minority of the time.
posted by axiom at 1:42 PM on February 24, 2019

Is that an ad for The Gorilla Channel?
posted by thelonius at 1:59 PM on February 24, 2019

I would like a four-year-old as herald to announce my imminent arrival everywhere with, "Watch out, everyone!"
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:27 PM on February 24, 2019 [8 favorites]

Chirping himself as a paint can...I lost it
posted by fluttering hellfire at 3:15 PM on February 24, 2019 [2 favorites]

I would have thought that a few lessons without all of the gear and a stick might be in order to learn how to skate first. Is that not normal? Is skating gendered in Canada such that boys are expected to wear a bunch of hockey kit and girls are not?
posted by asok at 1:59 AM on February 25, 2019

This was lovely.

Now I want to go to hockey training. Would they let me train with the kids, do you think?
posted by blurker at 7:43 AM on February 25, 2019

Here's the details on Timbits Hockey.
posted by fluttering hellfire at 8:29 AM on February 25, 2019

asok, no hockey is not gendered like that in my experience with it. My son played against girls all the way through until he quit at age 16. There is a girls' league in our area too which many of the girls in the mixed leagues switched to once checking was introduced which was also the age when the difference is size and strength becomes more pronounced. Regarding skating skills, kids come into hockey with every level of skating ability, so coaches just work on all of it. The only way to learn to skate is to get out there and skate.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 9:21 AM on February 25, 2019 [4 favorites]

asok, there were definitely girls on the ice in that video. Some of them were wearing pink which is a little bit sigh-inducing, but they were there in full hockey kit falling down and not paying attention just like the boys.
posted by fancypants at 3:32 PM on February 25, 2019 [4 favorites]

Mic'd up Mason - GoPro Edition
I love the positive self-talk.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 10:01 AM on March 22, 2019