LIFE OF LOIS Lois is a real sportsman, but what he loves the most is spending day after day riding trails, slashing turns and building jumps with his buddies in the forest. Get to know Lois as he rides some of his home trails around Garmisch-Partenkirchen with his bike infected family, and trail riding friends in the new season of Heroes Inspire Heroes.
He may only be 11 but Lois Eller has a thing or two to teach kids (and parents!) about what it means to ride with zeal and style. We met Lois in season 2
here, riding bikes and having fun with his bike-infected family - sister Leni and parents, Karen and Holger. This year Lois is the star of the show here to share some tips for those dreaming of riding like their heroes. Don't miss future episodes: Lois the Mechanic and Lois' Skills Clinic!
| I hate soccer.—Lois Eller,11, Mountain Biker |
Heroes Inspire Heroes Remember your childhood heroes? Their great heroic feats making you dream? Heroes of today inspire heroes of tomorrow. SCOTT looks to inspire little heroes on their journey to become legends, just like moms, just like dads or just like their idols. That's what Heroes Inspire Heroes is all about.
Lois' with his whip, the
Ransom 600.
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They're not going to 'make it' if they don't get the support from manufacturers, gear suppliers etc... So they need some help to get there.
They're not like trained monkeys being dragged out to perform, as a parent of one of these up and comings, they're on your case all the time "can we go jump today", "have you seen this... have you seen that", "are we hitting the woods".... It's not constant, but sometimes it feels like it
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To me, he looks like he's being a kid and having fun on his bike... probably gets to ride his bike all the time by the looks of it. Maybe Scott will pay for his trips to go ride in other cool places too where he can just ride his bike and be a kid.
@weeksy59 Yes, all kids want to ask their parents "can we go jump today", "have you seen this... have you seen that", "are we hitting the woods".... they want to do cool things with their moms and dads but not just with biking with everything so no real point there...
2) too bad about the “I hate soccer” line. It IS possible to enjoy more than one activity/interest. There are lovers of bikes AND soccer.
We qualified the World Championships that year which were in Japan! Basically through this awesome kid I could have been paid to go to Japan. I wouldn't take him though, he wasn't ready for that much pressure.
His mom got me fired for not taking him.
I went to visit the team the next winter and noticed he was missing. I said where's Michael and they said, oh, he doesn't snowboard anymore. I was so sad. He loved snowboarding but his mom pushed him so hard he learned to hate it.
Some parents can be so mean to their kids.
Also, hopefully, his parents provide the opportunities and hold him accountable to his commitments, but aren’t pressuring him to be “the next big thing,” or something like that. That would be the wrong way. I can think of so many kids who were supposed to be “the next big thing,” but fizzled out down the road, or fell behind when other kids caught up physically. It’s not the kind of pressure you want to put on kids.
I don’t know the motivations here to comment one way or the other if his family is doing it right or wrong. I wish them well and hope whatever they want to do works out for them.
So what is the negative here? If the parents wanted to make real money off YT then they would have him doing toy reviews until his fingers fall off and the local Costco is sold out of AA batteries. If they wanted him to make real money from sports it would be golf, tennis, soccer, etc. I saw nothing that implied he wasn't stoked or that the parents were forcing him down a path. Mellow out a little and let the kid enjoy his time in the spotlight.
There are a handful of examples of kid prodigies going on to become great, the Tiger Woods, but 10x as many kids who showed minimal to no promise who are now some of the best in the world. They got there in their own time, when they were ready and not anybody else's timeline (to your point).
I think sometimes not having stuff, not being part of the 'scene', being in an isolated environment can massively drive kids to over-perform and become creative vs being inundated 24/7 with a sport, around top pros, constantly pimped out on social media, etc.
Some of the top guys in any sport came up slow, progressed and eased their way into the sports....so rare that you have somebody burst on to scene with longevity without a slow methodical rise.
And Scott, seriously, this is a really poorly made vid; the voice over is really bad. It certainly didn't make me want to buy anything Scott brand for my family.
Watch the video without sound and it's clear that this is a kid doing what he loves, with his friends, and surrounded by a family that loves biking together. Isn't that the point?
We deserve better.
When my kids say they “hate” something, I usually come back with something like, “Hate is a really strong word. You can hate Nazis. Or that there are people starving. Or violence. Or cruelty and injustice.”
“But when it comes to spinach, you’d better tone it down to ‘I’d prefer a different vegetable.’”
Ooouch "hate" such a bad word se must avoid...
Just get over it, it's only an opinion. Also it's a kid, how many times you told your parents you hate them while being a kid?
Trampoline bike. Great job Scott, no kids tramp bike options?