Football is my favorite sport. It turned my life around in a good way. Making me a more focused person. If it wasn’t for the sport I be either locked up(in jail) or even worse. I know to become a great player it takes a long time like months and years to develop the skills. I didn’t ever had the chance like that at the time. I wanted to play football since I was 10. I didn’t play any *** wee or middle school sports(football) because my mother didn’t want take the chance of me to getting hurt or injured. I started out on my own playing for high school as a freshman for White Station High School. East High School was my home school but my mother didn’t want me to attend there cause of the violence and school crime. As my first year ever playing and try to know anything about the sport so I came to every practice. I didn’t know what position I was going for but for always attending practice I made the team. Cause of my size(5’9 150lbs) my coach put me at linebacker. After spending the entire season being on special teams in JV and being on the bench on Varsity, we went 3-7. After the season was over, I spent rest of the school year training with the team off-season. As I planning on having a better season as a sophomore cause I was tips away from getting promoted to Varsity (special teams). As soon as school started I got put out the school (not for anything bad) because the school was so overpopulated that they had to send some students to other schools. Cause of that I had no choice but to transfer to East High School (my neighborhood school). After I enrolled immediately tried try out for the football team but the coach didn’t let me on the team because he told the season already started, I was too late, and told me to wait until the season was over. I spent my entire sophomore season lifting weights and playing street football and basketball with my friends. I was downed letting my sophomore season go to waste. As soon as the season ended, I went to every practice in the off-season. Because of my performance in the weight room, I got on the coaches good side. As I train all off-season with the team and expecting mediocre season as a junior at either at East High School or back at White Station High School. Later on my mother left my step-dad for another person. So she moved to a different neighborhood. Since I was in a different neighborhood she enrolled me to a different School which was Raleigh Egypt high school. After that the football coach didn’t want me to play on the team because he thought I was not eligible to play by the TSSAA rule(Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association) in which I was but it was to difficult to find out. So again I missed my whole junior season over that. I weight trained the whole season so I can have a nice senior season (at least). As soon as that season ended my mom found out that her boyfriend was no good, moved back to our original house, and got back together with my step-dad. Since I moved in my original neighborhood (back in the East high school district) and got tired driving miles to the other school (Raleigh Egypt High School) which was far so in the end of the semester I enrolled back in East High School. My mother tried to get me back in White Station(which is a top-notch, overpopulated, optional school). I wouldn’t mind going there but I knew that they wasn’t going to let me attend because school population and not being in the school district. So I planned to continue to play for East for my senior season. I came to every off-season practice that was held. I even was even on the track and field team just to make up from my sophomore and junior season. As I plan to play and even start at linebacker there was a few problems. As of being on an elite football team(East High School) that make it to the playoffs every season, the defensive coach relied on more experienced and skilled people and since we didn’t have enough linemen (big people) cause of my size(5’11,180lbs) and strength the head coach putted me at defensive end and offensive guard. I had disadvantages of playing the position while being out experienced and outsized. So I spent my senior season playing on special teams(which was field goal block and kick-off return) its experience getting in but it was very little because they were blowing teams out with scores like 20-0,28-0,60-0,50-0,24-0 which leading me getting in once or twice a game. It a great experience for a second year player I say. We didn’t win state or anything but we had a great season(10-2). As the season was over, I was still training and planning on playing for a college team. In my spare time I had a part-time job to get some money in my pocket and I was on the track and field team again. I graduated with the class of 2006. As I planning on attending college in the fall of 2006, I join the US Army Reserve for college money and military experience. I couldn’t attend school because they sent me straight to Basic training and AIT in October 2006. Later on I graduated in February 2007. Every since I joined I been in Germany for one month. I’m 20 yrs old now. I’m planning on attending college this fall. I’m also planning on walking on a Div-IAA team since I have the Montgomery GI bill. I’ve just qualified for the NCAA Clearinghouse. The position I’m going for is safety SS/FS. I feel that’s a great position for me because of my size. Now I’m about 6’0 tall and weight about 203. I’m just need a 3-day workout plan(strength, speed, agility, size and endurance) and any strategy tips on this position. I said 3 days because of right now I working 3 jobs. I’m full-time mechanic, a part-time waiter, and a part-time soldier that might be full-time if you know what I mean. So I need serious help on training to get me better at the position.
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