A young volleyball coach realizes that his coaching methods are flawed. If he wants to win he is going to have to revamp his team. He does just that and changes everything up. The parents and school board dont agree with his coaching style at first but when the team starts winning they stop talking. Then his star player gets hurt during a practice drill and everyone starts blaming him again. He only has one backup for her and its an untested freshman. He asks her before she goes out and plays in her first game if she trusts him. She answers, "coach, we'll always do things your way, just like you told us" She goes out and the team loses. The coach is fired and a new one is hired who continues his method of coaching.
Growing up in LA, the dream was to step upon that mound at Dodger Stadium on opening day. Being an American of Japanese Descendent, I never considered my self any different than those around me but from a very young age, I knew I could do things with a baseball that most kids my age couldn't even fathom. I dominated at every level growing up from Little League up to High School ball. It was in High School that I met my coach who would end up being one of the biggest influences in my life. Although the school itself was not a baseball powerhouse by no means, I did enough individually to make some noise and got my name out there. From there, I parlayed those accolades into a full baseball scholarship to Arizona State; year in and year out, one of the top collegiate baseball programs in the nation. The story picks up here where during college, I end up on the wrong side of an auto accident where my elbow gets completely destroyed and with that, my confidence. Through 2 years of therapy and a number of major surgeries, I eventually get picked up by the hometown Dodgers in the draft onto their Minor League roster. Management appreciates the hard work but my stuff is never the way it was and hence, I was told that the likelihood of me ever making the show was slim to none. Right around this time, my old coach from HS calls as he has ended up becoming a pitching coach for a Professional Baseball team in Japan - The Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Through much persuasion and no real prospects back home, I decide to make the leap of faith back to the motherland and see if I have anything left to make the most of my once promising career. For starters, the old coach is a Caucasian who during his time in Japan has come to fully embrace and immerse himself in the language and culture, including marrying a Japanese women and having two kids. Despite the fact that I am 100% Japanese by blood, being born and raised in the States has made me look at life from a Western perspective. The story really takes of here with my experiences as a ''foreigner'' in my motherland being looked after by white man who is probably more Japanese than I ever will be. Everything from the way baseball is played and practiced in Japan compared to that in the States as well as a scene in the movie where the coach takes me to watch his son play in the National Summer baseball tournament played at the famous Koshien stadium in order to get my perspective and attitude in line.
A movie about a fictional sport much like handball, only outside and much more physical.
Haydenton High School-Home to the Blue Jays, the top team in District 9 for the last 7 years. Their old coach retires and they welcome a new coach. Her first order is to bench all senior starters, claiming they have to prove they want to play. She forces them to work hard and do some extreme tryouts. Soon only the starters from last year and a ragtag first string are all thats left. She starts the ragtags and they lose the first three games. Halfway through the fourth game the ragtag right wrangler gets hurt and she has to put ethan, last years starter and captain in, but he wont go until a whole line switch happens. She agrees to start the old starters from then on, but is it to late to turn the season around?
Imagine having a bright future ahead for you and your teammates, but throwing it all away. Ashley brookes abandons her team during the state finals after tension build up between her and her relay after losing the state title to their rivalery team. Ashley goes to a new swim club and swims under it for six years until she is suspened for punching her coach in the face. Now, her only hope to go to the world championships, she must face her fears and go back to her old team she left six years ago. There, she meets old friends, heartbreak, and new beginnings as she strives to finish what she left six years ago to do.
Throughout our victories to our loses; our cries to our laughter, and from the enemies who make you fall, to the people who make you fall in love. You never know what happens behind the blocks unless you put yourself behind it
Jaden Maclaren is a 12 year old who comes to a new city to start a new life for him and his mum, he also starts a new school where every year they hold a Bboy showdown and breakdancing is Jaden's dream but his mum can't afford lessons so he he tries teaching himself but fails and can't do it and the next day a professional bboy is at the mall showing off some moves and promoting his new dance studio programme where anyone who is bored can go for lessons just for free. Jaden goes and instantly the bboy knows Jaden is a star ready to shine and says he will teach him in order for him to enter the showdown. On the night of the showdown the bullies from his school are their but in all the rounds he beats them instantly with his awesome tricks and takes home the trophy.
