While team sports are great in many ways, they are, after all, “team sports”.
Millions of kids participate in team sports like football, baseball, soccer, and basketball.  While team sports are great in many ways, they are, after all, “team sports”.  A team sport differs from an individual sport in important ways, and while we don’t discourage team sports, individual sports such as martial arts offer a number of benefits that you don’t get when your performance is based on a team, but rather on you, yourself.