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Video Gaming + Coaches…Where Are We Going With This?

The controller that may make millionsMaybe representation of video gamers is in our future. Maybe competitive video gaming will become an Olympic sport. One thing is definite; competitive video gaming is a rapidly growing market. Every day, more and more people are looking on websites such as www.BestGamingChair.com to help them find products that will help them in their efforts to become a professional gamer. The market has grown to the point that teenage video gaming tutors are earning up to $65 per hour for individual lessons [Want to Get Good At Videogames? Hire a Kid Online]. At Gaming-lessons.com, their youngest tutor is 8 years old and earning $25 for each hour of service. Even NBA forward, Richard Jefferson, has used tutors to improve his skills in Halo 2 on his small gaming laptop. With the increase in tutors and gamers trying to surpass others in their technique and gaming skills, comes the rise in games themselves! Game makers are using software like https://www.construct.net/en to release their creative energy by generating games, and with the rise in gamers, are publishing and selling at a high profit. We might have to accept gaming may be the new sports now, just like the traditional sports that we still have. Instead of being out of the court, athletes are playing on online courts being kept connected by something similar to an on ramp wireless router.

Will video game coaches ever need representation? Sites like gaming-lessons.com and Esportsea.com could definitely use more marketing to get their names out to the public. Who knows.

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By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.