DS6 plays soccer and does taekwondo competitively.
With soccer, I'd say that he's usually in the bottom quartile, but only because of speed. He's one of the youngest on every team due to the July age-cutoff. He's a VERY good coach and gets the game better than his peers. However, when other kids were running around the playground for hours every day in their first 5 years, he was happier playing trains and reading or making up plays. Now that he's longer, though, he's becoming a naturally faster runner (compared to the amount of time he actually spends outside running), so I think we'll see the gap close.
With taekwondo, he's the youngest in the regular youth program (ages 6+) and was invited to move up early. He really enjoys the individual goal-setting and focus, and naturally understands and memorizes his forms faster than most of the older kids. I'm not sure that he has a clear advantage by being gifted, but the tenents of taekwondo perfectly match with his personality.
