EXTREEEEEEEEEME

[filkertom]

Here are a couple of tricks for you to try when you're bored: the baseball bat ninja move, and the rodeo flip.

My athletic days are, mostly, behind me. I say this because when I was in high school I used to go for the trampolines, both the mini (running launch into a full flip) and the larger one (all kindsa stuff). It'd be nice, but I'd have to lose a lot of weight. Used to be a pretty good hand with a baseball, too. Not batting, though -- one of my first Barney McCloskey League at-bats, I got hit a pitch, and that spooked me for the rest of my lone season. Give me softball, please.

What are your favorite athletic achievements? Recent or dim past.

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I LIKED dodgeball

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I keep hearing now about how it's terrible for self-esteem and now schools won't do it. Truth, I was still always picked last, but I was very, very good at dodging, got to stay in the game until mostly the end and actually got a compliment once from a team mate ("They're trying to hit you, because you're so tempting, so they aren't eliminating the guys who can throw well.")

The soccer game in the rain was pretty interesing. All the FAST runners had penalties called on them and were skidding on the mud. If the coach had been thinking, he'd have fielded ONLY the "wimp squad" that day. But there were enough others that he didn't.