DODGE THIS!
My new love is the GVSU dodgeball team. This is what I learned about dodgeball today. There are two half-hour periods with a five-minute half-time. Whichever team wins the most games during that time is victorious. There are fifteen players on each team, ten balls, and something like six referees. The balls are lined up on the center-court line and each team starts lined up on the baselines. The head ref blows his whistle and about half the team on each side rushes to retrieve as many balls as they can. There is a no-man's land in the middle, and one of the major strategies is to throw a ball at an opposing player cross-court, oftentimes in that no-man's land. A ball can be held in front of oneself to use as a shield and knock away incoming balls. If a player catches a ball, one of his team memebers is allowed back into the game while the other team loses the player who threw it. There was lots more fun stuff, but now I'm bored with it.
I walked over to the Fieldhouse arena to watch two hours of it today. The A and the B team both won against MSU. I forgot how much fun it is to watch guys play fast-paced team sports. I have momentary-crushes on several of the players, especially one guy who could contort his body into dodging almost anything thrown his way. He was just as amazing on offense as well. It got to the point in one game where everyone who had a ball on the other team started trying to throw it at him. He made one cool play where he hit an incoming ball with his own, promptly dropped it to catch another, and then dodged out of the way of a third while throwing his own to get someone on the other team out. Of course, the fourth ball hit him. The man's not God. At the end of one of the games, MSU had three guys in and we only had one. For about three minutes, this one kid nimbly avoided everything thrown at him. Then, one of the MSU players made a bad throw, which our guy caught with spectacular results. The crowd started SCREAMING and cheering when contortion-guy ran out onto the court. It was such an exhilirating moment. And, of course, there was no doubt that we'd win after that.
I'm jealous of their athletic ability. Watching them made me want to go run some suicides and do some base-line drills. I even walked home extra fast so I would feel like I did something active today.
And now I really, really don't want to do homework.
I walked over to the Fieldhouse arena to watch two hours of it today. The A and the B team both won against MSU. I forgot how much fun it is to watch guys play fast-paced team sports. I have momentary-crushes on several of the players, especially one guy who could contort his body into dodging almost anything thrown his way. He was just as amazing on offense as well. It got to the point in one game where everyone who had a ball on the other team started trying to throw it at him. He made one cool play where he hit an incoming ball with his own, promptly dropped it to catch another, and then dodged out of the way of a third while throwing his own to get someone on the other team out. Of course, the fourth ball hit him. The man's not God. At the end of one of the games, MSU had three guys in and we only had one. For about three minutes, this one kid nimbly avoided everything thrown at him. Then, one of the MSU players made a bad throw, which our guy caught with spectacular results. The crowd started SCREAMING and cheering when contortion-guy ran out onto the court. It was such an exhilirating moment. And, of course, there was no doubt that we'd win after that.
I'm jealous of their athletic ability. Watching them made me want to go run some suicides and do some base-line drills. I even walked home extra fast so I would feel like I did something active today.
And now I really, really don't want to do homework.