Softball, Flag Football, and Half-Court Basketball
We had our first AAPC softball practice last night and it went pretty well.
Earlier that day I went to the batting cage to take a few practice swings on the
slow-pitch machine. There was a Little League kid there who thought it was odd
that I was getting in the softball cage. I told him that when you're old you'll
be thankful for things like softball. That made me think about the sports we
love and how generally unatainable they are. You just can't duplicate most
sports the way they are played at higher/organized levels, mostly because we
just can't do it physically. We don't want to run up and down the basketball
court (we could but we'd be out of breath in about three minutes). We don't want
to get pounded by Bart in a game of tackle football. And we don't have the
catcher's equipment or the arm strength/ability to do reall baseball pitching.
But we do have lower impact games like those mentioned in the title, and I think
that's pretty good.