we used to skirt the baseball field on the way to our field before practice...all the while teasing those 'athletes' never really said anything to the track guys, since the fastest guys on the team usually ran it. I do remember some fist fights erupting inside the locker room between football players tho. I miss those days, lol. that and the dead mouse that stunk up the locker room during the summer....eeh gads
their practice was a joke, straight up tennis practice was a joke too, but it's tennis and u expect a certain amount of fluff, lol but on the flip side, in tennis you do have to move a lot...so i guess they're more athletic in that respect than baseball guys
Got some flak for playing for the golf team in HS, not a cool sport way back then, and was certainly the only Black guy wherever we went. Was not too bad though because I was the man on the basketball court.
lol i was never anything in basketball. my dad wanted me to get into it, but i stopped growing at 6'2 (he's 6'5) and always figured I was too short to be so corny. If I had kids tho..i'd probably try to get them into Tennis, golf or whatever. When i look back on football, I think that I must have been slightly crazy to do that. It's a very dangerous sport that can leave you with some nasty injuries. I'd rather them pick up jiu-jitsu or muay thai, than get hit by someone running down the field at full speed.
With you on this. Btw stop bitchin about being 6'2 I'd give up a first born to be 6'2 lol. Around here it was way more about the handle. If you had a yo yo and a jumper it was all good. My brother is 5'8 and played D1 ball but that kid also outworked a lot of people. While I was inside reading or bsing with my girlfriend dude was running up and down our street with ankle and wrist weights dribbling two balls. But if I have kids I'd want them to take the martial arts road. I always wished I had someone to push me or the very least support me and I wouldn't be going back to get my black belt at 30 smh.
like i said i was too short to be corny.... if i worked on it, I probably could have gotten better as for getting ur karate black belt...all u gotta do nowadays is fork over 2 grand, sign a contract, and get it after a guaranteed 2 years
Not in the Oyama Orginization they take that shit very seriously. They still hold a kumite regularly. You get in either by nomination or invitation. I'd take that shit over a UFC fight any day of the century.
i fathomed doing that stuff...then I remember how David Loisseau stopped fighting after getting his face MANGLED by Rich Franklin's repeated elbow strikes... it was very sick for now, id just stick with training it and helping guys spar a career in MMA is a fool-hearty one that doesn't last long
LOL you end up being the mediator of warring nations. LOL giving up shit is my middle name. it all depends on POV. women who stay home get mad at the men for not being home enuff from work. when men reduce their time from work women get mad because they arent getting what their friends are getting (sweet vacations and $300 purses.) men take it to heart when they cant provide EVERYTHING. hell, look at these super wealthy people.....no matter what they still get divorced. NO one (men and women) is ever satisfied with anything.
LOL - I couldn't hoop (too short), but I liked to watch it. Tennis and cross country actually reinforced each other as the running helped my stamina and eventually led me to endurance sports in general. And to add insult to injury, I played soccer as a kid too. I didn't catch a growth spurt until college. I graduated HS at a whopping 5'7". The rest didn't kick in until the summer before my 19th birthday.