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fandomhigh2010-08-04 06:32 am
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Contact Sports: Building Character (And Possibly...), Danger Shop, 6th Period [8/4]
Students had been handwavily notified to meet in the Danger Shop today, and when they arrived they'd find it set up to look like a Dave and Buster's for the proportionally-challenged and sports-obsessed: where you might find a foosball table and air hockey table, there were scaled down soccer and lacrosse pitches and an enclosed hockey rink; instead of a hoops-shooting arcade game there was a full size basketball court. (No bar, though. Don't get ideas, kids.) Anders was standing between the pitch and rink, between racks of equipment, looking positively gleeful about this whole thing.
"Situational awareness," Anders said once everyone had gathered, enunciating each syllable clearly. "Seems like every world, hell, almost every culture on just this one, has some kind of sport that involves putting a ball or somethin' into a goal as a team activity. Now you get different ways of doin' this depending on the sport. Sometimes you gotta a stick of some kind; sometimes you gotta use your hands; sometimes you gotta use anything but your hands. Sometimes you got somebody from the other team whose job it is just to stop you from getting that ball into the goal; sometimes it's just your own skill that stands between you and scoring."
He swept an arm at the playing surfaces around them. "These are all team sports. Your team has the ball or the puck or whatever? It's your job to pass the ball around to each other, keep it away from the other team, and get it into the goal. Your team defending? It's your job to break up the other team's play, get the ball away from them, keep them from scoring." He picked up a soccer ball and spun it between his fingertips, then tossed it into the air to try bouncing it off his head a few times. He wasn't very good at it. "So, situational awareness. Doesn't matter if you're on offense or defense, doesn't matter which of these sports or anything like 'em you're playing, in order to play effectively you need to be aware of where people are around you. Your teammates, the other team, everyone. You gotta be able to tell in a split second who's open to take that pass, if the other team's got someone moving up to cut off your pass, who's in position to score, where the weak spot in the defending team's formation is."
With a gesture to the racks of equipment -- balls, pucks, hockey and lacrosse sticks, skates, padding and safety gear -- he nodded to the students. "Go on, give 'em a spin. Try and team up at least two on two if you can. At the end of the period, like we did before, everybody back here and tell me one practical application for these skills in a non-sports situation, 'kay? Let's go."
[OOC: OCD up and good to go!]
"Situational awareness," Anders said once everyone had gathered, enunciating each syllable clearly. "Seems like every world, hell, almost every culture on just this one, has some kind of sport that involves putting a ball or somethin' into a goal as a team activity. Now you get different ways of doin' this depending on the sport. Sometimes you gotta a stick of some kind; sometimes you gotta use your hands; sometimes you gotta use anything but your hands. Sometimes you got somebody from the other team whose job it is just to stop you from getting that ball into the goal; sometimes it's just your own skill that stands between you and scoring."
He swept an arm at the playing surfaces around them. "These are all team sports. Your team has the ball or the puck or whatever? It's your job to pass the ball around to each other, keep it away from the other team, and get it into the goal. Your team defending? It's your job to break up the other team's play, get the ball away from them, keep them from scoring." He picked up a soccer ball and spun it between his fingertips, then tossed it into the air to try bouncing it off his head a few times. He wasn't very good at it. "So, situational awareness. Doesn't matter if you're on offense or defense, doesn't matter which of these sports or anything like 'em you're playing, in order to play effectively you need to be aware of where people are around you. Your teammates, the other team, everyone. You gotta be able to tell in a split second who's open to take that pass, if the other team's got someone moving up to cut off your pass, who's in position to score, where the weak spot in the defending team's formation is."
With a gesture to the racks of equipment -- balls, pucks, hockey and lacrosse sticks, skates, padding and safety gear -- he nodded to the students. "Go on, give 'em a spin. Try and team up at least two on two if you can. At the end of the period, like we did before, everybody back here and tell me one practical application for these skills in a non-sports situation, 'kay? Let's go."
[OOC: OCD up and good to go!]
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