Basketball
Trent and I played hoops today down at the Muscle Beach courts again. After having a serious dislike for basketball for most of his life, Trent has decided that he and I should become very good at basketball and so we’ve been playing often. Our game today was highly competitive and fun against a team of four big, ripped black guys who complained a lot (somewhat annoying). I scored 4 of our first 6 points, but then didn’t play aggressively enough on either side of the ball as our team lost.
I am looking forward to playing again, though I still prefer football.
WARNING: After writing the rest of this post, I realized it sounds like I am an egomaniac douchebag. I recommend stopping here, especially if you have Short Man Syndrome. I am tired of random small guys who think they have something to prove trying to fight me.
Basketball is the sport where I have the greatest physical advantage, to the point where it isn’t even remotely fair sometimes. I don’t feel bad about being faster or stronger, but my height (6′6) makes it such that against most opponents jumping isn’t necessary to get rebounds & find open shots. When you add the fact that I am not only much heavier (220 lbs), but in far superior physical shape to most men, basketball becomes almost a joke. My skills are not nearly as good as practiced players, but I can rely on my size to completely shut them down if I want. I have only been going 50-60% on the court against most oppponents because of this… I just feel bad.
After writing the last little bit, I thought people who don’t know me might think I am exaggerating the situation so I decided to look up some statistics:
- I am three standard deviations taller than the average man, who only stands 5′9”. Only .15% of all adult men in the U.S. are taller than me.
- I am identical to the prototypical NBA player size-wise: 6′6.98, 221 lbs. If only I had the same practice time as those guys, maybe I’d be a multimillionaire too lol.
Flag football is more fun for me than basketball because I don’t feel bad; speed and quickness are more important than size and strength. Of course, little guys are usually surprised to learn that I am still much faster than them and have good quickness.
I did the 16 year old Myspace girl thing and took a picture of myself in the mirror to show I’m not full of crap.
Sexy powder blue shorts, eh?
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Like my cheesy pic? :)
October 19th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I read your blog every now and then and find it to be okay, not really good, but totally okay. But I can promise you that if you have more pictures like this I will read it more often
lol, seriously we need men like you in my country(Sweden). Most men here are metrosexual and not masculine at all. You should do a post about what kind of man a woman want’s, because we always get crap for not wanting the nice guy. Honestly everyone want’s a nice guy but not a wimp, and most nice guys are wimps and cowards….not sexy… it’s so mean to say so, but also so true…sorry! :/
October 19th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Sara,
I think you would be better qualified than me to write a post on what women want. If you’d like to write a guest post on it, I would be happy to post it here for you. Let me know what you think.Â
Joel
October 19th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Sounds like a lot of fun!
I’m currently studying for some exams but will definitely write one after that. What’s the word limit? Any forbidden aspects?sex?
October 20th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Nothing forbidden. Have fun writing!
October 20th, 2009 at 8:40 am
you are such a douche bag- but i am glad to see pics of you with your shirt off. you look great, keep up the good work.