Racquet Ball the Video Game
The Rec Center here is open to the public for a fee of $178 a year. Because of this, a strange and humorous crowd gathers, especially in the racquet ball courts. It's exactly like any video game I've ever played. Starts out with lame push-over foot soldiers littering the street waiting to strike a worthless attack. Followed shortly by a very innept stage boss. The levels to follow are still cluttered with foot soldiers, usually more of them, but the bosses begin to look different as well as increase with difficulty. At the courts it works like this:
1. Beat foot soldiers = any new comer
2. Stage Bosses:
I. Old woman that can barely move b/c of intense arthritus
II. Petite asian woman that is very quick but easily destroyed with one simple move
III. Muscular, bald, tall black man (usually when serious skill is needed to pass)
IV. Slinky White Dude who is really freakin awesome but impatient
V. Old Wizardly White Guy who is AMAZING and patient and used to play pro
(The old woman and wizardly man are married in this scenario)
It's funny b/c you can't play one without passing the other. A couple weeks ago I played the old woman. It's rather easy to beat her if you can control your shot. Just putting it up against a wall away from her wins the point. Then after beating her a few times she reccommended I play the asain...I beat her. Just today I got to play the big bald black dude. Unfortunately I lost...we only plaed to five points though(5-3). I hope I get good enough to beat him, he's really good. If Mr. Martin was around I bet he would rank very high, prolly compete with Old Wizard White Guy...Maybe even become Demi-God.
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When do I get to racquet it up with ya'll?
Do you play? Have you beaten the foot soldiers yet?
You're my foot soldier, bitch.
Do you actually play though?
I never have. It sounds fun. I don't like playing with strangers though.
Oh man, it's the greatest game next to ultimate frisbee. I love it. I practiced today for two hours then played for an hour. It's so mathmatical and hard. It's great. I love playing against and watching people that are tons better than me. That way I can learn a ton. Mr. Martin is amazingly great! He can Z serve like nothing I've ever seen. It's so hard to return a Z serve, I almost always miss it. Some day I hope he teaches me how to serve it. I want that power. I told him I was really good and beat everyone and told him I had an ego so he would show up last Saturday to play me. I'm glad he came. He taught me a lot. He's a good coach, I hope he shows me more. I bet Nancy could show me a lot too. I want to be really good at this game, it would sweet if I were a prodigy. I love to play and practice. I think I could do well against the best. I'm a quick learning...and currently very drunk. G'night
Drinking on Wednesday, eh?
I want to play raquetball... we should play. Is there anywhere to play at home? I'll bring my raquet - but let me know. And don't let Luke give you shit about drinking... drinking anyday is fine - as long as it's not everyday.
we can play at the Y or lakeland that I know of.
I got to play the wizard last week. It was totally amazing! Mr. Martin would lose to this guy. I scored 8 points on him. I'm beginning to find his weakness, there aren't many. He knows all of mine already. Damn.
I played the wizard one on one yesterday. He's unstoppable from my stand point. He used to be a minister, so he's got god on his side
I played the Wizard and another dude today who was freakin awesome and I beat them both! HAHAHA...I can't believe it.
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