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The Wonders of Backsetting

It's kind of funny. I've played volleyball since sixth grade, and the one thing I think I'm really truly good at is setting- especially, oddly enough, backsetting. It's always come easy to me. (Unlike serving. It was eighth grade before I could get it over the net and in bounds fairly regularly.)

Nowadays, I don't play on a school team like I did in middle school, mainly because it would be every day after school and would interfere with acting classes. So instead I play in a different league, two days a week. I'd rather it were more like four days a week, but hey, I'm not in charge of the league, it's not going to happen.

Anyhow, today at practice we started off working on backsetting. It's the weirdest thing to me when I'm watching someone do something that comes easy to me and do it well, but really have to work at it. Same feeling as when I can do something, but I have to really struggle to do it well, and then someone else does it as if it were nothing more extraordinary than breathing. Except backwards, of course.

And I had that feeling today. It doesn't happen often- my strengths are, basically, reading quickly and comprehending what I'm reading, writing quickly and well, and not cracking under cross-examination in Mock Trial. Not very impressive, really.

Still, it was quite an odd feeling to be paired for the rest of practice with the best player on the team- generally I'm paired with the youngest player, who happens to be about a foot and a half shorter than me.

It tends to make even something so simple as hitting a ball back and forth fairly more complicated than it ought to be.

Of course, the other guy? He's about a foot shorter than me.

posted by Lucy @ 9:59 PM