Thursday, March 11, 2010

Racquetaball 101

When playing Racquetball you must follow the rules...
When playing Racquetball you must hit the ball...
When playing Racquetball you must not be intimidated...
When playing Racquetball you must have an opponent...
When playing Racquetball you must hit the ball after one bounce...
When playing Racquetball you must tell Justin that you have meet your goals, so training today is on the court...(then you don't have to do crazy lunges)

Ashy and I have found a new workout at the gym...RACQUETBALL. We love it! We don't know the rules, we allow the ball to bounce more then once. We have been using the gyms racquet's and ball. But someone hit the ball too hard. So we decided to get our own racquet's.
Playing racquetball for me has become a release, I can be as loud as I want, I can scream and yell and only Ashy can hear me. (Sometimes when we are training with Justin, I tend to make loud noises when something is too difficult or I just don't like the exercise we are doing, Justin HATES IT!) Back to the story at hand. So last night I may have missed the ball a couple of times. Of course I am being loud. I am facing the glass, unsuccessfully playing racquetball when a gentlemen walks past our court. My mouth is open, I am in the air and the ball has already hit the glass. OOPS! He gets a huge grin on his face and starts to laugh. Ashy and I start to laugh. We are both unsuccessfully playing now. Misses everywhere. He walks past our court again. Still smiling. The laughing continues, with several others. Ashy and I don't really care at this point, we are just having fun. I asked her if she felt like a caged animal. Her response... YES! We didn't mind what others thought at this point we were just doing something new for a workout. After we were done, we went and filled up our water bottles. The young man who laughed first, came over and told us that he wasn't laughing at us, he was laughing with us. I told him that it was OK if he was laughing at us, we can only imagine how silly we look. He then gave us a few pointers.
Ashy and I would love to share a mad skills with anyone who would like to see them!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

that is a super cute/funny story, sounds like i need to try raquetball