Dodgeball

[The Valkyrie]

Dodgeballs.

Sounds like the game women play when they end up going for a quiet drink by themselves.

Right, ladies?

[Yonadav]

Well, to be honest, this sport does look like sort of a logical evolutionary step in the right direction in regards of it being gentler and therefore more civilized. Guys just throw balls at each other and run scared from balls. In few years a pillow fight will be a sport and I'm not being sarcastic.
When it comes to dodgeball it seems that big muscly men as players are a miss since they are slow and big--easy targets.

I was one of the last kids picked for most team sports. But I was a regular winner at dodgeball. I was tall, skinny, and gawky. But I was very fast with lightning reflexes. I just ran away from the ball until it got down to me and the last survivor.  I always let them have the ball, and then caught it when they tried to nail me. My favorite times were when the biggest, toughest, and hardest thrower would get me pinned up against a wall. They knew my strategy and would try to off center their very hard throws, instead of throwing directly at my center where I could catch it. I would dodge in the opposite direction of their off center throws with lightning speed, and they would catch the ball when it rebounded off the wall. They would take two off center shots at me, then throw at my center in frustration. And I would solidly catch it. It would happen very fast, and everyone loved it. The ball would boom off of the wall twice, followed by the guy screaming FUCK!

I'll take fast reflexes over brute strength any day. I am so happy to be a person who was born with good reflexes. You know, because things got weird sometimes during my life.

[onlinebiker]

I used to play dodgeball all the time.


But they were filled with paint.