#Team Sports

[ththghts]

02.22.25 // studying at competition, and a movie on the plane!

less productive of a weekend, but as a senior, this was my last competition with my team — so i heavily prioritized spending time with them. i can catch up on schoolwork as long as i try harder in upcoming days; the time spent with a supportive, amazing team like mine is irreplaceable, and it’s not time i’d ever regret or be able to fill retroactively.

for me, working and studying hard in school towards a goal is more worth it when there are people who i will be able to share my joy with. my team is full of people whose presences have brought such warmth to my life, and whose lives i want to always infuse with more happiness. their love has shaped me into a person i feel happy about being, and i will miss them dearly when i graduate. to the team that made these four years of undergrad so worth it: thank you, and i love you.

[sportsgearfet]

[rellerderber]

Alright, I guess I'm gonna try to bring this blog back since I'm playing derby again. I'm on a home team with Madison Roller Derby in Wisconsin called the Cosmic Crush now. Battling a few lingering injuries but having a ton of fun.

My teammates are, yet again, the coolest people alive. Everyone is so kind and talented and attractive and ego-less.

We didn't win our first game, but it was very close. The bench was so chill and focused, and everyone really played their hearts out. I just hope I can stay well enough in the limbs to make it through the season.

Here they are. I am conveniently obscured by Marche so hahahah

P.s. I wonder if any of my new teammates follow this blog. They seem like the Tumblr type.

If you're here Cosmos, say hiiiiiii!!!

[haveyouplayedthisirlgame-poll]

Dodgeball is a ball game/team sport where teams aim to get all of their opposing team's members out by hitting them with thrown balls.

[gabykiss74]

The moment when joy explodes - Only the athletes knows the feeling, when they handle the cup to them, when the athletes lift up the trophy with thousands of hours of work and tons of sweat drops and finally they are the CHAMPIONS!!!

[peachespearsandplumbs]

[ruleof3bobby]

THE NOVICE (2021) Grade: C

Starts off strong, think they got a little confused on what story they wanted 2 tell exactly. They were trying to throw 2 many obstacles her way and never focusing on any. Ending was average.

[maiiyahh]

competitive swimming & blue lock

was thinking about how the blue lock philosophy is literally everything i've learned (and am still learning) during my years as a competitive swimmer and how the 'believe you're the best to become the best' motto is literally PREACHED in other sports, but have it show up in football and you're literally the devil. huh, what's up with that?

so i've seen blue lock gets hate (from what i've seen) from not having 'team dynamics' and shredding the 'value of friendship and camaraderie' but in reality a lot of 'team sports' like swimming & tennis, where ppl ALSO work together (relays, doubles matches), have the most toxic mindset possible when it comes to teamwork. like i was taught if i dove in too early during a relay (you can't dive in before the person in the water touches the wall) then it wasn't my fault, but the person IN THE WATER who had slowed down somewhat imperceptibly before touching the wall.

honestly, the lack of a team dynamic in blue lock makes it better?? to me, at least. blue lock to me is like... how free! should have been. now, free! fans leave me alone. i watched 3 episodes of that shit and ran away in fear due to inaccuracy. but in the short amount that i watched, the show felt really weird. i've been a competitive swimmer for a decade now, so trust me when i say i know what i'm talking about here. one of things that felt really off to me was the fact that everyone was so... okay with eachother. i've been on 4 swim teams in my life, and none of them were as happy as that itawobi club. sure, there's only 4 people, but there is 100% going to be conflict between them, especially since there's no coach?? like idk if they get one later on or smth but like,,, how u gonna get better if u got no one teaching you?? idk but that shit confusing man.

anyways back on topic. blue lock. i love blue lock. the fact that everyone gets along on the surface but in reality is trying to beat the other people is exactly the feeling i get during a competition or even just practice. it's real, not just a manga special effects thing that the author made up to look edgy. i just know that if blue lock was about like,, track and field or swimming or some shit it would not be getting compared to high school slice of life anime like haikyuu. no hate to haikyuu i love it, but blue lock is just... on another level. like the way that everything is executed feels so real and gives me that sense of competition that i only get from sport. like i KNOW that these characters feel the same as i do, and that's why it makes it fun.

[91vaults]

One a rare occasion i actually agreed with my mum. I think Australian culture puts way too much emphasis on team sports.

Like obviously there are benefits and all that shit but it 1) it turns off kids who aren’t good at jt 2) even if you are really good at it very few people actually stick with it into adulthood, because of less opertunity and time/work commitments so people end up inactive either way.

There needs to be more opertunity to develop non competitive single sports, the more cool ones do require equipment/resources but stuff like swimming or running or general exercise/working out isn’t completely out of the question.

I knew somone is school who was useless at sport (same with me) coordination like a jenga tower and couldn’t catch a ball for shit. But as an adult he got really into running and now also doesn’t some casual lifting. Whereas the star athlete after a failed attempt at going pro golf went totally inactive and got fat. I think what might have helped in the former case their school offered “strength and conditioning” as a phys ed option (now granted this was a fancy private school with resources so they might have had a gym) but still i feel like there are other options aside from competitive and team sports

i’ve barely exercised in my life untill somone suggest i go swimming which was i was totally against because of my unpleasant memories of conpetirve swimming and swimming lessons. But now i swim once a week at least cause i found it nice jaut being able to swim for swimming sake. Being active is more important than sportsmanship or competitiveness

[haveyouplayedthisirlgame-poll]

Cycleball is a game similar to football, but played on fixed-gear bicycles. Points are scored by maneuvering the ball into the opposing team's goal using only the bicycle or the head.

[mattsmemes]

[peachespearsandplumbs]

[paperbunny]

Me, playing sports. Why win when you can just enjoy playing?

Also probably why I didn't make varsity til senior year.

[henryshakesmear]

I think we need to stop separating sports by sex, especially in non-professional environments like P. E. class or children's/ teens' sports teams

I simply don't see the point

This is just a grown up version of "girls have cooties" and we really need to grow past that.