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What's your area's handball scene like?
« on: July 07, 2010, 08:08:13 am »
Do you have alot of courts?  Did you play as a kid?  Still play?  Have some emotional attachment to the game?

It's pretty big, handball popularity in Queens, probably moreso then Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island.  But alot of it stems out of the fact that the handball court was where all the g's hung out when you were a teenager.  Go there to cop trees, blaze trees, sit around, drink 40's at night.  And since the handball court was there, people would play.

It's a big part of people's pasttimes here, really, is what I'm saying, across many generations.

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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2010, 08:18:59 am »
I do not know what Handball is. So I guess that answers your question in re: Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2010, 08:35:41 am »
I have never seen or heard of someone playing handball, except for Jake Plummer.  That is OKC and Denver, though could conceivably be popular in Denver.

I do know that "burning tree" is my favorite way to describe burning up.  I'm on fire.

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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2010, 08:45:45 am »
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2010, 09:51:37 am »
Oh.

We played racquetball and wall ball.  Seems pretty fun.
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2010, 10:24:50 am »
Being in an urban school with limited greenery Handball was the choice recess game. I feel old suddenly because I can't remember all the slang associated with it.
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2010, 12:38:13 pm »
This post made an old lady from the Bronx feel very nostalgic. I HATE that. Especially the craving for a jelly doughnut.
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2010, 12:44:23 pm »
Come on people, it's an Olympic sport. With that said, no one in Utah plays it.

Quote from: KeithHernandez on July 07, 2010, 09:51:37 am
We played racquetball and wall ball.  Seems pretty fun.

Wall ball. Hell yeah, that was the best.

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Quote from: *****_god on July 07, 2010, 08:45:45 am
Jeez guys.  This.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFuMaviVvmU

Whoa, totally different than the Olympic sport. That does seem cool.

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I do know that "burning tree" is my favorite way to describe burning up.  I'm on fire.

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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2010, 01:09:16 pm »
Handball?  Well, it's a free kick for the other team unless it happens in the penalty area...
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2010, 01:31:49 pm »
Quote from: *****_god on July 07, 2010, 08:45:45 am
Jeez guys.  This.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFuMaviVvmU

Ok, should have looked at that first, that is way different, and much more competent than the primary school game I knew which was more like 4 way tennis.
This is the best video I could find, there isn't much actual play here but there is lots of guys giving shit to each other, which was possibly the more important aspect.
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2010, 03:07:28 pm »
i have heard the name, but this is a foreign concept to me.  in middle school and jr high, hackey sack used to be a thing among the wanna-be-hippies, but i never got into it.  you guys can play with your balls all you want, but i wont be joining you.
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2010, 03:10:52 pm »
Looks like fun.

Quote from: greenkoolayd on July 07, 2010, 03:07:28 pm
you guys can play with your balls all you want, but i wont be joining you.

Who asked you?  God forbid somebody has fun in a way you don't approve of.

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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2010, 03:12:33 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on July 07, 2010, 03:10:52 pm
Who asked you?  God forbid somebody has fun in a way you don't approve of.

douche-ness was not my intent.

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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2010, 03:45:12 pm »
My dad played hell of handball back in the day.  To the point it caused nerve damage in his hands. He went to grad school at Dartmouth and I guess its what you do in New Hampshire during winter, which lasts from October to May.
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Re: What's your area's handball scene like?
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2010, 07:51:52 am »
I played handball hard as hell today.  All of the clothes touching my body got completely soaked through with sweat.  At my current weight, it's the only activity I can go at 100+% and not have any joint pain.  I have a soccer kickaround, medium effort, ankle is destroyed, one day recovery.  I go running, endurance challenge, ankle is destroyed, two days+ recovery.  Handball, I can play until I'm nearly passing out and I'll be ready to do it again the next day.  It's like the miracle sport.

It definitely is a popular game amongst young teen g's because at that age it's the sport you can play without breaking a sweat.  All the kids try to learn a tricky, wrist flick opponent-tricking style so they can hit killers without any effort.  Trying to show off for all the 15 year old, pigeonhead hoes, is all it is.  None of the old vets buy it though.  Once you're willing to sweat, you can return almost any ball.  Also all the kids are afraid to play singles, because it's too much running for them.

If I can lose these ten, fifteen pounds, I can probably step up to the next level of competition.  Play heads that are scary good, killing the ball all time, return aces like crazy, serves that are nasty as fuck.  I like to serve it straight to my opponent for the most part but then they always start pulling out their trick serves and then they force me to show the true face, right corner serves high as shit right in front of the long line, left siders straight down the line.  Left arm better be in shape if you're gonna give me your lame-ass serves.
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