My body was aching all over.


Had basketball session with my old mates on friday and saturday. Peiwen1, Siyun and Xiaoqi. Went 219, and was quite astonished to see that there were many people on the court. A few familiar faces whom i haven seen in ages. It was really long since i was present at the court with so many people. 219 basketball court has become rather quiet the recent years, when all of us and the frequent groups rarely played there anymore. There were even occasions when bywalkers stopped and watched the game. Well, for dont-know-how-many-donkey-time, the picture reminded me of some of the good old times again~ Then while playing on sat, i had a little incident in which when i was jumping for rebound, one of the guys knocked me down when i WAS JUMPING IN THE AIR, really in the air. Leading me to fell STRAIGHT on the ground landing on my RIGHT SHOULDERS/BACK. Luckily, only my elbow hurts after that. Upon that mili sec when i was reaching the floor, I could hear people saying "oops that must have hurt" "fell down from so high". I dont blame the guy who knocked me, because thats basketball. Sportsmanship. Infact im feeling the adrenaline rush because i remembered i was trying to jump rather high for the ball before losing my balance IN THE AIR and steered right, down to the ground. That feeling is similar to sitting on some funfair rides, trust me on this..


As of now, i merely played a few times on and off over the last 2 years, after washing my hands off the competitive basketball era. Hence it was no surprise that i could no longer played like who i was during the secondary times again.(why not the poly times nor homeU times? because during thosetime i was off peak too. Too fat to run that time & skills all gone when theres no confident after gaining 10 kg. Till now, graphically it has been downwards sloping with no constant practice) Travelling, soft hands, losing balls. Cant help but to feel a little down when ive reached the bottle neck long ago. Then Peiwen was giving me encouragement during the game, telling me that i still retain my old stances, when i did cut in layup & '转身layup' although i claimed my skills has become rusty.

Theres once, i remembered i did a rather pretty '转身layup' in which the ball went into the rim VERY fast yesterday. I cant even recall when i put in the ball. Suddenly i was all drowned in my own trains of thought when my mates doing a little little cheering for me(we always encourage one another).

A similar situation which happened were 4 years ago, when i played my first youth cup in sec4. I did the same stance which earned me a round of long applause/cheerings from the WHOLE court of spectators. Each time i met such situations, i really dont know what i should do. Most either act cool, or cute, 3rd to focus on the game and play better. For me, im always at a loss because im always afraid to accept such flattery, for fear i might not able to do so well the next time. How about you, if its you, what would you do? For me, it was really kind of a glory year because after the youth cup, im receiving invitation to join one of my mates' basketball club, to join and help them play as centre. However im somebody dead loyal to my first(was in another club), hence i denied the invitation although i'd really wish to play together with my friends. And that period it was really heart-warming when i have people coming and pat on my shoulders telling me "hey well done" "You played well just now" ".." especially the people who watch youthcup, i considered that a higher level than the national school competition.

Infact, some months before my 1st youth cup, when i was playing the zone competition, my performance was very bad due to lacked stamina. That time during the last quarter at the semi final game, my coach turned to me and said out of anger.(we were supposed to win by a larger margin since the opp. team isnt that strong, end up the point differences is only by 2-3) "From a main player, now you become bench player . . cant help the team . ." my coach is infamous for his antagonized-method of encouragements. So i didnt really take it to heart as hes been treating me with such harsh comments, harsh punishment since sec 1 inorder to turn the lazy me into a better player. Adding on to that, i really think if i cant performed, i rather im replaced by my teammate whom i think can play better than me at that point in time.

So when approaching the youth cup season, due to my bad performance, my coach put me in his 2nd team of his club, instead of the 1st team which is deemed as a better team. Later during the few months, i didnt exactly trained very hard but merely cut down a little weight and put in some effort.. I can tell my coach is a little regret about not putting me into his first team when he threw me some glances at times, when his 1st team didnt perform. Probably at that time, he find me more useful. Then during the season, got once after our game, he asked me a few times "why you played so well?" "if you played like that for the school national competition, its no problem getting in the top4" the thing is he abandoned us for another school, leaving us with no coach for national top 16 competition. Of course i have to buck up and help my captains in leading my beloved team into the top 4 (too bad we are only in top6 that time). And do you know at that time, i really felt like telling him "you know ive been playing like this, merely only during the sec4zone competition, im just affected and get too fat.

Yup basketball arena is quite a practical zone. Infact in all aspects of life. You're the survivor if you perform and win the game. Likewise it applies to life, and studies as well. Isnt the scholar more popular in the eyes of the teachers'? The one who brings the most money home, a successful breadwinner?

Today, ive finally admitted to myself that i could only manage LEISURE basketball. Too busy to take time off to train myself again. Moreover, with all the new blood joining in, we are really losing in terms of age and drive. It was said that human's hormones are the most raging during teenage years. (best period to train an athlete) Hence i really take my hats off those older players who are still continuing with their game till now,although they already had a family or career.

Not many can balance it, well.