Dan's Guatemala Blog #5: Handsets and Dance Moves and Dunks!

Guess how many times Kevin (aka Goose) handset during this event. 3 times. And two of those were called lifts by the ref. So that means that I didn’t get any serves or dig any stinkin’ balls (because he handsets exclusively).Or maybe he bumpset everything after getting called for bad hands. Goose never gets called for bad hands. Except in Guatemala.

Upon leaving the site, the crowd of players convinced me to dunk on a nearby basketball court after JJ of the Dominican Republic had already failed. I had done nothing but sit around all day and my body was a bit locked-up. My warmup was a 20ft long jog (I also emptied my heavy pockets). The ball was a big, dusty, raggedy, impossible-to-grip ball and the rim was wicked high. I was in trouble, but I had a LOT of people watching to see if this short white guy who nobody would serve could throw down. Upon liftoff the ball flew out of my hands. It was awful. I got laughed at. But what those laughers don’t know is that in college I silenced a raucous crowd at the YMCA with a thunderous two-handed 360 dunk. Now who’s laughing?

The dinner party was pretty fun. We had the best food in existence (like, every meat, including bacon, and vegetables and fruit and salsa, a gigantic clove of garlic, cake), which made me really happy because it was buffet-style. While everybody else was doing their boring dance moves I broke out the slo-mo worm, a little like the Geeter Worm, but I pop up super-high in mid-air and it looks more like ballet than a convulsion. I also busted the secret (Dan)ce moves that I created in 7th grade. Not sure how well those were received…

By Dan | 22 April 08 |