{"id":547,"date":"2012-11-29T22:31:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-11-29T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T04:32:04","slug":"36-volleyball-40-days-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"#36: Volleyball (40 Days of Fun)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I love volleyball.\u00a0 I used to play volleyball in high school and college.\u00a0 Even though I was a “bench warmer” for most of high school (I really didn’t start playing a lot until Grade 11\/12) I always enjoyed it.\u00a0 Volleyball was the only sport I was even remotely good at and I’d like to think that I got to be a fairly decent player particularly when I was in college.\u00a0 It was hard work but very fulfilling.\u00a0 I remember my college coach, Donna Andres, making me do this blocking drill – she would stand on a chair at the net and people would pass her volleyballs and she would continue to fire the balls over the net and I was supposed to block every one of them<\/span>.\u00a0 It was brutal!\u00a0 I remember being so tired I wanted to stop jumping but she told me to keep blocking.\u00a0 The really cool thing is that I got to be a pretty good blocker (thanks to that brutal drill).<\/p>\n

Anyways, this year an old co-worker called me up and asked me if I’d like to play on her volleyball team.\u00a0 They were losing a couple of players for the new season and wanted to know if I’d like to play full time (every Thursday night from September to the end of March).\u00a0 I haven’t played volleyball for at least 10 years but I thought it would be fun to play it again.\u00a0 So here I am, Thursday nights on the volleyball court (including tonight).\u00a0 I’m having a great time although I’m feeling awfully rusty.\u00a0 But each week I get a little better.\u00a0 Today I got a nice block on a hitter and my spiking is improving.\u00a0 It’s also fun to play in a competitive league so we generally get our bump-set-spike each rally.\u00a0 I’m glad I agreed to play (even though I haven’t played for a really long time).\u00a0 I’m having a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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