the boom

for the past several months, i wanted to start coaching youth basketball. i applied at the Tenderloin boys and girls club in san francisco. about a month ago, i got a call saying a position was open if i wanted it. i was really excited, it's boys basketball, ages 6-8. i was really excited until i thought about how and what i would do in practice. i thought about when i was younger and played in my first organized basketball team. one of the first things i remember learning, left handed lay-ups!

when i was like 7 or 8 years old, i learned how to do one because our coach made us. then i just sorta stopped, since i was about 12 til now, i only do right-handed lay-ups, even in a pregame lay up drill. i do this awkward right handed lay up (coming from the left side). i was legitimately concerned, i knew i had to teach them a left-handed lay up, but i also knew that i cannot do a left handed lay-up at 75% game speed

just thinking about it. if i showed up to the first practice unprepared, and some punkass kid says "i bet you can't even do a left-handed lay up, go ahead, show us a left handed lay up at 80% game speed." i would have been effed. i would have lost the team right there.

well, i did go to the gym before the first practice, just to get some reps (left hand lay-ups) in. cool story