Lightening Online

For those of you who are not familiar with netball, F Grade is the beginning grade.  Our F Graders generally start at around year 3, although we also have some year 2 girls who are doing a “training year”.

Most weeks I go to junior training with Singstar Princess and watch and occasionally help out as needed.  Last year it was quite a big team so extra hands were welcome.  It’s a bit smaller squad this year so it’s probably not quite as needed although I do actually find it quite helpful to watch what they do (given I’m basically an oversized F grader really).

Last year it was a bit of a joke that I wanted to play F Grade and they wouldn’t let me.

So tonight I finally got my wish when they were short on the court to play a practise match.  It was a lot of fun although actually quite challenging to work out how much to hang back and how much to get stuck in there.

I even got to play goal keeper for a while.  F grade is the only grade where I think I’d be considered tall enough to play goal keeper.  LOL.

It was fun!  I wonder if they’ll let me play again?

Senior Training was pretty full on tonight.  I think I might pull up a little sore.

I’m trying really hard to relax and not take myself so seriously.  So I had a lot of laughs (mostly at my own expense) and for the most part it was fun.

I do wonder though if I’ll always feel like the “dumb one” when it comes to understanding the game.  I can’t exactly get back all those years in my youth where I didn’t get to play.  And I’ve never really been all that good at sport to begin with.  A bit of extra speed would be good too - I kept ending behind my opponent instead of in front of them.  Bit hard to defend from behind.  Oh well…