Another Sport...

...Tball for Jeremy

Jeremy has starting playing Tball at school. Practice are on Fridays after school and the “games” are on Saturdays morning (either at 9am –that would be Jeffrey duty to be there on time or 11am –should be able to manage that one!).

If you haven’t read the post on Jeremy playing football either in China or in Norway I invite to you go and read it first…. I’ll wait. Tic toc, tic toc… Ok so you are back (no cheating I hope).

So here’s how practice go. First you need to gather the troops all at the same place at the same time. Not as easy as you may think… remember they are a bunch of 5-6 years old full of energy.

Not sure they really need the warm up...  they have been running all day at school already!

Then you have to explain the different base… No, you cannot skip it and just run “near” it, you actually need to physically touch it!. A little explanation on where is Left and where is Right because they always seem to forget which way to run. But cheering parents are always on hand to scream: run, run, ruuunn to the right, right … your other right!

First you need to practice the throw:

Jeremy definitely has some style!

Then the catch:

Where did it go?

Pitching is a little bit easier since they have a T to hold the ball at the right level…or you might think!

Action shot

Then the fun part... the running!

See Maman... I touched the Base

All in all it’s good fun but with all the waiting around it seems that most of them get distracted and end up doing all sorts of things!

Should I pay attention?

Talking strategy with the coach

Everything seems so much clearer with your glasses

Number One