So I decided to start playing water polo. My new trend is apparently to decide to do something, whatever it may be, and then just go do it before I have a chance to talk myself out of it. I looked up a club on the internet, and showed up in the same week.<\/p>\n
Drawbacks to the spur of the moment method, as they pertain to water polo in particular:<\/p>\n
I knew nothing about water polo – apparently the pool is at least 7′ deep end-to-end. Which means you swim for the entire length of practice. At one time (like, 2 weeks ago) I thought I was a good swimmer.<\/p>\n
When you’re an adult, people expect that you’re able to do certain things – throw a ball, swim, etc. Unfortunately for me, starting water polo by jumping in the pool and just giving it a whirl, I felt like a 6-year-old on the first day of swimming lessons.<\/p>\n
Upsides to aforementioned method:<\/p>\n
Water polo is fun and ridiculously good exercise.<\/p>\n
The conversations about how you got there are always fun – So have you played before? No, actually. Oh, so why did you decide to play water polo? I don’t know, I just wanted a team sport, and it’s really hot outside so the water seemed like a good idea. How did you find out about our club? When you google “water polo” with “(name of locality),” you end up here.<\/p>\n
Oh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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