water polo Essay

Submitted By cjj_theoneandonly
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Pages: 3

Do you know how to play any sports maybe basketball, baseball, or football? If you do that is great because I love sports and what I’m going to talk to you about is Water Polo. That’s the sport I enjoy. I do love basketball though. Water Polo and Basketball are kind of the same. Water Polo is a really hard sport to play though. You have to have a little strength in order to play. Water Polo is a really harsh game. If you don’t come out of the water with scratches and bruises then you weren’t playing hard enough. That’s how serious this is. So get your game face on. One of the most memorable moments I had in Water Polo was when I made a winning goal in a tournament. I was so excited because if it weren’t for me we wouldn’t have won the game. Everybody came rushing to me and they were yelling “Go Cj Go Cj” I was so happy. That night I went to bed feeling good, and also pretty exhausted. Anyways Water Polo can be a great sport for anyone basically. I joined when I was 13 years old. When I first started out I was horrible, I mean horrible. I could barely keep up with the other guys. But as I started to come regularly I became faster and stronger. Practice makes perfect right. Also the eggbeater is really hard to learn. What you have to do is spin your feet in different directions but in a circular motion.

The rules in Water Polo are pretty short. The rules are just basically no fighting, don’t put the ball underwater, and don’t put two hands on the ball. The referee sometimes calls bad plays because he can’t really see that well so they would just call a foul. Out of all the times I played I only got ejected 2 times for dunking someone under water and putting the ball underwater. The coaches can sometimes be unfair which I hate because when we are playing against another team they would call fouls that didn’t even count but they would let it go anyway. I get fouls for telling the coach that was a bad play so I should probably stay quite. The rules are fair for the most part. I of course obey the rules. The game has 4