Volleyball League Practice Catch-all

[bluecastleace]

Who: primarily those who signed up to participate in the Void’s new volleyball league, but anyone and everyone is welcome!
What: volleyball practice for the new Void volleyball league
Where: the underground gymnasium
When: early December
Content Warnings: none yet, but will update if necessary!


((ooc: this log is gonna be used for a few practice sessions, as well as a practice game and other such things! Iwaizumi will be sharing his knowledge with everyone and acting as a coach of sorts until the practice game, so feel free to use the TLs to interact with him, or make your own TLs under the sections to start your own threads with your teammates or others participating! also, if you are not a player but want to be in the audience or are playing another role, feel free to make TLs reflecting that! everyone is welcome (walk/ins included!) If you have questions or want to plot, feel free to add me on Plurk at pantheraliam))

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Walk-ins Welcome!

[bluecastleace]

[There’s been a sign up sheet for the makeshift volleyball league hanging up at Heavenly Blanc for the last month or so, and maybe you thought to sign up while visiting the place. Then again, maybe you just come upon the group practicing while passing the gym or coming in for a work out! If you take a closer look at the group, you may see someone you recognize, or maybe you just notice the spiky-haired kid in the high school volleyball uniform trying to control what he can of the small circus. Feel free to approach him and ask what exactly is going on, or maybe say hi to a friend you see practicing.]

General Practicing

[bluecastleace]

[All sorts of practicing will be taking place during this first meet-up of the new Void Volleyball League. Iwaizumi demonstrates how to bump, set, and serve properly, and offers continuous drills of these important skills. Of course, whenever you’re dealing with the ball, there’s the possibility it might go flying in the wrong direction. Then again, you may just find yourself doing something right and getting a congratulatory slap on the back from your makeshift coach.

[When you’re not practicing actual volleyball moves, Coach Iwaizumi will be (strongly, if not somewhat forcefully) encouraging you to run suicides or practice “flying laps” where you practice running and diving to the ground so you can slide across it - important for practicing digs, you know! It really can be kind of fun. Then again, it can also be kind of exhausting, especially when there’s someone hollering at motivating you to keep going.

[Of course, any and all athletic training is valuable when you are getting ready for that big practice game, so you may find Iwaizumi or your teammates encouraging you to try some of the new workout equipment - treadmills, bikes, free weights, even the punching bag.

[Feel free to utilize any of these measures to practice toward your best playing, either with each other, or Iwaizumi as he directs.]

Post-Practice Game

[bluecastleace]

[None of the established teams (Team Iwaizumi, Team Akechi, and Team Ahsoka as it stands right now) have enough players to actually start playing real games, but Iwaizumi definitely wanted to run a practice game to get everyone started. Given that, the entire group was divided into two teams of six:

[Team 1:
Iwaizumi
Ren
Ann
Add
Haru
Kimihiro

Team 2:
Akechi
Ahsoka
Raihan
Blue
Parsee
Yoshizawa

[Everyone’s practicing seems to have paid off greatly, and with Iwaizumi taking care to make sure all rules were strictly followed, it was a close game of three sets. Team 2 managed to take the first set, was beaten by Team 1 in the second, and then narrowly beaten again by Team 1 in the third.

[The chat after the game may have you sulking, gloating, comforting, congratulating, or frankly not giving a shit either way. Feel free to do all that and more here!]

SNACKS

[forethinking]

(Hours after this, Ren would disappear and he wouldn't be back for almost two weeks. Blissfully unaware right now, he did manage to put together quite enough for hungry athletes.

The table includes: three cakes from the church, soda and bottled juice he took from the market, sports drinks from the school, as well as their pre-packaged meals. Last, but not least, it includes his curry, to be taken with the coffee contained in several bottles. Enjoy!)

spectation

[forceofnature]

[After being granted permission to voice any and all comments that pass through her mind, Viridi has spent the entirety of the practice match screaming through a megaphone. A paper megaphone colored with a crayon that does nothing to amplify her voice.

Fortunately, her shrill voice doesn't need amplification, anyway. Her contributions have been invaluable.]

Defense! Where's that defense! Get your hands out of your pants; you're abusing the wrong ball!

You call that a spike?! I've seen sharper spikes on a rosebush! A dead rosebush!

Foul! Foul! That ball was so far over the line you could feel it passing by from Mount Silver!

REF! Who's the ref?! I'm making you an appointment for a proctologist; you seem to have a chronic case of head up your ass!

[There is a significant possibility that more than one person is ready to commit pedicide by the time half an hour has passed. Her abuse is heaped on most players pretty evenly, though the observant might note that Iwaizumi and Ahsoka are spared the worst.]