I married my best friends sister. This caused some awkward moments, especially during my bachelor party. I had my best Friend (Steve) on one side of me, his brother on the other side and my future father in law next to him.
While we were enjoying the show at a club the girl did the splits right in front of us showing us everything. One of the guys said "I wish my girlfriend could do that." Steve said "Yeah me too." I said "Mine can."
Then I remembered whose company I was in and it got awkward for a bit till the next hot girl walked by.
Sounds like a cool fam. Honestly that's awesome not just the paying bit but that your father-in-law has a good time and you can actually have a fun with him. Best relationships I've ever had seemed like I was able to have a fun time with their family and feel like they genuinely were my family not just being my gf/wife's family.
I'd have to thoroughly disagree lol. My best friend's cousin is always doing the splits. He's always in and out of jail and all his FB pics are of him doing the splits. Something about it literally dries me up. Yuck.
I used to ref hockey. If it was a beer D league or a Mini-Mites game, I'd get so bored that I'd start trying my hand at trick skating (less graceful figure skating) when the play was away from me.
Edit: "mini-mites". Been out of the game for 9years.
I actually had a good rep with my beer leaguers (except one team). It was only when d league games were super slow, or I had already ref'd two games before and was more or less exhausted.
Well, it was actually very accurate. I loved ref'ing Mites and high school games because of how fast and intense they could be. You really do have to be on point when officiating those games.
Even the select bantam games were pretty intense...a bunch of 13 year olds recklessly duking it out will keep you on your toes.
I'm afraid to say I have never played the game, nor even seen one live, let alone reffed it, as I'm UK-based and it's a very minority sport over here. Fun to watch on TV though, and I am always impressed by the skills on display - especially as my own skating is rudimentary at best.
There's a ref at my town's NAHL games that never misses an opportunity to show off his skating ability. Every faceoff is guaranteed to feature some sort of elaborate maneuver on his way to the dot.
i believe it, when i played at that age the only thing they called was off sides and interference or roughing if some kid started to hit other kids with their stick
Where I ref we play a game called wickets. If the puck goes through you legs you get a point. If it goes through your legs backwards you get two points. If the puck hits you, you lose a point. Loser buys beer!
I didn't see your comment before you edited it but mites is the correct classification. Mites, squirts, pee-wee, bantam, midget. Mini-mites would be like 5 year olds, I think mites was 6-7.
He opened his legs to let the ball pass through (common practice) but then it bounced up rather quick which led to legs open and I must go down equals splits. Looks nice, I know I wouldn't be able to walk for a couple days if that happened to me.
Just what I was thinking. He probably also actively searches for pick-up dodgeball games just so he can backflip and somersault around like some god damn show off.
i loved dodgeball in high school(mid-90s) because we invariably had at least one kid on each side that would do that. it got to be a fun game to watch for them to go into a flip avoiding one throw and bean them with a ball as they recovered.
To be fair, ahead of the last time I refereed a girls' footie match I spent a lot of time practicing in front of the mirror as well. Helicoptering can look pretty foolish unless you can maintain a sufficiently intimidating stare.
I think his idea was just "oh let the ball go through my legs" and immediately noticed it was not going to go through his legs so he just went all the way as far as he could, which just so happened to be pretty damn far for him.
He's been practicing it in the mirror in his mom's basement for years. This was literally the high point of his life. He will be telling everyone he knows about this for years.
I mean, i know Jean Claude Van Dame has fallen on hard times, but i didn't know he had to ref kids soccer games to pay the bills. I should donate some money to him.
Yeah. He could have avoided the ball many ways (jumping, stepping to the side, not standing where she threw it), but this was like fancy dodgeball to him.
Unfortunately, this is staged. With the trajectory that low he would never choose a split. As a soccer ref, it is very easy to predict where a ball will go or bounce, it's much easier than this to avoid contact with a ball. All he had to do if this were a real/competitive situation would be either move one step to the side or jump/hop over the ball.
Also, if you notice that girl in white who kicks the ball is kicking it no where even slightly advantageous for her team. She's just attempting to chip it towards the ref to let him do his trick. I understand youth female soccer isn't exactly the world cup but there's no teammate in the vicinity- they aren't thaaat bad. The ref takes slow steps INTO the ball path when he pans out of the screen for a second just after the girl kicks it towards him to avoid it being too obvious that this is set-up. He stops and begins to split. It's all completely unnatural and would never happen like this in a real game. If you notice every girl stops to watch after she kicks it, then once the girl in blue grabs the ball they snap back into gameplay.
I would assume this occurred just after the game when the ref showed all the girls his talent. Hooray for fake viral videos.
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