YSA Activities

The YSAs have an activity every Friday night, and there is a lot of variety in what they chose to do. This post will focus on the more sporty type of activities, three in particular, volleyball, rounders and human bowling.

Volleyball is a favorite of many of the YSAs. Not much more needs to be said.

Looks just like volleyball, doesn't it?

The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times, and is related to baseball. Some of the main differences, at least the way we played it: 1. No foul balls i.e. everything is in play. 2. The batter has three swings, and may run if the ball is hit, but does not have to except on the third swing, when the batter must run, whether or not the ball is hit. 3. A fielder can “kill” a base by stepping on it, and if a batter runs to that base, the batter is out. 4. Once a batter is out in an inning, s/he doesn’t bat again in that inning. This was played in a wonderfully large and beautifully green Camperdown park, located just across the motorway from the Church.

Choosing teams and going over (some of) the rules

Batting

Fielding

Human bowling was quite the event. One of the YSAs brought his long board, and they set up ten 2 liter water bottles at one end of the cultural hall in the normal bowling pin arrangement.

The pins.

A person wearing a helmet lies face down on the long board, and is pushed by other team members toward the pins. They try to knock down as many “pins” as possible with the helmet. Hands must be kept close to the body. Normal bowling scoring was used. It was blast. Elaine and I were each the “ball” for a frame, each knocked over 9 pins in two “throws”, and lived to tell about it.
Here is Sister Bylund starring in the role of the bowling ball.

The video below is of the owner of the long board. He has a hook when he bowls.