kid charlemagne
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my sentiments here should translate well enough for the americans here.... but otherwise i will do my best to make others understand.... i have been playing pickup ball on and off for 4-5 years now.... ok maybe "sport" in general bbut is there a greater, obviously external because ball is a physical game, internal dual of masculinity than basketball.... lets look at today for example.... i get to the court shooting around... theres this big fat guy (hes not white).... he challenges me to 1v1 lol.... he sees small kid charlemagne.... all consistently does for offense is back me down in post but i dont care im here im putting my chest into him.... im pushing back...swatting at the ball... tiring this fucker out.... he calls ticky tack fouls and out of bounds call.... i beat him 1v1.... never fucking disrespect me like that again.... now im in some 5v5s.... now im in some 4v4s.... in a later game of 5s... i hadnt done much so far in the game.... this guy who hadnt been guarding me picks me up and says "he been quiet all game..... fast forward a couple possessions later ive now got a couple buckets..... a later posessions..... i get the ball on the fast break.... he is only defender between me and the rim.... i have a teammate with me.... i can toss to him easy bucket but no.... i go right at the guy who called me out.... go up..... body to body and score on him.... i hear a teammate say "and the foul"..... later in the 4v4s... im pickup a big fat dude..... in both games im a monster on the rebounds..... pushing this dude out the way... bodying him..... shifting my way..... his teammates yelling they have to box out..... as small kid charlemagne i feel i play with house money in ball.... i play physical.... body guys..... swipe at them.... hit them (unintentionally obvsiouly).... why? im small.... what are u going to do? talk down to me and call me out and call fouls.... u going to do that as a big guy.... as a big muscular guy.... look at me u should be able to take me in the paint.... u pussy.... u bitch.....
notice now.... i use physical and body a lot to describe basketball actions..... u dont see this type of body to body action in any other sport..... normally.... "physicality" "bodying" "putting chest to back" would be called or have a gay connotation..... but here in ball.... it is actually the opposite of gay.... it is being masculine..... u are playing ball..... 1v1 is a true mental dual.... yes you can talk shit..... but usually people dont really shit talk much because its all strangers... but when u are isolation possession on a guy.... its really only u and him on the court.... u make eye contact.... will he one up you? or will you one up him? and why will either outcome occur? yes because who is more hypothetically masculine....
now yes im not perfect... i am incredibly hesitant in calling fouls when people do foul me.... part of me wants me to just make the basket with the foul and play on because if i call a foul before the shot.... the other team may say the basket doesnt count because i called the foul before i had the shot up.... they are pretty lenient tho.... but mostly.... what i look like as a man calling fouls.... see my thinking is that im too masculine to call a foul.... im a man i should be able to take physical content.... but the truth is, it is likely more masculine to call the fouls because you arent worried about appearing less masculine..... i have to work on this.....
so..... i feel sport.... mostly basketball is maybe the ultimate dual of masculinity because it is all internal and unspoken battle..... they are strangers... u will likely never see them again.... but regardless you go at all wills to overpower them mentally and physically through.... putting a ball into a basket....but why?
so do you have similar experiences in ball and sport battling with others? if you dont relate to anything i experience please say what is mrore of a ultimate dual of masculinity.... and no, trading jabs and"riffing" with people online does not count.....
i saw in another thread sus others talking about recording conversations of strangers.... i need to try and attempt this on the basketball court..... theres not a lot of real "shit talk".... but its a lot of off hand comments that show the most about people....
notice now.... i use physical and body a lot to describe basketball actions..... u dont see this type of body to body action in any other sport..... normally.... "physicality" "bodying" "putting chest to back" would be called or have a gay connotation..... but here in ball.... it is actually the opposite of gay.... it is being masculine..... u are playing ball..... 1v1 is a true mental dual.... yes you can talk shit..... but usually people dont really shit talk much because its all strangers... but when u are isolation possession on a guy.... its really only u and him on the court.... u make eye contact.... will he one up you? or will you one up him? and why will either outcome occur? yes because who is more hypothetically masculine....
now yes im not perfect... i am incredibly hesitant in calling fouls when people do foul me.... part of me wants me to just make the basket with the foul and play on because if i call a foul before the shot.... the other team may say the basket doesnt count because i called the foul before i had the shot up.... they are pretty lenient tho.... but mostly.... what i look like as a man calling fouls.... see my thinking is that im too masculine to call a foul.... im a man i should be able to take physical content.... but the truth is, it is likely more masculine to call the fouls because you arent worried about appearing less masculine..... i have to work on this.....
so..... i feel sport.... mostly basketball is maybe the ultimate dual of masculinity because it is all internal and unspoken battle..... they are strangers... u will likely never see them again.... but regardless you go at all wills to overpower them mentally and physically through.... putting a ball into a basket....but why?
so do you have similar experiences in ball and sport battling with others? if you dont relate to anything i experience please say what is mrore of a ultimate dual of masculinity.... and no, trading jabs and"riffing" with people online does not count.....
i saw in another thread sus others talking about recording conversations of strangers.... i need to try and attempt this on the basketball court..... theres not a lot of real "shit talk".... but its a lot of off hand comments that show the most about people....
