dead sun's Journal: Handball Hurts!

Yow! A couple of my co-workers took me to their gym to play handball today. It's actually a pretty popular game around the office, I know of at least half a dozen people that play regularly. I figured I'd give it a try since I'm good at games which require hitting a ball with a racket of some sort, like tennis, badminton, and I've played a little racquetball. The racquetball definitely helped with the ball bouncing around off four walls thing, but nothing prepared my poor hands for the beating they'd get. Actually, the racket sports hurt me a little too, as I was often about a foot out of reach of the ball, but good placement if I'd had a racket.

Anyway, I have those nice soft sits behind a desk all day programmer hands, and that ball is awful hard. I walked away from my first handball experience with a rather swollen hand. I heavily favored my right hand, though I got a few decent returns with the left. It was a tad rough getting the glove off though. About five hours after the game it's still somewhat swollen, but I can make a fist again, so that's good. We'll see how bad it is tomorrow.