Percussion/drums

One last thing about me is that I play the drums as a hobby. I own my own trap set and I just go down and play sometimes. Something interesting about my drumming is that I collect drumsticks. The last time I counted I had fourteen pairs of drumsticks. I have drumsticks from Ochoa Rios Jamaica, the Grand Caymans, Disney World, San Diego California, Phoenix Arizona, Minneapolis Minnesota, and some from a Blue Man Group concert.

I just got a new crash cymbal for Christmas to go with my trap set. It’s an A series which is the best series out right now. I also got a cymbal clock made out of my old high hat top. It had drumsticks as the hour markers. Then the words from the company that made it had come off so they put the name on it. Here are some of my drums: I have Zildjian high hat, three Evan’s toms, a crash/ride cymbal, and an A series Zildjian crash cymbal. When I go down to play or practice on my drums I like to take my IPod down with me to play songs off of but, I also play my band music or the music that my drum teacher gives me. Finally drumming is one of my favorite things to do in my free time.

Tennis

A couple of posts ago I also talked about tennis so I would like to expand a little more. In the winter it’s harder to play more because we only have one indoor tennis court and it gets really cold here. Our tennis team is really good we just have tough competition from the bigger towns around us so we haven’t won a state championship in tennis. There’s even a billboard when you come into town that shows all the state championships by our teams like in basketball and football etc. but tennis isn’t even on the billboard. So with the kids that are coming up to varsity like in my grade and the grade below me, I really think that we might have a chance.

I was in a small tournament a couple of weeks ago and it was a doubles tournament. My partner and I came out with a first win and since there were only three teams in the tournament (including us) we were in the championship. We started the game with a BANG. The first point we had the ball speeding across the tennis court. Both teams got to the net and had sort of a volley off. The very last point of the match was the funniest and the most intense out of the whole match. We started a normal point and then they started hitting the ball deep on me and I kept on going back and back and back until I accidentally sat on one of my coaches and I still swung and got the ball in all while sitting on one of my coaches. So I got back up to the baseline and they hit it deep again so I backed up and kept on backing up until I almost sat on someone again but I still got the ball in. We ended up losing the match but it was a evenly matched game from the start.

Basketball

Last post I talked about Basketball in my first paragraph and I’d like to talk about it a little bit more. My favorite team (the Phoenix Suns) beat the Dallas Mavericks on January 28, 2010. They’re record on TNT was 0-18 and they beat the 3^rd seed in the western conference on TNT. The Suns had also lost 7 of their last 9 games. But the Suns bench came out to play last night. Louis Amundson, Jared Dudley, Channing Frye, Grant Hill, and Steve Nash took over the fourth quarter as they outscored the Mavs with a final score of 112 to 106. But not only did the offense outscore the Mavs but they held them to only 16 fourth quarter points. Amar’e Stoudemire had a game-high of 22 points. Jason Richardson had 17 points and Lois Amundson had 12 points and two blocks.

When I first got into playing and watching basketball my favorite player was Kobe Bryant. Hard to believe now that I like Steve Nash and one of the rivals of the Lakers. But Steve has had a better season then when he won his two MVP’s in a row. Even though he’s a good player not many people realize how good of a player he is. Most people only think that he pass well but he can also score. This year he has an average of 18.3 points per game. And has .938% of FT shooting. He also has amazing passing like I said earlier. He just became 8^th all time assist leaders with an average 11.1 assists per game. Finally I have really gotten into playing and watching basketball.