OT: Epic Keep up balloon round

[8893]

I have played this game a lot (my brother and I thought we invented it). Never this well:

 

[storrsroars]

That has to be more satisfying than a video game.

 

[imno1]

Who hasn't played this game?

 

[Husky Alien]

Who hasn't played this game?

Not like that!

 

[CL82]

It wasn’t even how hard they were going it was how hard they were going without breaking anything.

 

[Goatmeat]

We really need the hoops season to start.

 

[Hoophound]

That is awesome! My friends and I did stuff like that. We got epically good at badminton and a form of racket ball played on our knees with Nerf ping pong paddles and ball against a bedroom wall. We loved anything in which diving to make a huge play was needed.

 

[aburks41]

This needs to be an olympic sport lol

 

[CL82]

That is awesome! My friends and I did stuff like that. We got epically good at badminton and a form of racket ball played on our knees with Nerf ping pong paddles and ball against a bedroom wall. We loved anything in which diving to make a huge play was needed.

Yeah but there was always that post game gluing something back together, or just hiding it. These guys have skills.

 

[8893]

That is awesome! My friends and I did stuff like that. We got epically good at badminton and a form of racket ball played on our knees with Nerf ping pong paddles and ball against a bedroom wall. We loved anything in which diving to make a huge play was needed.

Yeah but there was always that post game gluing something back together, or just hiding it. These guys have skills.

Exactly right. I have played this game but it is reminiscent of so many warped games we invented, almost all of which ended in serious personal injuries and/or property damage.

 

[mussels]

Great game as there seems to be some unwritten sense of fair play involved. I mean if the object is just to keep it from hitting the ground, and be the last one to touch it before it does, what keeps you from executing more of a spike move? If I understand what I just saw, only your sense of fair play - you want to hit it where it’s crazy hard to get to, but spiking would be “cheating”. Or are there actual rules?

 

[CL82]

Exactly right. I have played this game but it is reminiscent of so many warped games we invented, almost all of which ended in serious personal injuries and/or property damage.

And the phrases “ oh sheet” and “dude what the fook”

 

[storrsroars]

Great game as there seems to be some unwritten sense of fair play involved. I mean if the object is just to keep it from hitting the ground, and be the last one to touch it before it does, what keeps you from executing more of a spike move? If I understand what I just saw, only your sense of fair play - you want to hit it where it’s crazy hard to get to, but spiking would be “cheating”. Or are there actual rules?

Any time I've played, you cannot hit it downward. But you can slam it into the ceiling so it falls quickly as the winner in the vid did.

 

[8893]

Great game as there seems to be some unwritten sense of fair play involved. I mean if the object is just to keep it from hitting the ground, and be the last one to touch it before it does, what keeps you from executing more of a spike move? If I understand what I just saw, only your sense of fair play - you want to hit it where it’s crazy hard to get to, but spiking would be “cheating”. Or are there actual rules?

Any time I've played, you cannot hit it downward. But you can slam it into the ceiling so it falls quickly as the winner in the vid did.

That’s my understanding also, and I thought the third to last hit was questionable on that score, but the other guy got it so no harm no foul I guess.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Some serious rug burn on legs at the end of that

 

[8893]

Some serious rug burn on legs at the end of that

Knee pads and elbow pads would definitely be handy. Maybe a helmet too.

 

[CL82]

Knee pads and elbow pads would definitely be handy. Maybe a helmet too.

If I recall correctly, these games evolve spontaneously out of not having anything else to do.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Exactly right. I have played this game but it is reminiscent of so many warped games we invented, almost all of which ended in serious personal injuries and/or property damage.

This and fairly full contact, aggressive, rugby style nerf hoops were among the best creative games I can recall.

 

[Mister P]

Yeah but there was always that post game gluing something back together, or just hiding it. These guys have skills.

 

[Husky Alien]

And the phrases “ oh sheet” and “dude what the fook”

Then it's "sheet" how do we explain how it happened and make sure that your on the same page.

That’s my understanding also, and I thought the third to last hit was questionable on that score, but the other guy got it so no harm no foul I guess.

OMG! Were breaking it down play by play.

 

[Dove]

This needs to be an olympic sport lol

China already has an academy in Yumen with 24,000 kids playing this

 

[TheChamps990411]

China already has an academy in Yumen with 24,000 kids playing this

I read the air inside the balloon is specifically brought in from a lab in Wuhan.