Ethnography

Ethnography

November 19, 2015

Run till you puke


Hardly anyone is here today. There is a guy running his dog around the park but other than that nobody is here. The dog looks like a pit bull. He is a nice looking dog from here. The wind is starting to pick up. It has been blowing all day. The man and his dog are running fast and at a distance. The soccer team is beginning to show up. The coach and his son are the first one here. The boy is kicking the ball in the air and chasing it. The coach is setting up cones preparing for practice. Slowly more kids start to show up. Many of them start playing with the coach’s son but one goes and talks to the coach by himself. After a while the coach looks upset with what the boy was telling him. The coach made the boy start running while the rest of the team starts practicing. I am guessing the boy got in trouble or did something wrong. The coach is making him pay the price now. The team starts a dribbling drill. The objective is to dribble through the cones as fast as you can. The kids are having a hard time controlling the ball with this wind right now. The kid running doesn’t look like he’s enjoying running in this wind either. He is already struggling to breathe as it seems. They do the dribbling drill for a while then they start a shooting drill. They put a new goalie in for the shooting drill today. This goalie isn’t as good as the original but he isn’t that bad. He is blocking some good shots. The coach signals for the boy running to continue running and not to slow down. That is brutal. He is gasping for air now. The wind isn’t helping him at all. It is starting to get cold now so he is really going to have trouble breathing in a minute. The coach calls for everyone to take a water break. Except the boy running. The team then starts doing one on one drills. These drills are interesting because you get to go against someone one on one and see who is better. The defenders are really shining on this drill. Not one person has gotten past a defender and scored yet. The coach looks mighty frustrated with his offense right now. That can’t be good. The boy running is bending over by a tree at the moment. I think he is throwing up. That’s not fun. The coach all of a sudden makes everyone start running. Probably for lack of offense in that last drill. The coach seems to be a real hard coach. The sun is starting to go down. After about 10 minutes running in the wind and cold the coach calls everyone in. The kid that he made start running at the beginning of practice ran the entire practice without stopping except to throw up. I wonder what he told the coach.

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