Narrative Essay On Pelican Drill

“You wanna be able to dunk and grab the rim by the time you are out of highschool right?” Said my Jv coach Ben Perez from Lakeview Schools. There were 6 hoops in our practice gym at Lakeview Elementary. There were 12 kids total on the team so we picked a partner to go a hoop and do the pelican drill for 1 hard minute. Ben said “ready set GO!“ I start going, I was being lazy because I didn't want to do the drill. About 30 seconds into the drill I was getting lazier my Legs were thriving with numbness and my arms were tingling as if your foot fell asleep. He notices that I was being lazy and comes to me and says “ You want to be able to grab rim and be able to dunk right?” I told him “yes”. Then, he said “well use them legs and jump high as if you are trying to jump to the moon and finish the hard,strong,aggressive lay up.” I proceeded to start pushing myself extremely hard. …show more content…
I began to bite my mouth guard that was rubbing against my braces. I began to sweat and having sweat dripping into my eyes and it burned as if I was getting lemon juice into my eyes. I’m going slowly but steadily on making my shirt damp from the amount of sweat and hard work I was putting in to make myself work harder. After that minute of the pelican drill was done I put my hands over my gasping for my breath to come back. A couple seconds after the pelican drill, I started beggining to get the feeling back into my legs. Ben was pushing me for a reason, he wants me to get me to do better and push harder. During the drill I was a kind of getting a little exasperated,but after the drill,deep down in my body, I thought to myself and said “ I couldn’t touch rim before, I may take his advice and push myself harder; I could get to my goal to be able to grab the rim and be able to dunk I'm out of high school” So I decided to change my ways after I moved to