When I play sports I feel like I am in my place. I'm always in the zone, ready for whatever task is ahead of me whether it be putting a basketball in the hoop or hitting a golf ball into a hole. Sports are my true love in life, well not just sports but being active. As long as I'm outside I feel great. I am an athlete and that would be the only way I could truly describe myself. I love being active, playing catch with the baseball with my dad or throwing the football around with my friends are some of my favorite things to do. One of my favorite things to do is play football with my friends at this place we call "the field". It is a big open field behind a fire station that we have always played football at. We have been playing for so long that we know where the boundaries are by using bushes and tree along the side. Playing football there as a kid was so playful and fun. Now it's still so much fun but we get very intense and now that I'm older that's what I love. Intensity and competitiveness has increased so much since I was a kid and it really makes me get into the zone and play hard when I play these sports. Golf for example, you wouldn't think golf is a very competitive sport but when you're on the last hole and the match is tied up every single shot you hit counts. Also you have no teammates in golf so everything you do is all on you and nobody else which makes it very nerve racking. When you have the last putt to either win or lose the match with one stroke of your club, your heart races, your mind races, your adrenaline is flowing, but you really have to focus on making that putt and that is what I love about sports. I love sports not only for the intense parts but also for the relaxing, fun parts like skiing.
Just going down a hill at 30 miles per hour and gliding across the snow is so relaxing to me. Same with surfing, catching waves and riding them into the shore in the blue, salty ocean water is so relaxing to me. When you're done catching your wave in surfing or done riding down the hill in skiing you get to relax and go back to where you need to go to do it again. For skiing you take the relaxing ride up the chair lift seeing the mountain around you. With surfing you get to swim back out to deeper waters. I think skiing and surfing are two of the most relaxing sports along with golf when you are just playing for fun. Golf is actually the most relaxing sports when you're just playing for fun because you don't care about anything you're just playing to be out and active. My main sport I play though is baseball. I was offered a half ride to Canisius to play baseball at the division 1 level but I tore a ligament in my arm and needed surgery so they couldn't offer me the scholarship anymore because I am a pitcher. The good part is the surgery I had is called Tommy john surgery. What Tommy john surgery is, is the doctor goes in and replaces your tendant for you. The reason it's called Tommy john surgery is that a pitcher named Tommy john was the first one to have it done to him and when he recovered from the surgery he actually threw faster and better. Now the statistic is that 70% of people come back throwing harder than they did before. It requires a lot of physical therapy and work but the people that work hard to come back almost always end up increasing their skill level. So that is what I am hoping to do. I love having the life of an athlete. It's so fun to be able to do most sports and have a higher skill level than most people in them. being outside is not only good for you as a person but it helps you interact with people and be the best person that you can be.