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at Esalen

It was the next to the last day of the 2003 fall seminar at Esalen. We decided to devote the afternoon to exploring Junkyard Sports. Marah happened to have a digital video camera, and not only knew how to use it, but also how to make our whole session into a DVD. Among other group marvels, we managed to capture two relatively prime examples of Junkyard madness.

 

Sock Basketless Ball

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(free Apple Quicktime required to view).		 Our first experiment: see if we could come up with some way to play basketball, even though we had neither basket nor ball. We did have a bunch of clean socks (standard equipment). We made the biggest sock ball we could. Since sockballs are known for their lack of bouncability, we dribbled in the air, as it were, bouncing the ball in our hands without ever actually catching it. We eventually decided to have a human basket. Someone who held their arms out in front, holding hands, hooplike. To add to the general mayhem, we made it the rule that the basket could move. Evidence of this remarkably funlike experience will be apparent upon clickage.

 

 

Team Sockball Chairback Croquet

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 Next, we sought inspiration from whatever found objects we could, um, find. There were these Back Jack floor chairs (legless chairlike things that support your back when your sitting on the floor), and, of course, our vast collection of socks. After remarkably little deliberation, we arrived at a game of simultaneous team sockball chairback croquet, as illustrated below:


We're Number ?

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Last, a moment of spontaneity which may have been the veritable apotheosis of our journey into Junkyardhood - a new sense, and definition, of victory:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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