AFL or American Football League

Australian Football League or AFL for short. I’m not a fan of rugby but this was really fun. The things we learned were the drop punt, chest mark, high mark, speckie, ruck and handball. The coach was called Tim.

The drop punt was first and we did it along with the chest mark, high mark and speckie. The drop punt is where you drop the ball and kick it with the top of your foot and don’t let it bounce. The hard part is that if you let it bounce the ball would go haywire. The chest mark is where you put your hands out straight and catch the ball by pulling your arms in and getting the ball on the way ending up on your chest.

The high mark is when you put your hands up by your head like a diamond. The aim is to get the X on one side of the ball in the gap and then surround it with your hands. The speckie is where you jump and do the chest mark like your superman saving a cat from a tree. The way we did it was someone would drop punt it and the other would use the mark or speckie that would be best used for the balls hight.

The handball is where you have a straight hand with the ball on its side. The other hand is a fist and you hit the ball with where you’re thumb is. We practiced this a lot. It was tricky for a while. Then I got it a little. Not much, a little.

The ruck is where the ref throws the ball up and you need to tip it to your team. Kinda like basketball. I got put in a group of a very tall person and a very short person. The tall person got every ball it could. The smaller one didn’t get any. I had a 50/50 because I could get it from the short person, but not the tall.

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Braeden