StrawberryFields Posted March 18, 2006 Report Posted March 18, 2006 Have you heard of Church Ball, the movie?http://www.churchball.com/ Quote
john doe Posted March 18, 2006 Report Posted March 18, 2006 I want to see it, it looks hilarious from the previews. I understand this may be the last Mormon Comedy from Halestorm. They say they want to go more mainstream while keeping family values in their movies. Quote
mom_of_jcchlsm Posted March 18, 2006 Report Posted March 18, 2006 I hope it's good, but I'm a bit gaurded. I'm worried that it will have dodgeball-like tendancies (a nasty movie). Quote
StrawberryFields Posted March 18, 2006 Author Report Posted March 18, 2006 I personally have never played church ball but I know it can be very competitive and dangerous. One of our friends had gone on a anniversary trip with his wife to Hawaii. He had some scuba diving while there and ended up being very sick while there. After he got home, he needed to have surgery because of several injuries that he had received to his nose during church ball. Apparently, the injuries had been allowed to heal on their own and had developed some scar tissue or something like that. The surgery was required to remove the scar tissue so that the infection he had could heal. Anyone else been hurt in church sports? Quote
Heather Posted March 18, 2006 Report Posted March 18, 2006 You could get that injury anytime you play any sport, anywhere. When I played basketball for school teams, we had to sign off about risks, which included death. Quote
begood2 Posted March 18, 2006 Report Posted March 18, 2006 SF, Our church ball is just good clean fun. We have rules that we must follow if we want to participate. Winning is not everything...we play for fun. :) Quote
mom_of_jcchlsm Posted March 18, 2006 Report Posted March 18, 2006 Though I'm sure the Church carries insurance for such cases, I think most members would not make a claim against it. Quote
StrawberryFields Posted March 18, 2006 Author Report Posted March 18, 2006 SF,Our church ball is just good clean fun. We have rules that we must follow if we want to participate. Winning is not everything...we play for fun. :)That is great begood2. Quote
john doe Posted March 19, 2006 Report Posted March 19, 2006 I was never injured playing church, but in retrospect I guess it is possible I may have been a danger to those around me. I severely tore the ligaments in one ankle and was in a lower-leg cast to keep it stable. I had learned to get around pretty good with it on, and the officials let me play with it on, partly because our team would have had to forfeit games if I didn't play. So I hobbled up and down the court with it for the last 4 games of our season, and in the stake championship game. I tried to be careful of others, but if anyone had fallen or tripped over my leg, the possibility of injury was there and I probably would not have been allowed to play again until it was off if someone had been hurt from the cast. I got to where I was almost as good playing with the cast as without it. We took our basketball seriously in the area I grew up in, which coincidentally is not far from where the real Mud Lake is located in Idaho. One year a good bishop in our stake was ejected from a game for fighting. Funny, he quit playing soon after that, I'm not sure why. Quote
ldsgurl_2002 Posted March 20, 2006 Report Posted March 20, 2006 yeah a few years ago we had a young women's team and it got pretty bad and we haven't had a yw team since...the other team elbowed and poked and shoved it was horrible...i love church ball....i played on a relief society team and we had to sign a paper that said we would be christ like while playing and it ended up great....i wanna see that movie tho Quote
kriskriechel Posted March 20, 2006 Report Posted March 20, 2006 I played on our YW team when I was teenager. Sometimes it would get intense depending on the ward we were playing. But the refs were real sticklers on sportmanship. They would not hesitate to throw anybody out of the game for bad behavior. We loved the whole youth basketball experience. Many times it was whole day event. There was usually some sort of bake sale going on at the same time. The different wards would rotate that duty. We would play a game and then stay to watch all the other games. And of course sometimes there was a dance that night. My mom many times just dropped us off about 9 AM and picked us up at 10 PM. It was great fun. My son plays on our YM team. But its nothing like when I was a teenager. Quote
mom_of_jcchlsm Posted March 20, 2006 Report Posted March 20, 2006 Our Stake holds tournaments throughout the year in several sports for YW, YM and co-ed adult. I've seen it get competitive, but never too rough. Quote
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