Azim POV
Live in the city was awesome. There were many high building and types of transportations too. But, its hard to adapt to new kind of environment, especially tall buildings and bus traffic.
Dad enrolled me to a place called school. I met many friends and good people there. But I hate study, it sucks. But I love P.E class. There I got to learn to play volleyball, football, and Sepak Takraw. The latter picked my interest.
Sepak Takraw can be said to be the combination of football, volleyball and gymnastic all blend together to a single sport. It requires three persons in each side and play three touches like volleyball in each team. Leg is the dominant part of the game, which player used to juggle the ball and ‘kill’ it, while no hand is allowed. Sepak takraw is famous for its aerial battle and outstanding flexibility to backflip or jump longer in the air. The player can shoot the Takraw’s ball like volley shot in football, but more flexible. In simple words, Sepak Takraw is mostly an aerial battle like playing volleyball but using leg to score a point, and no hand allowed to use like football.
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I played with my friends and trained everyday to improve my skill for the district match. An 8 years old Azim was selected to be a striker, one of the three position in Takraw, because of his 135cm or 4’4 height and skill.
Every day I trained my control and juggled the rattan Takraw ball a lot until I vomit myself and can’t continue anymore. The coach also tested me and my teammates reaction and response because the Takraw ball can move exceed 70km/h and we need to use our body to receive that speeding ball. We trained for months, and a week before the competition started I finally can do the leg split.
The match went pretty well and we won the competition. But, something unexpected happened to me during the game, and that was the key we won the match. Days after that, my school football coach met me personally and asked me to join football team.