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Who| Chris and ~~all tributes mentors, stylists...~~ everyone
What| FOOTBALL!! Guys doing guy things...
Where| Parade grounds
When| noonish thursdayish
Warnings/Notes| It's football, no padding, and really tough rules? BAH! we don't need no stinkin' touch rules full on tackle damn it!

Chris had managed to have a ball made, it wasn't really pig skin, but standing in the currently empty training center's parade grounds he took a few steps back, throwing it to test it. The ball would work. Going to get it again he just had to wait to see who showed up. Then he'd figure out how to team them up. Even if it was just a few of them, should be fun right?

He tossed the ball up again, pretty sure the area he chose would be good enough for what he wanted. It was bigger than the stadium at Raccoon City Community College, but they just needed the length, and with the training center full of kids who needed the down time for training he felt the empty yard was better than biting into everyone's space.

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"Oh? What'd you think it was gonna look like?" He chuckled a little. "And relax, this is just something for tributes and the mentors. No way I'm going to play show pony with something I like."

He held his hand out for the ball to show Peeta how to hold it. "Basics would be good though."

"...You know, I don't know. But not like this," Peeta laughed, handing over the ball. Chris was right; no one was watching this. Well, that wasn't quite right. Plenty of people were watching, but no one was actually caring about it, either. They could make fools of themselves if they wanted to.

"Okay then. Let's do basics."

Chris laughed a little. "Okay to throw the ball, you'll need to get the feel for it, but hold it at one end. When you let it go it'll spin." He went on to explain how it should feel right before Peeta let it go and set the other man's hands right so he could throw it.

"Here, throw it to me we'll see how well you got that before I explain the tackling and points... Which we'll probably forgo since not many of us."

((Feel free to drop down to Eliot's thread if you want.))

Edited 2013-06-08 03:33 (UTC)

Seemed pretty basic. Tackling and points might be a little too far for him right now, but Chris was right; there weren't too many of them around to do much of anything big. This was fine for now, though, and Peeta held the ball like he was told, waiting a moment before throwing it.

It wasn't a perfect throw, but it wasn't bad, either. He could put the power behind it, it was just the aim that was a little off. So long as no one minded running a little more to the right or the left, he should be fine.

[ooc: Now going to Eliot's thread!]

"Not bad," Chris had no problem running to catch it. "Takes a bit of practice, but you'll get the hang of it." He threw the ball back towards Peeta, making sure it was off just a few feet to let him move to catch it.

((Gotcha))