High school ballers

Every Wednesday I take the subway for about 40 minutes to teach my other cousin's son, Dennis. He lives in a suburb of Seoul, which is definitely more family friendly. Like I said before, Dennis is really smart and has plenty of studying and homework to do. So when I come over, it's just play time (in English of course). Dennis is athletic and so I've been teaching him basketball at the local high school.He's a fast learner, and definitely applies his newly developed skills in the kids league he plays in during the weekend. I've shown him how to play defense, back-someone-down-to-then-make-a-quick-spin-move-towards-the-basket, layups, and of course, boxing out. I've been impressed with his overall sports mind. He'll often tell me how something I teach him is very similar or different to what he does in soccer.Check out that form! Before I began teaching him ball, I read some websites on how to teach kids the proper shooting form. All the websites suggest that you should make the analogy of holding the ball to carrying a pizza pie over your shoulder. Unfortunately, when I tried to use this technique, I realized that Korean people don't really carry pizzas that way. Maybe it's all the weight from the corn, potato, and kimchi that they put in their pie. Yeah, Koreans like weird stuff in their pizza.

At the schoolyard, they have this set of parallel bars. When I was in high school and extremely worried about my body shape (as the Koreans like to call it), I would often ask my dad how he got so broad. He's definitely got wider shoulders than me. Anyway, he would always explain how in high school, he would work out on these parallel bars. Being the young kid that I was, I imagined my dad in a leotard doing gymnastics or something. Now, I realize that he was just exercising on one of these. So less Team USA and more pumping iron in the yard.