Doink

 

We're getting good at this. Just after F stopped filming I caught it on the full (pulled it out of the air, no bounce).  That always gets me a free kick. It means if she said "alright two kicks", I get three. I can make two kicks last for ages.

It's meant to go "barrowload of rocks, two kicks, barrowload of rocks...." and so on.

Sometimes when I doink it with my nose she catches it. That gets extra kicks too.  She caught one between her knees. Sometimes I can do double-doink (keep it up in the air) before it gets away from me.

At the moment we are playing doink-ball in the veg garden. I love taking the ball on to the peastraw to give it a good killing from time to time,  but occasionally it gets away into the rough and I have to tiptoe very cautiously around in gorse and blackberry to get it back.

Ouchy.

F agreed to extend the field of play and push the rough back further by hacking out the prickly stuff on the boundaries. That's useful but she obviously doesn't understand the first rule of doink-ball: the ball will always end up in the rough no matter how much ground you clear.

Those piles of rocks are gone now which has reduced the opportunity for awkward bounce, but the posts and rails still work to create surprises.

Doink-ball is very entertaining - we could start selling tickets.

 PS: filmed after this post was prepared…

I have graduated to a higher level of skill - double doink and catch it without it touching the ground and the flying leap catch (all my feet off the ground). F managed to capture a flying leap catch but the landing was a bit messy.

I've even added flying catch with a back flip. Wild clapping from the stands.  This just gets better and better.