Good morning friends.

Happy Father’s day to all the dads out there.  Let me guess, most dads will receive a tie today as a present, lol.

OK, being I have been on the father kick lately, I decided to leave this particular story for Father’s day which happens to land on Sunday Funday, and also on a day we usually do features on “The Good News Channel”

Here we go.  As i said my dad was obsessed with basketball and baseball and a result pushed me pretty hard in sports. Let me tell you a story specially about his training methods in basketball for me.   This took place from the ages of 9 -12 years old.  Being my father was very competitive he wanted to make sure I was the best.  But sometimes practice just wasn’t good enough.

So he went out and hired me a basketball tutor whom I spent every Saturday morning with from 7 am to 10 am, three hours of hard core basketball training.  Now if anyone thinks that I wanted to get up on a Saturday morning for three hours of basketball tutoring after a full week of school and basketball training with the team,  then you need to think again.

Now here was my father and the tutor’s strategy.  You see in basketball we all dribble the ball better with our stronger hand and arm.  Being my strong side was my right side, naturally that’s the side I was most comfortable dribbling the ball up the court with.  My father wanted me to able to dribble just as well with my left hand as my right.  As many of you know this term is called; ambidextrous, which means you can go right or left just as easily on both sides.

So my father and the basketball tutor decided to tie my right hand behind my back, blindfold me and force my mind and body to only use my weaker side which was my left side.  Now if anyone thinks I wanted to spend my Saturday mornings with my strong arm tied behind my back, blindfolded and dribbling a basketball on my weak side for 3 hours, you probably believe that Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah are still living in the ocean since 1984 from the movie “Mermaid”

Did i become ambidextrous ? Yes.  Was i much better basketball player because I could drive the ball left and right ? Yes. Did it confuse the players defending me knowing I can go left and right ? Yes ?

Did I care about any of those benefits ? No.  At the end of the day I was 12 years old and just wanted to run around squeezing girls boobies.

Happy Father’s days friends.  Have a great Sunday Funday.

RIP, Barry Smith, February 3rd, 1984.