Everyone here knows how baseball is the best sport by far bla bla bla, but I can't hold my tongue any longer about a new up and coming sport. It's called Lonrobski (to get involved with the origins of the name is slightly confusing, embarassing, and overall just not worth it). If you like games that involve extreme hand-eye coordination, power, speed, agility, dexterity and most importantly simplicity this is clearly the game for you. You know ping pong/table tennis? It's that but you play with a tennis ball and hold the racket in your opposite hand. Games are usually played as doubles and to eleven in a series, best of 3,5,7 depending on the time you have. You can serve the ball anywhere on the table, and there are no lets, if it goes over it counts even if it rolls and is impossible to return. Each player swaps serving, team one player one serves, then team two player two, then team one player two, then team two player two.
That's really it as far as rules, except for maybe one more. I don't want to get involved in some of the legal aspects that are involved, but being in different states of mind only enhances the game, and your skill level. Now, will this game take off and be an amazing sport? Most likely. Will it have advanced statistical metrics and organized leagues and teams with player movement? No, so for the purposes of this blog you don't have to worry about Lonrobski taking over as Ben's Lonrobski Bias (god that sounds awful), but I recommend you start playing ASAP.
I am proud to say that I am part of the greatest LonRobski team around today; we live for the comeback.
ReplyDeleteThats funny. Schulman and Easton have lost a grand total of 3 games out of about 20. Best. Team. Ever.
ReplyDeleteNothing compares to the early dominance of Mino and Siron. I have my doubts if they could dominate like that again though. You and Schulman could never has as much fun as JR and I, even if we never win.
ReplyDeleteI'm worried the popularity of the game may be self-limiting. Here's why: One of the major rules (the obligatory use of the off-hand) assumes that you find out about Lonrobski after you've already developed a stronger hand (in most cases, the right). BUT, when Lonrobski grows over the course of a generation's time, kids just learning the game will have the chance to develop whichever hand they like. They could be ambidextrous! Thus negating a crucial element of the game, morphing it into something entirely different--something entirely easy. This leaves Lonrobski with only, I'd say, 24 years of solid gameplay potential. After that, it's Dodobird shit.
ReplyDeleteParade...rained on.
Well maybe there could be some sort of rotating changes in the game so no one can adapt too well. Maybe after you're equally good with both hands you have to play with a ruler for a paddle or a nerf votex for a ball or something. Just keeping the players on their toes, you know?
ReplyDeleteWow Dr. Stevie G, I never realized that. It's a totally valid point. The only thing I can think of is that the game will get really big, then be bad cause there is no such thing as off hand, but then the once off hand becomes normal and normal becomes the handicap.
ReplyDeleteSo with that thought, let's try to keep this on the dl and not let it get too big. deal?
I'm ok with the Bods ideas as well, we can't be stubborn and traditional lonrobskiists, we always have to look for inovations.