Kick the Can & Tchoukball

July 27, 2024

The above were just a couple of the A Block activities from yesterday afternoon. This period goes from 3-4:30 PM and boys remain at the same venue for the entire time.  I bumped into Sara along the way so I suspect her photo album will duplicate mine a tad.

Just about everyone has played Kick the Can at some point in their lives.  If you haven’t, you’ve missed out. But, Tchoukball – that is another matter altogether.  All I can tell you is that this is a counterintuitive game that involves rebounds off a tight net.  The boys and counselors had so much fun that they offered Tchoukball II as an evening sponsorship after dinner.

Sara just posted, so I can now comment further on the day. Woodworking continues to be a favorite for many of the boys.  Don has a teaching style that defers to one’s imagination, meaning that the effort trumps the outcome in many projects. When we at Kingswood argue that “The fun is in the doing,” we mean it.

Ditto with Eli’s chess clinics.  I have seen him reset pieces and simply comment, “Now what can you do?”

Sara was out there on the lake to capture some sailing and windsurfing clinics.  The idea here is for boys to get “certified,” which does not mean that they are masters of their trades but have earned the right to practice their skills in non-clinic settings (B-Block, for example) while under supervision from afar.

Sam Cain stood up yesterday and delivered a kudo to his intermediate windsurfing class, reporting that he let them head off down wind, expecting to have many rescues on his hands, only to see the entire gang make it successfully back up wind to the beach.  This is all “good camp.”

Yup, Sara indeed made it to Tchoukball and her pix are far superior to mine, duh!  I am scrolling her album as I write and yup, her Kick the Can shots are terrific too.