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Today we asked Ms.Yeh to teach us play shuttleball. We could not do it well so the teacher taught us a tip useful to beginners. We tied a string to the shuttleball and took the other end of the string to kick the shuttleball. This tip really worked. The ball became controllable, not out of control all the time. After a while, that kind of feeling remains, and there is no need of the string. 

I think playing shuttleball was actually very difficult. Although Ms. Yeh did not play with it for a long time, she was still skillful. Play with the shuttleball not only uses the force of feet, but need time to practice a lot. Otherwise, it’s not possible to be good at it. If we would like to challenge and win the school shuttleball team, it could possibly take forever for us to work hard on it.

 
 
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Ms. Tsai arranged a shuttleball class for us and the coach was the previous coach Ms. Yeh. We all could not do it well, but the teacher repeated illustrating the movement for us patiently. She taught us tying the shutlleball with a string in order to train our sense of kicking the shuttleball. Although the shuttleball won’t go everywhere in this way, it was still hard to control it. I just wondered how the players practice to an extent that they can play so well. They must make a lot of efforts. I hope next time we could play shuttleball better.
                                      

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 In the morning self-study session on November 9, all of the project team members gathered on the field because Ms. Tsai invited Ms. Yeh to teach us to play shuttleball.

At first, Ms. Yeh told us that the beginners could use a string to tie to the shuttleball, and then kick it. By using the string to control the shuttleball, our feet might have the different feelings when the various parts of the feet touched the shuttleball, in order to train our familiarity to the shuttleball. Then, Ms. Yeh asked us to form a circle and began to practice kicking. Whenever the shuttleball reach whoever, that person should kick it and pass it. We enjoyed the game so much.

It has been long time that Ms. Yeh last played shuttleball. She was marvelous when she demonstrated the techniques to us. However, she was not satisfied with her performance for she told us that she could have done kicking up to 200-300 in a row when she was a shuttleball coach before.

Before long, it’s already 8:40am. We all felt dismay because we had to leave the practice I think all of us would like to have one more class.