The Boston Society of Bombardment

In order to mix things up a little bit, Chris purchased a new set of dodgeballs to use. One is a super-grip dodgeball, which has extra cross hatches to provided maximum grip. Seriously, it’s lethal. Also purchased was a baseball-sized dodgeball, and I now have something to be more afraid of than birds (although birds are righteously scary). The fact that dodballs are large and rubber means that even when you throw them wicked hard, air slows them down enough for it only to hurt enough to let the opponent know who’s boss. This little menace’s decreased size means that it maintains the velocity you throw it at, so concussions and death are real possibilities here. Someone missed my face by about three inches the other night with the dodge-baseball. Even though it didnt hit me, i was shaken enough by the dread of what could have happened that I immediately left the game and cried for several hours.

The best new ball has to be the jingle ball. A regular dodgeball, nothing is out of the ordinary here save for a small jingle bell placed inside the otherwise hollow rubber ball. This might not sound that cool, but when you get wrecked with a dodgeball that makes an emasculating jingle bell sound as it bounces off of your face, loud enough so the entire group can hear…let’s just say there is no recovering from that shame.