#493 – Sank
Posted on April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Volleyball was another game we got to play in high school. It was a lot of fun but very disorganized. There were many collisions of kids running around while looking up at the same time. I think my biggest injury was from trying to learn how to serve. For some reason I kept serving with my wrist instead of my hand. It made it hard to write when I got to history class.
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So who did Biff convince to play beach volleyball in quicksand?
@Dark Rei Quite clearly, Biff’s not playing beach volleyball. His eyebrows are. It takes so long because he has to sink first, all while making sure the ball doesn’t. It also takes awhile to train up those eyebrow muscles.
ouch… I know what it’s like to hit something with your wrist. It comes second only to breaking my arm in preschool. And now we wait for someone to make a referral to mythbusters proving you float in quicksand and don’t sink. My post doesn’t count.
Hah, I remember playing volleyball in highschool. I learned preaty fast though to kinda…I dunno, how to describe it….kinda put my hand like I was flat palming someone (kinda like you see in Kung Fu movies) to avoid hurting my hand / wrist.
As for Biff, I be he’s learned to use those brows of power like whips or something.
Do you think there is a rule in quicksand volleyball where you win by default if you are the only one still on the surface and not buried?
Because in that case… it seems biff one!!
*gives trophy to biff*
Haha, ah Biff, always in the wrong place at the wrong time…doing…the wrong thing…in the wrong way…geez Biff, seriously watch what you’re doing man!Lol
Hey yo Chris…Mr. Hallbeck?I made a short flash clip in honor of Biff!Hope everybody likes it.
http://www.esnips.com/doc/16dcada3-6af3-457f-94bf-8d3a5b0378be/Biff-Clip
I want to add, this isn’t intended to be a “HOLY CRAP” inducing piece of animation, but more for
a quick chuckle.
It’ll take a lot longer, too, from the looks of it.
Oh Biff, how will you work your way out of this one?
When I played volleyball in school they forced me to serve underhand after my first two overhand serves winded a guy then caused a black eye.
Biff can sink in quicksand, the mythbusters know this, and all the other fantastical things he can do, so they don’t try to explain him. My guess is it would take 46 consecutive episodes and a larger budget than they’ve used in all of the shows leading up to “The Biff Show” combined just to explain how he did the stuff in the first 100 comics.
Seems like an interesting game. Seven comics left until the big 500. Many webcomics give up well before this point.
I did the same thing, serving with my wrist. Then I developed the pistol punch serve. I had also been watching too much One Piece, hence the name, but I did actually punch the ball to serve. Works most of the time.
My shining moment of gym volleyball, was stuffing a spike by the school basketball/football/womanizer(i dunno) champ. I was only slightly less skinny than the skinniest nerds, and played alot of hackeysack. He wasnt even angry or upset, just gave me one of those “nice job” head nods and continued playing the game.
oh and the better part of that class is that it was co-ed!(not that I have any stories related to that… but its fun to point out)
Being tall and thin, nobody
wanted me on their teams
so I didn’t really try.
I wonder if in India,
it’s called BollyBall?
I usually serve with the side of my wrist, when I’m serving overhand. I’ve got a hard wrist, and can really drill it. Of course, we used to play wallyball, in a squash court, so drilling the ball off the back wall, preferably at a corner, was the height of good offensive tactics.
OTOH, I’ve rolled my ankles more often than I care to think about, coming down atop another player. I’m quite surprised I never got a proper sprain or break out of all those.
I sprained my ankle just about a month ago playing volleyball in gym.
Spiked the ball, kid was too low to recover, and was running forward, under the net, slammed into my leg, and when i landed, i rolled my ankle so bad that it swelled to the size of a medium to largegrapefruit in under ten minutes.
still wearing a brace cause of it.
ur lucky masked man.
I haven’t been back to full form in football since.
I laughed so HARD at today’s one my housemate thought I was high……!
It’s rockin good! Glad you thought of it…
Ha, thanks speearr. 🙂
O_o You’re supposed to hit it with your wrist. It wouldn’t go anywhere if you use your hands silly. That is for overhand and underhand. ^^
I remember volleyball in High School. It was pure chaos. No one in my class really KNEW how to play, so you never had people spiking the ball or anything, but what drove me nuts was the utter disregard for anything related to rules. Within five minutes of playing, we’d all be playing, but everyone would be shooting under the net, serving the ball into adjacent games instead of our own, attempting to hit the ball from the back of the court and send it hurtling 50 yards beyond where it should be landing, and overall making every attempt to keep the game going, but never score a single point.
Wow, another comic+writer’s note that relates to me almost exactly
I predict next theme week will be fighting.
@ DracoZereul: We had the same problem at my school. We called our games “Death Volley”.
@DracoZereul & Reynard
My school had the exact opposite and it wasn’t in the good kind. v.v Everyone knew what to do. Or rather everyone who know how to play banded together. I recall being spiked in the face on multiple occasions. >.>
Cool, i’m so doing that.
Whoever’s playing with Biff, he must have grown up with them.
Worst volleyball injury of mine was getting nailed in the head by the star PE player–This kid was good at everything because he hit the ball so freakin’ hard. That wasn’t fun. Nuh-uh.
i used to play volley bal in HS but being 6 ft 2 i prefered playing close to the net just to freak the other team out >:) my favorite move was i would back up about 4 feet and charge the net like a mad man making the other guy think i was just going to DECIMATE the ball and kill some one, but then just gingerly tap the ball killing its momentum making it drop just on there side of the net while the poor sap in front of me dives for cover thinking im about to kill him ^_^
I was the best at volley ball in my school. We had a gym that had a fifty foot tall ceiling in elementary- and when I was five, I could hit it so hard it went all the way to the top, and hit the ground in the middle of the opposing team. I had the best serves and returns, but the problem was, the entire school hated me. so, none of my points ever got marks, and I was always blamed for when my team lost.