Ninja Tactics!!

--phnxhawk--

Manny and I were sifting through our footage from November, and we came across a couple of fun moments. Unfortunately, we were a tad too lazy to convert the video, cut the clips and upload them. So, instead, we spent the same amount of time doing more work! We took screen captures of the key moments and made animated gifs of them.

The theme of the day: jumping catches:

• Manny's epic, one-handed jumping catch of his brand-new Georgi Dimantchev Diabolino. Photobucket Link. Great effort on his part, going up to reel in a 'rang that would have swept overhead. On a tough day with strong winds, it's play-making like that that will keep him in the game.
  
• phnxhawk's so-called "ninja catch" with his Colorado Phoenix. Photobucket Link. Manny had declared that he would bounce a 'rang off his foot to make a catch (which continues to elude him now). That day, I set the tone by starting off the boomeranging with a jumping catch.
  

Manny and I often find a way to horse around like that. I have even been known to try to box him out to pick off an imminent return of one of his 'rangs. Of course, I try not to do that too often, since we're out there to have fun, and these antics of ours break up what might otherwise be a routine day.

(In case you're wondering how we made our gifs, to facilitate the effort, we used this website: http://www.makeagif.com.)

"Putting my spin on boomerangs..."