sports...

I´m not a sporting man you know, I know that you know.I´m overweight, though some people don´t think so.I consider myself not to have physical ability: when I was a child I couldn´t even climb a tree, and all my friends were so flexible and athletic that made me feel bad in some way. I never had the power of "controlling" my body to do any sports or gymnastics. When I as a child I was really skinny and pale and I wasn´t very strong; some classmates of mine used to beat me because I didn´t know how to defend myself. I have always had this problem concerning sports, and this is a serious matter when you are a child, because children are competitive and they like to show their strength.I remember when I had to do gymnastic at primary and secondary school: I used to sit in a corner doing nothing, because the teacher used to make us play football and I was so bad playing it that I prefered to be apart.However, there was one sport that I always like: basketball. When we have to play basketball at secondary school I joined my classmates to play, because I liked it very much though I wasn´t very good at it. I was very good at shooting and scoring from a great distance, so my game was not very physical. But I think that the worst thing concerning my relationship with sports happened when I was in my first year at secondary school. I used to go to a technical school, and at that time we shared the school building with another secondary school,which the vast mayority of students who attended it were girls.We used to have the gymnastics classes in the basketball court, and all the girls used to watch our classes, sitting around the court.These girls were very mean, because each time we did something bad they used to laught at us and this was very embarrasing.One day, the exercise consisted in rolling over a kind of large box, that was placed very high.So, in order to do it, we had to jump and to roll over it, without losing our equilibrium.It was very difficult to do because the area in which we had to roll over was very narrow,and there was this fear of falling from it and breaking your neck or something.Ok,the vast majority of my classmates could do the exercise very well, but it was my turn.I was so afraid of hurting myself and so embarrased that I was extremely nervous.I tried to jump and to roll but it was impossible for me; the whole situation was so ridiculous that all the girls and my classmates laughed at me.Fortunately, my teacher realized that I wasn´t so skilful and he helped me to do it.After severals tries, I managed to do it but with so much effort and insecurity that everyone began to clap.I have to say that I don´t really like sports because of my lack of physical ability.I would have liked to be good at basketball, but unfortunaly I´m not.However, I think that I had other abilities that some of my classmates didn´t had at that time.That´s makes me feel better.