Growing up playing sports at a highly competitive level is familiar to many kids from the California suburbs. With little else to do, sports dominates youth culture. I was not an exception. I didnt have the skill or the size or the drive to continue on and try to make sports a career and so, like many other fallen high school stars, I play in parks and recreation leagues, mens leagues, church leagues, summer leagues, corporate leagues. This is a film about what it looks like to balance that youthful drive that is still in me, with being just a normal human non-professional-athlete adult.
Full film
2016. Mini-dv tape, 7 min