Spontaneous Junkyard Sports

Sacred son Elyon have been at play. He's developed an interest in a different approach to junkyard sports. I'll let him speak for himself:

At the heart of Junkyard Sports is the desire to give people the power to play together better. By using junk, scrap, trash and treasures that lie at hand, friends, family and colleagues can play in a way that gives them power over the game, towards inclusive fun.

The genius in Junkyard Sports lies not only in its reuse of the world, but also in its application: sports. Everybody, more or less, knows how to play whatever popular sports people know. Most people I know know something about how to play golf, hockey and football. The play in Junkyard Sports lies in the reframing of the sport, to be inclusive, collaborative, together fun.

But any Junkyard Sports event requires a certain amount of planning, foresight, agreement, concerning the people in play, the place, the clean junk to bring, etc.

Spontaneous Junkyard Sports is a foray into spontaneous fun. Towards anyone-anywhere-anything fun. Where with whomever you are, wherever you are, with whatever you can find at hand, you can instantly launch into play.

Example:

Bernie and Elyon went to Albertson's market the other day. There they found a very quiet part of the parking lot.

Then they found that the double lines demarking the parking spaces made narrow rings - a hole!

Then they found an old bottle cap - a puck!

The cap was a bit dirty. They looked for a club - something long so they wouldn't have to touch the cap. Then they found the side of their feet! But still, only one puck.

Someone said: over to that parking space.

Someone said: okay, let's do it in 3!

Someone said: you're on.

Someone: -kick-

-laugh-

Someone: -kick-

Someone: -kick-

Someone: were we supposed to get it in the hole in 3 total, or do we each get three?

-laugh-