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Chapter 3 - Basketball Practice
Before going into the locker room, the team captain, whose name was
Jenny, handed pre-cut pieces of construction paper and a roll of masking
tape to a couple of her teammates. The girls used the paper to cover the
glass windows of the doors leading onto the basketball court. While the
windows were being covered, Jenny checked all the doors to make sure
they were locked and properly latched so no one could enter the court
from the outside during practice.
There was a very good reason for the precaution. The team uniform for
all training sessions and after-school practices for the girls was
shoes, socks, and nothing else. The girls with longer hair were
permitted to wear a single hairband. Otherwise, from their ankles up,
they practiced and exercised completely naked. Coach Strickland insisted
on having an unrestricted view of her players' bodies so she could
observe their muscles, level of perspiration, and limb movements. At the
team's first practice of the year, their coach explained that she
believed in "gymnos", the ancient Greek idea that exercise and sports
training should be done in the nude. After the girls signed up and the
team roster was finished, she assigned the girls to read several
articles that backed up the philosophy and physical benefits of nude
exercise.
The girls took off their clothes in the locker room. Jenny made a joke
about Eveline having to take off her basketball uniform instead of
putting it on before team practice, but then chided her for missing the
previous afternoon's session. However, like the coach, the team captain
seemed overly indulgent of Eveline's short-comings as a player. She was
genuinely relieved that Eveline had shown up that afternoon and was not
yet off the team. As she put her clothes in her locker and latched the
door shut, Eveline noticed Jenny's dark eyes scanning her body.
Twelve naked high-school students filed out of the locker room and
followed their equally-naked team leader onto the basketball court. The
air blowing from the large fans on the ceiling felt cool on their
exposed skin and reminded them of their nudity. Exercising in the nude
had been extremely strange and intimidating for the first several
practices, but by the end of the second week the girls were used to it.
As the semester progressed, some of them would actually come to enjoy
their sessions stretching and exercising without any hot or restrictive
clothing.
Coach Strickland was waiting on the court as the teenagers rushed to get
into position. She was a bit of a hypocrite, because while her team
stripped naked, she had changed into gym sweats. She had a whistle
around her neck, a clipboard in one hand and a leather paddle in the
other. Strickland used it to deal with infractions and poor performance
the moment they happened. Any team member not performing to her
expectations could expect a vicious swat, (or swats) from that paddle on
her bare sweaty bottom whenever she "disappointed" the coach.
When the team members lined up, Jenny called out each player by name.
The girl had to throw up her arms and shout out:
"Here, Captain Jenny! I'm ready to practice and I'm ready to win! Who-ahh!"
The girls all knew the roll-call was totally unnecessary, but their
coach liked the ritual and thought it helped set the mood for a
successful training practice. Standing straight with their hands to
their sides, the girls looked like they were in military formation,
getting ready for a naked combat mission.
Jenny took her role as team captain very seriously. She was an excellent
athlete, with a chip on her shoulder that made her particularly vicious
on the court. She did not look like a typical female basketball player.
She was Asian and petite, only 5'4" tall, so opponents who were six
inches taller did not take her seriously when they first saw her.
However, girls from the other schools quickly learned that her size
meant nothing. She had a thin, sinewy body, quick reflexes, and could
move extremely fast. She couldn't out-jump her opponents or dunk, but
she could grab the ball, dodge under an opponent's arms, and pass it off
to a teammate in a flash. During the previous basketball season, a local
sports commentator described her as a "miniature speed-boat moving among
Spanish Galleons".
Having Jenny as her captain was important to Strickland, because none of
the other girls on the team was particularly tall. They were at a
natural disadvantage when going up against larger opponents, but
Strickland was convinced the height problem could be solved simply by
changing tactics: moving fast, constantly passing the ball, and shooting
baskets from a distance. Jenny's style of playing was the key to her
entire team's strategy. All her teammates had to keep their eyes on her,
to be ready for a quick pass, or to send her the ball so she could pass
it to the girl who was in the best spot at the moment to make a basket.
She had a system of signaling by positioning her fingers, flashing her
eyes, and pursing her lips, to let her teammates know what she was about
to do. There was hell to pay for any girl who wasn't paying attention
and ready when Jenny needed to move the ball and was signaling.
The strategy meant long hours in the gym choreographing dodges and
complicated passes that usually involved all five players on the court.
It meant learning and memorizing Jenny's system of signaling, and also
using quick signals to communicate with Jenny. It meant emphasizing
long-shots, which were more important to the team than they would be to
an ordinary group of basketball players. It meant that Coach
Strickland's girls had to work twice as hard in the gym, coordinate
everything they did as a group, and avoid mistakes. It also meant that
the girls had to accept their coach's intense training schedule and
discipline regimen.
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The coach carefully monitored her players as they practiced to make sure
they weren't too tired to focus on coordinating their maneuvers. When
they did start to get tired, there would be no break, however. Instead,
they would simply change over to exercises that would not require so
much concentration. The girls knew it had to be that way. They had to be
in top physical condition if they could hope to win games by
out-maneuvering and outlasting their taller opponents. They had to move
fast and they had to move continuously. So, they had to train their
bodies to meet the demands being placed upon them. The girls ran around
the gym, when that got too tired to run, they stopped to do push-ups and
sit-ups, then when their upper bodies gave out, they had to get up and
run some more. The girls all knew that what they were doing was
necessary if they didn't want to make fools out of themselves and their
school. However they secretly felt about their merciless coach and
hyperactive team captain, they went along with whatever they were told
to do.
Everyone knew that Strickland's main goal was simply to make sure her
players could overcome their height disadvantage and win games. However,
there was more going on inside the coach's mind than she let on to her
team. The "gymnos" philosophy was only part of the reason she wanted the
girls to conduct their practices in the nude. She enjoyed watching the
naked girls as they exercised and moved around with the ball. The more
the girls were sweaty and winded, the more of a turn-on that was for
their coach. She loved seeing their wet matted hair, flushed red faces,
heaving bare chests, and moist trembling breasts as they tried to catch
their breath after a workout. She loved the smell of feminine
perspiration and watching the sweat dripping down the young bodies of
her players. And toward the end of the workout, when the exhausted girls
were stretching and their sweaty vulvas and wet bottoms were spread and
exposed... oh yes, that was so nice, such a lovely sight.
When they were finally finished with all the exercises and post-exercise
stretching, the players collapsed on the floor from pure exhaustion.
Invariably at least a couple of the students were reduced to tears when
their ordeal finally ended. For several minutes the gym was filled with
the gasping, groans, and coughs of girls who had endured total muscle
fatigue and were struggling to recover.
Strickland was at her busiest at the end of each practice. While the
girls lay on the gym mat gasping for air, drinking water, and
recovering, the coach closely examined each of her players' legs and
feet, feeling hamstrings and muscles and looking for sprains and early
signs of other possible sports injuries. If the coach determined that a
player was in danger of over-exerting herself, she cut her enough slack
to make sure she recovered.
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