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Personal Essay On Basketball

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I always thought basketball would be something that I will do my personal project on because I know more about it and it'll be easier to do. At an early age I was introduced to my older cousins, uncles, and aunties. I rekindled that my project had to be something new and something that I wasn't adjusted to. I then decided I wanted to challenge myself to a new sport and improve with that. I choose golf due to it being completely different from basketball. I went from a fast pace and swift thinking game of basketball , to golf, a slow paced and precise thinking sport. Both sports take extreme amounts of coordination, analysts and thinking. Being able to balance both worlds of sports is an immiscible accomplishment. It also shows how easily …show more content…

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