Sports Galore

As i told you in my earlier blog that we made lots of friends and we are four brothers.My eldest brother is 5 year older then me and the elder one is 2 year old and younger one is 2 years young so our friends were also in the same age group.We used to play lots of game like cricket,football,volleyball,table-tennis,)etc.But apart from these sports we also used to play Marbles,kite-flying,latoo( Wooden toy of conical shape with nail below)which is tied with thin rope and when we throw it down on the floor and it start spinning on the floor.These days you hardly see children's playing these games.Playing with latoo is an art and it used to come in various shapes and we used to have lots of battle fought with passion.In 1973 hockey player Aslam Sher Khan of india was big star like dhoni of today because he was instrumental in india's wining the hockey world cup and he belonged to bhopal.But we used top play hockey in rain on rods and that to with plucking trunk from the trees and giving it the shape of hockey and we also used to make ball with cloth and tying it with lots of paper giving it round shape with the help of rubber bands.And i can't describe the thrill of playing
hockey of this type in rain.
Apart from these games i was also very active in athletics and used to participate in 100mtr,200mtr,Long-jump & High-jump from school in the state level school games.I used to jump 15 ft.at that time and i was in 6th class.I also used to jump 4ft. high in high jump.