Tag: hometasking 1

Here is the link to my shot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kHncQh8CWhn192kCiyTCd4qsbkQAIZlE/view?usp=sharing. To honor the Coronavirus induced NBA suspension, I decided to shoot my paper ball like a basketball. Steph Curry had just returned to playing in games after his hand injury in the fall, so I decided to honor his return as well by taking my shot from 3 point range. This task turned out to be more difficult than I’d expected, but the only irritated person was my sister, who was forced to record my 50 consecutive tries in NJ’s 40 degree weather. This assignment was a blessing in disguise because I went outside for the first time in days, and I also got to relieve my quarantine boredom for a few minutes. I think this shot is easily one of the most interesting so far, but I’m curious to see the rest of my classmates’ performances.

Short clip of Hugh Hefner and his mate Yao Ming winning Hometask #1.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12HpjLo3SM7c-nugdJa__XDuZaGdXd0bC

I created the most epic paper toss into a bin. The paper makes its journey across my house. There are many rooms and locations outdoors that this paper has to travel through just to get to the bin. The bin is so far away that it has to go in through the house, outside and around the house, back inside and up the stairs all in one toss! It was so spectacular I had to do a celebration dance. https://vm.tiktok.com/G1goRe/ Watch my TikTok to see this fabulous throw.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hjY8U7F-fAd69bCd0ULrcaajVBCErwWl

This is one of my favorite paper plane designs and I used to have a lot of them when I was a child. To make this paper throw more unique, the plane had an asymmetry design with smaller right wing and a hole in the middle, which makes the plane turn right after I release it. The angle to throw and speed was crucial and it took me a couple of trials before understand how this plane behaves. This assignment distracts me a bit from boring social-distancing and brings back my paper plane skills I used to have.

For the first hometask, I chose to kick a crumbled up piece of paper into my garbage bin. One of the hardest things to do in American football is punt a football down the field because of the ball’s rotation and unique shape. A crumbled up piece of paper has no clear shape and is rough around the edges, so I figured I would try and test my skills at punting a piece of paper. I stood at the top of my stairs, dropped the piece of paper, and hit it against the wall and into my garbage bin. This throw / kick was spectacular because I had to drop the paper on a certain part of my foot to ensure it would go in the correct direction. I also had to put just enough power into the kick to make sure it ended up in the bin. This task turned out to be much more challenging than I imagined, but I did not mind it because I don’t have much else to do these days.