Quickhands Gains Popularity in Fleetwood

Coordination, Quickness, and Hands: these 3 components are what you need to be successful in the game of all games, Quickhands.

 Some say it’s been around since the years of the Cavemen. Other say they made it up this year.

Ryan Cortazzo, senior at Fleetwood, says differently.

“It started during baseball, 9th grade year, with some baseball guys.  It derived from the baseball drill called quickhands.”

Everyone has played a different version and might not even know it.  Some might call it a lot of different things.  The game is played with anything, usually a tennis ball or a full water bottle not yet opened. The purpose of the game is to not let the ball or water bottle fall to the ground. There really is no winning or losing in this game. Just find some guys or girls, find something to use as the projectile, and make sure you have hands. Most people play with whatever they can find.

“I play in Devin[ Wenzel’s] basement, with Danny [Lopez] throwing gum at Devin and him catching it right before it hits the ground,” Senior Matt McCammitt said.

The best way to play is to find something you can throw and, if some walks by and they aren’t looking at you, yell “hands!” or “quickhands!” and see if they indeed have quick hands.

 Devin Wenzel said he plays with “anything [he] can find–worth less than $1000, but more than $10.”

Participants could literally play this anywhere they would like. It’s a game with no rules, no restrictions, except for the fact that you can’t let it hit the ground. It’s a great way to make friends.

“I met my holiday ball date by playing quick hands,” Ryan Steward said.

One of Fleetwood’s natural players, Edwin Enriquez, said the weirdest place he ever played was “in his friend Jake Yost’s room, with a full propel bottle.”

This is a game that’s been around for a while, and with a bottle or a ball, you too can play it. It’s simple.  Just be creative, and don’t drop it.