Although trashcan is a completely foreign activity to most, it is not without its similarities to several other popular sports that people play growing up. Consequently, when playing trashcan for the first time, people tend to instantly excel in some areas of the game and must develop others. Whatever overlapping skill they possess from another sport shines through immediately, to the point where it is fairly easy to guess what sports they grew up playing without having seen them actually play that respective sport. After playing for an extended period of time, by necessity of the game, the weaker parts of a player’s trashcan game strengthens into a more complete set of athletic abilities. The game itself encourages players to observationally learn skills from players who are more successful in a specific aspect of the game. Basketball players copy soccer players for foot skills. Soccer players mimic basketball players for hand eye coordination, cross country runners copy everybody while outperforming them in the endurance category. Similarly, although the correlation between lacrosse or hockey is less clear, the positioning and play running of trashcan closely mirrors lacrosse/hockey due to the fact that players can move behind the trash can to score. The best style of defense is a volleyball type movement, as is evident in some of our pictures. Either up high as a spike or down in the can as a dig, volleyball players do it best.
Athlete: a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill.
So what does this all mean? It means that there is a high chance that everyone playing Trashcan for the first time will be good but not great. Very few will be instantly dominant or embarrassingly terrible. Even those individuals who did not grow up playing sports surely grew up playing the most elementary of games; tag. The game tends to produce a more balanced athlete due to its nature. It commands a wide range of talents, from speed, to endurance, hand-eye, foot-eye, cutting, jumping, communication, and spatial awareness. Yet, perhaps paradoxically, initially, trashcan requires very basic skills to play.
Because of its dynamic nature, trashcan is ideal for a number of uses. It is a perfect cross-trainer for any sport. It is a suitable crowd-pleaser for those who simply can’t agree on a sport to play (which often happens due to a large talent disparity among friends/family/colleagues). It also is ideal workout supplement, due to it’s demand for upper body, core, and lower body muscle groups both large and small.
Athlete: a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill.
So what does this all mean? It means that there is a high chance that everyone playing Trashcan for the first time will be good but not great. Very few will be instantly dominant or embarrassingly terrible. Even those individuals who did not grow up playing sports surely grew up playing the most elementary of games; tag. The game tends to produce a more balanced athlete due to its nature. It commands a wide range of talents, from speed, to endurance, hand-eye, foot-eye, cutting, jumping, communication, and spatial awareness. Yet, perhaps paradoxically, initially, trashcan requires very basic skills to play.
Because of its dynamic nature, trashcan is ideal for a number of uses. It is a perfect cross-trainer for any sport. It is a suitable crowd-pleaser for those who simply can’t agree on a sport to play (which often happens due to a large talent disparity among friends/family/colleagues). It also is ideal workout supplement, due to it’s demand for upper body, core, and lower body muscle groups both large and small.