No worries!

{ he'll ready himself for it anyway, bracing himself by bending his knees, arms in a way that will reduce some of the impact. }

When it's a pretty intense rally that's exactly what you wanna do to slow things down.

{ when the ball finally comes down it doesn't go anywhere nearly as high. }

If you want, next throw I'll set it to you instead and we can see if I can block in return? We'll just have to pretend the net is there for now.