"I was aiming for it," he admits with some sheepishness. "And it kinda depends on where you're swimming. The water in a sphere and pool's different than when you're in the sea. It's heavier? But that makes it better learning to handle attacks, since you have people knocking you around and trying to get the ball from you in blitzball."

Blitzball wasn't a contactless game, for sure. "A full game's two five minute rounds, but that's a lot when anything can happen. You need to be able to hold onto your breath through all that action too!"