After his keeper trial he returned to the ground and fetched a school bat that was rather battered and he hoped wouldn’t break during try-outs. 

Then with another series of determined “Ups”, a slip off the broom before he managed to get on it fully, and a slow step like rise into the air with laps around the pitch he was ready with his bat to try out for beater.  Yet, he watched others until he could position himself to go as close to the end as he could manage hoping he could pick up more techniques from watching others before he went as this was the position he wanted.

Once the person before him stopped he moved towards the center of the pitch rising at a much faster rate than he did in his practice lap.  Reaching the level where the targets were he quickly watched them all picking out stationary target to go after first and moving in its direction.  Though it was one of the non-stationary targets that made his eyes widen and body clench slightly before he remembered his bat and swung it instinctively at the blunger hitting it away from him unknowingly towards one of the stationary targets.  The momentum made his broom spin in the air at a dizzying rate making him grip harder on his broom and bat as he leaned into the spin and after five spins managed to curve out of it. 

Then he continued to slowly attempt to hit bludgers during his try-out time. 

Until towards the end of his try-out time he saw another blunger heading towards him.  His eyes widened realizing he couldn't turn quick enough to hit it.  So he tipped his broom downward making the fastest decent he ever had with his eyes widening as he pulled his broom up about twenty feet from the ground.

As he hovered about twenty feet from the ground he realized the fear of being hit had drawn out of him the first bit of flying that could be considered fast.  As to this points his movements had felt to him like they’d been mostly at half the speed of the others.  Looking at the bat he said quietly " Thanks batty" as he tossed it to the ground and turned to watch the others continue try-outs hovering in the air.