It's finally gotten cold, and practice featured more hoodies than the x games (Wicked!! I love Mat Hoffman, too!). The weather was pretty much perfect for ultimate, though, and you could tell that everyone was ready for Glory Days this weekend (preview forthcoming, stay tuned - you've bookmarked this page now, right?).
We started off with a brisk jog around the complex, while Brad and Austin (for some reason) sallied back at the field. This blogger suspects they are both just pussies.
Then we started in on cut-to's. This seemed to go pretty well, especially because the wind was not quite cross nor upwind-downwind - a little tricky, but the rookies (and the bad vets, like zubair) handled it well.
[note: at some point, pat just left. no one knows where he went.
sources within the team suggest that there might be more to this story. Some speculate he has a drug habit. Others speculate he is slipping off to write a blog(?!?!?!??). In any event, those in the know are wondering if he might see his playing time slip at Glory Days. Only time will tell...]
After that, we ran through the o-sets (alpha, beta, tau), and this seemed to help some of the rookies who may have missed a practice or two to get caught up and to refresh everyone's memory going into the tournament.
Then we split up into four teams: three were the x-y-z teams from this weekend, and the other was the guys who aren't going. Everyone should (feel free to) post your comments about practice, esp the scrimmages. Who played well, who didn't, that sort of stuff. I'll try to give quick recaps, but let's hear from everone else.
On one field, team y, featuring walden dave and world's dirtiest player jman, played team z, featuring pavan, dennis, and brad. They battled it out to 5-3, I think, with lots of bad long shots going up which you might expect with four mediocre huckers and jman and pavan on the field.
On the other field, the most intense game ever* was taking place between team x and team unglory days.
Regulation time couldn't hold these teams, and team x (purportedly named the bloggers) eventually fell, despite having joel and a presumably well-rested austin, to cole and phenom's bunch of can-do ragamuffins, 7-6.
Darkness was swiftly approaching, so the teams hurried to get their last games in. The winners faced off in a slaughterfest. Team z beat team y 5-1. The other game was between losers, so does it really matter?
Overall, we should be happy with our direction heading into Glory Days. It was good to split up into teams and get some (fledgling) rivalries sprouting. There's no doubt these teams will be gunning for each other this weekend.
*of this season so far.
9 comments:
Can't say I'm happy with this anymore. Not only are you hating on J-man, but poor me too. That's just not nice... DENIS. I know its you... or PAVAN. YEP. Maybe...
Mmmmmm...gotta get dem drugs. Seriously, these pictures just keep getting better.
One thing I noticed about the practice was the increased intensity. I think it is good to have these little rivalries to make things more intense. When everyone has a vested interest in the game the level of play increases. I just wanted to say that we need to keep the intensity up at practice. Only a few more outdoor then we head inside.
Oh yeah. Zubair, they dont even know what is about to happen to them at Glory Days. We will have big bad lamp beat up the blogger for you.
the pictures are amazing. the little kid looking out the door??? genius.
zubs, seems like a pretty obvious ploy to hate on yourself on your own blog in order to make other people think its not you.
and i would agree with most of the commentary, but i thought the alpha-beta-tau drill went on a little too long in its current form. i feel like, if we do it that long, we should add another layer of complexity (i.e. defense or something).
agreed with joel wholeheartedly tho. i love the rivalries.
oh, and wrt who played well on my team:
rookie kurt had a great day. was getting the bee a lot, and didn't make any mistakes that i remember. big up.
and mitchener had a dirty lay out d on the endzone line. i think he was on the non-glory days team.
this blog is awesome.
Can we please talk about the Shoryuken cat? Please? Amazing.
On a slightly more serious note: we want parents and family members to read this and know what their sons are doing, so cleaning up the language a bit might be good.
Also...proofread!
I think the blogger is muffin...
who wants parents to read this? i think:
hilariousness >> parents' readbility
that's just me.
but, seriously, at least check how to spell my name.
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