effin' jim. his name recognition is an insult. alex just toadies along as a teacup member... but i mean, where's barney barnicle...
that effin' tea party...
kiddin, i keed...
jim has turned the blogosphere into what rsd should be. i wish it were tree branched( like rsd) for i don't disagree w/ most points (however, jim, announce a stand on wind = 'o' or 'd'. just say, i don't know, moons always made those decisions for me).
ok, i'm jealous. i need to see if the hit counts have improved, or just participation. i am actually waiting on my own copy of jim's book. i read it this weekend (an aside. call me ee cummings, i'm just not concerned enough to care about syntax as much as jim: if I publish these blogs, in any form, i'll edit for pronunciation and capitalization)... anyway jim's book.
good, (oh, wait, jim and ZAZ's book. after all, zaz is the one who thanked ring for giving him a toast. even if it was lowly canadian team too bad, w/ self proclaimed decent player luke smith). anyway go zaz.
uh, back to the book. good organization. thoughtful explanations. i will, when i enter the season, use it as a primer for teaching my kids. i will also offer my opinions (position, for instance: jim shows all defenders 'all up ons' where i think if you have help from other positions, you can play off the man, to make the thrower hold on for longer in the count)...
good depth. this is a very good book for new to medium players. also, good for GOOD players to use as a framework to assess their own views of the game. that is, on some point, i may feel jim and zaz offer a good point, but i may disagree FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS (where the reasons are x and y)... therefore you think about your own game, and self reflection is the key to improvement...
wow. ultimate corner first. who'd of thunk.
now here is the week in review.
Saturday, I got fields for 'ror$hack' (formally whor$shack) a nw coed team. they let me scrimmage with them. the fields (at summit) are flat, and fast, and firm. rain the previous night had softened them, so they were only a notch below the nationals fields. i ran drills, and played a few points in the first scrimmage (10:30-1:30)... then played almost every point of the afternoon scrimmage...
thoughts... 2 a days, especially in co-ed (slightly longer points) w/ 16 players (started w/ more)... are brutal. i was drained, w/ some sore muscles...
I took sunday and monday off (not feeling my oats) and today (tuesday), we ran 3x400, 3x300, and 3x200...
it was a 'feel good workout.' for the varsity, it was easy. for the lesser players, harder.
after a 2 mile warmup, and drills (high knees, butt kicks, side to side and karaoke, w/ 6 50 yd sprints (not timed, but brisk)) i went, 77,75,74,53,52,51,31... and then the wheels fell off. sore calf, lack of interest (i mean, i ran a fastish 200), a kid got hurt so say 36, and then i quit the last one to stretch a cramping kid... so, not bad... ended w/ a 1 mile cool down. so a total of a 4.5 mile workout.
tommorrow, bend play under the lights...
goals for tommorrow night(such as they are).
defense. (ambitious, given my age, and predeliction for 'o' play) cover my guy for at least 3 turnovers...
offense... instead of throwing goals, use my current 'decent' level of conditioning to be a receiver... there are plenty of players willing to chuck some swill up to me...
plus, it'll be kind of cold, which KILLS my game... so, why focus on learning to throw in cold weather (since i'd prefer never to play 'for real' in cold weather)...
next up... we're now into the part of the year where we peak the kids for districts and states... obviously, this doesn't help me (why is this auto linking to some ebay site?).. so, i'm going to back off the speed, and move into longer distance and weights for 3 weeks... then xc season starts, and i'll focus on intervals and plyos...
see you in tempe. maybe hawaii. nice to be drawing a check for the first time in 3 years.
7 comments:
#1 rule of Bill Swanson's "25 Unwritten Rules of Management" is that "I don't know" is an acceptable answer. I can't believe I'm writing this, but I don't know everything.
I suspect that the best solution is to keep your O on O and your D on D but to put in some D guys (or the more D-minded of the O guys) on O when you're going downwind and put some O guys in on D when you're going upwind.
Is there conventional wisdom on this?
Is it really that difficult to hit the shift key? No problems otherwise for conversational writing.
Hmm, you're onto something here, though. I'm going to add a topic with a standing link to "discuss ambiguities or inconsistencies or inaccuracies in UT&T."
Hmm. I thought 'good question' was the more humorous translation of 'I don't know.'
Does the 'O' team's abillity to work it in cause them to forget 'statistery' and turn it over on their own goal line going up wind? Seemed like furious's's 'o' team was their 'd' team... or at least, seemed like they had a couple of 'O' players who went 'd' when the chips were down... (or maybe just mg)...
conventional wisdom, just, flg, don't turn it over on own goaline when you are going downhill or downwind... depending on strength of wind... i don't know if that's conventional, but it's a lot more fun...
This is offf topic but I'm desperate for help.....
I'm the coach of a London (UK) based team. We have a real mix of players from the experienced to beginners. The one area that causes us more turnovers than anything else is when a weaker player gets an up field pass and there's no easy continuation pass. The obvious thing to do is to dump the disc to a handler and reset the offensive formation, what ever that may be.
The problem is in getting these dump passes out. I know to teach people about eye contact etc but what I need is a good drill to encourage/practice making safe dump passes.
Please can you or someone help as it's causing me untold heart ache watching us move the disc 80% of the way up field only to lose it on a badly executed dump pass.
Kenee
Thundering Herd - London
i run a dump drill with my hs kids, which is 2 close lines cut flick, get looked offrun behind thrower, who may throw a backhand to dump space, or fake a back hand and throw a (still backhand to the other dump space after the change of direction)... does that make sense?
that's pretty rudimentary, a better way is...
a game, 2 v 2 (up to 5v5) in a box of varying sizes... from 10yds a side, up to half a field. Any 10 passes in a row is a point, turnonver for drop, out of bounds, interception... games are to 5 (adjust number of passes and number of points for skill, experience, etc). Play that in a crowded area, and you're pretty much just working on getting open for a dump... Players pretty quickly get in the habit of working w/ the cutter (or with the thrower as the case maybe) and learning visual and subliminal cues about what their team mates are doing...
good conditioning, too...
If you want better punctuation, go ask jim the same question.
Also, strategerically, do these players know that they don't have the throws? i.e., is there a awkward 5-6 seconds where they are blithely faking throws they don't have? that may be another issue, one best handled in the manner best suited to your teams unique chemistry...
i.e., "for god's sake if you ever even think about holding it more than 2 seconds, i'm going to hang you from the car's roof rack, by your shorts, and drive you to manchester" may be best suited for some teams, but for others, maybe some clever, pleasant obfuscation may be in order...
the dump cut, may look like this...
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where the cutter cuts flick, then behind, the thrower faces away from the mark and throws or fakes a back hand... the cutter catches it either on the left, or the right... and stays to be in the short thrower line...
if the situation is always someone downfield, trapped, you should probably drill to address that situation, so now tilt your head to the right
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+ gets it, uberthrower/player dash runs down the line, cuts back for the in the gut, or back for the dump... and maybe a final move back towards the endzone... if your gonna turn it over, i hope you're at least going for it...
not the most elegant solution, but how 'bad' are these downfield guys? Practicing that 3v3 in the box will work on making these close short passes w/ the competetive juices goint in a variety of mark situations...
One final note... if the guy busting down line realllly yells for it it should open the quieter dump guy moving up... likewise, if he runs back screaming for the dump, it should open a 'relatively easier invert'...
doh. stupid blogger... maybe i can use actual tags to draw what i mean...
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