today, at practice, for the actual frisbee fans. (somewhere out there, billy layden is looking at his netscape icon, and trying to decide if he should click it)...

30 kids, and it felt like a dissapointing practice. stud number one was recovering from a long term growth spurt achilles injury, but he was throwing, and it was sick... he'll be back, i hope. great girl noname (i will no longer list people's names on my blog) was throwing great, but seems to be suffering from a chronic knee subluxation issue: she'll be back. another kid, fresh frosh, suffered a bit before confessing he had a hamstring pull... i told him... see a PT, but barring that, walk till it doesn't hurt, run till it doesn't hurt, sprint, then play.

that said, 28 kids playing, it was warm (55, and only if you lived here would you understand that that means shorts and a TShirt), 1/2 mile warm up, full dynamics, mor throwing, walk through, more throwing, and then practice.

a scrimmage field, and a drill field. i cover the drills. i like the kids to scrimmage (right now) with minimal interference. i watch, but i'm minimizing comment for now. the drill of the day.

a give and go drill. this is part of my initial plan for teaching basic 4person plays. the drill is a throw from a line to another. line one has disc. line two makes a horizontal handler cut, and receives the disc. thrower cuts down line. later options will describe specific cuts.

endzone offense. ours is simple. call for a flood and isolate. we also have false floods, and varying H-stack offenses. today was simple stack/flood and ISO. i'm a big fan of 7 v 7 everybody's it tag (see previous post for details), call for a play.. it works because it teaches the values of

1) recover after chaos
2) burn time for effectiveness
3) communication...

then we ran some drills...

then, changed from short field 5 v 5 scrimmage to full field 7 v 7, for 15 minutes of full field scrimmage. here i would run back and forth between points and note: make a goal line call.

plan for later; allow longer scrimmage time, and call STOP before a mistake happens. this is usually to identify a point where the team has collapsed on the sideline... encourage kids to either huck and hope, or burn time to reset and set up...

that is all

oh, personal.
saturday: ski'd twice. 1:25 classic in the morning. 1:25 skate in the afternoon.
sunday: 1:30 skate. 4 mile run to drop off a bill. in the middle, i stopped off at the local sunday game, borrowed some cleats, andplayed probably 10 points. threw some goals, made some cuts. the field was the size of a 5 v 5 game...
monday: 34 minute run. probably 4.5 miles.
tuesday: (today), coached, see above. then, 50 minutes of skiing.funky, molten crust, 12km, ski'd abit w/ my room mate, and then, randomly took a digger... back at car, realized i'd lost my shades on the digger, went back found sunglasses in a tree well, went home...
that's all