Teaching new people can be frustrating for some people having little tolerance for those who aren't as good, or have no idea what's going on. Like explaining the force, or how to tell people to clear.
My training log for yesterday would have been 11 hours of walking around at work. In that time I clear up a lot of tables and I get pretty bored. Specifically it involves just taking up all the dirty plates after a meal and then taking them to the kitchen for the kitchen hand, who also gets bored and does weird things to pass the time, like sing songs when I go into the kitchen and swear a lot.
I realised.
A good cut is like a good meal eaten off these tables.
Wheather the meal is good or not, you have to clear the table at the end of the meal just like a cut.
You could try and eat off the used plates, but it wouldn't be as good and all its really doing is getting in the way of any other meal getting placed on the table.
I'll try that one next time someone doesn't understand.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Friday, December 28, 2007
Frisbee Training Log - Alex's
I've only ever done hard training once before in my life. It was many times a week, with 4 organised sessions. 2 Just normal waterpolo trainings, one ground fitness and one pool fitness. It was pretty painful, the guy who ran the ground trainings was an ex boxer and extremely crazy, I dont think I've been put through that much pain in a long time, but his sessions were a lot of fun with part of his fitness sessions being games like theres a big ball in the middle of the room you ahve to put it in your box, team build ups etc, pretty good for increasing pain tolerance, speed and strength. Since then I've been pretty lazy.
I've haven't been challenged for a position in any sporting team.
In year 3 I tried out for a school cricket team and failed.
I tried out for a softball team in year 4, made it, I played pitcher and was pretty damn good at it. We won a lot of games.
In year 5 I tried out for a softball team at a new school, I didn't make it this time.
In year 6, I tried out for a school cricket team, we won our zone comp, carried by Jack Ritchie (our state player) that was a fun season, I remember the last game we lost for the Elders Cup. There was a lot of crying when we lost. We had 3 balls to go, they needed 3 runs, 1 wicket left. Ball is bowled, hit up in the air, a guy drops a sitter and starts crying. In the time he cried he missed any chance of a run out. We lost and a lot of people cried.
In year 7, I tried out for a volley ball team, got in, but was too scared to travel out west on trains to play games.
In year 8 I started playing waterpolo for school, a semi-obscure sport.
We had an awesome team, carried by our solid team work and our state player Tyler. Year 8/9 there was homebush, we lost to them in the finals. Year 9/10 we played opens and got dominated as the smallest team. I did manage to score a goal against homebush one game who at the time were a monster sized team with a lot of skill and aggression.
Year 10/11 was an annoying season, our state player t-mac was poached by the 2nds (we were the firsts), had a semi decent season, but came from 4th position to take the zone title. We won Crawford shield, but got Kincumbered in the regionals of state knockout.
Year 11/12 was a lame/average season. Worst final ever.
The point is, I've never been challenged for a position in a team for 6 years.
This will be something new.
I've started training since then.
Started a log as suggested by Piers a few weeks ago.
Here we go:
Juniors training camp here we go.
I've haven't been challenged for a position in any sporting team.
In year 3 I tried out for a school cricket team and failed.
I tried out for a softball team in year 4, made it, I played pitcher and was pretty damn good at it. We won a lot of games.
In year 5 I tried out for a softball team at a new school, I didn't make it this time.
In year 6, I tried out for a school cricket team, we won our zone comp, carried by Jack Ritchie (our state player) that was a fun season, I remember the last game we lost for the Elders Cup. There was a lot of crying when we lost. We had 3 balls to go, they needed 3 runs, 1 wicket left. Ball is bowled, hit up in the air, a guy drops a sitter and starts crying. In the time he cried he missed any chance of a run out. We lost and a lot of people cried.
In year 7, I tried out for a volley ball team, got in, but was too scared to travel out west on trains to play games.
In year 8 I started playing waterpolo for school, a semi-obscure sport.
We had an awesome team, carried by our solid team work and our state player Tyler. Year 8/9 there was homebush, we lost to them in the finals. Year 9/10 we played opens and got dominated as the smallest team. I did manage to score a goal against homebush one game who at the time were a monster sized team with a lot of skill and aggression.
Year 10/11 was an annoying season, our state player t-mac was poached by the 2nds (we were the firsts), had a semi decent season, but came from 4th position to take the zone title. We won Crawford shield, but got Kincumbered in the regionals of state knockout.
Year 11/12 was a lame/average season. Worst final ever.
The point is, I've never been challenged for a position in a team for 6 years.
This will be something new.
I've started training since then.
Started a log as suggested by Piers a few weeks ago.
Here we go:
Training Log
10/12/07
25 mins Run – About 2 kms + sprints
50 Passes
15 Completions of Wing/Deep Drill
11/12/07
Leage Game: Friskee against No Dice – Lose - Experiment with 2 handler zone - works surprisingly well.
12/12/07
Barefoot Training – 4 Laps of Field (New Experience)
30 mins of game
20 mins of Plyometrics
15 Mins of strength
Run Through Drill x10
Power Play Drill x10
13/12/07
Manly League Finals (worst final ever, except the one against homebush) - Lost by a point 45 mins of running.
14/12/07
1 full lap of Park
Half Circuit of park – Indian File
100 Passes Drill
10 Mins Plyometrics
Injury: Ankle
16/12/07
Longest
Injury: Needle to Foot
Weight: 84 kgs
24/12/07
Finally started again.
25 mins of running, interval runs.
2x 100 throw sets
Plyometrics 10-15 mins
5 reps of throw/receiver drills with dump.
28/12/07
83kg
100 Throws short with teaching beginner.
25 minute run.
10 minute plyometrics.
Noticing fitness increase.
Juniors training camp here we go.
Some Beach Fitness
28\12
Throwing with Max - no wind at the beach today, unfortunate, forehands are giving me trouble but there's signs of improvement in both accuracy and distance. 4km beach run after, competent pace, although I had to stop after 2kms to swim as I am almost fanatically unfit. Need to work on that, a lot.
Played some sweet 3v3 beach ultimate with a guy from Boulder, Colorado (College Champions 06, anyone?) and an English dude he was travelling with, as well as a few of my mates. My toe got extremely injured in the first point but I still played okay.
T.
Throwing with Max - no wind at the beach today, unfortunate, forehands are giving me trouble but there's signs of improvement in both accuracy and distance. 4km beach run after, competent pace, although I had to stop after 2kms to swim as I am almost fanatically unfit. Need to work on that, a lot.
Played some sweet 3v3 beach ultimate with a guy from Boulder, Colorado (College Champions 06, anyone?) and an English dude he was travelling with, as well as a few of my mates. My toe got extremely injured in the first point but I still played okay.
T.
A Tiny Bit More Training
23/12: I forgot about this one. I dragged Clare down to the beach and practiced throwing for about half an hour in extreme wind. Got my backhand flat, able to travel a reasonable distance. It floated too much and had a tendency to 'catch the wind' and get carried away, but I was fairly happy with it. Forehands I had much more trouble with. I had no idea how sloppy my technique was and I use way too much much outside in curve. Easily rectifiable, will attempt to adjust. Clare was throwing really well, too - and she was drunk, which I didn't even realise until later. The Womens team have a pretty good receiver in her, although from everyone I know in it they probably are already inundated with receivers.
26/12: About 15-20 minutes of swimming, nothing huge, just an attempt to make my muscles ease up a bit. I did some rockrunning, though. What's rockrunning, and how does it translate to Ultimate? Well, I started doing it to see if there was a pool on the other side of my local beach, but I started thinking about focus and balance halfway along the way, and I sped up. While I wouldn't call it training as such, there's a lot of things at work during a run over rocks - it's not actually 'running' as such, but jumping, so you get some sweet vertical/horizontal workouts. There's the rapid start/stop action you get in Ultimate (and in netball) as well as a heightened acknowledgment of how important balance and subtle adjustments of the body are - a point I find often overlooked, even though it seems pretty important (to me) in terms of cutting and throwing: a lethal fake, the kind I see people much better than me doing (and I constantly fail to defend against) involves lightning-quick change of direction, usually achieved by planting a foot and turning. There's balance at work! - likewise in throwing, where lazy folks don't pivot, or pivot extremely slowly, allowing the mark to shut down the break throw before the offence even reaches it.
So yeah, balance is important and rockrunning helps you balance. Go out and try it. It's really dangerous though so be careful, pace yourself to begin with.
T.
26/12: About 15-20 minutes of swimming, nothing huge, just an attempt to make my muscles ease up a bit. I did some rockrunning, though. What's rockrunning, and how does it translate to Ultimate? Well, I started doing it to see if there was a pool on the other side of my local beach, but I started thinking about focus and balance halfway along the way, and I sped up. While I wouldn't call it training as such, there's a lot of things at work during a run over rocks - it's not actually 'running' as such, but jumping, so you get some sweet vertical/horizontal workouts. There's the rapid start/stop action you get in Ultimate (and in netball) as well as a heightened acknowledgment of how important balance and subtle adjustments of the body are - a point I find often overlooked, even though it seems pretty important (to me) in terms of cutting and throwing: a lethal fake, the kind I see people much better than me doing (and I constantly fail to defend against) involves lightning-quick change of direction, usually achieved by planting a foot and turning. There's balance at work! - likewise in throwing, where lazy folks don't pivot, or pivot extremely slowly, allowing the mark to shut down the break throw before the offence even reaches it.
So yeah, balance is important and rockrunning helps you balance. Go out and try it. It's really dangerous though so be careful, pace yourself to begin with.
T.
Training with Tiger
From now I'm going to use this weblog as my training diary: an idea that makes sense to me because this way other people can see what I'm doing, give me advice/help if I need/they want and most important of all I probably won't lose it. Highly likely if I attempted it on paper.
So, it's time for a State of Le Tigre address:
In the cooldown period after my Tuesday and Thursday night League games (as well as Wednesday night training with Fakulfoot) stopped - my ideal time to start training - I got very sick. I wasn't quite all right (the usual, coughing fits late at night which led to vomiting, leading to no sleep or energy, so the cycle began anew) until Christmas Eve. Here we go.
24/12: First Big Training Session: Joined by my main man Semfel, we started off with 100 throws, which led to a 1k? (not sure of the distance) jog which I varied with some sprinting to challenge myself. Then a water break. Plyo's Semfel and I stole from Barefoot - we looked very silly but I could definitely feel the plyometrics stimulating muscles I use while jumping. 100 throws, again. Interval running ('Let's sprint to this cone, walk to the next, two cones length of jogging after that then sprint for two!') for a very long time. Water break.
As far as I can recall, the next and last thing we did was a modified shuttle run/kill drill: five cones, three in a stack about ten metres away from the two 'throwing cones' (the cone on the left for righty backhand/lefty forehand, the cone on the right for righty forehand/lefty backhand). It was the receiver's job to start in the middle of the three cones, which were about 5m away from one another. Starting at cone 2 (middle) he would sprint out to cone 3 (furthest away from thrower) as a deep fake, turn and sprint to cone 1, get the disc from the thrower, dump it immediately, sprint to cone 2, fake open-side cut then sprint to the breakside for a dump, then jog to cone 2 and bust deep past cone 3 for a huck/score. Repeat with the thrower on the other side.
We did that drill with about six lots of two reps each, and later made the thrower have to cut to the first cone instead of staying stationary.
Then to finish it off we did a modified 100 throws: two 'throwing lanes' erected with cones, every throw has to be caught within the lanes otherwise both people's set of 10 throws starts again, and you have to do pushups as punishment. Pushups work on an increment system - first mistake = 1, second = 2, etc etc, all the way up to 10 whereby they go back down: 9, then 8, then 7 for every mistake. The idea was that if one managed to make 20 mistakes (travel the whole way up to ten then back to zero) then you start the entirety of 100 throws all over again.
That drill sucked, and my arms still hurt. Although it led (on my side, Semfel was understandably more tired than I from a 9 hour shift and too much noodles the hour previous) to a much greater appreciation of the disc, and made me really concentrate on catching the disc with two hands wherever possible (because I am weak and hate push ups). Despite doing it while physically exhausted, this drill made me extremely mentally focused.
Cooled down with a bit of a run and lots of stretching. I'm going to notch that one into the 'highly successful' column. I learnt a lot.
T.
So, it's time for a State of Le Tigre address:
In the cooldown period after my Tuesday and Thursday night League games (as well as Wednesday night training with Fakulfoot) stopped - my ideal time to start training - I got very sick. I wasn't quite all right (the usual, coughing fits late at night which led to vomiting, leading to no sleep or energy, so the cycle began anew) until Christmas Eve. Here we go.
24/12: First Big Training Session: Joined by my main man Semfel, we started off with 100 throws, which led to a 1k? (not sure of the distance) jog which I varied with some sprinting to challenge myself. Then a water break. Plyo's Semfel and I stole from Barefoot - we looked very silly but I could definitely feel the plyometrics stimulating muscles I use while jumping. 100 throws, again. Interval running ('Let's sprint to this cone, walk to the next, two cones length of jogging after that then sprint for two!') for a very long time. Water break.
As far as I can recall, the next and last thing we did was a modified shuttle run/kill drill: five cones, three in a stack about ten metres away from the two 'throwing cones' (the cone on the left for righty backhand/lefty forehand, the cone on the right for righty forehand/lefty backhand). It was the receiver's job to start in the middle of the three cones, which were about 5m away from one another. Starting at cone 2 (middle) he would sprint out to cone 3 (furthest away from thrower) as a deep fake, turn and sprint to cone 1, get the disc from the thrower, dump it immediately, sprint to cone 2, fake open-side cut then sprint to the breakside for a dump, then jog to cone 2 and bust deep past cone 3 for a huck/score. Repeat with the thrower on the other side.
We did that drill with about six lots of two reps each, and later made the thrower have to cut to the first cone instead of staying stationary.
Then to finish it off we did a modified 100 throws: two 'throwing lanes' erected with cones, every throw has to be caught within the lanes otherwise both people's set of 10 throws starts again, and you have to do pushups as punishment. Pushups work on an increment system - first mistake = 1, second = 2, etc etc, all the way up to 10 whereby they go back down: 9, then 8, then 7 for every mistake. The idea was that if one managed to make 20 mistakes (travel the whole way up to ten then back to zero) then you start the entirety of 100 throws all over again.
That drill sucked, and my arms still hurt. Although it led (on my side, Semfel was understandably more tired than I from a 9 hour shift and too much noodles the hour previous) to a much greater appreciation of the disc, and made me really concentrate on catching the disc with two hands wherever possible (because I am weak and hate push ups). Despite doing it while physically exhausted, this drill made me extremely mentally focused.
Cooled down with a bit of a run and lots of stretching. I'm going to notch that one into the 'highly successful' column. I learnt a lot.
T.
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