Friskee!

I couldnt help it, I went along to a game with Friskee and came on a few points...

It was a sad reminder of what I'd been missing out on.

Played a bit of zone handler, I was happy with my throwing and catching. It was against the bad beats and they had a pretty solid line up. (When everyone arrived... we started playign 4/2 with them only 4/1). It was probably a good experience for our less experienced players running into their zone.

Seeing some of the guys on my youth nats team come up against their first semi decent zone, I found out why they don't allow zone in youth nationals, it would completely invalidate a lot of inexperienced players despite their athleticism and disc skills.

Thanks to Bad Beats for letting us pick up about 4-5 players...

We had 2 new girls come along and play Bella and Laura, Bad Beats were very friendly and nice to them I think it was a good first experience at a competitive game of frisbee.

It was also Mark Evans last game with Friskee before he goes away to Europe and England, he did a couple of very nice catches, his pulling was pretty solid but his hucking wasnt too good that game. It was also the first game I had a chance to play on the same field as Brett Matzuka, hes a very fun guy to play with, has lots and lots of crafty handler moves and very friendly. Unfortunately the points we did play were sort of short... probably because I could play close to zero d due to my knee still and not running at all.

Came away with a few assists I was overall happy with my hucking, bad choices at the time (he wasn't really that open) on a few of them but they still came off. Equally there were some very good choices and good throws that became dropped pancake catches... I also tried to huck a backhand as a fast break throw off a turn, a mark come on at the last moment and i didn't follow through properly and threw a huge inside out backhand blade, funny thing was the 3 offensive guys becuase 2 misread it managed to completely box out Tim Gee to give mark a relatively easy catch. I guess thats totally buzz bullets style hucking blades to make position matter more compared to height!

Simon Talbot also made a guest star appearance since hes here for ECC's, was fun having a bit of a chat with him, and he had some very nice faking happening when he went on for a guest star point with 100% completion and points scored when on the field.

I also had my first taste of an assassination zone since our first season of friskee (no one has used it against us for a while) and this time it was me that was assassinated. When I realised I tried to stay behind the disc, and then started running around sort of directionless just tryign to keep my man away from the action.

Brendon the fantastic cool and all around nice guy Frisbee player came and had a chat to me about it saying why I was assassinated (passing to girls) and what I should have done, which was basically just keep moving and try and pop to stay useful and mess aroudn with their zone.

I really like it when people teach me very important stuff like that!

At the end of the game had a chat with Brett and Alex Allen about the future of ourselves in frisbee with a very positive outlook!


Thanks to bad beats for a very fun game with plenty of pick ups, pretty good spirit i think.

Damn.
I forgot the score.

Damn lost again...

North Shore League Division 2. Friskee always come last or second last. We usually try to console our selves thinking "its ok, we'll win spirit"

This season we didnt spirit again.

01) Control Freaks 105/13 = 8.077
02) Cousin Sven 104/13 = 8.000
03) RuBi 100/13 = 7.692
04) Friskee 100/13 = 7.692 *

The star means we had a forfeit which means we got 0 for a game because we didn't turn up.

Damnit!

Friskee Win HOORAY - Post game ANALysis

Friskee won a game!

Post game analysis time and my frisbitchings

Our Man offense was disgusting. It worked just because we were more athletic, but it had very little continuation and flow, no noticable stack or clearing...

Our Zone Defense?
Marks were a little dodgy, not always forcing properly, the wall was fine most of the game but the wings and deeps were having trouble with less talk than last week. So they didn't really know as well where to go, also we were getting broken a lot, when I was on mark i noticed a lot of high forehands, scoobers and mega low and wide breaking backhands.

I hate being broken in a zone, it means i have to turn all the way around and sprint to the furthest point. Luckily they didn't move it upfield too much with the swings thanks to our super wings.

So my question Is being closer or further from the disc harder or easier to break?

Closer:

• Hand block chances,
  
• Only chance at over heads getting blocked,
• Physical presence creates feeling of pressure, whether is is actually there or not.
• Pressure on openside throws (can contain to an extent)
  
• Breaks don't need to be as wide to go around defender.

Further

• No chance at handblocks
• No openside pressure (not needed on sideline though)
  
• More time to react to throw (blocks)
  
• wider throw needed to break
• Easy over head throws
• I guess its more useful in wind where non perfect throws upwind on the sideline will be punished? especially with the wall and your position pressuring.
• Much much less running!

Maybe something to try in the wind.

It was that good.

We are no longer negative points on our div 2 table.

Friskee managed to pull a draw against the Mac Uni team.

Friskee came together as a team and we played putting all the weeks training into play.
We busted a zone for the first time, the handlers handled, the poppers popped the wing deeps flew.

It was magic.

Piers, Timill and Jimmy wanted Aussie Thunder to be the best pommy d in juniors world.
Tonight we practiced it, and it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

The team did however sustain a few injuries.
Alex Peters while in the wall jumping up for a bid, landed and twisted her ankle very badly.
Ange later at Div 1 got decked (not sure of the complete details)
Loren and Sali are broken.

I played a lot more popping and wing deep, as well as playing more in the wall.
I'm glad my fitness can take it now, have a lot more to go.

My knee is slightly something wrong with it right now.