1st - 2nd Practice

1st Practice:
Saw a lot of new kids at the meeting. A lot of them looked pretty athletic and decent. Unlike last year, I think a lot of them might actually stick around, cause I think they enjoy it quite a bit. Did some introductions to stuff, still not a big fan of the SPIRIT OF THE GAME = 1ST PRIORITY thing, but whatever, its not like I'm out to destroy SOTG anyways.

Personal progress? Well, a clear loss of athleticism is obvious, but I'm not too far down that I can't quickly get back up to where I was before. Other than one bad throw/decision, the wind didn't effect my game too much yesterday. I tried the spin around forehand huck in a scrimmage, and it worked surprisingly well in the wind. Unfortunately, overpowered it just a little bit and Jay was also running in the rock patch so that wouldn't have been good news. Defense-wise, I played a bit more aggressively than usually, which actually drew out a foul or two, but I also got a layout D out of it. Unfortunately, I had forgotten how hard the field was.

Day 2:
Today was an okay day. Not bad, not great, but wasn't feeling the whole atmosphere of the practice. One of the reasons was because I squatted a 100 something a couple of times in gym so I was feeling pretty weak in the legs. I recruited one of my friends, he's already pretty good but unfortunately he's a senior so he'll only be playing for a year at most. We concentrated mostly on teaching the noobs how to throw today, and teaching our varsity/girls the correct way to throw. i.e. stepping out laterally and getting low. Other than that, we just did some more running and conditioning which is always fun, and then finally scrimmaged.

My team lost once, wasn't so much bad D on our half than it was them not turning it over carelessly. The second point, Sean's and my legs got mixed up during a sky and I called foul. Apparently I was actually the one who fouled Sean, but he didn't contest it, even though I was hoping he would be able to recognize a bad call. We turned it over anyways, but they didn't really convert it well so we put it in for the score. The third point, we worked it up pretty nicely, and then I had a good cut in the endzone for the score. Not my best, but I played pretty efficiently today.