Lower volume before nationals.
- Deadlift: 3x3@315lb
- HPC: 3x3@135lb
- Bench: 3x3@135lb
Brought Zoya to her first ultimate game. Found some parents on the sideline who agreed to watch her while I played. She was great - no more stranger danger, all smiles and giggles. Our team crushed the other team, who was on the second game of their double-header and didn’t have many subs. Afterwards, we went out to lunch.
We came, we saw, we conquered (except for Slow). We started the weekend off in classic Metro North fashion: by ignoring everything we practice and jamming it in the jamhole repeatedly. But we eventually got our shit together, moved the disc well, and raised our game. The crossover with Slow was an epic back-and-forth game, and we even got the D on the goal line on universe and had the opportunity to win it, but a nice D by Todd got them the disc back and they converted for the win. On Sunday, we had a really close game with Xist - another universe-point game, but this time we won it and qualified for Nationals. We played Slow again in the finals, but it was just for seeding and half our team sat the game out.
Peronally, my main errors were on hucks. When I’m rushing my huck or I feel like I have to throw it (when we call Sausage), it never goes well. When I’m throwing in a power position or it feels natural, I’m great. Besides that, my game was great - solid defense (including several points where not only did my guy never touch the disc, but I felt like he was never open at all), strong cutting, and consistently moving the disc to the breakside. My only turns were 3 hucks, and only one of them was a bad decision. I even felt strong and fast all weekend, never feeling like I cannot keep up with my defender or cannot keep cutting well.
Practice practice practice. We worked on chips and the breakside, reviewed and pracitced our plays, and focused on good throws and decision-making while tired. We go to battle next weekend. #choochoo
Feedback from captains: On-field, everything is good. I’m a fairly veteran player and my instincts are right most of the time. Off-field, I should lead more and teach the younger players more.
Mini with Metro & friends. I felt fast, but also got tired quickly. I worked on getting low on my pivots and on triple-threat throwing on the backhand (which messed up one of my hucks to Liz). Overall, things went well - some nice breaks and strong cutting. I guess if I have limited time to work out, I’ll take speed over endurance.
Deadlift: 5x5@265lb
Mini in Stamford. Adam made us play with the “dont watch your throws, just throw and go” rule and it significantly improved our mini game. It’s a great rule to abide by.
Two hours of mini in the hot sun. Everyone seemed somewhat tired, and we had some really long points because of that. I know I wasn’t at my peak, esp from the deadlifts, but I still did pretty well. Toward the end I got really lazy, which was a sad sight. I also got beat in the air because I jumped early, something LD talked to me about on Thurs. I went up early for a disc that was floating because I misread it and thought it was on it’s way down. Need to work on the reads.
Quick workout with LD in New Haven. Warmed with the ladder, then did some throwing: windshield wipers, chip throws, leftie backhands. After throwing, ran 3x2x150m shuttles (25m course) with 90sec rest between reps and 2min between sets. Finished with 4x15sec lateral shuffles. Then went home and did a bunch of Zoya pushups.