Dear Readers,
I am going on holiday overseas for the first half of September. So I won't be updating the blog (although someone else might).
Hope you've enjoyed it and have been checking regularly!
If you're wondering what's happening in Brisbane Ultimate, I suggest checking out the yahoogroup (link down on the bottom left there).
But to summarise:
- Monday Night there is YUFL a Mixed League, which is doing Finals in early September
- Tuesday Night is WUFL a Women's League which has just started a new season and new ladies are very very welcome (beginners included).
- Tuesday Night also features Firestorm training, where A-Grade men are also welcome. Firestorm is Brisbane's team in the National League.
- Wednesday Night has just kicked off a new casual League at UQ.
- Wednesday Night also has a recently established pickup night at Griffith Uni Nathan campus.
- Thursday Night is BPL the Open A-Grade Leage starting a new season on September 6.
- There is also some pickup on Fridays and Sundays.
Join the buda yahoogroup or look through the archives and you'll get all the recent notifications.
See you soon.
jdr
ps Given the overnight effort of Newcastle NRL star Joey Johns, will Pie Wagon change its name to Pill Wagon?
Showing posts with label training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label training. Show all posts
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
You Can Always Learn Something New
So last night I went along to Men's Training at Toowong (which is running Tuesday nights for the next several weeks).
I went because Ms N. was going to Women's at the same time and place and I wanted a run around after a busy day at work. But I guess most importantly for me was the realisation that despite being 'old', there's still a heap of improvement I can get into my game and that an improved me will make a big difference the teams I play with.
And I can report that I really enjoyed it and got a lot of out it. There was some comedy value for the other 9 guys from discovering that I've never thrown a push-pass - but I started to learn how to throw one. I'm not terribly fit thanks to current workloads, but the exercise involved was about right - I went home tired but not wrecked. And it was good to be with people that I don't normally play with - Andres, Jangles, Liam, Chris, Mica and so forth.
A real find for me was having Pottsy lead the session and Buzz and others offering suggestions. I've never really played much with Pottsy, and I started to realise that the pointers you get from people during games are usually pretty limited. I think Dusty mentioned to me recently how when playing Mixed Nats last year with Pottsy in Crikey he got a lot of value over JP's ability to coach people, and I saw it last night. Where other leader-types explain and run drills or plays, Jonathan seems to be able to always offer an extra explanation of how an individual can do their bit of the drill, and to do that bit better.
Anyway, enough praise. But I'll be back next week.
I went because Ms N. was going to Women's at the same time and place and I wanted a run around after a busy day at work. But I guess most importantly for me was the realisation that despite being 'old', there's still a heap of improvement I can get into my game and that an improved me will make a big difference the teams I play with.
And I can report that I really enjoyed it and got a lot of out it. There was some comedy value for the other 9 guys from discovering that I've never thrown a push-pass - but I started to learn how to throw one. I'm not terribly fit thanks to current workloads, but the exercise involved was about right - I went home tired but not wrecked. And it was good to be with people that I don't normally play with - Andres, Jangles, Liam, Chris, Mica and so forth.
A real find for me was having Pottsy lead the session and Buzz and others offering suggestions. I've never really played much with Pottsy, and I started to realise that the pointers you get from people during games are usually pretty limited. I think Dusty mentioned to me recently how when playing Mixed Nats last year with Pottsy in Crikey he got a lot of value over JP's ability to coach people, and I saw it last night. Where other leader-types explain and run drills or plays, Jonathan seems to be able to always offer an extra explanation of how an individual can do their bit of the drill, and to do that bit better.
Anyway, enough praise. But I'll be back next week.
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