10-24: practice
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Loading ...Yeah, a day late.
Anyways, practice went pretty well yesterday. Showed up just in time for skills work to start, which was nice (though I wasn’t sufficiently warmed up and just jumped right in). We worked on a couple plays that more or less have generating good flow as the goal, and I got to work on my hucks a bit in the drills which was good. I think that actually carried over to the scrimmaging afterwards (mixed A/B), as I wound up making a lot of deep looks, a couple of which were great, several of which were decent looks but poor execution on my on the receiver’s part, and a couple of which were better holstered.
In any case, it worked out well; there were a fair number of turns, meaning I didn’t wind up feeling like an ass for not valuing the disc. I’m trying to open up the deep game a bit from the throwing side, since particularly on d-line it won’t always be a guarantee to have a solid core of handlers to put it to me cutting (meaning I’ll be spending more time handling). I like my flick a lot, generally speaking, but the backhand needs a bit of work; it’s fine for leading with touch, but my default is the slower, floaty backhand and I need to cultivate a good bullet backhand I can put to cuts starting farther out in the stack.
This’ll all come with experience, of course. I definitely want to get a lot more work on developing that while I can.
Yeah.
Good
Deep looks, generally speaking
Forehand hucks
Needs Work
Backhand bullet hucks
Risk assessment for viability of more questionable deep looks
Practice cancelled for the rest of the week. I’m thinking I’ll take the next several days “off” from ultimate, so to speak, so likely nothing new for a bit unless the muse hits me.
