11-2: Practice
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Loading ...Poor practice today.
Got out at my usual practice-is-already-half-over time slot, and got in about three reps of break mark drill on the forehand side (I really would’ve liked to have done more of that, too) before we broke up to do some O v D stuff.
I don’t know. I didn’t play poorly, but I haven’t been playing anywhere near as well as I’d like to and feel I’m capable of. Part of it stems from a lack of conditioning; I keep finding myself going for a sky or in position to bid but lacking the juice to get it done. Not that I can’t kick it into high gear when I need to run, I just have trouble getting my typical explosiveness. I get the feeling this is at least partly due to the circumsances when I get to practice: I’m late, not really fully warmed up, so I take a couple points (hopefully only a couple) to really get going, and I also wind up putting a lot of lactic acid into my quads before I even start to play from biking uphill half the way to practice, which I think is also a factor in the lack of explosiveness.
Other than physical complaints, I was having trouble getting fired up to play, not in the sense that I wasn’t excited to be playing, but just the circumstances of practice for me at least have been such that, rather than simply focusing on my own game, and playing well, I’ve had to worry about team strategy x or person y being overtly critical in less-than-ideal timing, and as a result my mental game’s been slipping.
I really just need to get playing more. This lack of action is killing me, I haven’t had any really consistent opportunity to play since the first week of classes when I wasn’t late to practice (and before then, it was maybe one weekend out of my entire summer, when I played at a tourney).
Meh. In any case, looking to get things together well enough to play solid D at Brown. I think the reduced playtime (as opposed to near-savage scrimmaging) coupled with the extra adrenaline of playing other teams with new players and looks I’m not used to will help me stay focused and on my toes full-time.
Yeah. In summary, daylight savings sucks, and I want to play ultimate like it was my job (or rather, in lieu of doing my job, but that’s not happening). At least I’ll be able to get out to practice on-time next week, once I stop having to run these rats…
