1/14 practice
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Loading ...Mm, turf fields. We’ve got them from 4-7 every saturday, so we get pretty good play time with the weather being nice. I’d say it’s even preferable to the sporadic late-night leverone times we had last winter.
But man. 90% chance of precipitation, and it didn’t even rain for 10% of the time. I’m glad for divine intervention every now and then, but I must say my faith in weather.com is a bit shaken. Unless they count misting as precipitation (I don’t).
Anyways, a pretty solid practice. We definitely made a good bit off progress working with the short stack–I’m feeling pretty good about my cutting, now that the setup really makes cutting from the back a viable threat both ways. Feeling more comfortable making more unorthadox, I’m-not-the-primary-cutter-but-hey-I’m-open-anyways sorts of cuts, and making them with pretty decent success. And also just getting open cutting in general, since the deep threat becomes more viable when you start from closer in.
Feeling pretty good with my throws too–I had a nice huck to Socks at one point, and a couple other nice puts at mid-range, though the huck drill helped me realize my backhand huck is not as intuitive in terms of placement/flight path as I’d like. Which is to be expected, I suppose, given the layover from throwing (though my throws are generally very solid–all in the wrist) and that most of my indoors tossing is of the chip/high-release forehand variety.
That’s about all. I did figure out that the end of practice conflicts with my job working at the infodesk (this is what I get for setting the work schedule without having a copy of my own for reference), which just creates a nice quandary for me since I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who would do the shift at all. Sigh.
In other news, my ankle is…about the same. I had made some good progress, but then I was stupid and did some pretty high-impact track work, which set it back a bit. But now I’ve got a solid ankle brace, and some theraband, courtesy of the athletic trainer, so I’m hoping to make some steady progress over the coming months (and also planning to lay off the track work for a week or two).
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