Tuesday, November 1, 2011
On defense
Spend money to earn money. Play team defense. Play within the system. Work hard, shut your man down, then get huge for the D when the offense has to throw some swilly shit on stall 9. That's when you make your money.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Pres Day
I've completely neglected this blog for about five months, so I figured today was a good day to get back to posting.
On to Ultimate.
Wasabi is flying to San Diego on Wednesday afternoon for the Pres Day Classic hosted by the UCSD Air Squids on Saturday, Sunday, Monday. I'm hoping for a great tournament. There are 20 open teams playing, so we'll have some really good competition. Right now, we're in a pool with Oregon, UCSD, Texas, and Chico State. I haven't heard much in terms of scouting reports on any teams, but word is that after their incredible regular season last year and their almost collapse and subsequent salvaging of Nationals, Oregon is reloading, not so much rebuilding. They're seeded first in our pool, obviously respecting their strength from last year. UCSD is the second seed, probably deservedly so. I don't know the score, but I know we lost to them at Southwest Regionals last year. Third seed goes to Texas, who after making a run to semis at Nationals two years ago have been fairly quiet, so I'm excited for that game.
CU-Boulder will always be a force in the Region and will probably get a bid to Nationals based on strength and history even if they don't win the Region out-right. So assuming Mamabird is one of the top two teams in the region (honestly, probably the top team, not by much though), Texas, Air Force, and us will be in a dogfight to get a second bid out of the region. We've beaten Air Force three times already this year, so if we play well and don't get into our own heads, we should be able to handle them. Texas will be a tough game though. They have the advantage of having 30,000 kids at their school, so they can basically have their pick of players, whereas we have to work with whoever comes in as freshmen. IMHO, having to work with what you've got eventually makes for a better team because you're forced to play as a team and adjust as you go, but that's just me.
Back to Pres Day, we're the fourth seed in the pool, which I guess is probably fairly accurate. The fifth seed is Chico State, who I honestly have never even heard of.
All things considered, this weekend will be awesome. We've got two full days in San Diego to chill before the tournament starts. It'll be warm, sunny, and the fields hopefully won't be baked into rock like Arizona or Colorado.
I'll try to update the blog a little more often too. And by a little more often, I mean more than once every five months.
On to Ultimate.
Wasabi is flying to San Diego on Wednesday afternoon for the Pres Day Classic hosted by the UCSD Air Squids on Saturday, Sunday, Monday. I'm hoping for a great tournament. There are 20 open teams playing, so we'll have some really good competition. Right now, we're in a pool with Oregon, UCSD, Texas, and Chico State. I haven't heard much in terms of scouting reports on any teams, but word is that after their incredible regular season last year and their almost collapse and subsequent salvaging of Nationals, Oregon is reloading, not so much rebuilding. They're seeded first in our pool, obviously respecting their strength from last year. UCSD is the second seed, probably deservedly so. I don't know the score, but I know we lost to them at Southwest Regionals last year. Third seed goes to Texas, who after making a run to semis at Nationals two years ago have been fairly quiet, so I'm excited for that game.
CU-Boulder will always be a force in the Region and will probably get a bid to Nationals based on strength and history even if they don't win the Region out-right. So assuming Mamabird is one of the top two teams in the region (honestly, probably the top team, not by much though), Texas, Air Force, and us will be in a dogfight to get a second bid out of the region. We've beaten Air Force three times already this year, so if we play well and don't get into our own heads, we should be able to handle them. Texas will be a tough game though. They have the advantage of having 30,000 kids at their school, so they can basically have their pick of players, whereas we have to work with whoever comes in as freshmen. IMHO, having to work with what you've got eventually makes for a better team because you're forced to play as a team and adjust as you go, but that's just me.
Back to Pres Day, we're the fourth seed in the pool, which I guess is probably fairly accurate. The fifth seed is Chico State, who I honestly have never even heard of.
All things considered, this weekend will be awesome. We've got two full days in San Diego to chill before the tournament starts. It'll be warm, sunny, and the fields hopefully won't be baked into rock like Arizona or Colorado.
I'll try to update the blog a little more often too. And by a little more often, I mean more than once every five months.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
layouts in the rain
we had the first day of rain in the springs for about four weeks today. so at ultimate practice we did layout drills. my quiet coyote jersey might be permanently brown now, but layouts are too much fun not to do. plus exeter girls varsity soccer bodylanguaged brooks today, 4-0. all told, a wicked good day.
(and i got out of class at 11:00.)
(and i got out of class at 11:00.)
Monday, September 6, 2010
intro to college ultimate
just got back from the first practice of the CC men's team, and holy crap. i don't know if it was all the altitude, but i am definitely not in quite good enough shape yet to play. as far as freshmen go, i think i'm better than average, nowhere near the best freshman on the team this year. then compared to the seniors, none of us even come close. nicky spiva's one of the captains who plays for a club team back in nashville that finished behind doublewide and chain lightning at regionals last year, so he'll be playing in nationals next year. today he was playing as a handler even though his natural position is a cutter, and he still absolutely dominated.
that said, i'm wicked pumped for the season. a bunch of the team is studying abroad, so the freshmen are all going to get a ton of playing time during the fall, which will be awesome. the upperclassmen are feeling really good about our chances this year too. last year the team finished 7th at southwest regionals, and that was with about half the team injured. they also hung with mamabird, trading points before finally being broken at the end to lose by two, but it was the closest game colorado had all day at regionals. this year, the whole team is returning, plus whatever freshmen decide to keep playing. there'll probably be an A and B team, so i'm going to work my ass off to make the A team, cause i have a date with two friends on the UNH team at nationals.
that said, i'm wicked pumped for the season. a bunch of the team is studying abroad, so the freshmen are all going to get a ton of playing time during the fall, which will be awesome. the upperclassmen are feeling really good about our chances this year too. last year the team finished 7th at southwest regionals, and that was with about half the team injured. they also hung with mamabird, trading points before finally being broken at the end to lose by two, but it was the closest game colorado had all day at regionals. this year, the whole team is returning, plus whatever freshmen decide to keep playing. there'll probably be an A and B team, so i'm going to work my ass off to make the A team, cause i have a date with two friends on the UNH team at nationals.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
in colorado
just got back from my new student orientation trip for college. we backpacked about 5 miles into the san isabel national forest and made base camp around 11600 feet, then hiked up about two miles each day to do trail maintenance on the side of mt harvard. then on saturday we woke up at 1 am to summit mt. harvard, the third highest mountain in colorado, in time for the sunrise. after freezing our asses off on the summit for a while, we hiked down the ridge towards mt. columbia. what we didn't realize is that the ridge cliffs out about 2/3 of the way from harvard to columbia, so instead of a nice, easy ridge walk, we had to drop down into the valley to get across. it was supposed to take us 2 hours to hike from one to the other, instead it took 6. after summiting columbia, we had to come pretty much straight down the face of the mountain to come back to camp. usually it wouldn't be all that bad except that the face of columbia is a steep scree field all the way down. because there were a couple of unnecessarily slow people in our group, myself and another kid bombed ahead, then waited, then went ahead again. on one of our jumps forward, we got about 200 feet down a really nasty field when the rest of the group hit the top. because there were so many of them, they kicked a few rocks loose which came flying down straight at the two of us. the biggest of them missed me by about five feet. definitely a 'dude holy shit' moment. after that, we booked it down the scree until we reached a rock big enough for us to hide behind while the rest of the group came down to meet us. from there it was a really easy hike down into camp, but things were a little sketchy for a while.
now i'm back at CC and class starts tomorrow. part of me really wants to get started, but another part of me really wants to chill for a few more days. the best part about class starting though is that Ultimate starts tomorrow too, which i'm wicked pumped for.
now i'm back at CC and class starts tomorrow. part of me really wants to get started, but another part of me really wants to chill for a few more days. the best part about class starting though is that Ultimate starts tomorrow too, which i'm wicked pumped for.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
college holy shit
somehow the entire summer has gone by and i'm down to my last day before i leave for colorado. dude holy shit...
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