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Hello, Ryan.

My apologies for the delay.  Your first USAU sanctioned event was in the fall of 2008.  Under the facts as you have stated, you are eligible to play for this season.  Good luck.

David Belsheim

USAU College Eligibility Committee

EDIT: Most excited. Going to lots of practice and tournaments now.

Wake up in the morning feeling like P.Diddy

Did literally every rep of Ab Ripper X today.

Pull ups are still impossible.

Plyo yesterday was fun, though!

He said, you can go sleep at home tonight, if you can get up and walk away

Quick one before p90x --

Nocturnal was a ride. Playing indoors is always a blast because you feel like a wizard with the disc. Absolutely perfect throwing conditions.

My team was full of mostly-chilly throwers who would rather swing the disc than throw upfield most of the time. This worked well until the later rounds, where most of the team did not sub appropriately, and the few upfield cuts we got stopped working, stifling our offense. We went from a dominating 5-0 (+33) to 5-2, with losses to a good team by 2 and the eventual 2nd placer's by something like 5 in the quarters.

The team was fun to play on while we were winning, and incredibly frustrating while losing. I felt that I subbed appropriately during the close games. I would go in, make 2-3 very hard cuts, and sub out after throwing a swing pass. After the 1st game, I rarely stayed on for more than two possessions. It sucked losing by seeing people on your team get absolutely torched, stay on because they "have enough gas for offense", and either not get a chance to sub for D and/or ruin the offense by making lazy cuts because they don't have enough to get open.

Still, probably the best team I have played on in my years at nocturnal, and certainly the most fun. I think I played well once I got warmed up. Felt very fast, but no endurance, which seems to be the theme of the season. Better than slow and no endurance. Throws always feel good indoors, but I concentrated on getting as low and as far out as I could on many throws. I experimented throwing to downfield cutters while trapped on the line and actually attempted some backhands, to mostly good effect.

Need to remember that you are always going to feel fast on turf. That you are always going to throw well indoors. That defense is often easier because there is less ground to cover. As good as one is indoors, gotta remember that outdoor is that much harder.

Almost not sore -- two days later.

Enough procrastinating. Chest/Shoulders/Tris/Abs/ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


P.S. -- Sore in the hips. The more I think about cutting/defending, the more I realize that the only thing that matters is how fast you can turn your hips.

P.P.S. Quick link to Ben Wiggin's 5 part series on SkyD that was/is amazing. http://skydmagazine.com/2012/02/vision/

Everywhere I look, I see your eyes

178.

Gettin' back.

Never did this before, that's what the virgin says

Thank you Stiggles for teaching me how to play defense.  Still had no endurance, but totally shut my man down all game, and he was one of the better players on the team. Got a nasty layout-up D on him, and maybe another, as it was an iffy foul call that I no-contested, but would like to see the instant replay on. Just sat on his hip, so he couldn't go deep, and ran inside with him. After I got the first D, he was totally demoralized.

Played tight on offense, with no turnovers. Didn't force any deep shots, even though I wanted to throw a hammer to Dave Powow the entire time. Had a very nice forehand break that only worked because it was indoor. Gotta love it.

Winter league team is very good. Two nasty handler ladies, and decent depth. I think our low-end is worse than other teams, but, for the most part we don't turn the disc over, which goes pretty far. We were up something like 9-2, then 19-7 at half, and won like 31-15. Other team was missing Adam Stern, which is a lot, but not 15 points. The only players in the league that I think are going to give our team trouble is Brown and Siege. As good as Powow is, he just can't run with those guys.

Even though I have not been running, p90x is making me so, so much faster, at least in the 5-20 yd range. So much burst.

Wore the all-blue GUNX uniform today. Must've been why I played so well. Got llots of compliments. Didn't really think about it before today, but, tryouts started today.

Out of titles

Recovery weeks are awesome because all the results you felt over the past three weeks actually start showing up.

Slayed yoga today (not to mention it was awesome). Nailed Twisting Half-Moon and Warrior Three.  Actually fell asleep during Corpse Pose.

mmmm recovery drinks!

I don't know if NFL Network always did this around the Superbowl, but showing reruns of old Superbowls is amazing.