The weather sucks

Start small:

Something three days a week
Pushups everyday
Walk the dogs
Please just drink water
And stretch

Better to start small than not at all.

P.S. A highlight reel! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTbPFwyAPww

Did a lot of work on the highlight reel. I am by no means an Adobe Premier Pro, but, this is looking pretty cool.  ~3 mins of highlight.

Air Alert is still tough. Squat Hops still blow. Sky is still blue. Etc.

Water!

Better not let them breathe

Pretty pleased with how I played at indoor on Sunday. Definitely showed that I hadn't played in a month+, as I had about six drops, all on discs that, while not easy, were extremely catchable. I do not think I have drop six discs in a tournament, let alone a day. I guess I am happy that the only thing that was really off was my catching, and that was probably also a bit of  variance. Besides that, though, I think I retained most of my speed and kept up with the veterans, and I think I used my body well to dictate where my man was going.

Attacking the field horizontally is so, so important. Especially in indoor when the field shrinks very quickly if you are only playing on the force side. On a related note, don't get broken, pleaaaaaaaase.

Got a sweet bait-n-reel layout-d. A bit of advice: as a thrower, if you make eye-contact with your target's defender, don't throw it. I sat on the force side of my man (but close enough to make a play on a disc to the break side), stared down the thrower's eyes, and waited for them to think they had a window. If I am making eye-contact with the thrower, it is like I am the receiver. The D I got was well within my range and I had plenty of room to go. However, I got quite the booboo.

Played like shit when I got tired. Got lazy and just ran upline and into traffic because I didn't feel like planting and turning in for a dump. Threw a ton of hucks because there was a small window. Threw with lazy form. It wasn't like I felt tired -- I felt like I could run full speed, but I definitely was tired. Need to take extra care when it is later in the game/day/tournament to play my normal game.

I was surprisingly sore after practice. I've been working out a couple of days a week, but I guess there is no real substitute for actual play.

Air Alert is still tough, even in week 1. It wasn't like I couldn't do more, but it definitely is still a workout. Excited to see how much it does now that I have the right form and am coming in with some base-strength rather than nothing.

Back home soon, time to grind grind grind!

Rich pulled me aside and said something along the lines of, “You can tell when a player is in the zone, because he uses his cards as weapons, as tools.” At the time, I was still in a bit of trance, so it didn’t sink in very well. It seemed all around me, people were taking notice of things that I was just doing. It wasn’t that I was not doing them intentionally, as I clearly was, but I was declining to take part in the spectacle of my own play, and looking back, I think that was an important distinction to make that week. Getting caught up in any one play or moment turns good play into something of a shrine, rather than a benchmark. If you pat yourself on the back every time you make some insane play, you come to view those plays as extraordinary, and be that as it may, you can subconsciously convince yourself to make those plays less often because they are not expected out of you often. If, only the other hand, you decide that that is the level of play you expect out of yourself time and time again, and register the moment as good play, but nothing out of the ordinary, you are going to return to that place much more often, as it is expected out of yourself.

-- Conley Woods, http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/breaking-through-day-2-saboteur/