Eating

Needs to stop.

Holidays are a trap. A delicious trap.

Other twenty-one guys are doing

Randy Pausch's last lecture --

9 years old, first Football practice. Coach didn't bring any footballs to practice. A kid asks 

"Excuse me coach there aren't any footballs"

"Right. How many men are on a football field at a time"

"Eleven on a team, twenty-two"

"Alright and how many people are touching the football at any given time"

"One of them"

"Right so we're gonna work on what those other twenty-one guys are doing"

I think the idea translates pretty well.  It's gotta be pulled off perfectly, though. I'm not really willing to throw it out there this year, but next year it might work.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow, in order to fulfill my destiny (revealed to me in a dream the other night), I will do push ups. And Crunches. And ya know what, even calf thingies. Yes, Calf thingies. 

Best Blagger means nothing without cannons to complement my corn-rows.

Last night

Last night I had a dream that I did a lot of pushups and then my guns were huge and all the women loved them.

It's a sign.

Briefly

Quoted from "The Huddle" -- http://www.the-huddle.org/issues/13/real-time-space-for-real-time-results/

Some parts are bolded for emphasis.

I may show the defense on a chalkboard. for some, it is very useful to move off of the chalkboard and onto the field. I like to place people on the field (or a shortened field) and walk the entire team through each position, and explain what the contribution of each position is to the team-D concept.

After fielding questions (taking special care not to get into a flurry "What if?" questions) we run the defense against a 70%-speed offense. After 5-10 minutes of reps, we go 100% live. This is the usual time for things to degenerate, or objectives lost due to competitiveness, so it's very important to ensure that the reps are not rushed, and are re-focused with the team defense concept in mind. This is also a great time for people to experiment at different positions to get a feel for where their strengths lie in this particular team D.

Wait.... you're supposed to introduce a concept and then reinforce it on the field? I kind of thought we just introduce it and then let them run wild.

Never would have guessed.

Oh boy

I can't keep up with a triple post like that. 

Brenden's last game is tomorrow and I plan on destroying. Not playing ultimate for 38973 years gets someone pumped to play again.  I really don't care if anyone else tries; I don't really expect anyone to try in the first place.  But I need to get the bids out of my system while playing ultimate before they forcibly leave when I'm delivering pizzas. 

*Nerd Aside*

I really just want them to post the feature match for round 14. If it's not Oliver Ruel of France -- playing to get both the pro point for the team competition(crucial in the Player of the Year race) and a Top 8 berth so he can pull off the comeback of the century for the player of the year match vs. Masashi Oiso of Japan -- playing to solidify Japan as #1 in the Team Competition and a Top 8 berth so he can complete in his resume and with something only one player in Magic has done before -- Nationals Title, Individual World Title, Team World Title  in one year (P.S. It was Jon Finkel). A feat like that would place him most likely 3rd all time in greatest players, behind Finkel himself and Budde. If that isn't the feature match I quit the world.

*End Nerd Aside*

Regardless, 2-3-2 seems alright.  I mean it seems powerful, but Vert-stacks for this team are a trap, let alone two Ho-Stacks working together in perfect harmony.  Depending on how freshman development goes, which I'm a bit skeptical on(SURPRIZE!!), we should have the two handles down. The other problem is the two deeps.  Basically we're banking on Magic Roll Steve to show up and save the day. Not to say we don't have players with incredible physical talents, but it's tough to show those off when they don't show up.  This team can legit play any offense we want if we just show up to practice and do stuff.  One of our best deeps is practically forced to play somewhere in the midline,  leaving us with a stable of young athletes who don't come to practice a lot to pick up the slack at the deep position.  As much as I can motivate someone to get to the gym or go to practice, they gotta want it more themselves.

For a lack of a better conclcusion --

END TRANSMISSION

Ow

A note for next year -- Don't lift with the same intensity day 1 that you lifted with the last day last year.  Moving my left arm above 90 degrees is an issue, let alone doing Arnolds.

So I took today off.  I took a sweet nap.

Hazzy had a variety of green apples today, so I made it a point to take as many as humanly possible each trip to make sure I'd be set until the next time they put them out. I essentially have an orchard now. My diet is now a combination of apples and grilled chicken.  Also, pears are no apples. Don't be fooled.

I'll be lifting again tomorrow if all goes according to plan, namely me being able to get out of bed without too much of a physical struggle. Day 1 again -- Arnolds, Leg press, Flys, Decline press. And good old abs of course. 

I hear rumors of people on the team going to the gym. I'm not sure how accurate they are.  Plus, a large amount of people on the team are saying "When we get back for second semester I'll start." That's a trap. I'd put money on it that the team "offical" conditioning doesn't start until a few weeks after we get back, and the people who are saying they'll start second semester make sure to wait for it to start. An entire month of sitting at home doing nothing more active than keg stands is sure to get us back to square one conditioning-wise. It'll show on the first day of conditioning who put time in, or at least didn't do nothing. Personally, I'm excited to pwn some n00bs.

I do need to get out sometime and throw so I'm not rendered to College Rookie Doober come Spring. Hopefully we get mad gym time to play indoor in.

And I am plenty bored enough to blag everyday.

Tom and I lifted yesterday.

It hurts now.

First post

1) I'm overtired.

2) It's almost 6am.

3) I haven't played ultimate for about ten minutes and it's getting to me.

d) Ben's too optimistic in his blag and needs someone to show him up.

5) So Tired.

6) Or at least make him strive to be the best blagger on the team!

7) Fuck lists.

I cannot believe I am doing this. I have to be drunk.

I'm also putting it in writing that the ultimate training program starts Monday. For reals.  A minor delay of one week will not stop me from looking like Arnold himself come springtime. 

Plus the more jacked I get the better those corn rows will look

Boy do I enjoy line breaks. 

Also, Smash Mouth is overpowered. Most likely going to be nerfed next patch.

I miss my real keyboard. The shift key and the delete key are much too normal sized on this.

I've gotta cut it out with these line breaks.

Most of my ultimate related insight, which is pretty valuable considering my tournament record of 2-25-2 ( That's a win percentage of about 7% for those of you who are playing along at home) will be coming with the spring semester, because we're done for the semester unless we decide we want to lose another game to Marist before going home for Christmas.  I'll probably post something about people not showing up to conditioning either before we leave for the semester or after, depending on when the captains decide its a good idea to stop sucking.  All I know is that the people who put the time in will look and play like true division 3 athletes.  At this rate, if we make it to sectionals on time it'll be an upset. 

I also heard that smoking weed decreases your sperm count, which conflicts with my dream of living off of the money I get from sperm bank donations. Time to find another way to destroy my body!

I'm pretty pumped for jerseys if we ever get there. Apparently getting a design for one nailed down takes over 3 months. That's a lot of man-hours considering we have 4 captains that meet roughly every ten seconds. I think we've finally settled on orange being a color on the jerseys someplace, although that still might be up in the air. I'm still pushing for Darold to be the logo but I don't think I can force that kind of legislation through. Maybe next year if we run a better campaign. 

For the amount this team practices, its immensely frustrating to see how little we get out of it.  Stacks, a zone D that doesn't rely on the other team dropping it, a zone O that gets something close to resembling wing play, and even a consistent warm-up regimen are things I don't think even Santa can give to this team. 

I'm trying to push through legislation to make us not suck next semester,but you won't see me make a bet on it going down. If you ever watch us play a legit game, you'll see that all of us, including captains and veterans, contract a case of the drops every time we play. We all have to make the incredibly difficult decision of throwing a 30 yard OI flick into the wind or just turfing it to save time.  Going to the disc is just too much running, yet half of us like to make deep cuts at the same time with the disc on the end-line into the wind. We never sub during a game, which is fine because we're not tired ever. But practice rolls around and you're begging for a sub after two points. 

I just searched for fifteen minutes to see if I could find the Beau play in Sportscenter form. No luck. I'm convinced it's a myth.

Bottom line, we're talking about practice. Not a game, but practice. 

If we run this team like this is a team, I would put money on us making it to Regionals.  Sure, we can talk about being committed to making this team good, but when leadership players on the team don't go to practice because they just don't feel like it, that person on the fence about actually trying in practice for once won't. When leadership players don't finish out a drill or take warm-ups seriously, new players won't either. When leadership players play injured, new players will too. 

I've had enough of people on this team spending time trying to learn how to throw a behind-the-back-future-thumb-scoober. Learning how to stack would be a nice alternative. 

Boy am I annoying.