Apr. 15th, 2007

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I've decided I need to show up a little earlier at ultimate frisbee and take the time to practice throwing. I don't need a whole 30 minutes of practice--that just hurts my hands. But today my throws were amazingly bad. At least three went nowhere near where I was aiming, and one of those even went behind me! The others went near where I was aiming but either right into the hands of someone on the other team or completely out of reach or, in one case, right to someone's face! Yikes! (He caught it and no one got hurt.)

On the other hand, I made some very, very fun catches. I kept getting open, people kept throwing to me, and I kept catching. I got a one-handed catch, several overhead catches and even one of those long ones I can never judge and end up changing directions while trying to get to them. Very fun. But then it would be time to throw (play scary music here).

I tried doing my old strategy of catching the disk in the end zone so I wouldn't have to throw it, but no one was having any of that. It was all "Go in, Debbie!" "Closer, Debbie!" and "Cut in, Debbie!" not only from my own teammates but even from my guard!

So, it's time to practice throwing before games. It's sad, but I'm really not used to getting to touch the disk this much. Well, it's time to get used to it.

Also, I learned two other things, which should also be obvious. 1) It doesn't make sense to run around making cuts if no one is on me. I should start paying more attention to where my guard is. That's easy when he's right on my tail as usually happens, but when he lets me get away and doesn't even bother getting anywhere near me at all either because he's tired or thinks I'm not a threat or is doing some kind of zone guarding (because he's tired) then I can just stand there yelling about how open I am. 2) It's easier to block a disk before your guy catches it. I should try harder to keep up with the person I'm guarding so I can try to block throws he's trying to catch instead of thinking that I don't have to worry about it because I will be able to get there in time to block the throw. Blocking the throw is scary because so many of these players throw so hard that if I did actually block it, I would get injured. Of course, you can "block" a throw without actually touching it by making the thrower feel intimidated into making a bad throw just to be sure it will get around me. That even may have happened to me several times today. Still it's good to try to block the catch, too.

This group is really great to play with. But I am going to have to learn more skills. Ahem. I mean: And I am going to get to learn more skills.

Picture of the day: Empirical Question's Odd Juxtaposition in honor of some nearby recent unusual weather. "I must say this isn't a combination I have ever seen before. We have the bluebonnets and the Indian paintbrush, but none of the snow."

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