Get Fast, Get Strong

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A blog dedicated to the sport of Ultimate. A blog dedicated to getting fast, getting strong, and getting confident. "Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." Muhammad Ali

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A coach friend doesn't have me in the top 3 players for my college team. It's time to prove him wrong.

Thoughts for good feelings:

- Former coach and current friend telling me she can't take credit for how I've developed as a player because I just "work hard"

- Current coach telling me "you're good kid" and that he's impressed

- Getting a cool layout D at goaltimate

- Trying my best as often as possible and having fun at the same time

- Playing ultimate as often as possible this summer and loving every second of it

Summer ultimate

This post is to appreciate how much fun ultimate actually is. Especially when you get to play with all your best friends and play against all your other best friends and make new best friends. Aside for my love and passion for the sport, that is another reason why I play.

I think you just gotta find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life.

Max Fischer, Rushmore (1998)

I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.

Andy Bernard, The Office

I'm in them.

Summer Goals:

Hotter Man D

Hotter Hucks

Get hot hot hot at ultimate

To stay successful, you have to to stay hungry. A leader should not allow his team to cheat themselves with complacency.

Coach K

#inspiration

Even though this season ended, the next one is close at its heels. Starting it right, by training smart.

Injuries

swollen toe?

Regionals

Even though we did not get a bid to College Nationals, I can say I played the hardest, grittiest, sickest ultimate I have ever played in my life, and, for that reason, I have no regrets.

This Past Semester....

- Full graduate level course load

- 2 part-time jobs and 25 hours of work

- 10-15 hours of practice or track or workouts + extra meetings as co-captain, literally only missed 1 track workout because I was sick.

- being out of town almost every other weekend

Never doing that again!!!

Southeast

Looking at Score Reporter for all the results at this past Regionals....my regionals could have been on there. but no...USAU decided to postpone it for this weekend (graduation weekend for 3/4 of the top schools attending) due to inclement weather. We will not get into how infuriated I was to find that they decided to change weekends instead of choose an alternate field site....or how the field site is not within 7 driving hours of any competing teams...or how the only reason the field site is at this particular place is to increase foot traffic in that town (You know how there was a guy sending poison to the president? Yeah that is where he came from...)

So imagine being all set to be able to go to Regionals and go to your own graduation (something I didn't get to do last year), then have to find out that it is postponed. Then having to call your parents/family who have already made arrangements (plane tickets, hotel rooms) and telling them you're not going to your own graduation in 10 days!

All my seniors did this. That is dedication. They're currently getting a lot of heat from their families.

USAU tearing families apart? Maybe not. But really...

Zone Offense Handling

Know the balance between fast movement and rushed movement. These are two very different things.

Do enough. Take space and make space. Do not try to do way too much.

There is ALWAYS an easy throw. You might need to fake to open it up. You might need to tell your teammate where it is. Or you might need to sacrifice losing some yards.

Losing yards is okay and sometimes necessary to get around cups or walls or what have you.

You work on your over the top throws outside of practice. You have them. Trust them. They're second nature.

Zone O is fun. It's a puzzle. It's throwing and catching and getting lots of touches. You might feel like it is frantic because there are so many defenders around you, but you can break any zone. I know you can.

Stay calm and smile.

It'll be the fun kind of hard work you absolutely live for.

#notes to self

6 days until regionals

You can be the fastest player. You can jump the highest. You can be extremely talented.

But if you don't play from the heart, then all that is wasted.

Confidence and heart.

A lot of the posts I put on here are for me. Reading through them gives me a sense of calmness. Reading through the things I've done and how I felt brings me back to last season where I did everything I could to be the best player I could be. It reminds me that I can do it. That I have done it. And that I will continue to do it.

The series begins tomorrow. It is nerve-wracking. It is difficult to find mental clarity. We are going to have to play some hard games against teams that want Nationals just as much as we do.

Butterflies.

What you give is gone. What you hold back is lost forever.

It is easy to say you want to be great, but much more difficult to actually make that change within yourself. The change is the essential piece, because once you make that mental shift, the rest of the work will be clear. It will begin with a fair assessment of yourself as a player. It is easy to be over-critical at this stage, but if you had no strengths, you wouldn’t have gotten as far as you have. Once you have made the assessment, the work should follow. Don’t neglect your strengths, that is why you are good. But relentlessly attack your weakness. Best of luck.

Lou Burruss, "From Good to Great"

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