Week 4 - Tuesday - More intense practice

Today was tough. It was a good workout, and if I heard what was planned before we had to do it, I probably would have been annoyed. I got a little frustrated, but still kept cool for the most part.

First drill - Endzone Drill
-Usual object is 20 scores. The added caveat is that, for every two drops, we had to sprint to one sideline, and then to the other sideline and then back to our position when the disc was dropped. I think we had to do 6 of these... so a total of 12 drops. Yeah... thats a lot. Gah... we almost did it on the first try too and dropped it at 18. After that, we got tired and unfocused, and it got really hard. Lots of quick drops at 2 or 3 completions. Really lame.
-P-town drill - defense catch-up drill - this one was ran normally. However at the end, the captains said we could not stop until someone had a layout D. Unfortunately that did not happen. They reduced it to a layout contest. This was ended by Stig on Peter. Kind of lame, but we were running out of time.
-UCSD Huck drill - a thrower would cut to one side and cut back to center to receive the disc and then huck it to a receiver cutting from the left or right sideline. He did this for each person, which was 16. Turns out this drill is VERY hard on the thrower. That many short cuts wears out the quads. Even Danny Tran, who has trained and is running a marathon on Saturday, was worn out. Well not worn out, but I think it tired out his quads. Anyway, we did this for each person, so there were a lot of deep runs made in addition to the short cuts for the thrower. Surprisingly, the rookies had some sweet throws. Sherlock especially surprised all of us.

Scrimmage
Vets vs Rookies - 5-3 (2 spotted) - Vets killed rookies using the wall and beating them deep. Weak handlers against them made it really hard for them to even move it upline.

O vs D - 5-3 defense - In a surprising swing, the D line came back from a 3-1 deficit to win 5-3. O had originally taken the lead by throwing a strong wall against D. However, the tide changed when the D started swinging and converting a couple of clumsy drops from the O line. I was a primary handler and actually screwed up the dumpsets and cut a couple people off. So I had some good throws and good D's, but ruined the chemistry of our team. They were actually the ones who scored though. So its all them. =) Good job D line. The game ended with D line down 4-3, and then scoring 2 to win it.

PS... my legs are hella tired from this practice. Then again, I also played the last two days, one being pickup in Pasadena with LA Metro, and the other being against LB guys at rocket sauce. Yea, i know its rocket sauce, but it is still hard to cover Dan Smeltzer.