The new squad gathered at the 3G fields we had chosen as our base for the pre-season. There was a buzz about it, and it was transferred into the practice. It was the first time we had trained as a new squad with some players who had already made the squad and other who were still fighting for a space.
Pichler started the training with the explanations of the two principles of Kapow as a squad and then we went to work.
We started off with some fundamentals. Cutting and footwork training is something that a lot of players can use to improve their game and so that's what we did.
Our second area of attention was handler movement switching defense. This is a strong defensive idea which is heavily used by the Buzz Bullets. We trained this last year, but didn't implement it too much during the season. It's an effective technique to aid the stifling of the offense's flow, but it may not be one of our principle defensive strategies during the season.
After this, we started work on our handler/dumping offense, which hadn't been one of our strengths last year. It's a good idea to work on this early considering our struggles with this last year.
We then moved on to playing some practice games.
The attitude and effort being put in by all players this early in the season was very impressive and the atmosphere difference between this and last season. We may not have talked tactics yet, or even finalised our roster, but going into our second season as a club, I already feel it could be very special.
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