Saturday - Kapow!
Really good session this week. Intensity has slowly been ramping up since the start of the new year and this weekend everyone was bringing it. There were still some mental lapses which caused a couple of drops, but instead of singing, this weekend the punishment was press-ups, sit ups and burpees in equal measure. Despite this, I think the training was the best we've had since the end of last season.
Our focusses in what was the last session before our roster is finalised focussed on offense again, both in endzone/redzone situations and from our split stack formation.
Since the majority of our squad has been selected, most of the attendees of this session had already been assigned a place on either the O-Line or the D-Line. In our trainings the scrimmages and play run throughs will mostly be split O vs D.
This year I will be aiming to transition from O-line to D-line. Whilst I loved playing O-line last year, I'm really keen to make a contribution to the defense. I'm also liking the changes that we're implementing to the D lines offensive pace and strategy.
Psyching ourselves up before the game against the O-line to finish the session was fun. It's going to be a great season if we can push our O-line to better last year's production as well as getting more conversions from the D-line and the only way either of these aims is going to be achieved is if everyone pushes themselves at trainings from a personal perspective and also from an O vs D line perspective.
The games had altered rules to try and put a focus on endzone offense from both a slow start and quick start scenario. We played that whenever a possession for either team advanced the disc into the redzone (endzone line up to the just before the brick) then they got a timeout which would allow the endzone structure to be set from a slow start. The other alteration that was implemented was double score, which meant that even if you scored off a huck, it would only count if the disc was brought out again and scored again without a turnover. This meant that two games to three points took a while, but they were productive and our alterations to our endzone offense are looking really good. The split stack play we had been drilling wasn't used as effectively during the games as it could have been, but it's situational and so we didn't get many reps of it in.
Overall it was a great session though. Looking forward to hearing the final roster at some point this week and get to the rest of the season started.
Finally, I have been really enjoying having the use of 3G fields for all our sessions. Though they have been a little on the pricey side, having seen someone at the Sunday herd session who had come from Clapham's session who was really complaining about the mud-bath they had been playing in, I can say they've been totally worth it.
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