Monday 19 August 2013

Ka-Pow! weekend session

Ka-Pow! were out in numbers this weekend for the last session before we hit Nationals at Wide Lane Sports Ground, Southampton.

On Saturday, Pichler had organised a Ka-Pow! sports day. We split the team into the O-Line and each D-Line and competed against each other in a variety of events, before playing games to 3. Each event was worth 3 points for line that won, or the individual from the line that won for his line.

The first set of events were Physical and involved an agility arrow relay, an endzone to endzone sprint, a single legged and double legged bounding contest and "animal warmup" relay races. Other people may have seen our "animal warmup" routine at tournaments which we've been to and, whilst unconvensional looking, always do the job. Some of our players have been more adaptable to them than others and it was pretty funny to watch a relay race of the "Cheetah run" in particular.

The second set of challenges were Technical and involved a Pulling competition, a throwing accuracy competition and a 3 man break mark drill competition.

After that we moved onto games to three, between each line. Scoring across the Physical and Technical events left O-Line slightly behind in points, but when it came to the games we seemed to be taking control, winning our first game 3-0 and our second game 3-1. Unfortunately, by the end of the games we hadn't managed to bring it back enough with the final scores being:

3rd: O-Line (26 points)
2nd: Jake's D-Line (30 points)
1st: Jonny's D-Line (31 points)

After that we went to a nice "quiet" pub to have our social. Pringle had sent out a questionnaire to everyone and the evening was spent laughing at everyone's answers.

The next day we headed to White City to have a focussed and intense last training session before Nationals. It became clear that even though the Sports Day had been a good laugh and a tough session, we were all itching to play some ultimate.
We started with drills focussing on the important fundamental skills of defensive mark positioning, forcing and skying.
After that we played some games to 3 which were broken up with more drills (one working on hucking, one working on dump swinging) before just playing games to 3 until the end of the session.

It was a great weekend to finish our preparation on. It was tough, but our players remained focussed and intent on getting the best out of the sessions and I know we're all very excited for Nationals next weekend.

Look out for my previews of each division coming this week!


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