02/09/06 Indoor

So we just found out that we might not have practice next week due to the All University Games. In addition, it probably is going to snow this weekend and kill our practice then too. Losing two or possibly three practices at this point really hurts our plans. Zac and I have already started compensating--we introduced trap zone a week early.

This practice, at the behest of Amanda and Dusty, we ran an extra fundamental drill, just simple in cuts with throws and catches. We emphasized high intensity and attacking the disc. Again, I would be fine with running drills like these for hours. The girls surprised us, doing it much better than we though. Though it was indoors, most of their cuts were crisp and they were catching well. Bethany distinguished herself with good, hard cutting, but needs to time her jump for discs above her head a little better.

After a quick ten minute offensive walkthrough, we split them into two teams and did a marking/man defense drill. Two players from each team went out on the floor and the goal of the offense was just to complete a pass. Naturally this made it very difficult for the defense, but when we moved the cutter farther away and started the stall on four, it was 50-50 between the O and D. The best part of this drill was the two teams getting into it and being very vocal and intense on the sideline. We're going to need this when we play other teams. This also marks the third time we've unsuccessfully tried to stack the teams against Mia, putting all returners minus Amanda on the other team, and splitting the good rookies. Oh well, it was close at least.

The zone walkthrough was mediocre, but sets a base to build on. We really need to work on stuff outdoors and cram as much stuff into our limited time as possible, but not neglect fundamentals. Zac and I have quite a bit of work to do.