davis...one aspect
it seems like there is suddenly an overwhelming amount of topics i could post on, thanks to the first tournament of the spring season. things such as the condors prospects for the season (i probably won't post on this), the shakeup in the bay area teams(i may post on this), a player dying on the fields (i may give my perspective of the events, since it doesn't seem like anyone has written much, and it's a very unique thing), how to improperly assess points to a team that isn't there for quarters, potentially being the second oldest condor this season (is 31 really that old?), and my personal play (this post).
i've had a very unique offseason, and it didn't prepare me for this tourney at all. my typical pattern is to take off from after nationals until sometime in mid-to-late december, and then get back into training for the upcoming year. however, with a pulled hamstring at nationals, i took all of november off to heal, did rehab for december and early january, then spent the last few months doing nothing. i think i've had 2 frisbee specific workouts in the last 3 months.
it turns out that having long breaks between each game on saturday was not the best thing to help my body get through the day. long warmup after a 1st round bye on saturday saw my hamstring feeling great, but my whole lower-body was sore from the previous week's weightlifting and workout. quick game, 13-4 or something. 2-hour bye. long warmup again, slightly longer game, 13-6 maybe. long bye including health emergency which happened on the adjacent field to ours. slightly longer game again, 13-7?
my legs were shot. the warmups before the 2nd and 3rd game were much shorter than the first two, but it was still a lot of energy to get the engine revved up and the legs didn't want to loosen up after being shut down. additionally, i forgot to take any ibuprofen, so i felt all the pain...quads, hamstrings, calves, feet. when i'd play i could usually follow my guy around for one or two cuts, and then i'd start trying to cut my losses. my mark had dramatically deteriorated as i couldn't muster the strength to move my feet.
then the big matchup of the day against a team composed of a lot of players who played jam last season...let's call them 'project X' for short. just in time. i was not so secretly rooting for my legs to cramp up so i'd have an excuse to stay off the field, but instead they stayed under me just enough to allow me to make a number of mistakes. we started out strong as a team, but as we lost more guys to injury (we finished with 13) jam wound up capitalizing on mistakes that we were getting away with early on. my fatigue led to one terrible decision (a hammer on the goal line for a TO. i maybe throw 5 hammers in a whole season, but i thought i could end the point quick with this one), two poor executions (one an overthrow which caused two of our guys to take an injury sub, another underthrow) leading to turns, and another quick throw which was where it should have been, but was a bit unconventional and led to a drop. final score, 15-13 bad guys.
sunday starts early, but again we get the old game-bye pair to start the day. so after playing a team that stayed with us to 2-2, we got to sit around for a few hours until the semis. a rematch of the second game from saturday, with similar results, although they kept it close a bit longer, and we were playing project X in the finals. the first point saw a patient X work it up against our man with about 40 passes (so much for the huck and hope). i diligently chased my man around for most of the point, but took everything out of the tank in the process. then they get the next 3 after a miscue, a pointblock and an errant huck. poor/lazy defensive poaching by me sees me get burned for a huck. we lose half 8-2. trade for most of the second half and wind up losing 15-8 or something.
this is probably the most out-of-shape i've ever been coming into a spring, and it showed. the good news is that it reminded me that i can't just go out there and perform how i expect without putting in at least a minimal amount of training. the small roster and scheduling wasn't doing me any favors, although i was helped by the fact that there were few quality opponents to force us to expend more energy than necessary. hopefully some diligence over the next few weeks will help correct some of this and at least get me prepared for what lies ahead.
i've had a very unique offseason, and it didn't prepare me for this tourney at all. my typical pattern is to take off from after nationals until sometime in mid-to-late december, and then get back into training for the upcoming year. however, with a pulled hamstring at nationals, i took all of november off to heal, did rehab for december and early january, then spent the last few months doing nothing. i think i've had 2 frisbee specific workouts in the last 3 months.
it turns out that having long breaks between each game on saturday was not the best thing to help my body get through the day. long warmup after a 1st round bye on saturday saw my hamstring feeling great, but my whole lower-body was sore from the previous week's weightlifting and workout. quick game, 13-4 or something. 2-hour bye. long warmup again, slightly longer game, 13-6 maybe. long bye including health emergency which happened on the adjacent field to ours. slightly longer game again, 13-7?
my legs were shot. the warmups before the 2nd and 3rd game were much shorter than the first two, but it was still a lot of energy to get the engine revved up and the legs didn't want to loosen up after being shut down. additionally, i forgot to take any ibuprofen, so i felt all the pain...quads, hamstrings, calves, feet. when i'd play i could usually follow my guy around for one or two cuts, and then i'd start trying to cut my losses. my mark had dramatically deteriorated as i couldn't muster the strength to move my feet.
then the big matchup of the day against a team composed of a lot of players who played jam last season...let's call them 'project X' for short. just in time. i was not so secretly rooting for my legs to cramp up so i'd have an excuse to stay off the field, but instead they stayed under me just enough to allow me to make a number of mistakes. we started out strong as a team, but as we lost more guys to injury (we finished with 13) jam wound up capitalizing on mistakes that we were getting away with early on. my fatigue led to one terrible decision (a hammer on the goal line for a TO. i maybe throw 5 hammers in a whole season, but i thought i could end the point quick with this one), two poor executions (one an overthrow which caused two of our guys to take an injury sub, another underthrow) leading to turns, and another quick throw which was where it should have been, but was a bit unconventional and led to a drop. final score, 15-13 bad guys.
sunday starts early, but again we get the old game-bye pair to start the day. so after playing a team that stayed with us to 2-2, we got to sit around for a few hours until the semis. a rematch of the second game from saturday, with similar results, although they kept it close a bit longer, and we were playing project X in the finals. the first point saw a patient X work it up against our man with about 40 passes (so much for the huck and hope). i diligently chased my man around for most of the point, but took everything out of the tank in the process. then they get the next 3 after a miscue, a pointblock and an errant huck. poor/lazy defensive poaching by me sees me get burned for a huck. we lose half 8-2. trade for most of the second half and wind up losing 15-8 or something.
this is probably the most out-of-shape i've ever been coming into a spring, and it showed. the good news is that it reminded me that i can't just go out there and perform how i expect without putting in at least a minimal amount of training. the small roster and scheduling wasn't doing me any favors, although i was helped by the fact that there were few quality opponents to force us to expend more energy than necessary. hopefully some diligence over the next few weeks will help correct some of this and at least get me prepared for what lies ahead.
posted by greg at
5:32 PM
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hamstring rehab was supervised by a therapist and included a lot of bodyweight squats, lunges (on a variety of angles), theraband curls, electro-stim and some limited stuff on specific machines at the center. generally it was all high repetition stuff. event the seemingly intense exercises were 15 reps, which beat the crap out of me given the timing of it all. i think the best hamstring exercise, and one that i had gotten away from before pulling my hamstring is a variation of http://www.personalbest.ca/Articles/article003.htm, with a little hip thrust after the curl part.
my not working out time for the last few months has meant lifting upperbody about once/week, surfing a few times per week, sporadic beach ultimate (like once/month), and basketball once/week. as the season approaches, i sort of cut out the fun exercises and add to the weightlifting and frisbee-specific workouts.
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