Essentials on the Road To Regionals: Part 1: The Trust Fall

So I think it's about time for a new blog series. I will call it "Essentials on the Road to Regionals"; pretty self explanatory: simple, necessary things that if done enough, our chances for Regionals 2010 will increase dramatically. All players on the Fighting Gobies should take these to heart and implement them in their daily "thizz over regionals" session. I hope my fellow bloggers will continue this blog series and get in on the fun.

Essential #1: The Trust Fall

Who: you and a fellow teammate, especially one that you need to increase your bro-ing out level, chemistry on the field, or just overall confidence in one another.
What: See below in description.
When: whenever you and your teammeate need it.
Where: anywhere, but preferably on an Ultimate field to increase your Ultimate awareness and passion.
Why: Playing, living, breathing, sleeping, dreaming, eating, training, and trust falling as a team is the only way we'll accomplish our goal of regionals

Description: Master Bro K.P. showed me this beautiful little bonding moment last night at the women's practice. One teammate stands behind the other, a short distance apart (a few feet to start, then further apart as your trust points are increased as you level up). The person in front is the "faller". He sticks his arms out horizontal. Before you make the fall, declare with passion 2-3 statements demonstrating your trust in your fellow teammeate (such as: Me: "Kevin, I know when I cut break, you will somehow find a way to release a beautiful backhand break to me for the score. Kevin, I know when in the rare case I get beat deep on defense, you will be there in a flash of speed and manliness to D the deep throw to my guy. Kevin, I know when I have a bad day, you will always be there to lean on for support and comfort."). Following these words of trust, the faller will proceed to fall backwards with no intentions of breaking the fall, placing all trust in his teammeate to catch him (OPTIONAL: faller can close eyes to increase sense of placing complete trust in teammate). The teammate will catch the faller with his powerful, muscular arms. You then switch roles, the faller becoming the catcher and vice versa.

Note: these procedures can be repeated if you feel you haven't reached the level of chemistry and trust needed to get to Regionals.

Note #2: Can also be done with multiple catchers as shown in the picture above; ideal for teamwide bonding.

If anyone needs a demonstration, let me know, I'm always glad to help show the path to regionals.

- Mark

Player Profile - Andy Coleman

Name: Andy Coleman
Nicknames: Bulge, The Bulge, Candy Coleman, Candy, ac, King of Air Alert
Age: 20 years young
Height: he'll sky you. that's all that matters.
Position(s): Used to mostly cut, now seems to be filling in the role as handler.
Special move(s): skying anyone that challenges him and super smooth throws

Description:
One half of the dominant force that hails from Pittsburgh, Andy's ultimate career really took off after completion of Air Alert III. Never before has anyone seen jumps so high or calves so big until Andy stepped onto the field in spring '09. In addition to being a beast of raw power as a deep threat, Andy has always had super smooth throws (see special moves) that helped the team this sectionals and will definitely be an integral part in our road to regionals next year. What, you're gonna cheat over on the mark and attempt to stop his beautiful flick? Oh, he'll just break you with an even more beautiful backhand for the score. If anything, his signature "bulge" will have opposing teams second guessing their own manliness and will have girls on the sideline thizzin' over him.

In fact, I wouldn't even try to sky him if I were you. Don't embarrass yourself.

- Mark

Milestone

Just some self-thizzin' but.... 1000 views!!! We are spreading our influence.

The summer, and getting intense

The majority of my colleagues are currently bogged down with their work for computer class (NERDS!), so I'm gonna take a break from my mediavision to draw up a post for all of you to chew on as your primary mode of entertainment this friday.


It was windy today. Then again, the winds of change never blow without letting you know. Also, its finally getting pretty warm outside. I guess you could say C-town is just preheating the oven for the regionals run we're cooking up this year. I ceremoniously removed the plastic window wrappings in our house in an unofficial declaration of the beginning of summer. I also signed up for Cleveland Summer League (Draft league), and am prepping for a nice warm season of ultimate. It'll be good to hear people on the field saying its "warm as balls" instead of "cold as balls" in the coming months.

After our appropriately-lengthed end of year meeting last night, we held a co-ed scrimmage with the ladies. It was in a word "chill-gressive". The mood was light, but the playing was hard. We're all excited to see the ladies rock out with their ovaries out in Oberlin next weekend, and we're ready to cheer them on. Our sideline presence will squeeze extra intensity out of them like a big manly beautiful (e.g. Mark) juicer.

I thought I would provide a few tips for the ladies on how to get super pumped for their competitive sports event

1. Music: This is key. I would reccmommend getting a "boom box" and play something thatll really get you pumped. Lebron listens to Jay Z before games, so that's likely the best bet. You'll likely be shaking with anticipation, so let the beats flow through you, and high five each other till you stop skaking, or start bleeding. Whichever comes last.
2. Meditation: Nothing lets the other team know how much of a baddass you are by being the person who steps to the side and crouches down and just "feels it" for a minute. Sit still and take a few deep breaths, then make a show out of stretching extraneous muscles, then break out of meditation mode by screaming and chest bumping your teammates. If you do this, the other team will likely be expecting you to shoot flames out of your eyes once you take the field
3. Get injured and return: *cough*macandalex*cough*. Take it upon yourself to play with reckless abandon to the point you break a bone or tear a muscle. This may hinder your team slightly in the short run. But the pump-up inspiration factor of limping on the field and re-dominating will be enough to inspire your entire team to thrash the competition when it counts
   

-Kevin

Change we can believe in

Tonight there has been a changing of the guard. History has been made. I would like to introduce the leaders of tomorrow:

President: Allison Williams
Vice: Mark Richardson
Secretary: Diana Jiang
Treasurer: Brian Nelson
Men's Co-Captains: Mac & Ed Yanosik
Women's Co-Captains: Elaine Leung & Kumi
Northcoast TD: Alex Hunt
CWRUL TD: Kevin Pochatila
Safely Officer: Corbett
Apparel: Q

By the power of the people, these select few have been elected to help lead our team to victory, and to help us look super fly in the process (Q). It is under their leadership we must come together as a team and work our way to excellence. Congratulations everybody who was elected, thanks everybody who ran, and good job to everyone who got an award tonight!

-Andy

Steve's newest video

Steve sent me this today. Oh man.

-Ed

Inspiration

As Kevin said we take a lot of inspiration from the Cavs. If this reference does not make sense to you, WATCH THE CAVS, or check this out.

-Ed