I'm On A Horse

Ack, I write one blog entry out of sequence and now I can't get my head around where we were up to, plus while trying to type up this entry I have been watching Old Spice Guy response videos on line, which is really distracting, it's an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love...

Dammit. So here's what we are going to do. We are going to squish the last two Saturday training sessions into one super post, and hopefully there will be enough material so that we can gloss over some of the dodgier attempts to complete drills. Look again, the tickets are now diamonds.

So strap yourself in, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Michelini, do not strap anything anywhere, this is not that type of website...

So over the last two weeks it turns out that everyone has kind of been available. Esther from Hesta missed a week when she was up in Brisbane, Hullsy bailed out of a session after pulling a 20 hour shift. Bec missed a session after being pursued by the cops in a 20 hour car chase, which is both an amazing coincidence and also a sign that good fuel economy is destroying our training sessions.

Hero of the fortnight has undoubtedly been Mossy, who has been keeping her fitness base at sky-high levels by showing up to trainings, strapping her injured leg to some type of rotating disc, and then hopping tiny laps on her good leg for a good 90 minutes. She does get extremely dizzy going round in circles constantly, but the nausea probably helps keep the weight off as well.

So last week we broke out the video camera for the first time this year, and word must have gotten out about this because everyone showed up in tv-friendly, slimming black and/or dark blue uniforms. That's the main reason I live in Victoria you know, the gut-friendly uniforms, those yellow WA tops or the NSW sky-blues do not suit a man of my plumpitude.

Joining the squad on the tv were the telegenic John & Laura, as well as the publicity hungry Darren Michelle...

State/Region: VIC Metro
Regional/Metropolitan Area: Southern
Location: Berwick
Manager: Darren Michelle
Mailing Address: PO Box 2055, Fountain Gate, 3805
Telephone: 0402 224 116
Mobile: 0402 224 116
Fax: (03) 8786 8771
E-mail: darren@kellysports.com.au

Easiest $16.50 I've ever made. Just 99 more commercials required and then the blog will have paid for my trip to Queensland...

So last week we started to work on our system for matriculating the ball down the court from our defence end to our attack end. And for the first 20 seconds, I thought this was going to be my time to shine, I was going to show Dave how I had been practising standing around with my arms crossed waiting for things to develop. But no, it turns out standing around is for attackers only, why anyone defends in netball remains a mystery to me.

Make that parallel pass, read your goal attack, get into the centre third, pin this person, release to the net, make that pass, footwork. I am not looking forward to the first 90 minutes of this video session at all...

Speaking of the video session, what is the dress code for this thing? Leesy had a bag of frocks out last night, seriously, numerous party frocks. I was just going to grunge it up in yesterday's trackie dacks, but now I am not so sure...