In the Name of Floorball

It's the end of November already?? [smacks forehead] 

Before I go on: reminder for everyone to pass up their sentences a

bout their performance for the yearbook to Tania ASAP. :)

Anyway.....training yesterday was...as usual...~

"Bet you can't do this...Haiyaa!" - Kuan Yang

"*Sniffs* Yeah, I've seen better..." - Coach Jason

"Run, run as fast as you can - you can't catch me! I'm.....Gary."

Crouching tiger, hidden dragon....

A ghostly figure of Shawn (or is it Sean? Or maybe Shaun? Sorry.

...) during the snakes drill....

I'm not sure since when this started, but we started naming our drills in levels...

I wonder what a video game of floorball would look like...

Major League Floorball? Floorball Tour 2009? Floorball Hero?

Welcome Player 1! Choose your level;

LEVEL 1

Pass the ball, receive, bring it and shoot it into the

 goal. 

LEVEL 2

Pass the ball and make a "first-timer" shot into the goal using both backhand and forehand. 

"I want a continuous motion from you when you make that shot, Player 1! Do not slow down!"

LEVEL 3

Pass the ball, receive, bring it to the front of the goal....score!

-----GAME OVER------

We also continued our "Quest of the 200-passes" and did Finland passes (I'm guessing they originated from Finland...?) and a 2-on-1 drill in "pairs of three". Quite self-explanatory.

We also played Mini Golf: Floorball Edition.....

5 pairs of players make passes to one another while avoiding the omnipresent defenders at the centre of the court. Much like those little wind mills at mini golf courses. Or the plastic alligators. You know what I mean.

Punishment for making an obstructed pass? Push ups, of course...

We finally had some game time at about 20 minutes to 3.00....

Seniors vs. Seniors + Tania

Juniors vs. Girls

Face off 1

"I got it!" - Tania

with Lisa in the background referee-ing

Interesting footwork, nice passes, and much more team

work....good job guys :)

Juniors and Girls, keep practicing on the technique and playing games till we become the best in Penang.

Always do your best : what you plant now, you harvest later.

Endnote ~

SUKPEN 4-5 December 2009

Paraphrased quotes from the coach:

"If you are on your school team, you are.....not to say forced...but highly encouraged to play for your school, not for this team. Okay, not just encouraged, more like mandatory...."

"We need to come together club-to-club, school-to-school, hand-in-hand to promote floorball on a government level."

"It's not about WINNING, it's about the numbers!"

With that said, play for your school's team (if that's possible), get more friends to join your school's team (even if they haven't touched a floorball stick before) and play in the name of floorball people!

Oh. And did anyone notice how tense Gary looked at practice?

Maybe it was the hair. 

Kidding! ;)

NatGeo Presents:

fireBRANDS Floorball Club's training, 14 November 2009, PBSM

It is not uncommon to catch a glimpse of the slowly increasing population of floorballers in Penang, a new spesies of mammals who wield sticks of carbon fibre and somehow find pleasure in doing so.

In this episode of NatGeo Presents (that's pree-sents, not prehh-zhunts), we get a closer look at this growing breed in their natural habitat.

Clad in pink is the rare Eulene, who is said to be rarely spotted among the floorballers.


The males of the spesies indulge in playing around before the rite of training officially begins.

This is a photo of all the floorballers jogging together as a precursor to the day's activities. Note that they are led by an alpha-male (in blue), known to them as the coach-for-the-day and is called Gary.
Their usual coach (odd, how these mammals refer to sports leaders with the same word they use for 'bus') took a backseat as he was unwell, but was still the de facto coach.


Stretching, apparently to warm-up the bodies of these warm-blooded people.

Balance is crucial for them to avoid falling over and tumbling into air and suffering painful landings.


All in a circle =)

Snake.

Cobra.

All under the eye of Coach Gary.

The group of them continued with more drills, to improve skills and teamplay; both very important to face the dangers of the wild.


The two coaches deliberating.

And finally they were set free to run as much as their hearts willed, in a session called game time (which was longer this time!).

Almost full-view of the court. (and that's Joyce there - keeper)

Interesting movement in this shot.

Scuffling for the ball.

And YES, that was a goal!!

Training concluded with the usual sit-around-in-a-circle-and-reflect practice.

And TWO new guys were officially welcomed into the club: Aaron and Frederick :)

So.

Viewers Readers can learn more by COMING FOR TRAINING: Saturdays, 1-4pm, PBSM.

Multitask!

Ever heard of 'sambil menyelam minum air'?

Or, how about: sunbathing while floorballing!


Because on this Saturday (7 Nov '09), training'll be at that basketball court along Jalan Delima. Yes, where our 'Pokok Demokrasi' is.


this place..







PBSM is unavailable, that's why. So come to Island Glades and NOT to Air Itam!


But same time yeah. 1-4p.m..


Pray it doesn't rain! Cuz if it's raining at 11a.m. onwards, training's cancelled k.


Come along and feel the heat, as PFL: Division 2 draws nearer..


EDIT: TRAINING IS CANCELLED, cuz there're canopies set up at the basketball court so we can't use it.

"The more you sweat in practice,

the less you bleed in battle."

Back again for another good workout and stinky clothes afterwards.

"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven." - Knute Rockne (American football player-coach)

With the ever-present need to play as a team, the top on Coach Jason's list: the players lined up in two columns and...

...passed!

The figure to shoot (haha) for was 200. Once you're done with that, do another 200. Accurate, fast and look before you pass!

Then snakes, and a new drill more to the technical side of teamplay:

1. Two players run past each other.

2. 45-degree pass.

3. Shot.

Protractors, anyone?

After which, 4-on-5 (girls and juniors defending against the guys), a variant of the 2-on-1s usually done. Two teams of guys (the Khanz + Indy, and The Classic Team), two teams of girls & juniors (plus the coach himself).

It allowed the guys room to build up their teamplay, fluidity and expression on court. While the girls & juniors could learn by playing against those better than them.

And finally, the moment we've all been waiting for.

(do take a good look at each of the photos, they were carefully photographed, handpicked and painstakingly uploaded. lol)

The first face-off.

Cool-headed controlling by Deswyn while Per Yue goes in for the snatch.

Free-hit: spot the ball!

Gary attempting to penetrate through.

Beverly (i might've paraphrased a li'l, but roughly): Look at James' face! His expression!

I really like how the focus turned out here.

Indy single-handedly (literally and figuratively) charging by the wall.

Focus also not bad. But blur-ity is clarity of movement :)

The girls and juniors went 3-on-3 and ran with all the energy they could muster (6 outfield makes for a larger-than-life court).

And, cheers for keeper Nicholas Choong who definitely improved his movement, shielding the most part of the goal throughout the entire training. He only called it a day once the cramps started coming, after which Alex sub-ed in.

"I figure practice puts brains into your muscles." - Sam Snead (won 82 PGA Tour events), on golf.

Well then it probably applies to floorball too =)

Debrief!

(Sila teliti hayati foto-foto di bawah ini. Kemudian buat satu karangan tentang faedah-faedah menyertai fireBRANDS Floorball Training. Panjang huraian anda hendaklah lebih kurang 250 patah perkataan. xP)

O (circle)

4 of the Khanz floorballers =D it's real good having 'em here!

Making a point.

Kuan Yang talking about FLOORBALL STICKS.

'konon-nya'

And Alex with the last say.

Jason thinks like Benitez

"Benayoun passes it to Kuyt, a square pass back to Benayoun, he sees Torres,

through pass upfront, Torres gets the ball, Ferdinand tries to stop him but he shoots.

GOALLLLLLL"

Floorball football floorball football, still ball

so when it comes to a ball game there's always one thing you need to do.. PASS

that's why badminton is called badminton and not badminton ball cause you don't pass the shuttlecock, anyway anyway

BACK TO BUSINESS

As promised last week, coach Jason started the training by asking the players to accomplish 200 passes, forehand passes. From now onwards he will be looking seriously into our passes. So guys, heads up, look into the eyes and pass. But remember, don't put electricity

Several drills concerning passing were done and it was time for APPLICATION

The players were all split into 4 teams, two seniors teams two juniors teams with a new line consisting of the PMR-mers. The seniors were challenged to keep all the goal posts and put back the badminton nets for those who lost. While for the juniors and the girls, they were given the HAK to play too, same durations, just like Pendidikan Moral's nilai-s 'melindungi hak kanak kanak' and ' menghormati hak wanita'

Okay and training ended, who lost? it doesnt matter as all of the players helped out to clear the courts.

And what have you learnt?

PASS

AND yeah,

Liverpool won by 2-0

why?

they passed a lot =D

Photocopy

Yes, i felt like copying and pasting the announcement from last week, but nevermind!

To all Firebrands out there, training this saturday (24/10) will be from 2-5p.m. again.

Same place -PBSM!

So, pls don't go at 1p.m. expecting the Coach or Gary or Alex to be there..

..but don't be late either!

That's it, thank you for reading, GO FOR TRAINING (:

The Deepavali Training!!!

Another week of training and this time after a hearty Indian meal then straight to training for some. What a laugh. somewhere between the drills some of them had to sit from the double portion of rice they had lolz.

Ok, the day started with...(let the pictures do the talking)

people coming.. duh...

first there were just the few early comers who are somehow always early.. which is a GOOD thing.. some of them before the warm up starts are already heated up lolz.. all sweaty

They Came!!
They talked!!

Then people came and did the usual five-O's (in some place that means police but not in this case)

Drills Drills Drills... Run people run, and so everybody ran with the coach cracking the whip behind our backs... "One teeny mistake and 20 push-ups everyone" =D can you imagine the joy?

Naw.. nobody did it wrong so no push-ups whoohoo!! Cheers people, good improvement. Say, come 3 months earlier and i think we'd all be doing push ups eh?

They Shot!!

So the regular drills and spills; snakes, two line drill, then came the IMPROVED SNAKE!!!!

They Blocked!!

And there was the coach (bullying [kidding]) training the players hands on, better show then just tell they say.

He blocked, caught, and let in... (it's a package you know..)

So drills and spills came to an end when the coach said... "You all ah.. lacking game experience.. so we shall play more game"(ok not literally like that but something like that haha) SO GAME WE CAME!!

Game time was life on the fast track putting lessons into practice.

Then there was SPK(senior pastor's kid) Shaun who was distracted while playing lol.. although he did score against that James guy.

Life on the faster lane....

The day came to and end with the coach briefing/debriefing the players on future drills and team stuff then Alex's turn to talk close stuff and collect fees

Look at how many people we have now.. definitely growing!!

This is me(that James guy)... with the report and pics.. hope ya'll like it!

Minta Perhatian..!

*ding ding ding DING* [PA-system thingy, like in those shopping malls, y'know]

Training this Saturday is ON at PBSM.

However, due to the fact that it's Deepavali, training'll be from 2-5pm and not 1-4pm.

I know y'all very semangat wanna play floorball d but pls tahan for one hour, cuz no one's gonna be there at 1pm lol =)

terima kasih atas perhatian anda, dan selamat membeli-belah di Jusco

*DING ding ding ding*