Club Anniversary

FireBRANDS Floorball Club would like to thank the coach, the management and most importantly all the members for making 2009 a successful year for the club. To celebrate this and our club's first anniversary, a pot bless will be held at Indy's mansion on the 3rd of January 2010. Oh yeah, please remember to bring RM 40(RM10 to purchase YEARBOOK, RM10 for PFA fundraising and RM20 for January fees).

Details

Date: 3rd of January

Time: 5-8 pm

Venue: Indy Toh's mansion. 10 Halaman York

the MAP *search yourself

NOTE: It's Pot Bless, so please bring something. If your stomach is in the shape of a pot then sorry, please bring two pots, your tummy and another pot of food. THANK YOU

The End. (of 2009)

fireBRANDS Floorball Club's last training for the year 2009 kicked off with the last five-rounds-round-the-court warm-up for the year.

kuat lari..

And the final bout of stretching..

kaki kangkang..

And of course, the must-have snakes!

aiseh focus nice..

Check out that round yellow thing on the goalkeeper's pants..

And Ivy making full use of her last chance to high-stick during snakes. (pls hold your stick properly)

Due to the unexpectedly massive turnout of players (almost 3o i think), girls and guys were separated for drills, with Tania and Gary handling each group respectively.

Huge spurt in attendance also meant a lack of sticks, leaving some players without.

Girls listening to their coach-for-the-day (and Ivy.. doing something).

Monkeying around =)

Floorball trainings teach you to QUEUE UP and wait your turn.

Guys getting about during drill time.

Due to the lack of sticks available, thus inhibiting the full participation of every player during drills.. (means big headache for the coaches)

.. it was decided that GAME TIME would start earlier =D joy!

All the guys, juniors and girls played with and against each other.

So since game time was so long, here's lots of photos of it! Their last game time for the year..

Eulene stretching for the ball.

Zeph attacking Bev.

Ko ko Gary briefing the juniors.

Like sunflowers facing the sun, the floorballers face the ball. (i think i've used that line before somewhere..)

Derek going in for the kill.

Eunice getting a hold on the ball while everyone else looks on.

Juniors v. Girls - who'll get the ball??

Muka-tutup (Face-off)

Indy the 'goalkeeper' on all fours.

And nice focus! (again on Daniel Tan.. haih.)

Finally, the floorballers gathered for their final end-of-training briefing.. which lasted for a good half hour.

Among the things discussed: the highlights and lowlights of the year; about goalkeeper gear; anniversary dinner (sounds like wedding lol); extra trainings for selected players and what have you.

Group photo.. (i forgot to take a proper one DARN)

Alex, the main briefer, being club manager.

Ponytailed listeners.

And, the last photo taken of the last training of 2009: Gary memberi pendapatnya. (don't you feel so honoured?)

The end. (it's a HAPPY ending mind you!)

PS: if you're wondering why the post is up so early..

.. fireBRANDS ANNUAL YOUTH CAMP '09 IS TOMORROW!!! =D

The training after SUKPEN 09...

Oh yeah. That's the most creative title EVER. :)

After a tiring week, training today was....alright. It could've been better - longer training or higher team morale. But that's the way life goes right? You get a little, you give a little. 

Okay, so due to time restraints, we managed to do 2 drills after warm ups: triangle passing for the guys and....*sighs* (haha) the cones (ball control) for the juniors and gals. Because ultimately our greatness weakness is: the basics. I know it sounds cliche' (by now of course), but until we get those down, we don't stand a chance.

 

We also continued on our 200-passes ....

Around 2.00 PM, we went straight to games; this time all the teams going against each other so that we can gain proper game experience. 

Pemuda sedang mengamati perlawanan bola lantai....

First game - Hamid Khan guys versus the girls. The catch? The guys couldn't dribble the ball once they received it....= they had to rely on looking up and passing properly. Important. 

The goal was set up differently - hit either the two cones at the top corners of the goal, the stick on top of the goal or the ball bag on the ground. Defending team had to do push-ups for every goal in. 

Debriefing had to take place outside today due to the fact that the kind Malay lady who always sits outside ushered us out. And the people who came to decorate the hall for a Chinese wedding later were rushing in. 

Congrats to the happy couple! We hope you don't mind the stench of our sweat on the walls, stage and floor, yeah? That's what'cha paid for anyways right...

With sounds of inflating balloons in the background, Gary debriefed us about continuing to work on skill and technique. Alex reminded us to "keep our mental" during games, and to not lose our cool, with reference to an incident during SUKPEN. 

Hopefully all of us will recover from defeat over the weekend and strive to play with our heads, not our hearts, the next time round. Thank you to our loyal supporters and our spirited players....and remember - if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

....and apparently a lot of it. 

Loopy loopy Floorballers

Maybe it's global warming.

Maybe it's the excruciating mental torture SPM brings. 

Maybe it's the fact that SUKPEN'S on Thursday....

Maybe it's because Dubai's going down, and the economy is dwindling down to its final thread....

....that Firebrands floorballers are getting a little....loopy.

Exhibit A

"They're getting married?!"

Exhibit B

"Gather around my chiiildren...heehh...yeesssh...together vee shall take over zee world! Muahahahaa!"-Gary

Exhibit C

"That's right my chiiildren....pass zee ball...hehhh.

..if you manage to pass it 10 tzimes, I will make zee other team do 10 push ups! Kakakakaka..." Gary cackles as he looks on.

The 5-on-5 drill was to test our passing skills

 amidst a sea of defenders. 

Don't be fooled though - it tests your math s

kills too. 

Let's see - okay, so one actual pass doesn't really equal to one pass. It equals to half a pass. So two passes is equal to one pass.....

1 = 1/2

2 = 1

so 10 passes = 2x10

       = 20 actual passes

Floorballers have to have mental brain power too, y'know...

Exhibit D

(Why do I have so many pictures of Gary)

Gary receiving compliments from Sarah. 

"Memang pun..."

Exhibit E 

James wearing a muscle tee... (oh wait, no that's actually quite normal)

Seen here waiting during the 2-on-1 drill. 

Exhibit F

Gary's in an awfully good mood this week...

.....look, he found someone's underwear lying around on the floor!

"Oh you Frontliners!"

Exhibit G

Joyce in her "keeper helmet". 

Exhibit H

Amidst everything around him, Vern Sern manages to flash a peace sign to the camera.

Or does that stand for victory....?

Exhibit I

First game, and Indy's pooped from defending. Period. 

Behind him: from the keeper's perspective...

Exhibit J

Ouch. Shaun hurt his arm. Eunice looks on waiting for the ball to come by anyways.

Exhibit K

I like walls, do you like walls?

Exhibit L

Wayne became keeper for a game! The shin guards weren't working for him though.

Okay....so maybe we're not that loopy (it's really just me).

Training ended as usual....

We gotta remember NOT to play dirty (i.e. don't pinch Andrew or something like that), because well, how does that look for the entire club?

And if the ref calls something wrong, just get on with the game. Don't lose your cool.

Let's just try to have fun. :P

Ahead of SUKPEN 09, we present you... fireBRANDS irresistible influence

We'll be sending two teams named fireBRANDS irri & fireBRANDS influence

The lists of players are as follow:

IrrI

Joyce

Sarah

Beverly

Eunice oh

Jesher

Shaun

Daniel Derek

Indy

Gary

InfluencE

Bryan

James

Vern Sern

Yung Feng

Lip Sen

Fred

Per Yue

Wayne

Zeph

Steven

Deswyn

We, fireBRANDS would like to send our apologies to Hamid Khan for not being able to send a school team for you guys as we couln't get enough ppl to play for the team. As for the saints, we are sorry that we can't release some of our players as we are severely lack of player. Before i wrap up everything i just hope that we can see more Ryan Giggs in the future, one that will choose Wales over England, one that will choose home country over glory.

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! ;)