Holiday Coming Up

What's up with the seemingly monthly fouling of Pan Am Pool? I am getting tired of cancelled practice just cause some parent hasn't toilet trained their 12 year old. Tonight the boys lost a full training session due to a 4:00 "accident". Some things just don't have to be the way they are and it's frustrating to deal with that. Sorry to all the boys who went straight to the pool from school.

It was interesting to see the Bushido and Neptune girls socialize in the lobby and then joke around at practice. Joke around a bit too much to be honest, but interesting just the same. There's no going back to being rivals for them, I just hope we can build a training intensity through competition that raises the bar, something very uncharacteristic for Manitoba.

We worked the Cadet 5 vs 6 defense again tonight and I really don't think we need to do any more teaching there, just high intensity reps against opponents they don't know. The 6 vs 5 offense still needs some work but they are getting the patterns now. This offense is one tactical area the boys seem so much more willing to embrace than the girls.

I posted a pic of Heather and her Volturno team today, talking about 6 vs 5 reminded me of her frustrations. She drives and draws kick-outs every game yet her team scores less than 20% of their power plays. Ouch. They are young and inexperienced so it is more common for them to train swimming than tactics. Kinda the opposite training set up for her preference. Meh.

Disjointed post tonight, too much on the go to concentrate.