Great Practice…

Posted on January 10, 2008

This will probably be a short post, but last night’s practice was probably the best practice of the indoor season.  The toronto skaters are really displaying their commitment and efforts.

We started the transition towards the “everything drill” as the core of our warm-ups, which involves a multitude of skills used in combination and simultaneously.  I think we are all on the right track, and as the first time doing this drill, it looked great.

Then we got straight into relays, and after just a bit of practice, we got into a relay pyramid (3×1,3×2,2×3,1×5,2×3,3×2,3×1) which was really, really tough, but absolutely great at the same time.  I found myself at times unable to talk, and gasping while waiting for the next exchange.  I loved it. 

There were still a few crashes (actually I lost count), but as far as I know there were no (significant) injuries.  I know at one point, Jade and I went down and crashed simultaneously into the wall after Deano dove up the inside underneath Jesse who was passing tight a little earlier.  I bet it looked way cool, and I wish I had that video.  The relays never once stopped.  Not even once.  The teams never missed a beat, and pretty much stayed together for the entire duration of the pyramid.  It was awesome.

The group was really on form last night, and I was really proud of the attitude of the group and of the individuals; which I am beginning to understand I see as two seperate entities.  More on that probably soon.

Anyway, great practice, and I thought it was way cool of Candy Wong and Sigrid Ziegler to come and watch practice and help the team after suffering injuries on Monday, as well as Jamie Haskell who was running our splits.  Big ups team.

Also, what-up to Jake the Muss, J-to-tha-R.O.C., and Mikey Michaels, fresh off NZ nats; pass ups to K-max. And of course a personal hello to Sandra D. 

K, that’s it.

-A-out-dot-ca.

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