Training Schedule for February

         *Each session will last for 2 hours unless otherwise stated.

         *Venue will be at the Tampines Sports Hall unless otherwise stated

HEY AWESOME FLOORBALLERS.

There will be a swop in timing for this Saturday's training. (30jan09)
Guys training will start at 0730h while the girls will be at 0930h!

So take note of the timing and be punctual. (:

<3.

HEY GIRLS & GUYS.

TRAINING THIS THURS, 28.01.2010, WILL BE AT VALHALL, 6PM TO 8PM.
COME 30 MINS EARLIER TO WARM UP AND STUFF ETC.

TJFLOORBALL <3.

Okay, so just something on how to defend in different situations. I know you’re all busy and may not have the time to read this. But if you’re curious on how to tackle some sticky situations, then you might want to glance through it.

Note: Applies more to a 4-on-4 game than a 5-on-5 since the role of the safety is arguably different.

This is especially useful for cases where it’s a 1-on-1 (1 att on 1 def) due to a fast break from one of the opposition forwards. A 2-on-1 scenario requires more from the defender.

You have a few objectives:

1. Don’t let him/her beat you. Simply put, once the person beats you, your team will have one person less between the ball and your goal.

2. Block any shot that the person makes. Or better still, don’t let the person even take a shot.

3. Direct the person away from the area in front of your goal a.k.a. the centre a.k.a. the critical zone. *I shall call it the critical zone*

Of course it’d be great if you can cut any passes that the person makes, but that is not as crucial here because it ain’t a 2-on-1 situation. So any pass would likely be a back pass (teammates responsibility to intercept)

How to meet the objectives:

- Do not charge at the person head on. Why? By charging at the person, you only have a split second timeframe to get the ball (because you’re going in the opposite direction from him). If he taps the ball past you, or manages to ole you, you’re a goner.

Also, if you ram into the person an obstruction foul may be called.

- Instead, what you have to do is ABSORB a.k.a. moving backwards with one foot in front of the other and your stick fencing.

While you are ‘absorbing’ your body is always between ball and goal, ready to block any shot and your stick is fencing to provoke/irritate/prod-the-ball/steal-the-ball from him.

- But you shouldn’t just absorb and absorb until you backtrack into the critical zone. You have to absorb with a purpose, and that is to direct him. Direct where? To the boards and further along until he goes into your defensive corner a.k.a. lousy zone. Why? He can hardly shoot from the corner and his options are limited. Also he himself is no longer a threat until he gets out of the lousy corner. Your priority now has changed from blocking his shot to blocking his passes and preventing him from driving into the crucial zone.

Also, if this was a counter attack, you basically nullified the counter by directing him into the corner as your teammates now have added time to run back (which they should have been doing when you were ‘absorbing’)

So…exactly how is Absorbing done? Well, there is a drill to work on it actually and if you’re really clueless about how to Absorb, then please do ask me. (Maybe coach has done the drill already? I dunno)

Directing on the other hand is easier to explain. All you have to do is to ‘Show The Way’. That is, you have to position yourself such that the ball-carrier would naturally go towards the side and into the lousy corner. This often involves placing your body a little slanted to discourage entering into the crucial zone and encourage dribbling to the lousy corner. It’s psychological really.

However, always be alert. The ball-carrier may still decide that he wants to cut into the crucial zone no matter how much you psychologically dissuade him and how much you psychologically persuade him to go towards the corner. This means that you still have to be prepared to defend against that.

Lastly, just to add on, charging the ball-carrier head on is not a wise decision even during a typical defense play simply because if you’re beaten, it’ll take time for you to get in front of him again (or for your teammate to step up to him) and this window of time could be all he needs to take a shot.

I might write one on a 2-on-1 scenario (which is of greater interest to more people) but since I started writing this at 11:30pm, I can’t exactly continue. Just remember that doing this during 2-on-1 will not be very good unless you're a super awesome intercepter of passes so the other runner is basically rendered useless as he'll never receive a pass.

Any questions, or if you see something you don’t agree with, please do bring it up for the benefit of everyone.

If you want something more about attacking, you are encouraged to scream at ben or thad :)

Luv...Sean

* Each session will last for 2hours unless otherwise stated.

*Venue will be at Tampines Sports Hall unless otherwise stated.

HOW NOT TO GET CUT FROM THE TEAM

As Mr Tan said the first cut will be by the end of January, (second cut probably around the end of march), so there are some simple basic rules and some pointers on what they are looking for to help you avoid the cut.

#1 attendance

Simple, the first thing both coach and Mr Tan looks out for is your attendance record for the past few trainings, so if your attendance have been pretty poor over the holidays due to attachments/ocip/ogl and whatnot, next year is time to shove everything overboard(except for studies hahaha!) and concentrate on floorball!

#2 Don't make stupid mistakes


like...

for defenders
-don't break through in the middle
-don't pass through the middle unless you are 1000% sure (Mr Lenny got benched for the rest of the match when his pass through the middle was intercepted and led to rj's second goal) 
-don't commit slashing fouls in front of the goal

for attackers
-run back!@!#!#
-don't stone when your defenders are having trouble to get the ball drop back

defenders/attackers

NO BLIND PASSES (coach really doesn't like this)

#3 fitness


ok soooo heres the big issue for most people. So heres a nice example, Me and Mr Lenny were average only like 11:30 at about this time for 2.4km. But after we heard coach's epic statement of 'I don't care how skillful a player is, I won't put him on court if he doesn't have the fitness to last a match' we started training up until we managed to hit 10:30 about 1 month before A Div.

If me and Lenny can do it, you can too :D

anyway here are some basic tips and tricks of how to NOT get tired on court, even though your stamina is lower than your teammates

#1 quick line changes
The average time that a line is supposed to stay on court is only about 1.5-2mins! If you feel that you are tired are court please change, no point being a hero but instead winding up staying on court for 5 minutes and randomly drooling on court!

#2 play to the limitations of your stamina 

 as a defender I can only give advice on the defensive part of how to save energy. When your opponent has the ball, there are two goals that the defender must keep in mind.

1)steal the ball back
2)don't let him score.

keep in mind that you should only try to steal the ball back if you have the confidence and stamina to do so. If you are not confident of stealing the ball, then don't but instead proceed on to the next goal of not letting the opponent score.

HELLO AGAIN (:
 
Things to note:

1) Girls' PT on Monday, 21 December, is from 9am to 11am in TEMASEK JUNIOR COLLEGE.

2) BOYS AND GIRLS Exco Meeting on Monday, 21 December as well, starting at 12pm, ending at IDK when.

xoxo mich

For those who don't already know, we're having a 3on3 competition during open house. We can send in a team too, if you all want. But more importantly, i need officials to make up my organizing committee.

So, it'll consist of Referees, Registration booths dudes/dudettes who will be in charge of needless to say the registration, and in addition the fixtures, scores and time keeping. and when i say fixtures, i don't mean you have to schedule all the teams competing. This will already be done so all you all have to do is to reshuffle if there is a need to. (E.g. Walkover due to absence etc.) I'll also need my dear QMs to get the balls. White balls pleaseeee. Last and final thing, i need people at the booth at the canteen, and 2 roamers to advertise.

Okay, and i guess we'll have shifts. so that you all can ROAM AROUND FREELY or participate in the competition when you're not on shift. We'll see. I need you all to comment to this post/tell edmund or me BY MONDAY about what you wanna do. Otherwise, we will just pick at random and you'll be EXPECTED to do your job, AND NOT COMPLAIN/AVOID IT UNLESS THERE'S AN ABSOLUTE VALID REASON.

Can we also know if you all are sending in teams, and who's in the team. 4 in each team. 
 
Okay so far we've got,

Wei Jie and Yan Lin in charge of Balls.

Referees: Benjamin, Kiat Leong

Booth 2 (Hall):
Yan Lin and Kim, in charge of REGISTRATION. (After registering, FREE TO ROAM. Anyway, i have enough people for this.)

Cheryl, Slyvia and KaiLing in charge of TIME KEEPING. (Doing in shifts, so feel free to offer yourself up to this easy job)

Andrea and Iyn Huii in charge of score keeping.

Booth 1 (Canteen):
Farreha

This is it for now.

We'll show you all the shift list and everything before the open house, so don't worry for now (:


OH and dear boys, we need the names who are interested to be in the organizing committee for ORIENTATION CAMP so we can do elections on monday amongst the exco.

Xoxo mich.