Training for ultimate

Today featured the only four-hour block for ultimate drills, skills, and strategies. Coaches were encouraged to cover basic drills that are transferable when campers from different camp teams return home and play with each other. Overall, this is too short a time to turn the players into pros.

I felt we covered a good bit of fundamentals, and had fun. Marking and pivoting topped the fundies list...telling campers their toes are keeping a one hundred dollar bill from flying away or being stolen is very effective at stopping them from travelling :) We did a huck drill with two guys rather than just onefor some competition. We also ran a lot of flow drill, with up to seven dudes each time. Hopefully that will become more a part of their game time behavior.

But there is so much more to do. Have not introduced endzone/mushroom, go to (which most will know), or the horizontal stack. Also dont have a team song yet, though we are the loudest table drummers in the cafeteria.

Feedback from campers was that they can handle more challenge, like winning, and "want to spend my life here" - in the words of Rai. 

Attached is a picture of Rai with Samir on the bus we take to and from the off-site fields (on the steep side of a mountain in Tamra).