Tips & Tricks VIII - Setting Goals

Here's some more of my random Ultimate thoughts throughout the day. As spring time may not be so very far away anymore, it's been preparation time for a few weeks/months now.
At a certain level of Ultimate there comes a time where it's only up to your dedication to see if you can improve some (or a lot ?) more.

One thing to do that with is setting goals with your team.
Thinking about your team ambition at the national championship, or setting goals for your practices, or reaching a certain ranking at a chosen tournament are all great ideas to start working on.
Another thing to do is get your individual skills to a higher level, only in the purpose of serving your team the best you can give.

The point I'm getting to, is about those personal goals.
When you start playing Ultimate you first start learning about basic technique (throwing skills) and tactics (where to run and how to play).
If you've played for several years you get to a certain level after which it's difficult to get any better, so you have to find your weaknesses and make them stronger.
We like to call them 'Werkpuntjes', something that can translate to 'points to work on'.
I believe I can be a better middle for my team if I can do more than just run, catch the disc and give it back to a handler.
And that's how I found the Youtube film below.
Pretty funny at times, but an exercise extremely useful.



I've posted some more issues about this more than a year ago, check it out at http://gethorizontal.blogspot.com/2009/10/some-ultimate-thoughts-around-midnight.html

Here's another one of Mister Rob's ultimate videos.

He may have a chest like concrete, I still believe we can get a lot of power from this rotating movement.

Wanna go out and throw.