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Quick vid of said box jumps while I was warming up (2 separate days lol)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs7n-_rg7Pc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs7n-_rg7Pc</a>

Thinking about it I'm still exhibiting decent tendon stiffness so i SHOULD be feeling "springy" instead of just powerful. Gotta be the extra weight.

the other biggest issue was strong winds the entire weekend and our lack of dedicated throwers. i turned it a lot because of poor throw selection for the given wind.
second day my IT band flared up and i was hobbling around at times but still managed to do a good deal.

but pretty consistent at everything with no wind. defensive footwork is looking shoddy once again, i am baselessly arrogant. i have never played on a high level team. my training organization is shit.

consistent mid-deep shots, especially backhand. good fast releases, breaks, give-go's. I should be careful with shooting high OI flick breaks which tend to float and have been my least consistent break throw.
I should aim to force people slightly deep and stick with them as close as I can, maybe pick up a few D's on high deep shots. My handler defense has always been pretty solid so that's an option as well.
 my deep cuts should be a constant threat. Hard 2-3 steps under, stutter step deep to full commit under should almost always guarantee me a free under completion. Hard 3-4 steps under to jump cut deep should get me open for at least a few deep shots. Always be on the lookout to make breakside continuations off of swings.

-be more decisive and fully commit to cuts
-set up cuts by running hard deep when being played loose

tryout went good but im getting gassed very easily. some days my endurance is my best quality, today it was my worst

Will double up on hydration, and make sure to get some fats as well as carbs for med men round 2. Low fat might be a contributor to my poor endurance

I think I didn't drink enough water and was dying the first 2/3 of the med men tryout in 95 degree weather. Every single cut felt like hell on earth. My mental strength was pretty solid and I managed to survive through it,
The second tryout was lower level and went good although I was just destroyed: cramping, headache and low energy.

was in a bad mood and didnt socialize and probably intimidated a bunch of people.slippery glove change = lots of drops in insane humidity. some throwaways during mini, none during 7v7.

i think it was just a strenuous day and i have been puahing myself in other avenues of my life. 6 hours behind in sleep. my attitude is a mistake, it could be better. it can be fixed

5/27

not resting enough. I didn't adjust for my decreased speed+explosiveness as well as I should have and got beat to the force side in endzone a bunch of times.
I knew from warmups that my speed wasn't there and yet I kept playing like it was. Arrogant.

-upwind flicks are the most consistent, weirdly
-pulls in both directions pretty top notch
-downwind flicks, i have poor control over the disc going OI or IO
-on both upwind and downwind backands: 1/3 throws I lose my balance slightly and end up throwing too high

short-mid distance throws *200

key problem with backhand hucks is lack of grip consistency, all the other problems are coming from that

-having difficulty transferring momentum from power position backhands to my throw. Maybe throwing more IO would help? I default to always throwing OI backhand. In general my runup/power position hucks need loads more work, they are not as powerful as my stationary throws.

6/22
hucks *100
heavy wind. upwind i couldnt get my flicks past 40y and no consistency. downwind i focused on choosing whether the disc went IO or OI. too much in either direction and the disc blades or pops up and veers 20y to the side. no point in being able to throw a full field bomb if you cant control it. i did end up hitting a water bottle from 50y out but y'know, it's 1/100. who gives a shit. jk it was a money shot

6/26

Hucks *150
-upwind (+slight RL cross) flicks worst, complete opposite of last time i threw with this wind. Need to slow down and get my flick technique down, I think im overcomplicating the arm motio ln
-overall pretty inconsistent, especially upwind. Downwind im controlling the angle much better, everything was looking decent towards the end.

vs Mason: most of the throws were low and blady so bodying out was extra important. Really tough finding a balance between maintaining your space, not fouling, getting a good read and jumping through contact. I only got a few from outside position, caught almost everything from inside position. He caught 1 by sneaking into the inside space when I didn't body well enough and completely boxing me out. Bodying up is extra important with bladier shots, can't use vertical to compensate at all. In fact, I only managed to get 1 or 2 good verticals out of 15.

vs Jeremy: we are pretty close to evenly matched: his reach is slightly higher and he is bouncier but I am about 25lbs heavier and much stronger. I ended up with 8 catches and he got 5. The throws were pretty perfect 50-50's and easy to read with little wind and his playstyle was little contact. 80% of my jumps were above 30" for sure. Had an SL jump that felt close to PR level based on air-time.

An excellent experience. Heres what I can gain from it.
-statistically, my best chance on a disc by far is with inside positioning.
-I should work on disrupting momentum based jumpers by initiating contact during their runup
-I can't go up with a hand which i'm using to box out. Some situations might be better to box with a shoulder.
-I need reps against people much better at bodying out and with wind.

2 consistent mental errors, which I believe to be responsible for like 90% of my problems:
-getting in my head the moment after a mistake. The game goes on but I'm thinking about what I just did wrong and instantly lose focus and double up doing something dumb. consistent meditation and refocusing will help a lot with this, which I will be logging from now on.
-arrogance. making suboptimal choices just because I am overconfident in my abilities.

I can't do deep jump stop plants on turf, just can't get enough traction. The alternative is chop steps but I have to take 4 chop steps instead of 2 to get a good change of direction. Neither is optimal and I couldnt efficiently guard the best cutter with thia dilemma. The solution is probably better body control or more chop step practice. Working through some eccentrics and iso's at chop step joint angles would also be helpful. I feel like this is the main parameter that is holding back my game from being elite.

--aligning upper body center of gravity over first chop steps. Usually I have some upper body sway when coming in out of a full sprint which throws me off balance and requires time to recover from.
--getting a coordinated hip turn by the 3rd step: usually I just accelerate with a skater hop but if I can better coordinate the hip turn I'll be accelerating out of a 2 point stance
--chop step quickness

Followed up on my commitment to get to the field early and my in-bounds pull percentage was higher that day.

 Never particularly tired, although giving up too many 5-10y unders unders. Effort certainly could have been higher.
Got scored on the breakside cone 4 times - this isn't my fault but I could have prevented at least a few of these.
2 major mistakes: threw away a huck break opportunity out if bounds when one of our important games was tied. I had 5 out of bounds pulls the second day, including 3 during an important game. It was a wind I really disliked but no real excuse except I needed perfect technique to pull off the pull I was trying to pull, I could have tried an easier variation and got less yards but kept it in bounds.

-most people can't accelerate from standstill like I can and gain a lot from coming in with momentum. Playing extremely tight and not giving them momentum should give me at least an extra half step.
-I have to start off with hips loaded in a staggered (2-point) stance facing deep: If I start in athletic stance and faceguard I have to take a (plyo) step back to accelerate, essentially losing half a step.
-It's usually better to avoid rounding cuts going deep: stutter step and re-accelerate going deep instead of trying to maintain momentum and rounding cut.

-trying to pattern a frontal stop to 180 degree rotation instead of lateral chop steps for 180 c.o.d. there is possibly less variation in how the movement is executed, which means its easier to train. However, it's more technical - requires a fluid 180 turn in one step to be efficient, whereas coming into c.o.d. laterally is like 2 90 degree turns.
-i have a touch grip and a tighter power grip for both flick and backhand and a lot of my in-game throwing mistakes come from commiting to the wrong one. Esp with sweaty hands, touch grip works badly in a lot of situations. Sometimes i'll try to adjust quickly in game and go through a power grip throwing motion with touch grip which doesn't work

notes:
-huck technique significantly changes when tired, but not necessarily getting worse
-biggest flick problem is too much IO (too much body angle), occasional blade falling short (inconsistent grip). during intervals, blade percentage went up a lot (maybe due to extra sweat?)
-biggest backhand problem is high+blading (not enough body angle+too much arm). during intervals, occasional early grip slip became a problem, resulting in short, veering IO laser (almost certainly because of sweat)

I figured out a big problem with my 180 degree change of direction! I am either trying to hop plant (essentially a 2 step) or chop step (4 step). What I am clearly missing is the in-between 3-step. I don't do this because it requires the initial force absorption plant step to be off the inside leg, which requires a lot of coordination and I am weaker at. Not sure if I can do this at higher speeds either, but I will try.