1-5

Fresno Tourney - Lost in Finals 16-14

Stanford Tourney - Lost in Finals 15-12

Davis Hat - Won Finals (rolled)

Lei-Out - Lost in Finals (got rolled)

Spring Fling - Lost in Finals 13-12

Can't decide if it has been a good offseason or a bad one.

As I said from an earlier post,

My inadequacy keeps me up at night...
Better hit the gym...sad face:(

Upcoming Schedule...

I have a busy couple of weekends coming up, which is exciting and stressful since I'll be busy but also I will get little relax and down time. But maybe I'll just use work hours for that. Here is what's coming down the pipe.

Saturday 3/13 - Davis Practice / Scrimmaging the Dogz

Sunday 3/14 - Spring Fling Tourney in San Jose

Sat & Sun 3/20-21st -Skiing in Tahoe - the girl will be here as well

Saturday 3/27 - Revolver Open Try Out

Sat & Sun - 4/3 - 4th - DUI

Saturday - 4/10 - Fools Fest in Santa Cruz

Sunday - 4/11 - Maybe second day of Fools or flying to Dallas for work conference

Sat & Sun 4/17-18th - Bay Area Sectionals

Busy few weekends but again it should be fun and hey at least I'm out of the house.

PS. So I'm going to try to add a few more pictures to my posts. Here is my first shot.

Took these picture on the freeway in front of my house. Don't know why but it cracks me up. Ahh Sacramento...

Did I just lower the class of my Blog?

Weekend Update

Apparently I only ever post on Fridays...

Hamstring
Tweaked my Hamstring last week at practice. Just wasn't warm enough as I took off into a sprint. It got tight I went down. It feels alot better today as I have been taking it easy. I have started to ramp things back up and it feels ok. I haven't done anything super explosive but I've probably got up to 80% and have felt ok. I really just need to focus on getting it warm and keeping it warm, then I think I'll be fine.

Stanford
The Dogs went to the Stanford Open last weekend and played pretty well. We still have to shore up our defense, we did not look strong at times and had several mental lapses. There was an outside shot that we would make the Invite as the third place team since Squids and Ugmo were thinking of not going. But in the end Cal decided to attend so we get to sit and watch and all we have left before sectionals is DUI. Time to get to work.


Kevin and I took a 5 hour energy on Sunday, we coached so well.


Crossfit
Did my first Crossfit oriented work out yesterday.
25 Squats (no weight)
25 Sit ups
25 Push ups
25 Pull ups
50 Squats
50 Sit ups
50 Push ups
50 Pull ups
75 Squats
75 Sit ups
75 Push ups
75 Pull ups

Do the entire circuit and time yourself.

I was reading the post and the shortest time I saw was 23 minutes or so. I was at 30 mins and I could only get through half of the pull ups and push ups on the last set. I had to finish off with some chest presses for push ups, and then assisted pull ups with weight counters.

Overall it felt good though. Instead of wondering around looking for my next set I knew what was next and I hustled to it so I could get the best time. I was surprised at how much I was sweating while doing the pull ups. I'm going to try and continue to get these crossfit work outs in between my normal routine. Feels good. Ben I'm winning.

Girlfriend
I'm going to see her this weekend at the Stanford Invite. Her team is going down there to dominate so we'll see how it goes. But we should get some ample time to hang out Saturday night. Which is good because we haven't had tons of time alone together in awhile.

Club
Is turning out to be interesting here in these early stages. Looks like Jam is no more. And Revolver has beefed up even more so. There may not be alot of room for me at the big boy table but I will give it my all and make it a tough decision to not have me on the team. If I don't make it then we'll see where I go. SD team, Rev B, or coed (hopefully not). Either way these next few weeks are really going to motivate me to get into great shape and really try to do well at the upcoming tryouts. I love tryouts so much anticipation and angst. Bring it!

Work
Sucks


Lei-Out

Sick video Zip made. I'm not gonna say anything but my lay out at 2:00 is sweet. Plus its like the only one I ever got. Then theres the high release backhand at like 2:45 I think. Felt so good. Props again to Zip. http://vimeo.com/9831097






Will

Who Let the Dogs Out?

This post is nearly a week old and I should have posted about it earlier but, better late then never I suppose.

Last Saturday the Davis Dogs went down to Cal Berkely to scrimmage UGMO, you know? The Dogs were excited about it and were ready to go and give Cal a good game. The previous time we played them was at the Santa Barbara Invite and they pretty much did what ever they wanted as we couldn't contain there offense, and they threw zone on us which was something we had not practiced nearly enough.

So we wanted to go down there and give them a better game, show them that we are talented and that we have improved since last time we met.

We get down there and walking down the tunnel into Memorial Stadium was somewhat surreal. I could imagine Cal Bear Football stars making that same walk and I was getting goosebumps. Anyway we start to play and we weren't going to do anything special, just come out play hard, match up well, and play our game.

The game started out trading the first few points. Our defense was getting some turns but couldn't convert while our offensed worked well, they even threw Zone in the first two points and we were able to handle that well and punch it in. When we got the break we were able to put it in, and then we went on to get two or three more points. We were pressuring their dumps well and they just couldn't complete the passes they needed. We weren't giving the disc back and we take half 8-4 I believe.

At half we discuss not letting up and being able to close teams out in the second half and keeping our intensity up. We come out of half fired up but we again end up trading to bring the score to 11-7. We finally start generating the turns and scoring as we take the game 15-8.

I think it was generally agreed that Cal didn't play their best game while the Dogs played very well. I expect Cal just had a bad day and we'll have a much tougher game against them possibly this weekend and or in the series. Either way the win has given the Dogs tremendous confidence which is good because we are a very good team. I have confidence that they will give it everything they have come this weekend at the Stanford Open (Qualifier).

Some Highlights of the game:

-Playing in Memorial Stadium in front of 50 people or so

-Finding Parking

-Barnes Sky in the back of the endzone followed by a huge spike

-Adam's two hand grab "over" Hagen

-Rob's sick upline catch goal

-Zimmer working so hard but still not get any D's

-Hitting the walk off two run homer in Baseball Pong later that night at Kevin's house.

Strait Chilin...

Can you think of a more perfect Saturday?

Weekend Update

Food for thought for the weekend

The New UPA Rankings Are Up!


http://scores.upa.org/scores/#college-open/Rankings


Interesting how the UPA is doing these rankings. They are only ranking teams with at least 5 sanctioned games under there belt. That screws several teams at this points since Vegas was a bust. So obvious teams missing are Florida, Carlton, UBC, Virgina, Oregon, among others. I like the bid allocation presentation. Easy to read and clear, too often we never knew exactly how many bids we were going to get. And of course using the current years results are much more beneficial then using previous years results at nationals. Since the last few years the NW teams do well throughout the season but tank at natties. Currently it says the NW will be getting 4 bids, wow that would be nice. We'll see if that changes at all as the series approaches.


Davis is ranked 5th which seems high based off our current results. But if you add those 5 other teams we may drop 5 or 10 spots. Interesting non the less.

Cal vs. Davis

The Davis Dogs are scrimmaging Cal Ugmo this weekend in Berkeley. I believe we are going to be in memorial stadium. Should be fun. Practice last night was all drills no games. So you know the guys have blue balls and are ready to go out there and play as hard as they can. Should be exciting, I'll try to have a solid wrap up after this weekend as well as any pictures. Maybe some video.

Coed Mash up

I have been invited to a coed mixer mash up thing this weekend in Berkeley. On Sunday I'm heading back out to Gilman Fields to play in basically this first crack at putting together a new Bay Area Coed team. I don't really know the talent level in the area when it comes to mixed ultimate so at the very least I'll go out there and have some fun. I'm not really excited to play for a mixed team, but I want to get to nationals this year. And if I can't make a nationals quality open squad (Revolver, Jam, Streetgang) then mixed might be an option.

Crossfit

I have been thinking about starting this Crossfit workout routine. I like that it is mostly movements and short bursts of things, I also like the continued improvement and the competition it instills. It also seems to include alot of coaching both on technique of excercises and nutrition. Both areas I could improve upon and both of which I do not get at 24 hour fitness. There is a gym by my house that I want to jump into but havent found the time to get over there.

www.Crossfit.com

I am also looking to join this gym www.fourthpowerfitness.com

Work

Sucks. Get me out.

That's all I got for now. Weekend time!

Weekend Timeline!

Friday

5:00 pm Left work - drove home from work, packed, threw it in the car and bounced.

6:30 pm Picked up my sister and started hauling ass down to San Diego

10:30 pm Rolling over the grapevine.

2:00 pm Arrived at Adam's house in SD, crashed on some couches and caught some Zzzz

Saturday

8:30 am Woke up to the blarring sun in Adams glass house - what a beautiful day

9:30 am Dennys!

11:00 am Liqour store - stock up

11:15 - 5 pm Drinking, heckling, sitting, throwing, drinking, watching ultimate, drinking, heckling, drinking

6:00 pm Tacos!

8:00 pm Girlfriend time!

12:00 - 2:00 am Bars then back to Adam's

Sunday

8:00 am God damn its bright in Adam's house

8 -10:00 am Watch Ace Ventura on Adam's coach with KC

10:30 am Breakfast Burritos from Truillos...So good

11:00 am Men's semis

2:00 pm Head to the beach, meet up with GF and steal her from her team

4:00 - 9:00 pm Alone time with the GF :)

9:30 pm Meet up with Adam, KC, Matt, and Sis at the shout house. Proceed to watch an amazing dueling piano show and drinking. Fucking Awesome!

12:00 am Overpay a bike taxi back to our hotel, and crash on the bed with my girl

Monday

7:00 am Wake up to take Christina to her games. Come back to find KC, Matt, and Cambria all sleeping together in small full bed. Christina took a pic.

8:00 am back to the hotel, pick up the others, got food and headed to the games to catch Christina's Semi finals.

10:45 am Drinking, heckling, drinking, skying KC, watching Oregon win the tourney!!!

2:30 pm Said goodbyes, met Adam for lunch

4:00 pm Started driving back home:(

7:00 pm Finally got trough LA traffic

12:00 am Pulled into the driveway of my home, checked my work email went to bed.

Overall it was a pretty awesome weekend. Great weather, lots of friends to hang with, lots of beer to drink, and ultimate to watch.

If only every weekend was a three day weekend I might do this everytime. I'm even more motivated to move out of this town and get back down there. It will happen.

Highlights:

-The dueling piano bar - Shout House

-Watching lots of ultimate

-beach

-GF

-Yelling "Re-Fund" as Cyle Van Aukin's team pulled the disc, and pretty much all the time.

Lowlights

-Leaving

Will