Feldrenner Training

The structured throwing practice and the warmup drill we did really made me think about how much further along the team here in Mainz is fundamentally from Frankfurt. I don't know whether they understand the game better, or whether this team's leaders just put more thought into planning practices, but I'm a big believer in doing drills that mimic real-game situations. Even though there were plenty of errors in both cities (both teams have beginners even at their "experienced" practices) I felt a lot more incentive to push myself and improve tonight, compared to Monday, because the drill actually made sense to me. After that we played 3v3 continuous-passes, which is super tiring because I'm not used to non-stop Atlas-style play like that, and after a while my defense started really suffering...but then we moved into a full-field 7v7 mixed scrimmage, 3/4 the way it ought to be, and that was pretty great. I still can't get over how nice it is to play on a turf field, 7-9pm under the lights. I mostly handled, half the time wondering why they don't dump/swing enough and the other half of the time throwing goals to girls. Boom.