Productive and Hard Working Training Camp
Over the weekend of May 1st and 2nd a training camp was held in
Auckland to select the teams for the Australian State competition as
well as general training and skills improvement. The coaches Troy
Ramsay, Jeff Clendon, Susan Clark and Jane
Spears put all of us through our paces.
Saturday started with warm ups
and then the mens and women took turns playing in various combinations
so that the coaches could assess each players skill level, preferred
position and overall fitness. The games were short but very intensive
and competitive, just what we all needed to start the weekend off. These
continued until just after lunch at which point the men and women
separated and one group going off to a separate room to discuss tactics,
drills, team communications and to learn new blocking and throwing
techniques. The other group remained on court where the appropriate
coaches continued trying out differing combinations whilst also allowing
players to experiment with differing positions, blocking and throwing
techniques.
Sunday started once again with a solid warm up lead by Logan McMullen
and once again the groups separated. This time around full games with
complete rules were tried out as well as a spell of penalty throwing and
defending. The weekend concluded around 4:00pm and many weary bodies
drifted home both throughout Auckland as well as to many other places
around NZ. A successful and well worthwhile weekend. The womens teams
(mainly Auckland based) were so impressed they will be doing all again
May 22 or 23.
Thanks to the Auckland Goalballers for organising a great
weekend as well as a big thanks from all the players to the coaches, without whom we would not be able to take the Aussies on.
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