Nationals Recovery

I played my first Australian nationals ultimate disc tournament over the Anzac day weekend. It was a great experience. I felt tired the first two days (as we had three games a day) but I think my body has held up quite well. The games were intense and frustrating at times. I was a late call up to the team and so enjoyed every minute of the 4 day weekend.

The first day was quite interesting, out of the three games, none were completely out of reach for us. The weather was great although slightly overcast. The conditions were fine and the play wasn't effect by the wind. The second day was terrible, raining very very heavily during the first match and so the outer fields became mud pools, (my jersey is still dirty after cleaning it 4 times). We won all our matches. The third and last day were perfect and sunny. The team lost both its matches on the Saturday and fell into a play off for 11th place (which we comfortably won) on the Sunday. Two days on my body is completely back to normal expect for a stitch sensation that is there.

By next year I want to improve my speed for the cuts and improve my throwing. I have a semi decent forehand but my backhand is either accurate and slow or haywire and slightly faster.