Some U16 soccer drills

Here are some drills I’m going to try tonight:

  • Leading passes to the goal. Form two lines at midfield, one line in the center circle that starts with the ball. Center gives a leading pass to wing, wing gives a one-touch return, center performs a one-touch shot. Simple, but really helps with the timing on those critical passes!
  • 1v1 2v2 3v3 with one helper. Small field with small cone goals. Have to dribble into goal. Start with 1v1 with one helper that will return the pass to the passing team. Upgrade to 2v2 etc once control is established.
  • Run the gauntlet. Form two lines of players at equal intervals. Another player starts at one end, between the lines, and must pass and return to each player on each side. Once to the end, the player joins one of the rows, and the first person in the row runs the gauntlet next.

We’ll see how it goes. :>

9.0 Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom

A gritty web of tension from start to finish, half this film is shot in slomo, with gorgeous camera work, and it crackles. How do you survive hopeless situations with your morality intact? Bits of Trainspotting and Guy Ritchie are the icing.

Raven Rock horse trails

We took the dogs to the Raven Rock horse trails today, because 1) they are close to home, and 2) we wanted to see how the dogs would do with horses. Turns out not very good. But we did find a nice waterin’ hole to play in! :-)

Happy Christmas

  • snow!! lots of it!!!
  • semi-successful shopping
  • coat! nanos! laptop! 88-key midi controller!
  • road trip! no traffic! shortcuts!
  • florida
    sunshine
  • crazy vegan eats with supreme
    leader
  • 50-degree swimming!!
  • 5-star hotel for a song
  • breaking
    into harry potter world
  • no-line
    rollercasters!! the hulk!!
  • murder
    mystery!!
  • 45lbs of chinese
  • invoicing
  • retro
    rollerblading
  • htdj playing christmas
    music
  • south of the border restroom
    exerience
  • pirates’ cove!! spot it!!
  • ipad alaska photos
  • good times for
    all :-)

peace

9.5 Modern Family

Arrested Development proved that the human brain enjoys tracking a dozen unique and hilarious characters simultaneously, and Modern Family continues that tradition in style. And they have a fun dad, a sexy mom, and troublemaking kids, just like us! ha!