http://vimeo.com/4316390
I was going to embed this video onto the blog, but decided against it b/c I hate this team too much.
There're only a few experiences in Ultimate that I remember as vividly as the highlights against us that TCNJ included in this video.
The first experience I remember is playing a shitty team at Sectionals my freshman year (montclaire). Because I knew we'd beat them handily, during this game, I made a half assed upline cut which got thoroughly D'd. My lazy cut was actually baited by my defender who does this kind of crap to this day (played him at Easterns). Anyway, my defender didn't just D me, he flew by me to knock the disc out of bounds (eugene greenberg). I literally remember the feeling of the wind blowing by my ear as he laid out past me and the embarrassment that followed. I use that vivid memory to push me every time when I make my upline cuts as hard as I physically can. That on mistake/experience is what I think about every time I make that handler cut and I will probably always use it to my advantage. (by the way, I didn't let that short fool D me once during our easterns match up)
The next memory I think of when I reflect (not really to fire myself up perse, quite the opposite actually b/c I use this memory to make sure I'm chillier with the disc) happens at 7:22 in the linked video. Tyler made an unsuccessful upline cut and was sorta camping out int he endzone and I wanted to score so badly that I thought I could squeeze an IO flick to him, which was a retarted move on my part b/c where else would his defender be but right there to D my throw.
I have a few more memories that I think about now and then, but those two really stay clear in my head in terms of personal things I can use to always improve on. Anyway, remembering our loss to TCNJ truly fires me up and I hope if any of you ever need something to replay in your mind in order to push yourself, use that video. When you're trailing your man on D and need something to convince yourself to lay out past him for the disc, use the fire that this memory brings about. I hate that team. I hate that loss. The bad calls they made against us are one thing that gets to me. The fact that one of their players caught a goal, and then came back to place the disc on Charlie's back after he'd laid out to D it is another thing that gets me. Okay it not only gets me, but that is something I, as captain will not allow at all, b/c if that happens ever again I will be the first person to get up in that guys face and make him cry (in the most respectfully captain-y way that I can)...likewise I hope none of you guys ever do something so lowly.
Last random thought, after watching that video, #15 really carried that tcnj squad, and I plan on us shutting him down completely next year.
Night.
Q
3 years ago