COMMUNICATION!

It is so easy to do your best when you're in great spirits. How about those days when you're tired from work or some other shit that just poured on you?

You know what I mean? Track full of girls having a moody day? That's me alright. Sometimes I'm in the best of spirits and the other I'm swearing or about to cry. Getting on and finding your own phoenix-methods are essential, this is not playing around but seriously playing and giving it all. That is where the great feelings come from, getting over your difficulties and turning the bad day into victorious battle.

We had a two hour on skate practice yesterday at our new practice place. It's a bit bigger than the old one but still not big enough to have a full track and protective space between the track and the wall. That equals a lot of falling when we scrimmage. Anyway, the floor was much better than in the old space and skating sure felt good. We put together a small show for our Open Skate on Sunday. There will be a slow jam to show how to score points and then actual scrimmage for a couple of jams. It's gonna be fun!

The rest of the practice time we dedicated to scrimmage. We are still to learn how to do it in that small space where the walls corner us and hip checks blow us to the wall or to the evil stall bars. Our hands get stuck in the bars and our bodies smash into the walls. But there will be solutions! It was quite educating trying not to do checks towards the outside boundaries, it was kind of a mind game trying to focus on many things at the same time and remember not to have anyone checked to the wall. Of course we still did it and people got hurt. Nothing serious though but enough to remember to be cautious.

Yesterday reminded me how important communication is. Whether you get hurt or you just want to have a great team play you need to be able to communicate. Also after a scrimmage where many get hurt it's just to make sure everyone's okay, especially those who you yourself might have hurt. The ways of communication are still a mystery to me but it's the first step to open your mouth about the state of play. Where's our jammer? Where's the opposing jammer? Who needs to be blocked? Simple talk is effective.

As it comes to that, I'm gonna keep this post simple as well and dig in deeper as I get more and more into this. It's the first week and I'm excited! So far so good!