Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Coach Jason and the Siblings

Four was the number on a gloomy, grey Saturday. Julian and gang were off for first-year orientation, so last Saturday training was a story of 'Coach Jason and the Siblings'.

The very slight rain provided lovely running weather-- one lap around the entire area, and after stretching outside, the players trooped into the dark court and found balloons hovering in mid-air all over.

So training continued with a game of captain ball (a somewhat miserable 2v2) using Coach Jason's colourful basketball, with Kenneth and him standing ready to catch. The pairs were switched until each player had played with three different partners. With just one basketball and one floorball in hand, the players did a simple ball protection drill.


Then finally Santa arrived in the form of Kuan Yang, bringing balls for everyone.

Now with balls in abundance, the four players were able to do lobbing and shooting drills. In between the lobbing and shooting, Coach Jason fused 7-up and square passing together, where after six passes the seventh passer could decide to change the direction of the ball.


At last, game time arrived. The initial teams were Coach Jason, June, Sonia and Sharron (who arrived sometime in the middle of training), Pei Li, Sachin. Soon Khai kept one goal while Steven cut a forlorn figure just standing guard in the other goal.

Sachin scored two goals; quite a rare occasion. Something definitely worth mentioning.

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