Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Training today was kinda 'tough'. We, for the first time, had some fitness tests. I did quite well for the acceleration and speed part, but I kinda sucked at the 800m
anaerobic run, came in last! Haha... Then whilst the rest of the team went to play small two-sided games
, the female keeper, Ernie, and I practiced our goalkeeping legwork. We took turns to throw the hockey balls at the wall, and it would rebound towards the other one of us and we had to kick it away. We took turns, before we did our "lunges" saves training? Haha... So yah.
I'm kinda sad for the non-DSA guys. I mean, they have lesser experience and skills and stuff, but I really want some of them to be inside. They are good, and of course improving, but due to the amount of DSAs coming in next year, they might not get into the first-20. I know I can't feel what they're feeling as my place is more or less confirmed, but yah.. I do sympathize. I can only give advice on how they can improve their game, but they must really push themselves and really improve very quickly. They need to adapt to match-mode more than what training can offer. Training can only learn so much, but matches are where you learn the mental skills, and those can sometimes even be better than skills itself. Trust me. Even I'm being told that my mouth sometimes is more important than my saving skills.
I just realised that, everytime when I
kinda let go of someone, I would usually spread myself out more and know some of the other people around me better. I feel that's good in a way, knowing more people, more in-depth too. But yeah, it's never good to keep giving up. Maybe I should just stop having those
thoughts anymore.
Well... Tomorrow's going to be a long day. It's until 530. Argh... But yeah, done 'finish' econs homework. So will go to bed now. Damn tired.
Bye~!
my thoughts at 10:11 pm