One happy camper!

Wiii. Today was such a good day! Well, todays training was such a good training. It started of with Papa Smurf giving me this awesome folder. I always show up for trainings either with a big heavy folder (which holds all sort of derby related shit) or with loose pieces of paper on which I have scribbled down a general outline for that particular training. Those then end up under my bra strap so that I can reference it on the go. Result: soggy bits of paper that smell delicious (not!) with runny letters on them. But now I have the all in one coaching tool of derby heaven!

Oh yes, that is actually a magnetic mini whiteboard on the inside of the front cover with tiny magnetic jammers, blockers and pivots. I love it!! Thank you, Papa Smurf.

And then from there on the training just became even more fun. I had set up some mattresses against the wall so we could check the shit out of the wall in stead of each other (playing a scrimmage next weekend). That was so much fun! At first I was planning to ask one of our new refs to hold up the mattresses while we would practice our fullbody- and hip checks on them, but I think, after seeing the amount of force we were able to put out he was happy that I decided on the help of the wall in stead. I was planning to take pics so I could show you some of the girls flying into the mattresses and just slaughtering them, but I was having so much fun, that I forgot. I'll try and remember next time we do the same exercise.

After that we did 45 mins of jams with one 3 min break and only 6 on each team... yeah.. tiring, but so delicious! And wow... we were seeing some really good derby out there! Even getting compliments from players that had been away for a while and from some of our refs that really noticed we were getting better. Such a good feeling!

Just what I needed one week before Umeå. Thank you everybody! :)