The Battle of Ketchup vs. Mustard, Bluestreak Post Test

Score one for mustard, as the mustard-wearing Angry Hornets defeated the ketchup-wearing Ordinals yesterday afternoon. Yes, that’s some of the silliness that was on our bench for the matinee match up. During the first period break our new alternate, Mike M, declared the game to be the battle of ketchup vs. mustard. Which prompted Marc [...]

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Bluestreak Session 18: The Finale

Bluestreak wrapped up last night and I think I finished up strong. I was able to show coach Keith the wrist shot that materialized on Wednesday. I’m happy I was able to do that for a couple reasons: 1) because I wasn’t sure I’d be able to pull off the shot again and 2) because [...]

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Bluestreak Session 17: Wrist Shot Comes Together

Last night, without warning, the wrist shot came together. The missing piece, snapping my wrists just before turning the stick blade over, just dropped into place during warm ups in the skills zone. It wasn’t a random occurrence either because I kept the shot going for most of the warm ups. Sadly, the coach who [...]

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Bluestreak Session 16

I wasn’t sure I could do it, but I did survive last night’s Bluestreak. It was a strong treadmill night with a lot of last night’s training focused on longer strides and faster speeds. I was talking to the coach last night, who also works at Sky Rink, and we talked about how much (or [...]

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Chelsea Challenge Gold, Ordinals Beat Wizards

Chelsea Challenge 2007 wrapped up this afternoon with my team, the Purple Panthers, taking the Gold in the Developmental Division! The team was great with a mix of people I’ve played with before, some people I knew but hadn’t played with, and others that I had not met. It was a small reunion of some [...]

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Bluestreak Session 14 & 15

I’ve been a little behind blogging this week as work has been crazy busy and the prep for this weekend’s Chelsea Challenge is going full-tilt. It has been a good couple of sessions with Bluestreak though.
The treadmill keeps getting more challenging and I actually did it Monday and Wednesday this week in an effort to [...]

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Hockey, Submission & Maupin, Oh My

A couple weeks ago I mentioned how there were so many conflicting priorities going around, and this week is no different, but at least it should be a fun week with this stuff going on:

There is lots of hockey this week. I’ve got two days of Bluestreak training ahead, and only five sessions left overall [...]

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Bluestreak Session 13: The Mechanics of it All

The wrist shot keeps adding layers, still. Last night I was very focused on snapping my wrist and lifting my stick, and thus the puck, at the right moment. It’s not all clicking yet, but I do think I get what I’m supposed to be doing. By the time we got to the shootout competition, [...]

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Bluestreak Session 12

It was Wednesday, so of course there were plyometrics last night. It was another fun night with those, albeit exhausting. It was harder to do them this week because they were last in my group’s circuit last night so my legs were already tired because the strength work we did was a mix of upper [...]

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Bluestreak Session 11: Super Treadmill Night

I was particularly pleased with my treadmill performance last night. I got up to a 22 degree grade and a 6.5 speed during the incline portion of the training and I capped the treadmill session with a 9.0 speed on a pretty flat incline of 5 degrees. These represent my highest incline and my fastest [...]

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