StalkButton

There should be a stalk button on facebook and twitter for people who you want to know about but don't want them to know you are browsing their profile. In true narcissistic, generation ME fashion, facebook would, a month later, come out with the ability to see how many people have stalkbuttoned you without giving away their identity.

Setting Up

It is WAY better to set up on D then to set up on O. Ceteris paribus, fast breaking is WAY better than slowing down to set up your offense. Take a lesson from the best college woman's team of all time: Oregon2010 picked up the disc after a turn as fast as possible EVERY time.

The counter argument says that it takes time for the O to get into their formation. To that I say you have too high an opinion of formations. Better that people set up the offense while the disc is moving between handlers.

Heuristics, not Algorithms.

Reciever Picks

The disc should NEVER stay with the receiver if he is involved with a pick. Never.

Fuck

" did it affect the play?"

Fuck

"did you have a play on the disc?"

Fuck XVI.C.2.B.2


A pick is a pick is a pick is a pick. Even if the defender had been 1 foot closer on the reception, that is more pressure which could have lead to a drop.

Take subjective judgments out of the game as much as possible: a receiver who gets the disc after his defender gets picked should never get the disc.

Lebron

The best possible way this LeBronocalypse could possibly end is with him walking up to the mic, silently sitting down for a a few seconds, leaning over, and nonchalantly saying: "Cleveland, I'm coming back" and then getting up and starting to leave before bending back over and adding: "And I'm gonna take less money so we can sign more players." Walking away behind the curtain to the sound of screaming reporters, he will be become the leader,the legend, the hero, and the superstar that he wants to be.

Anything less, and we will all look back and remember it as the exact moment when sports stars could never again be role models for our children.

The Ultimate Thesis Project

What would yours be about?

Looking for a Personal Trainer?

Hello Loyal Readers,

I am looking for people who would be interested in doing some gym workouts under my training. I have always thought about trying to be a personal trainer and I guess this would be like a first trial run. Ideally, I would have 3-5 people in a group and the session would last between 30 minutes to an hour.

My philosophy on physical conditioning is that the best results in power, strength, and overall athleticism come from constantly varied functional movements, executed at high intensity. Functional movements are defined as those that can move large loads, long distances, quickly; examples of these are pull-ups, cleans, jerks and squats. I also see it as critically important that results are measurable quantitatively.

A sample workout of mine might consist of:

4 rounds for time:

-9 20inch Box Jumps

-7 75lb Clean and Jerks

-5 Pull Ups

-3 165lb Deadlifts

You can see that if you first complete the workout in 12 minutes, and then complete the same workout 3 weeks later in 9 minutes you are obviously in better shape, you are more powerful. Quantitatively Measurable Results.



I am in town all summer and am generally flexible time-wise, so I’ll certainly try to work out a schedule when a couple people are able to get together. I would hope to have 2 sessions a week but I don’t want to scare anyone away with requests for commitment. These sessions would be free. The only payment I ask for is for you to be honest with me about how I can improve as a trainer.

One last thing: You should know that I believe strongly that people need to LEARN how to work out – they actually need coaching on how to do the movements that will help them become a better athlete. I am not looking to coach so can I sit next to you and encourage you to finish those last leg curls, I see coaching in the gym as the teaching of the movements. If you have ever entered the gym without knowledge of what to do, and so you settled on seated calf presses, you especially should take me up on my offer.

I guarantee you will see results during the first session in that my teaching will show you a new side of the weight room and my workouts will put you on your ass like nothing you have ever done in the gym before.

If you are interested, even a little bit, please email me back (StephenGHubbard@gmail.com) or respond here and we'll work something out.

Just a Little Trust

If you don't think your offense can throw 25 open passes in a row, you have big problems. If the thought:

I hope someone hucks it soon, because I don't trust our team to work the disc up the field with in-cuts.

enters your head, you've got big problems. If you don't trust your teammates with the disc, no matter the defense, you've got big problems. If you are equally worried about the defense earning a turnover as you are about your offense giving away the disc, you've got big problems.

The drill that can easily build trust in the ability to string together 50 short passes: small-field keep-away with 1 or 2 players playing all-time offense. Soccer teams do it all the time, I really don't understand why more Ultimate teams don't.


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Microbiology fact of the Day: You body is composed of 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells.