A great trip but right here, right now I’m tired as ever!
Somewhat surprisingly, this time around the trip went like a breeze. No problems whatsoever with the law & order, we didn’t even miss the ships, no fatal car crashes, no one went to demand the consigliore to get supplies from McDonalds or for other entertainment…and overall, nothing which “didn’t occur” occurred. Weird? Continue reading ‘Riga Recap!’ »
We’ll be having a little pow-wow with our Latvian friends (4 teams will be there to meet us) this weekend. Possibly we’ll get around to shooting a paintball or two. And yes, the Millennium is closing in. Let’s gear up! With us on this fantastic voyage: Sam, Pertti, Joel, Kimi, Kassu, Janne, Tony, Jii
The expertise shows. Our PT held his first session today and boy was it good. He brought in so much new stuff that we were astonished. Not one of the things he included in the session was something that we had tried on our own, and the session was exceptionally diverse. It was also at a substantially higher pace, and we really felt like true athletes in training. Can’t wait to see where he will take us over the next couple of months. Can’t even wait till next Sunday!
Helsinki Cyclone is delighted to report that we now have a personal trainer in house! Matti the Machine will now be killing us every Sunday in the Kisahalli athletic center. That said, we’ll certainly continue to do our own killing on Tuesday and Thursday as usual. Welcome to the gang, Matti!
A surprisingly high number of players have attended the sessions all three times, and the momentum seems to be catching on in others as well. The team had decided that for best possible development, the use of a professional would be in place and we got a personal trainer to assist us. Today he was with us to meet the guys and give some pointers. We agreed that he would do some research on paintball and draft a training program for the team. He will take coaching responsibility of the Sunday sessions in a couple of week’s time.
Physical fitness. Those still seem to be two words that lift the eyebrows of Joe Paintballer. That’s right Joe, if you want to hack it in the game today you need to lose a few kilos.
After season 2008, we went back to the drawing board. The season had been successful to say the least and most of our goals set pre-season were met. Still, we know that to take ourselves to the next level we need to be better. And by better we mean better on all the levels. We figured that all the snapshooting drills, all the hours spent fine-tuning technical aspects, all the great kit we get to use is not enough unless we commit to the sport fully as an extreme sport. We need to be quicker, stronger, leaner and more agile. The tone for the winter training has been set. We will take ourselves to the next level.
Citius, altius, fortius.
A couple of weeks has shown that it’s actually more difficult to arrange two sessions than three, and we decided to start having three sessions a week, so most people will have more alternatives for scheduling and the ones willing can attend every session. Due to Hilu’s promotion and workload increase the coaching responsibility has shifted to Jii.
After a few weeks of somewhat passive effort, we got the first official Team Session on the way. The forced vacation did its trick and the turnout was surprisingly high. We had a bit of trouble in finding a good venue, but everything worked out well. Hilu had planned a nice set, challenging enough but still not overkill. We agreed to have the team sessions a couple of times a week.
