Tourney Update

Summer/Fall 2009 HumpFreeze Tourneys:

Uomo Donna (Tucson): April 18-19

GRASS (Broomfield, CO): June 6-7

Flag Tourney (Still needs a name!): June 20-21

Potlatch (Seattle): July 3-5

GRUB (Boulder, CO): July 18-19

Atomic Blast (Santa Fe): July 25-26

Ski Town Classic (Park City): ??? Aug. 8-9, maybe?

Durango Hat: Sept. 5-6

Savage 7s: ????

Sectionals (TBA): Sept. 12-13, 19-20 or 26-27

Regionals (TBA): Oct. 3-4 or 10-11

Nationals (Sarasota, FL): Oct. 29-Nov. 1

Hopu Ka Lewa (Honolulu): Nov. 7-9

Pickup Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at lower Thorpe. 

Anyone up for a get-back-into-playing shape TRACK WORKOUT on Thursday?

Ah, Spring Break. All the "cool" (i.e. college) kids leave town. Personally, I think Mexico sucks. Can't even beat Cuba in baseball. And has anyone even seen "Traffic"? The whole country is all super-washed out and bright and gritty. Not for me, thanks. Although I do have to give Mexico props for guacamole. A little cilantro, a little lime .... mmmm ....

Airbomb Workout

Here is the height building, air alerting, fly-bying work out

Leap Ups - stand feet shoulder apart, on balls of feet jump without using
arms quads only. land on toes get balance and repeat.  Idea is slow
controlled jump with just quad and concentrate on sticking the landing to
imporve balance.

Calf Raises - one leg calf raises stand on a step pess up with calf and
then go all the way down so your heel is lower than your toes.  2 of 10
means two sets of ten for each leg.

Step-ups - use something about the height of your knee(needs to be
taller than normal stair suppose to form 90degree angle with you knee
while foot on top) and stable, start with one foot on top of the (step,
cooler, brick, wall) and one foot on the ground.  Without using the foot
that is on the ground push yourself up using only the quad of the leg on
top of the step.  At the peak of your press actually jump up from the stair
so you are completely off the step.  Land with you opposite foot on the
step and bring the other foot down to the ground.  a set of 35 means you do
thirty five step-ups with each leg, you may find it easier to count each step
to 70 rather than every other step to 35.

Thrust Ups - feet shoulder apart, on toes.  use arms quads calves...
everything to jump  up as hard and quickly as possible.  The main focus is
to jump as soon as possible, it should be rapid fire. boing boing boing

Burn-outs - picture jumping rope.  2 inches off the ground each jump rapid
fire using claves only...do not let heels touch the ground until your
finished.

6th exercise:
Only perform these on Wednesdays!!!!

Squat-hops - squat like you are sitting on a low chair, try to get thighs
parallel with the ground and arms extended straight ahead of you.  get up on
you toes and bounce 1-2 inches off the ground, try not to move your ass much
and try to reduce the amount you knees move.  on your last hop of the set
fire out of the position and jump as high as you can landing upright on both
feet.

this one is only supposed to be performed on  wednesdays and only in the
participants do not have knee trouble the days following this exercise. (we
did it for two weeks and all 3 of us had knee pain).

This work out starts off really easy I was doing it with very little
effort...but then you get to the point where you hate to do it...it get
ridiculous.  I am still doing in and I will be on week 11 on monday sean and
sam are on 13.  I would recommend a warm up first we run two miles to get
loosened up, but do what ever you are comfortable with.

The works out says knee soreness is normal and can be loosened up with
rubbing, but if you have knee pain form any of the exercises stop doing
them.

Captains

Andrew "Shaggy" Wade:

"I love playing ultimate and having fun with yall. The team made some huge strides last year, and I think we can keep improving as a team this summer. I think I'm good at running practices and I consider myself a leader on the field at tourneys. I love teaching new strategies and techniques, but I also know there are plenty of things I can learn from everyone on the team. "

"hey buddy, how's the rubester? Hawaii is pretty sweet."









Benjamin "Shakey-Bottoms" Charlier-Matthews

"Coming off of HumpFreeze second season and moving towards Season 3 has got me reflecting on how far this team came last season. We had fun, we had intensity, we had periods of discontent and we had some great games and some great wins. The most important thing which happened last season though was HumpFreeze became a team. We had setbacks and hurdles to clear but through it all we stayed positive and learned how to play with each other. Not only did we learn to play together but we learned how to play nice and for each other. HumpFreeze kept the spirit high and while we learned to play with each other we elevated our own individual play. "

"I have identified three aspects below which I think will be our greatest allies towards a great happy fun time of a season: communication goes a long way towards all of us feeling like we are moving in the same direction together, commitment is contagious and if actions do speak louder than words than commitment is the 'action' to communications 'words', humor keeps us from taking any of this too seriously."