i was so excited for the next few weeks: fury tryouts this past weekend, then the triple hit next week with zeitgeist and slackjaw on sat and mayhem on sunday...
fury is sort of a shot in the dark, but it was really nice to be invited. practicing with them yesterday was great. i played okay, got tired way too fast though and started making some mistakes. i realized just how incredibly out of shape i am. by our second drill, i was dying. and trying to be an active cutter in the scrimmage was slightly painful. learned a ton, though. their coach matty is the perfect complement to their team. sort of soft-spoken and kind, and a really good teacher. the girls are great. there were about ten furies, and then ten of us tryouts. saw lots of familiar faces with the tryouts (decided i love playing with hammer and lyrica [ex-godiva, great handler]) and some new ones. tons of talent. did a lot of d stuff, which was great. worked on forcing your runner into certain lanes, and really positioning yourself smartly. realized i severely need to work on my break throws, but maybe this is the season for it, seeing as about three fourths of the way through practice, we were running a d drill, and i was on o with nancy sun (ex-brute handler, just moved out here) guarding me. i cut hard in, then out, then went to turn and cut hard in, and when i planted my left foot, i heard a massive popping and it felt like i had pulled something out of its socket. i didnt scream (for once) or even fall, just sort of stopped and tried to keep going but couldnt support myself. spent the last half hour of practice icing, cheering, and trying to remain optimistic.
things werent much better this morning. hurt a lot when i woke up, big time swollen, and pain trying to bend it. went to tryouts again and just watched. threw a little in the beginning and tried to move a little, but had absolutely no stability, only lots of pain and buckling. fantastic.
ended up telling fury that if my knee isnt serious, id consider being a practice player. honestly, even if i were healthy, im not sure id be good even for even that (or whether id really want to if i were able to make other teams and actually play tournaments with them). but it'd be insane to even practice with them. i love the intensity with which they play, and i think id just learn a ton...
that's the thing that's so frustrating about being hurt right now. honestly, if i cant play frisbee this season, it's going to make settling into sf a lot harder. more that that, though, ive yet to play a real club season. two years ago with bnogo i tore my acl in my right knee. then last year, loose cannon didnt practice. so in some ways, i havent really improved since junior year. id really like to just play a freaking club season and work on my game. there's so much i want to focus on - my defense, my cuts, and god, my fakes and break marks...
but whatever happens, ill deal with it.
i mean, hard cut. field sport. woman. loud pop. instability and inability to turn or support my weight in any direction but forward... textbook acl, huh?
im just hoping i can get a doctor's appt for this week...
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