That's interesting that you can lay out in the park but not in a game. It sounds like you've figured out how to do it, but is it that there are more people watching you in a game (and so more performance pressure)? If that's the issue, I'd suggest practicing layouts with your team present (before the game, and after).

For sure!!

Thanks Polly!

You'll never change direction as quickly as you would if you were wearing cleats. That said, if you can get good and low just before changing direction, it will really help. When I really need to change direction, I get so low that I can touch the ground with my hands. And sometimes I even notice that I use a hand for added traction on the cut. Your body will learn how to make it work, the more you do it. But probably best not to start out playing barefoot in the rain!

Yes

Hey, it's as close as I've been able to get to the feeling of a sauna on a budget of... free.

your sweat locally humidize the air just for you

Have you never heArd of dry saunas that make you sweat on purpose. Sweating is good.. Then get. a NICE shower to get ride of the waste

Have you tried it yet, and did it work?

@@ryanlowe6243Tried it for almost a week so far with no luck. Still working on it.

Dry sauna is actually better

The benifts in the pain

This is my dream.

Glad it helps!! Get those reps in 😅

These are all fantastic points! In the 4 years since recording this, my body has become more fragile with age, and so Gameboob's comment is that much more relevant. Thanks

Thank you Jori, so nice of you go comment that!

Yup 👍😛

I'll put that on the content list for sure - but for now a beginner handler should be focusing on field awareness (being very aware of passing options, especially dumps and swings to open players), confidently throwing to open players with minimal delay (ideally, you're getting the disc and making a throw to an open player before a mark even establishes on you, even better - before you establish a pivot), and throw quality. Throwing quality is something you can work on just by spending a ton of time practicing your throws in the park with a buddy. For every throw I've made in-game, I've probably made 100 throws out of game with my dad or my brother or friends in the park just tossing around. This is one of the biggest distinguishing factors between okay players and great players - how much throwing they do in their downtime. People who only touch a frisbee when they show up to play ultimate are unlikely to ever become exceptional, whereas players who have put in years of throwing just because they love it are going to occupy those top spots on every team.

It depends on your abilities. "Older" athletes begin to encounter mental barriers as well as physical ones, and some of those mental hurdles are illusory, while others really need to be heeded. Discretion will be up to you on organizing those for yourself. My advice is to train in a "test, rest, adjust" pattern (which I learned in rehab after messing up my back olympic lifting). How it works is: you test out a given training activity within (what you think) is a reasonable threshold for your fitness level. Then, because pain can take a while to show up, you take the next day off to see how you feel. It's strictly for discovering whether the prior day's load level was appropriate. Then on day 3, you either ramp up or down on the workout load to fine-tune based on how your body felt during that rest day. Also, rest day doesn't mean being sedentary - it means mobility, light movement, promotion of blood flow through muscle and tendon tissues. But my most important suggestion is that we should actually focus MORE on developing fast-twitch (power-oriented) muscle as we age. That's because we will lose about half of our fast-twitch fibre between the ages of 40 and 80. And it's ultimately the loss of these fibres that will result in our eventual inability to play sports, and later to get up and down stairs, carry groceries, and live in our own homes without assistance. If you want to know how you're doing, try getting up from a cross-legged sitting position on the floor without using your hands. Try broad-jumping your height, laterally (warm up first). Try hanging from a bar for 2 minutes. If you can do all of this, and are maintaining the strength and mobility required to continue to do these things, you are on track to age well, physically. If these tests are beyond your current abilities, my suggestion is to train specifically toward improving these areas until you can do them.

As an aside, I did well on the lower body stuff, but I failed the 2 minute hang by about 30 seconds - so I know what I'll be doing every day until I can! Felt amazing for my back to hang that much too.

That's awesome!! Glad to hear you're improving 😀

Lots of reps! And the more power I put into it, the more I need to drop the outside edge so it doesn't blade.

Yes, absolutely! Those guys are examples of extremely short stretch-shortening cycles in action. I've become aware that I'm pretty slow though a depth jump, for example - and so I'm working on that now to see if it will increase my vertical (even though I'm 37 years old at this point). Even if it doesn't, the feeling of getting springier is fun unto itself 😃