Like it's a marriage proposal.

So today we faced purple, our foil from a few weeks back, the first team to beat us all season. The first time we played them we started out quickly down to their swift cuts and concise throws. This time however we recieved the disc and quickly scored. Three d points later it was 4 - 0 in our favor. By 7 - 0, we were feeling pretty good about things but it got real crazy when Manny caught a callahan to take half 8 - 0.

So I have a story for you about the second half. Picture if you will the following situation: Purple has scored some points to bring the game within five or something. They are throwing a tight zone with some kind of four person cup configuration. A tall reciever catches a hammer on the sideline after some shake and bake moves to lose the right wing. Since he is unmarked, he looks straight for the endzone. Lo and behold, there is indeed an open cutter there.

Let's say this guy considers himself a big thrower and has been tossing huge backhand pulls all day. To make things more interesting, let's say the reciever is his girlfriend and that she has torched her defender for a thirty yard cushion in the endzone (the deep defender somewhere off to the side with his pants around his ankles reading a newspaper). The throw goes up but with a slight downward angle and lasers straight to the ground just inches away from the reciever's valiant bid. Bazonkers! That sucks!

Let's say he's giving himself a hard time about it.
Other than that things were good, caught some goals, threw some nice short passes, launched some nice in bounds pulls. Everyone played hard.

Suffice to say we won despite being outscored 9 - 6 in the second half for a final score of 14 - 9 after cap. In the end it was the 8 - 0 in the first half that mattered, but we did get slightly complacent...

Anyway, Billy talked about keeping your knees bent on the mark and your feet about shoulder width apart (too wide and it is hard to switch directions). I think that is good advice for throwing as well. So bend those knees.