Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Hockey
The English teacher I am working with organised for my to train with one of the local Poznan teams. Thanks to a package from mum I had shorts and a mouthguard but no stick, no proper shoes (which only resulted in one embarrasing fall), no shin pads and no idea what the quality of the hockey would be. The training session was at the Poznan institute of P.E. or something like that. Poznan is the centre of hockey in Poland, it has 3 grounds compared to Warsaws none. The team consisted mainly of students and mainly of people who have represented Poland in some way. 5 for the U21 team and 2 for the national side. The coach is the excoach of the Poland team. They train 4 times a week with gym sessions afterwards - there may be more training that is part of their Uni course, plus they play two games a weekend. I have not touched a stick in half a year. Could not keep up - my fitness bardzo mawe - very small, compared to theirs, also they were much better considering i was entirely puffed and could hardly do anything. I am going back again - hopefully with more luck.
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Hi Will
I had noticed that your daily regime didn't seem to include much in the way of galloping around the block! Still, the hockey couldn't have been too bad it you are going back for more. What sort of surface do they play on?
We noticed, too, that you didn't figure very prominently in the saga of Bidge's Black Eye ... I think there's a missing chapter in there somewhere! You might want to get your version written down before somebody else does it for you.
Getting snippets of news from your Mum & Dad - glad to hear that you are having such a fantastic time. xx MEM
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