Today our coaches ran a 5-hour (plus an hour for lunch) boot camp, which was basically an excuse to get us all together and get us back on the same page with a continuity we can't get at 2-hour practices that not everyone can get to.
It was a really excellent use of a Saturday. We got together at ten and started with some basic ball-handling before having a "reintroduction to tackling" session - progressing from tackling on our knees all the way to full contact drills. Then we took an hour break for lunch, and when we returned we split. We did lineouts and scrums!!!
Oh man I missed scrums.
I was locking (no idea of this is an indication of the position I'll be in for the rest of the season), and originally was in the same situation I've always been in previously locking: usually my body position was off, and at best I got in the first hit before becoming useless, and at worst I was actually holding back my prop. Then someone basically grabbed me and pulled me into correct body position while my head was in, and it clicked! It was like my muscle memory was like "Oh that's how you lock!" and after that, I was able to hold myself up without pulling back on the prop, make the first hit, and keep the pressure on until the ball came out of the scrum.
Oh man... scrumming... did I mention I missed that?
We ended the practices with a scrimmage. It was pretty messy and chaotic, and I felt like a rookie again ("I'm supposed to be where? What? Okay, okay, do this.... wait! No! Do that! ...who has the ball!?), but it was a scrimmage on the first practice of the season.
And now I'm tired (the parents are in town, and they took me to dinner and then to Linens and Things where we bought $85 worth of things that did not include the two items we went in the store for) and I have a large bruise on my hip and so, so happy that my favorite thing ever is back in my life.
PS TRUE OR FALSE I AM FACEBOOK STALKING POSSIBLE NEW ROOKIES.
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