Once a Mohawk, always a Mohawk

All my previous blog posts were written as an ultimate player with no titles. This one is being written by a national champion player. Great title, no? When it comes down to it, it basically doesn’t mean anything. I never played for big titles since I will rarely get them. But what does it mean to be a national champion really? Why will I remember that day till I die? Why will it be one of the happiest memories of my life? Anyone who knows a little bit about the 2011-12 roster of the Mohawks 1st team knows that I did ...

ACL Blog: Part 3 – Months 3 and 4 of Recovery

25th February 2012 – From the advice of my surgeon, I increased the exercise I was doing in order to continue strengthening my quad and hamstring. I cycled at a quicker pace, with more resistance and for longer. I also started doing more exercises involving my leg. I used the quad and hamstring weight machines in the gym for the first time and used a kettle bell when doing squats to create a bit more resistance than just that of my body weight. I made sure that I was working my leg more rather than sticking to doing exercises incorporating ...

Theory vs. Practice – A Grudge Match Case Study

So, had a bit of hiatus from blogging – 7 straight weekends of ultimate tends to ruin other plans… As a result I’ve got a bit of a backlog of things I desperately want to write about – especially after a rather historic nationals – but this one has been sitting about for a while, and really deserves to get to see the light of day. Grudge Match 2.0 It was *the* match. The game we’d been hoping to avoid all weekend. And unfortunately we messed up and found ourselves playing it. Our very own Grudge Match. Now, having written a post about precisely ...

Paganello Blog 2012

The following blog, tells the story of our Paga experience as juniors, in our first year playing ultimate. Created by Dan and Football. *To note: If anybody has any additional stories they would like to add, feel free to write a comment below. We would certainly love to read it. 1st Day The first day mainly consisted of discussing the tomfoolery of those missing the flight, as well as whether Chris would be alive when he did arrive. Smooth flight, relatively smooth train journey, and smooth arrival at Sunflower City. A wee bit of practice/ casual game was a nice introduction to beach ...

AGM Summary

Hey all, Thanks for those that attended the AGM last Friday. Sorry we overran by about 25 minutes,  I did my best to keep it within 2 hours but these things inevitably carry on a little bit. Hopefully it was enjoyable for all and thanks for all of your feedback from the year and ideas going forward – we appreciate it all (all the time) so if you’ve over thoughts then let me know. It is important that the committee represents the club so its up to you do ask stuff of us! Minutes and suchlike can her found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/124cgR-Y_nyOU7RKGb9WzCKo0h_HfyuGe3DhMFsTIDcU/edit Please add comments ...

A message from your delighted President

I’m not quite sure where to begin with this email, to be honest. Words cannot quite sum up how happy I was the instant the Open team won nationals this weekend just gone, and then not 10 minutes later for the Women to follow suit. The pandemonium was beyond what I knew possible – huge congratulations to all. Oh, and my father says: “Jolly good”. As Taxi has said – we are the best university club in the country right now and nobody can deny that. Other universities have had “their time” or something like that but right now the time ...

ACL Blog: Part 2 – Months 1 and 2 of Recovery

It was probably about 3 hours after surgery that a physio came in to my room and went through all of the exercises that I could start doing. They were mainly aimed at helping to get my quads to fire; this is as they had not been used for the last 6 weeks whilst I was non weight bearing on crutches. About an hour after, another physio returned who helped me to start bearing weight on my leg whilst still on crutches. With it being 6 weeks since I had last walked, she had to explain to me the basics ...

Varsity Teams and Information

These are the teams for tomorrow. If you have emailed me and haven’t been put on a team then please get into contact as soon as possible, I am very sorry for any mistakes. If you have not yet got into contact with me then please do so ASAP and I will try to accommodate you.   Please meet at 12 noon at the underpass at the front of campus to walk to the pitch on Brighton campus. Open game will be at 12.30 and mixed game at 1.30. The aggregate score of the two games will decide the winner.   Open Team Lawrence Pete Joe Sam Spoon Jallen Rob Ellis Dude Frank Faron   Mixed ...

The Paga (driving) experience

These are my thoughts on my Paganello 2012 experience. I hope they are of interest, many apologies if you think they might be and then read them and get thoroughly bored. When Callum first suggested driving to Paga I was apprehensive, not just the actual driving part but because it was Callum who was asking. I trust Callum with everything but he will be the first to admit that at times he is not the most organised and on occasion doesn’t come up trumps. My nervousness was, therefore, because I thought that he might not sort all the stuff that he ...

Varsity

Hey Mohawks,   We have Varisty (Sussex vs Brighton) this Wednesday. We have an Open game and Mixed game and will take the aggregate score from the two. The teams will be picked on both ability AND commitment. If you want to play please email opencaptain@mohawks.co.uk.   Lucy, Kneetu, Rhona and myself will pick the teams by Tuesday evening. If you don’t want to play please still come and watch. It’s on the astro turf at Brighton uni.   Thanks