I seem to remember reading somewhere a jokey article by TJ about the comparision between US players and UK players.. something about the yanks doing Zen ****, yoga, meditation, eating healthy, running, weight lifting, and practicing moves, while we UK players eat bacon butties and chips, smoke, drink ourselves silly, watch TV and talk a lot..
Jokey it may have been but there is, at least by what has been said earlier in this thread, an element of reality there.
I'll tell you a little story. As long as I have been with Apocalypse we haven't won anything. We have played the Midlands Masters series this year, every round, with different players for every round. Every time we have scored minimum points for the division we were in.
Eight or so weeks ago we decided to start fielding the same five players to every remaining round of the MM. We had a weekend practice, and the very next weekend we came 5th in our Division. Then two weeks off, a weekend practice, MM round 6 the following weekend, and won our division.
The next weekend we praticed again and then played MM Round 7, got bumped up a division and came 4th thanks only to some big mistakes by us in tactics (not getting first flag grab when we had the chance 4 times lost us 100 points.. and that would have put us 2nd).
We scored more series points in the last two rounds than in the previous five put together.
You maybe bored by now wondering exactly what this know-nothing is talking about but the point is that the extra training, something like 4-5 weekends in a row, either practicing drills or playing, combined with a consistant squad has, I believe, made a huge difference.
Yes , it has cost us cash. Yes, we had to turn out every weekend to do it. Yes, not everyone can make that commitment. Yes, we are lucky to a certain extent to have our own 5 man supair field that stays up all the time to train on.
Granted, we are not going to be beating Dynasty any time soon, but if it makes that much difference for us lower teams surely the same applies to the big guys?
Urban
Jokey it may have been but there is, at least by what has been said earlier in this thread, an element of reality there.
I'll tell you a little story. As long as I have been with Apocalypse we haven't won anything. We have played the Midlands Masters series this year, every round, with different players for every round. Every time we have scored minimum points for the division we were in.
Eight or so weeks ago we decided to start fielding the same five players to every remaining round of the MM. We had a weekend practice, and the very next weekend we came 5th in our Division. Then two weeks off, a weekend practice, MM round 6 the following weekend, and won our division.
The next weekend we praticed again and then played MM Round 7, got bumped up a division and came 4th thanks only to some big mistakes by us in tactics (not getting first flag grab when we had the chance 4 times lost us 100 points.. and that would have put us 2nd).
We scored more series points in the last two rounds than in the previous five put together.
You maybe bored by now wondering exactly what this know-nothing is talking about but the point is that the extra training, something like 4-5 weekends in a row, either practicing drills or playing, combined with a consistant squad has, I believe, made a huge difference.
Yes , it has cost us cash. Yes, we had to turn out every weekend to do it. Yes, not everyone can make that commitment. Yes, we are lucky to a certain extent to have our own 5 man supair field that stays up all the time to train on.
Granted, we are not going to be beating Dynasty any time soon, but if it makes that much difference for us lower teams surely the same applies to the big guys?
Urban
