Back at Bielenberg

I must say it was a bit strange walking into the Bielenberg Sports Center in Woodbury for Thursday's 6:00PM training session.  I couldn't helping thinking that all the coaches and parents of the Woodbury players training in the dome were thinking, "There's the enemy!" when we walked in.  I'm sure things were far worse in my mind than what really happened in reality, but it reminded me of those old E.F. Hutton commercials... you know the ones I'm talking about.  The commercial opens with the camera panning a crowded restaurant scene, focuses on a table with two guys talking about investments, almost straining to hear each other over the unrealistically loud background noise.  The first guy shouts something like, "My broker told me blah-blah-blah about so-and-so stock, etc, etc.".  Then the second guy pipes up by saying, "Well, my broker is E.F. Hutton, and E.F. Hutton says...".  All of a sudden a deathly and immediate hush falls over the crowd and all you hear are the crickets.  That's what my mind perceived immediately after I pushed through the revolving air-lock doors at Bielenberg.  Chirp, chrip, chirp...

What was interesting is that some of the Woodbury girls on the team also made similar comments, more to the tune an unwelcome feeling surrounding our walk to our side of the field.  Oh well, WAA may not like our organization blossoming in "their" city, but they don't own the dome (though they think they do sometimes). 

Not on the field until 6:30PM, I ran the girls through some individual skills work on the track area surrounding the field.  When we got on the field, I took them through a long range shooting progression with the goal of continuing to build their confidence in their ability to strike quality shots from distance.  We finished with some 6v6 small sided play.

On my way out, I tried not to make eye contact with the numerous WAA board members in the dome with their kids.  Sometimes I wonder why I feel apprehensive in dealing with some of these people.  Maybe it's because I know they work against what I stand for with Bangu and don't want to even pretend to be cordial.  Heck, for all I know though, they're all avoiding looking at me as well :)