2015-09-06 Flag Football Week 3

Flag Football Week 3

The third week of flag football is complete.  Both Luke and Kurt do a good job of running the ball on offense.  When they decide to go upfield, they are full speed.  On defense, Luke is a very good at pulling flags and fast enough to recover mistakes.  Checkout the play where Luke tracks down a break away runner with a diving attempt for the flag at the goal line.  Pure effort and hustle!!!  Making Mom and Dad proud.  Kurt is excellent at catching the ball.  Coaches are always complementing him on his ability to catch the ball.  He catches passes from both his and the opponents quarterbacks.  See his interception earlier in this week's game.

Luke's game

Kurt's game

2015-08-30 Flag Football

Proud parents here; both Kurt and Luke scored a rushing touchdown today.  Kurt had a reception and Luke had multiple flag pulls from his defensive end position on defense.  We worked with Luke on playing more outside leverage and forcing the runner to turn back inside.  Both Kurt and Luke are wearing jersey number #30 on their respective teams. 

This is Luke's second, and Kurt's first game of the year.

Luke's highlights 

Kurt's highlights

  

Crazy Legs' First Flag Football Game

Luke played in his first flag football game today.  His team won 3 touchdowns to one touchdown. 

Crazy Legs got loose for a long touchdown run, and pulled two flags.

2015 Flag Football Season

The 2015 flag football season is here.  Kurt and Luke are both participating and have friends on their team.  The only downside is their practices are overlapping and we don't get the opportunity to see both of them practice.  Emily is normally with Luke and Rick with Kurt.  Emily video taped some of Luke's practice so we could get the pre-season scouting report.  

It looks Luke is pretty fast when he gets those "crazy legs" going.  On defense, we will work on flagging and squaring up in front of the runner to slow him down.

Luke has 8 games with the first one this weekend on 8/23/2015 at 1:30pm at .  Kurt has 6 games and starts next week.  Luke's team has 12 players while Kurt's has 9.   The rules are 

- 6 on 6
- fumbles are dead ball
- 4 downs to cross mid-field and earn another 4 downs
- must have center qb exchange, but otherwise, no limitation on alignment

Luke's coach has implemented an interesting strategy for offense where each player wear's a colored band.  Then, when he has a colored drawing of plays indicating what each color is supposed to do.  First indication in practice is the kids are confident about what they are supposed to be doing.

Here is the video, and, for reference he is #30.

Luke's first game is 
Date: Sunday August 23rd
Time: 1:30pm
Location: 2680 E Orange Rd Lewis Center OH, 43035

2015 Baseball Season

Luke has been playing baseball and I am just catching up on posting some video.  His team is Orioles, and he is enjoying playing with his team mates.  He recently told mom that he "just enjoys the game".  Below are links to game 1 and 2.  Luke has been playing third base a lot because he can make the throw to first base, and he is often hitting to back of the infield.  Practice in the backyard has been paying off, and both boys know that if you want to be good at something you have to work for it.

Here is game #1. 

Here is game #2. 

2015 Westerville Central Open Wrestling Tournament

This week the boys wrestled at the 2015 Westerville Central open.

Here is Luke's bracket.

Match 5 was a re-match against the only wrestler to give him a loss this weekend.  He put a lot of effort into this match, did not score any points, but won in sudden victory on locked hands call.  Really proud of his effort.  When asked why he did not switch up his attacks from neutral, he said he planned to practice his double leg takedowns.  He is heard-headed, but we like his tenacity.

2015 Westerville Luke Match 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=954rY_x_t0Y
2015 Westerville Luke Match 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pJZ31N7j20
2015 Westerville Luke Match 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nTxlSyBcXg

Here is Kurt's bracket.

He has one other good match, but this is the only one we recorded.  This is also a wrestler he has faced a couple of times.   The best part of this match is that Kurt captured the attention of fans in the stands with his innocent chuckle that he was caught in the same move by the same wrestler last year.  He knows he did not learn from his mistake of putting his head down.  The bystanders complimented Kurt on his attitude and said they wished more wrestlers shared his demeanor.

2015 Westerville Kurt Match 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY8kXD8ZPSs

Johnstown Open Wrestling Tournament

On Sunday March 15th, Kurt and Luke wrestled in the Johnstown Open wrestling tournament.  Luke and Kurt wrestled in the morning and afternoon sessions, respectively.  Luke went 3-0 with his last match being an overtime match with an opponent from Whetstone.  Although we have been practicing twice a week, this is Kurt's first match since early February.  One match was so quick, mom missed it. lol.

My good friend, college teammate and roommate Dave Wellmeier and his family were also at this tournament with their son Noah.  It is good to see the next generation of wrestlers learning the toughest sport.

Luke Match 1

Luke Match 2

Luke Match 3

Kurt Match 1

Kurt Match 2