Mini Kokutai

It has been really hot in the hills of Okayama lately, and today was no exception. And today, we trained on Astro turf field, at 3pm hottest time of the day, so yeah, it was quite a workout.
We have a Mini Kokutai, National Tournament Regional Qualifier in Hiroshima, next weekend. Today was intra-squad trial match. I officiated. My goodness, the girls can dish out some words to me!! But I just kept going on.
Last few days of GK training, our back up has been doing really well. So I had fairly good expectation of today's training. However, I was somewhat disappointed. You could put some blame on me, as I could have done better warm up. She is not so good in 1 v 1 situation such as break away. I should have spent little more time on that instead of working on crosses.
So, I learned a good lesson, which I knew from my rugby days. And I was able to experience it first hand so I know I won't do the mistake again.
That is, spend little more time on things you've worked on for a week in the warm up. The player has been working on that so it gives her target for the game.
next week.