April 28, 2009

Floorball Tour de Penang

Touched down at KKIA T2, tired but still in excited mood.... Went through a week, eat floorball, drink floorball, sleep floorball, talk floorball, play floorball, pray floorball (sounds crazy....!)

Went to Penang for a week of floorball touring with Nomads. The schedule is kinda eat, sleep and play.... feeling kinda like a professional full time player. Mind loaded with tones of floorball tactics, rules, strategies, etc. for the whole week... No doubt, learnt a lot from them, no matter in terms of tactic, skills, strategies, etc.... The Penang players really showed us what is floorball about.... i think we gotta start to study what is floorball right from the beginning again.... haha... The level of skills are totally different from us here in Sabah, but soon floorballers in Sabah here will catch up with them...

As a player, my experience in this tour is mainly SUBMISSION and Obey.... as for the match facing the giants (Penang State Team @ Malaysia National Team), Ps Edward predicted we will be giving away about 30 to 40 goals as he knows the head coach so well.... He did give us some tips and training on the defence strategies and running positions. Well, he still kept his prediction after the training session. With the spirit of submission and obey to team captain, we kept the shape of defensive till the end of game and minimized down the score to 10-0 with 12 of us playing against a team in full lines (20 players). As our team captain mentioned, Nomad always surprises him...!!!

Last session with Team Unihoc, which basically players using Unihoc equipments and personally hand picked by Ps Edward. We had lots of fun that night. Running positions, goals, different style and ways of scoring field goals and penalties, goal keeping tips....

Soon SFA will be bringing a team of Sabah State Team to Penang next year....

Btw, Ps Edward was and is the head coach......