National Floorball Tourney!

Floorball is a new sport created in 1970 in Europe, to try an combined hockey, and a few other sports. It is basically floor hockey mixed with soccer, and a little bit of lacrosse. You use a whiffle ball, and a stick. The stick isn't very tall, it is also very light. The sport is like lacrosse because if you are good enough you can scoop the ball up, and do cool tricks with it. Anyways the basic rules are very similar to hockey, 5 players and a goalie on each team. Objective is too score. So basically floor hockey, with a European twist.

I haven't heard of this sport since a couple months back. I was very interested, so I wanted to play. I looked for a team, and found st.james floor ball club. I made the team, and we went to represent our province, and basically western Canada in the Canada Cup. A nation floor ball Tournament. This is where the best in the world come to compete. It was only my first time ever playing floor ball, but I was confident.


This is a picture of me in the tournament.

This is me Dangling the oppenent at the Canada Cup. 

The tournament wasn't a huge success for the team, but a minor success for me and a couple other team mates. I finished off with about 15 points, my other teammates Chase Harrison, and Cole McCartan finished with a large sum of points too! Floorball is an amazing sport, search it up on the internet and find out more about it. I just started and turned out to be one of the best. 

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Yet another basketball blog!

PLEASE READ THE WHOLE POST BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO. thanks


Holy crap, did you guys see the game the other day? Down by 15 with 6 minutes left and the Mavericks just started giving it to them, Dirk Nowitzki is definitely having one of his best seasons ever! And he had such a clutch play at the end of the game, Bosh got messed... Wade almost hit that buzzer beater though, thank god he didn't.

Alright anyways, I haven't really gotten to play ball much, and I slept through my game this morning -_-, so I'm just going to write down a list of things that you should do to increase your vertical.

There are a whole bunch of things that are factors, or rather "faucets" of increasing your vertical..

1st: Strength
2nd: Speed
3rd: Flexibility

For me, these three are the main things you need in order to increase your vertical. The basic things are the faster you are, the more propulsion you're going to get, or rather, the higher you'll jump. If you're stronger, your muscles will be able to push you higher, and last of all, if you're flexible your body is able to use more muscles to jump. Rest is very important in increasing your vertical, most people just go to the gym and work out their legs everyday, that's a very bad idea. You need to balance it out, such as working on strength, then maybe speed the next day with resistance training, and then take a days rest and repeat. I would suggest stretching 2-5 times per day extensively. People are also forgetting the approach. Your approach is a great deal as to how high you can jump. This video above explains it pretty well in my opinion. I'm going to keep this basic, but for exercises I would focus on your core (VERY important), doing squats, deadlifts, and depth jumps/calf raises. Those 4 exercises are four of my favourites, and I believe they've helped my vertical out.

Thanks for reading and following my blog you guys,
also we have reached over 100 followers! Woo! :),

-Riley

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Not much, but basketball.

Sorry guys, it's been a while since I've posted a blog. I've been a little busy. Anyways! 2nd round of the Heat and Mavericks tonight! Who do you guys want to win the series? I want Dallas to win, but I think Miami will take it. :S. Okay anyways, back to personal basketball things!

I haven't gotten to practice much as of late because my knees are really bad, but I can definitely feel my shot improving a lot, and my step back improving a lot. I'm not the fastest person, but I'm pretty fast. As of late, I'm thinking the thing I need the most is to increase the speed of my crossovers. If you look up Austin Rivers on youtube you'll see. His shot isn't the greatest, and he's not super fast. But goddamn.. He has crazy fast crossovers! It's always good to have a good shot though, and personally I'm one to believe that peoples' shooting is the most important thing in all of basketball, but now that I have a pretty consistent shot, I'm thinking speed on my crossovers should be top priority. Anyone know of any ways to increase the speed of my crossovers? I was thinking of just setting up cones and doing basic moves at each cone first at maximum speed until I master it, and then moving onto more difficult things. :O, Help me out here guys!

Alright! Anyways, yesterday I got to play a little ball and I went to the ymca. It was pretty packed though so I didn't get much shots up, played a couple games of 4on4 and played decent but whatever. I got friggin' tackled though and got a crazy charlie horse. Still hurts :(. Anyways, I won't have any basketball blogs to post for maybe another week or so, I'll still blog. But I have provincial high jump coming up so I won't be able to play basketball very much as I have to make icing my legs, and practicing top priority. Thank you for all the support guys, we've reached 95 followers and I never though this would happen. Thanks

-Riley

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Canucks vrs Bruins

As most of you know, there is a national hockey league called the NHL. The national hockey league has around 82 season games, then play offs, where the teams that did the best in the season square off to battle for the prize called the stanely cup! This year teams fought hard, and now the Boston Bruins, are facing the Vancouver Canucks for the Cup!

The first game was yesterday, it was close, but the Canucks manage to score with 19 seconds left to claim victory.

My personal belief is that the Canucks will sweep the Bruins 4 game to 0. The series is out of 7 by the way. I will keep you posted, and tell you updates from the other games, and my opinions.

Look at my other blogs if you want to see some more hockey! Also, my friend Riley does blogs on this channel about Basketball!

-Justin

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Muscles for Hockey.

Im going to catergorize the muscles into groups. Upper Body, Core, and Legs. In those groups I'll explain muscles and what they do for hockey.

Upper Body

Chest
- The chest, or known as pecs are amazing for your overall upper body stability, and muscle mass. This will help your balance, and hitting. The chest is a great muscle, similar to the shoulders for usage in hockey.

Shoulders
- Most hockey players end up with weak shoulders. The shoulder muscle is good for overall upper body stability.  It will help you with hitting, stick handling, and winning battles. The shoulder is an overall good hockey muscle.

Biceps
- Biceps are not that important when it comes to hockey, they are good for stick lifts, and maybe if you get into a fight, to help you with your upper cut, or left hook. Honestly the bicep is just for show. You know what they say "curls for the girls". So when it comes to hockey, don't focus on this muscle.

Triceps
- Triceps are not very helpful, kind of similar to the bicep. They look great at the beach, but honestly you'll probably only use your tri's a little bit in your shot, and when fighting. Don't focus on this muscle.



Core

Back
- Your back is one of the most important muscles when it comes to hockey. All the way from shooting, all the way to fighting, and hitting. EVERYTHING. Any pulling, or moving, pretty much anything requires strength from your back. Focus on this muscle, it will help you a tremendous amount. This muscle also helps with your skating, almost all the starting power starts from your core.

Abs
- The abdominal muscles are amazing when it comes to hockey. The abs are pretty similar to the back when it comes to hockey. They help out with balance, a little bit of everything, and your overall endurance. This muslce also helps with your skating, almost all the starting power starts from your core.

Hip Flexors
- The hip flexor muscle is really helpful for turning, balance, and your overall stride. This muscle is amazing when it comes to skating!



Legs

Calfs
- The legs are very important because legs are the base for a good skater. The calfs happen to be the least important leg muscle. All the calf really helps with is your extension on your stride. It gives you that little extra umph! because the stronger the calf, the harder the toe snap, the quicker you are.

Quads
- Quads are definitely the most important leg muscle. Most of the power comes from your quads for your stride. A good strong quad, give you speed, agility, and even a nice hard shot, and balance. This is a great muscle to work.

Hamstrings
- Hamstrings are very similar to quads when it comes to hockey. It helps with agility, speed, power, pretty much everything, but just not as much at the quads. A great, muscle to work on though.



Hope you enjoyed my blog on my opinions on hockey, and which muscles to workon, and why. Here are the 3 best compound workouts you can do to make you the best at hockey you possible can be.




The best compound workouts to workout all of these are :
Deadlifts,
Benchpress,
Squats,

-Justin Penner

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Supplements.

My name is Justin Penner, as you already know. I was asking people's opinion on supplements. I will put a list of supplements, and vitamins I take. I was wondering if you could put your input on what supplements I should take, and which ones benefit you, and how. I am also considering taking creatine, please put your advice/input in the comments below.

I take Iso Flex Protein before a workout, then during I have 2 scoops of Extend, which is pure amino acids, and then when I am done I take another shake of Iso Flex. Please give me advice, and proper vitamins to take, and things like that, very appreciated.

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Today and yesterday's games.

Frick, so here I am practicing to gain my confidence back and for what.. Yesterday I had a game, and I played pretty good, I was consistent and I wasn't scared to shoot. I had 23 points. Today I had a game, and I was passing up every fricken shot, I was scared but I don't know why.... It's dumb.

Anyways, starting to get back into the weightroom for basketball, so I don't want to lift too heavy. Keep in mind I'm 6 feet and only 150 pounds so I'm pretty skinny.
Going to try and do a lot of leg workouts, moslty squats, deaflifts, calf raises etc. And hopefully bulk up my arms a bit. Planning to buy pure amino acids soon.. :S, also need to get some protein. Although I'm fairly tall here in Canada for my age, I have super short arms. Like a lot of my friends who are 5 foot 8, etc have only 2 inches less of a reach then me which is retarded. I'm 6 feet and my reach is only 7'7"..... I guess my vertical is pretty good seeing as how I can get my whole hand over and part of my wrist. From the tip of my finger to my wrist is about 7 inches. So, 7'7" to a 10 foot rim in order to touch would be 2 feet and 5" of vertical or 29 inches, but I can get about 7-9 inches over consistently, so I'd put my vertical at about 36-39 inches. Which is pretty good, but I really need to get higher to compensate for how small my hands are. Anyways, I'll keep you guys updated with my progress and Justin should be writing a blog soon. Thanks for reading guys, I'll hopefully get back to you tomorrow or the following day.

-Riley

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