Written and edited by Jim Walker
-- December, 2012
A publication of the Keeper! Club
Written and edited by Jim Walker
DECEMBER TRAINING
at DyessPark
Who We Are:
The Regulars: Keeper Club members 10 years and older doing continuous training
Junior Keepers: Beginning Keeper Club members 10 years and younger
Fee for The Regulars is $50 per eight-week package ($100 if not playing for the Cy-Fair Youth Soccer Club or the Dynamos); Fee for Junior Keepers is $25 per ten-week package. First Spring package runs from Jan. 3 until March 14; second Fall package from 18 until May 23. Please make check payable to "Keeper Club" and mail to: Dynamos, attn: Loree, 10924 Grant Rd., #224, Houston77070. If you have questions, email jwalker332@aol.com or call 281-217-1612.
Here is the schedule for goalkeepers at DyessPark for December:
PLEASE NOTE: Training for 2012 ends Thurs., Dec. 13. .
3--The Regulars, 8pm
6--The Regulars, 5:30pm; Junior Keepers, 6:45pm
10--The Regulars, 8pm
13--The Regulars and Junior Keepers, 5:00pm, followed by Christmas party, 6:00pm
TRAINING WILL RESUME JANUARY 3 at 5:30pm
Calling All Keepers!
IT'S TIME TO PARTY!
Comes that annual time for all goalkeepers to gather at beautiful downtown DyessPark for the swapping of gifts and stories, and chowing down on pizza and Powerade. It's the Keeper! Club's Christmas party, which closes out goalkeeper training for the year. The day is Thursday, December 13, and the time is 5 o'clock for a keeper training session and 6 o'clock in the Far Pavilion (concession stand at the north end of the park) Note: That's evening, not morning, for the one goalkeeper who will ask the question. Activities include the traditional Krazy Keeper gift exchange, contests for prizes, and maybe a few surprise guest appearances. Donations of dessert, cookies, cake, or other Christmas treats, will be welcomed. For the gift selection (once was called "white elephant gift exchange," but, remember, white elephants complained), each keeper is requested to bring something costing less than $10 or something found around the house the family no longer wants (no live items allowed). Wrap it and, in a random drawing, some other "lucky" goalkeeper will be able to take it home. We never know what treasure or trash will turn up--outbreaks of minor raucous bidding for gifts are permitted. Sixteen keepers attended last year's party and all survived. If you have questions about the party, email jwalker332@aol.com or call 281-217-1612.
Kick Kids Cancer Camp
JOIN THE FUN!
For Kick Kids Cancer Camp registration, sign up at http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=2060155 or go to www.cccfund.org for answers to your questions. Camp fees are $55 per camper and you may make donations by sponsoring camps at the same website.
What: KICK KIDS CANCER SOCCER CAMP
When: December 14-16, Friday 6-8, Saturday 4-6, Sunday 4-6)
Where: DyessPark (and other Houston locations)
Who: Boys and Girls ages 5-18 (Soccer Tots segment starts at age two)
Sign up at: CCCFUND.org
ALL registrations go to fight pediatric cancer because ALL levels of the soccer community from youth, high school, college, and professional are volunteering venues, time, and services to this great cause, originated and organized by Houston soccer media personality Glenn Davis. The Dynamos, through Director of Training Olivier Finidori, have fully supported this great event from the beginning, and the camps at DyessPark in previous years have been filled with fun and a cheerful commitment to this charitable event. Even if you can attend only one night, it's worthwhile because your fee goes to a great cause.
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MOTIVATOR
Keeper: I have no motivation to do school work.
Coach: Do pushups until it becomes apparent that schoolwork is easier.
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LEAVE LATE. ARRIVE EARLY
During a late November session, trainer Roland Sikinger and keepers Jessica Evans, Kaylee Barrett, Kacie Paine, Brady Stonebraker, Ethan Rimbey and Steven Franke engaged in "hyper footwork before shot-blocking and finished with a great three-ring circus of cross taking." Roland, a former U. S. Olympic and professional netminder who has blocked more shots and fielded more crosses in his day than he likes to remember, praised the keepers' work rate and, as trainers do, cast a critical eye, too. "Biggest fault I see in our keepers on cross taking," said Roland, also known as Rolie the Goalie, "is that they leave too early. I've asked them to try counting one thousand one after the sound of the cross before moving. Another way I found helpful to prevent leaving early for crosses is to face the crosser side-on, one foot in front of the other. The back foot acts as an anchor to keep you home, until you can judge the flight of the cross. On taking crosses, since you are leaving late, you must be fast and furious to the ball."
KEEPERTALK
Good news and bad news for Braden Mann, reported his dad, after his first follow-up appointment with the doctor. Good news is that the U16 Dynamos' keeper's injured hand is healing well and "even got one of the pins pulled out." Bad news: it will be two weeks before the second pin is removed, meaning he will miss the State Classic League playoffs Dec 8-9. "Important thing," commented his coach, Charlie Coull, "is that it is healing well.". . .To help generate notes for KeeperTalk this month, a few keepers were asked four important questions: 1) What do you want for Christmas?; 2. What do you NOT want for Christmas?; 3) What is the activity at keeper training you most like to do?; 4) What is the activity at keeper training you least like to do? First to reply was Rodrigo Silos, keeper for the U13 Dynamos, who said "money" was his most desired Christmas gift, socks his least desired, more 1v1 for the third and "ab drills" on the fourth question. To the same questions, Ethan Rimbey replied: 1) FIFA 13; 2) lump of coal; 3) keeper wars and keeper's dozen; 4) the warmup. Steven Franke responded with these answers: 1) mountain bike, 2) books, 3) keeper golf and keeper's dozen; 4) five-mile run (to be more precise, it's the "threat" of the five-mile run he distains). Kennedy McGill checked in with 1) lots and lots of money!!; 2) little kid play stuff and things like that; 3) keepers dozen; 4) one thing I don't like doing at all is the getting on the ground 30 times. Somehow, Coach Walker already knew the answer to her fourth reply because Kennedy's usual smile turns upside down when he calls for the drill designed to prepare keepers for landing. But Kennedy always responds with effort and grace. Brady Stonebraker said what he most wanted for Christmas was a stop watch ("to improve my speed!"), least wanted a ball pump, and his favorite training activity was Roland's Keeper Wars. . .We welcome goalkeepers, coaches, and parents to share thoughts with us about this special position of soccer. Photos, clippings, letters, anecdotes and other thoughts will be accepted for publication. Simply email to jwalker332@aol.com.
TRAINING LOG
Goalkeepers who attended Keeper Club training sessions during November:
1--Aaron Austin, Cameron Rieth, Mia Posey, Marissa Mills, Erin Rodriguez, Dieterick Hunsche, Payton Salinas, Joseph Majeski, Briahanna Gist, Rodrigo Silos. Junior Keepers: Isabelle Tullier, Ethan Urrutia; Assisting: Briahanna Gist, Nick Wanner, Rodrigo Silos. Guest appearance: Kacie Paine.
6--Ethan Rimbey, Kacie Paine, Steven Franke
8--Kacie Paine, Aaron Austin, Alysson Crouch, Steven Franke, Nick Wanner, Marissa Mills, Briahanna Gist, Cameron Rieth. Junior Keepers: Ethan Urrutia, Isabelle Tullier, Maison Bell; Assisting: Coach David Urrutia
12--Jessica Evans, Kacie Paine, Kaylee Barrett, Ethan Rimbey, Alex Sanchez, Isea Gonzalez, and Steven Franke, 15--Alysson Crouch, Mia Posey, Steven Franke, Nick Wanner, Cameron Rieth, Erin Rodriguez, Rodrigo Siloe, Jessica Evans
19--Jessica Evans, Kaylee Barrett, Kacie Paine, Brady Stonebraker, Ethan Rimbey, Steven Franke,
22--Thomas Turkey,
26--Kaylee Barrett, Kacie Paine, Steven Franke, Ethan Rimbey
29--Steven Franke, Kennedy McGill, Ethan Rimbey, Mia Posey, Alysson Crouch, Rodrigo Silos, Briahanna Gist, Payton Salinas, Isobel Herrod. Junior Keepers: Maison Bell, Alex Stabell
SEEING EYE KEEPER
Jens Lehmann, who played on Germany's 2006 World Cup team and spent much of his career at Arsenal, is being considered as a possible netminder for Germany's blind soccer team at the next Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro in 2016. Visually impaired soccer teams are allowed to use fully-sighted goalkeepers. According to the Paralympic rules, "all four outfield players must wear blackout eyeshades to ensure fairness. The goalkeeper may be fully sighted but he is not allowed to leave his penalty area." According to the German newspaper Bild, Lehmann, who will be 46 in 2016, is tempted by the chance to win the first major international title of his career.--London Independent
HOW TALLY FACED UPTally Hall couldn't help himself. Each time a powerful shot came his way, the kid who would become a Major League Soccer all-star goalkeeper would flinch and turn away. It's never a good thing for a keeper to shy away from the ball, and Hall knew it. In hopes of solving that problem, he recruited his pals to take shots at him from short distances. His friends were soccer teammates, and they relished the chance to cure him of his fear by ripping balls into his chest, face and legs. A decade later, the (Houston) Dynamo's 6-4, 215-pounmd keeper is one of the toughest in MLS. Whether exploding off his line to cut down an opponent's shooting angle or leaping into a scrum to punch a ball out, Hall doesn't flinch. -- Jose de Jesus Ortiz
QUOTABLE
"Tally (Hall) is very courageous, very brave. He puts himself in great positions. He understands that he's a good athlete, but he also has good size. He challenges you to beat him like (saying), 'I'm not diving out of the way. You better put it in the corner. I'm going to challenge you to be a good player.'"--Houston Dynamo goalkeeper coach Tim Hanley
TIP OF THE MONTH
In goalkeeping, momentum conquers all. When the striker hears that blood-curdling 'KEEEEEPPPPEEERRR!!!!' the striker knows that pain is about to arrive if a collision is not avoided."--Roland Sikinger, Dynamos and Keeper! Club trainer, former U. S. Olympic and professional goalkeeper.
KEEPING SECRETS
What's 'the zone'? The zone is a state of mind marked by a sense of calmness. In addition, there is a heightened sense of awareness and focus. Actions seem effortless and there is an increased belief that your dreams or goals can become achievable and real. In addition, there is also a sense of deep enjoyment when the person is in this unique, special and magical state of being.--Dr. Jay Granat, Sports Psychologist
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JUST SAY 'NO!' TO GOALS
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