VFW

Dear Force Parents,

We are going to be scheduling our own practice this Saturday 1/19/08 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at Mariners Christian in Costa Mesa. Our VFW practice schedule came out today and had us at Marina HS in HB fron 5:30-7:00 p.m., we felt it was a little too late for us this weekend as we are having K.B. on Friday night and our SEYO game on Sunday night.

Due to us rescheduling we have worked it out with Mariners so that there will be no fees for this weekend.

We would like everyone to be at practice on Saturday so we can walk through our analysis of this past Sunday's game on offense and on defense. As coaches we have a very difficult situation rotating our 10 players for 5 continous minutes each half, we need to be sure that every player on the court can adjust to different offenses and defenses on a given moment. We were not prepared to adjust after OCO adjusted to us so we will be working on this at practice for the next several weeks. Our job is to teach our players how to think and what to do in any situation, we sometime forget that they are only 10 but are running the same things as high school teams already. We also need to remember that we are practicing only once a week and will be switching to twice a week as soon as the season is over and maybe three times a week so we can prepare for our Sacramento tournament. We will be playing up a grade and need to be ready.

We have heard that the two most popular tournaments up north have heard about us already and if we skip 6th grade next year and play in 7th grade up north we have a chance to play in their two biggest tournaments. They are the San Jose Ninja Tournament and the Sacramento Baron's Tournament in Reno.

Please let us know if you have any questions,

Mark