precursors are important, like the first robin of spring. What happens next is crucial to the follow-up step in the chain. In the Mathewson work the pace of the steps can be painfully slow, still each step a link in a multi-functional chain. Two birds one stone combines the precursor element of the work with a rough interactive identity.
I guess the basic message is: do not give up. Yeah, the big 'ups' and 'downs' take their toll. Let them. Allow them. Keep striving and knock them aside, collect them and stay balanced. Know your own characteristics and use them to forge your balance. Bla bla bla...but its meant to be true.
Yesterday the Wiener Gummieisbären won both the semi and final match of the Viennese Centimeter Hockey League playoffs. We are number 1.
As player/coach I can say that we played a solid, well rounded hockey. This made us strong and we did not give up. Thank you players!!!! I had some brief moments in the last weeks thinking about my future as coach of this team because coaching is a big distraction to my own game. Even yesterday I was pretty severely compromised with my performance, but i did not give up. No one gave up.
I had thoughts of being a lousy coach...a non-coach...a joke coach... but I figured out in the end that it is the flexibility of a non-authoritarian plus a big portion of solid trust bringing a feeling between all team members that we can play well together with the talent and drives we have as individuals...and this is a big reason we were the strongest on playoff day. I am overwhelmed.
2010/2011 Wiener Gummieisbären / Vienna Rubber Polarbears
We had our ups and downs this season, but the regular season ended with an up! 2 - 1 win over Wolfersberg sealed a 3rd place position in the Centimeter league. Playoffs on the 26th of March in St. Pölten.
"Fussfresser is something which comes off an island...something like Martha's Vinyard, or a place like it. The Vinyard scene was very much different though...lots of cocaine and good weed as far as i knew... James Taylor and Carly Simon did a lot of Jimmy-Buffetting there in the 70's...but the Vinyard isn't like this anymore. Sleepytowne Island is still kind of the same though...hand-repairable cars, 'take it or leave it' coffee, not much of a chance of getting back to the mainland on time due to bad weather, high seas and so on. In trusting fiction-reality (compared to that of the non-), this acoustic duo featuring Eloui and Stephen Mathewson embark the quest to entertain the stranded."
