day 4 no worries and payback

Maybe my last post was a bit dramatic. Ronalds mum tweeted anxious...if he was doing alright....

But let me tell you all: he's doing great. And no matter how you feel, I think it was a nice speech from Rocky.

Yesterday was heavy. After sprinting and throwing shots around in the morning, Ferenc planned a throwing-session. After 4 throws he called it off. It was clearly this would not be a good session. Ferenc is very clear about the quality of the training and always considering your well being. Ronald was not amused. Not amused when he started... a clear case of being nagged.

And even less amused when Ferenc made him stop! He felt like a 'quitter'.

But as said earlier; Ferenc knows when to push and when to let go.

Ronald and Petra

We took the time to see other athletes throw and had a very easy restfull afternoon. A good night sleep...and today a very good trainingday. Sprints and jumps in the morning and finally in the afternoon some javelinthrowing and weightlifting. 

After a nasty tweet about me from Ronald, I promissed a payback.

See fancy foto on the left: Sorry ronald #ikkonhetnietlaten

Our fysio Petra flew home yesterday (see did a great job) and today Ronald got a good massage from a Hungarian masseur.

Petra arranged a good gift from the Duifrunners. They made it possible we can continue our journey!

about getting hit and keep moving forward

"The world aint all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You , me and nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it aint about how hard you hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! If you know what you're worth than get out and get what you're worth but you've got to be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers saying you aint what you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that aint you! You're better than that" (Rocky Balboa)

Day 2

It feels I'm here a week already, but luckely we have a full week ahead of us.

Morningtraining started with spints and jumps.

No....again:

Morningtraining started with breakfast.

No complains from Ronald. I was anxious to see how Ronald recovered from yesterdays training..... and pretty proud to see he was doing very well and delivered a good morningtraining.

Offcourse for me and Ferenc more discussions and tuning our coorperation. Making plans for training in Rotterdam and scheduling our get togethers, in Budapest or elsewhere in the world.

In the afternoon: weightlifting. Not as smooth  as yesterday but...very good!  In the evening....Ronald was in desperate need of a small horse.     

 We knew just the place -->

Day 1

Starting with a relaxed morning, walking alongside the Danube-river, while 3000 others are trying to run the Budapest marathon...this afternoon our training:

after the first session

After about a month of relaxing it was pretty....heavy.
First some light throwing. Nice, focussed, better than in our last visit.

Than some weighttraining:

Some main exercises and some special throwing-excercises. Although Ferenc emphesize fun should be the biggest part of the training.... the first two weeks will be with muscle ache... allover.

I guess this week is hard on every athlete preparing for the games.

I must say I almost put a stop to it today. But just before I wanted to do so I realized:  This could well be the difference between 56 and 60+ mtr.

To all athletes: Good luck these first few weeks ! have fun and keep focussed.

To Ronald: As long as you say 'I am exhausted' with a smile on your face, we're not impressed and smiling with you.

just make up your mind

And we're back in Budapest.

In the past few weeks I read a bit about the Hungarian...I had enough suprises last time :-). Having said that and being in Budapest, a few hours, made me realize: we are dealing with a unique man. And I didn't read a book about the unique Hungarian. Not yet anyway.

I read that 'the Hungarian spirit' is like an straw fire (it smolders, and you need to put energy in keeping it burning). Didn't notice it today.

make up your mind: What's it going to be?

One hour after checking in, Ferenc came to the hotel for our first meeting. Nice! after our weekly skype-contact it was nice to meet eachother again face-to-face.

He explained what he has planned for Ronald this year in general and the upgoming six week in detail. It was clearly he wasn't impressed with our objections or doubts  :-)   That felt good ! Ronald got excited. If he didn't already know...he surely knows now: It's going to be a year with no excuses!

If you get stiff from one (important) excercise, you have a choice on how to prevent it.

1) don't do the exercise

2) do some extra excersises to relieve the stiffness

If you hurt your back while you are throwing, again two choices

1) don't throw like that

2) do some extra exercises to prevent the hurting

If you're a woldclass athlete going to the Paralymics you have three choices. What is it going to be ?

1) bronze

2) gold

3) silver

hint: Two, two and two / twee, twee en twee /két, két és két

Tomorrow we start our first wintertraining!!!

Getting ready for the launch

In July I said we had liftoff and although it felt like a good start it was just a trial run. The real launch will start in a few days. It's nearly October. As written: in July we met Ferenc Paragi and ask for help. You probably read about it. Since then Ronald got used to new exercises for technique, sthrengh and flexibility. All easy, light and healthy. This week we do some tests.

The results will be viewed by Ferenc and he'll be waiting for us next week....
The plan is coming together

Date:  1 till 10 October 2011

Location: BUDAPEST

Occasion: The start off a long, hard, exciting winter.

THE LAUNCH OF UNIQUE COOPERATION

Our goal: Gold at the Paralympics 2012, javelin men F44

Training for a Worldrecord

It's pretty weird when someone invites to to throw a WorldRecord three weeks from now.

But yes; we did got that request this week.

Luckily it's not about javelinthrowing.That would really be weird anytime before august 2012.

September is a month of recovering from last season and getting ready for the next. So no hard training and some tests to get a good picture of what we need to do for the first six weeks from octobre 1. Test will be done every six weeks. Last week we threw some shots and some  baseballs.

Today we threw some mobile phones. Preparing for the

     WORLD RECORD mobile phone throwing for amputees !!!