Gameday between potential finalists.

Facebook status said this morning, that 5 years ago on this day I was playing against Rönnby with Endre IF. We kept zero and I also gave an assist to Anna Jakobsson. We won 5-0.

As I am writing this post, I  am sitting at a desk with computer in front of me and eating my pasta with tuna (which I made yesterday). In 20 minutes I will be picked up by my team mate.
Today we meet Piranha Chur team who is leading the table at the moment. Wizards (my team) is at 3rd place.

I have a  lot going on in my life right now. Yesterday I had an emotional conversation with a guy I really like. I think its over whatever it was. I have been crying half of the night. Typical woman... Today my eyes looks like a blown and swollen fish lips.

For school I have sent in an assignment and trying to catch up with others from my class in another subject.

Few days ago I had a flue and disturbing throat. Today I felt really hot time to time as I pack my goalie stuff, but I dont like to think that I am  sick. I am done with that. My nose is leaking and I am sneezing at least 2 times in an hour.

But I have a game to attend. A game I have been waiting for.
If I am a pro as people have been called me, I will be great today.
And I dont expect anything less than that!

//GoalieThinking

P.S. We won big time with 9-2. My defenders and all team together.. well.. we did it as a team together. One for all and all for one, starting with coaches and fans from the side up to our forwards hitting the goal after the goal. After 2nd period result was 8-0. 

Gloves or no gloves?

It depends, from my point of view.
Here are some reflections about why you should or shouldn't wear goalie gloves.

Since years have passed by and I have become more vise I might suggest you to wear gloves at least when you are a kid or youngster. There are some cases noticed and one goalie has shared its experience with me and admits, that because of not wearing gloves at young ages, it's sensitivity of finger-tops have been worse. It is in a matter of all shots your skin surface faces. The small nerves and skin receptors, which helps us to feel temperature, pain, texture of material, have been damaged.

In my case, I use gloves during the practice, but sometimes it depends if I use them in games too. Usually I don't. I play with bare hands and taped fingers. This decision of mine is based on two my experiences: Adrenalin and grip.

Grip. It will always be the best grip with no extra layer of cloth- just bare hands, but it also depends if you have been using gloves before all times or not. If you have never played without gloves, I guess you will feel safe and most comfortable by playing with gloves no matter what and opposite.

Adrenalin. In practices I use gloves, because the Adrenalin, which I get in situations in game and in game in general, never comes to same level as in practice. In practice I might feel irritation of shots more than in game. In game I kind of don't care. In game I am more focus just to take that one shot during the 3 periods of 20 minutes, but in practice there comes a lot of them. Maybe that's the explanation?

Distance and duration. It depends how close the shot comes and how hard it comes against you. Take care of your hands, goalie! Take care of your fingers! Players will never understand you, but we (goalies) do. And you have to understand you!

Dislocated knuckle (joints in fingers) is something I am dealing now, just because as a youngster I was shy to say to coach to change distance for players and kind of didn't have understanding about importance of protection for my fingers.
Here is coming a video instructions about how I am dealing and helping myself from practice to practice to stabilize my finger knuckles/joints. I hope it helps!

Remember, these are your fingers! I know you will make the right decision! Be vise. Just in case you haven't been thinking this way- You will need your hands when you are old too.
Take care! 

//Goalie Thinking

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Woman in sports. Case of goalies equipment.

You will do what you are tell to do. You will wear what you are tell to wear. You are a woman and men rules. Men has always ruled the world. Most of the decisions in this World the man takes. Women tries to do the rules right for them, but what we (women) get? The bunch of attitude for being feminists. And as sad as it sounds- its gives a bad test in your mouth saying that. Dare to prove me wrong, you know I am right.

Fuck it, I say. No fucking more! I want to be proven wrong. I want to be equal to every and each.

Sport is made by man for men. (article in Swedish about boxing) There is no woman sports, there is only woman who are doing what only a man were supposed to do.

How is it connected to goal-tending and me? Hang in here, mate.
This is only one perspective, case I will reflect about. There is hundreds more worth to write about.

Floorball is pretty young sport, same as goalkeepers equipment. And as I know, there is no equipment made specially for woman. Do we need that? Is there difference? Physiologicly(bone structure for example in pelvis) we are different and isnt it so that all goalie equipment is made for and by man? Why is it so, that "you, woman, put on this what fits you. It looks good on you. But noone asks how it feels in it? You have to pick the suit witch feels the closest to feel good. Should the equipment be made just for one gender? I dont know. Like some weeks ago I really didnt care about this.

But than it came to Latvian Nationl Team, who have signed a contract with a goalie equipment supplier. The rules by it/they sides are furious in my opinion. You are going to wear, what National Team has for you. In some point I were considering to write to president of National Team and explain, that I will not were something in what I dont feel good, and if they (him) make me, I will sign myself out from National Team.
I play in National Team to give my best performance and honor my country, not to be a product to sell. I will wear what makes me feel good in. I will wear what makes me "ME" in goal. I have played for more than 15 years by now, and I know the impact in my performance(which is always been negative) by changing to equipment " just in a blick of eye" like that. And that's exactly what happened usually in National Team, when you get the equipment only a day or two before. How I suppose to adapt my movements in new shapes of equipment just in warm up before the game in World Championship?! Sleep in it night before and pray to the floorball Gods?

But I hope that solution will be made, by shipping them to me before the qualification in the end of January. I hope I will have a chance in some practice to try it on. But as I know, the rules are strict in teams too about equipment. Even in practices you have to wear the equipment what team is sponsored with.

Somehow I think, if men has it easier to adapt to equipment just because these all different kind of equipment branches have made them for/on manly goalies? Maybe that's why they(men) think it should work for woman too? Or maybe they just really dont care? Or abvious they havent think about it.

Will never the woman in floorball(and general!!) get the same attention/values as man do? Like a couple of Years ago Team Falun made it very clear, that they dont want the womans team, and gash.. have you heard that some floorball playing woman might get a contract same as Kim Nilsson did. Are we not worthy the same? We are. We just need to be seen by eyes of the woman, perhaps.