Open Training Sesh (First Time Blogger)

Been following the site for a while now, love the passion and fire from the parra supporters on here! First time blogging on here though, thought I'd run through some things from the Open training session yesterday morning.

1. The backs did Speed n Agility Training. Standing Jumps over obstacles, sprinting with elastic around them and been pulled backwards, 10m and 30m sprints. Forwards doing the rough stuff, I was more paying attention to the Backs training sorry. 

Things i noticed:

-Chrissy jumps high for standing jumps.

-Hayne is just a freak athlete. speed, jumps, strength. whole thing. 

- Chrissy and Corey are the biggest crack ups, they love laughing and annoying others. ESP Hayne. Hayne was giving to Chrissy for been too slow in the elastic pulls (norman was holding chrissy with elastic). Norman said he was holding Chrissy hard. the next round they did it, Chrissy smashed everyone (Norman was hardly holding elastic) n they gave it to Hayne. lol its good camaraderie. Same in the sprints.

- Over 10m Sprints it was pretty equal. Chrissy i think edged it out.

-30m Sprints Justin Hunt won it, Hayne second. In both sprints tho not everyone started at the same time so can't really tell how accurate it was. 

- Hayne's technique in sprints is notable, you can tell he did athletics. his form is how the runners do it. 

2. They practiced their set plays, Separated into first grade side and NYC/Wenty. The first 15min was purely the NYC side attacking the NRL side. worked on line speed in D. Hayne was at the back ordering the speed (Gave it to Norman to get up there in line speed at on stage). obviously working on stopping the go forward early. they then swapped around, NRL team did the attacking. I noticed Ken Edwards was doing a fair bit of ball playing along with Sefa. some passes were not as crisp at the start, but come to the end it was looking good. A lot of second man play with Hayne lurking around the back. best set play i saw was Hayne a lurking around the back, second man play to ken edwards, he runs to the line n looks to pass second man to Hayne, but instead gives it to Hoppa who was running a nice angling run into an awesome hole. they celebrated after that set. 

Side notes:

- Semi was not training. he was there just watching. must just be pre cautionary.

-The other winger training with NRL side was Bureta Faraimo. He didn't look too bad, just positional play on defence looked an issue. he stayed back and practiced catching bombs by luke kelly so you would think Semi will play for sure. 

- Lee Mossop told me he would be back Rd 10. 

- After training, a lot of players stayed back doing a few extras. eg. Tonga n Hoppa set up a few cones where they run around them at the same time, then face each other and try beat one another 1 on 1. Hoppa is working hard on beating his opposite when in 1 v 1 situations.

- Hindamarsh grabbed Pauli Pauli n a tackling bag n practiced tackling and wrestling with him. working a lot on his defence. 

-Ken Edwards and Manu Mau grabbed a tackling bag, n were just smashing each other. this guys are beasts!! they practiced hitting hard, sticking, and wrestling each other to the ground, fighting for position. its gonna be physical this weekend don't worry about that!

The boys came around for pics n to sign afterwards so all in all a great day. Sorry for the long first time blog, just tryna offer some insight into the training sesh. 

Cant wait for Monday arvo, Bring on the Tigers!! Come on Parra!!!!!

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  • Thanks chino,good report for us die hards who have never been to one,welcome.
  • Yeah cheers Chino.

    It sounds as though the session was pretty intensive.

    If I were a Tiger forward I would be a bit worried about keeping Mau quiet on Monday.

    Beast!

  • Cheers. Welcome Chino.
    Really enjoy reading these types of blogs.
    Appreciated.
  • Welcome and thanks Chino for the report. 

  • Fine journalism, Chino.

    Love your work.

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    • Smith trained, but won't be playing until round 9.
  • Great blog Chino, welcome to the site buddy, looking forward to more training blogs like this, do you go every week?

    Interesting Bureta was training with the boys, im betting he will get a go if a winger is injured, its a bit of a worry rad man was standing out watching.

    Great to hear a few of the boys were doing extras, they must be really enjoying themselves, awesome stuff, great to hear Hindy is there helping out too.

    Great blog and welcome, cheers

    • Thanks snake. And no I I can't, make every week I simply try go to the open training sessions when I don't have work or uni. N yeah I was worried too, I think I overheard someone asking him if he would play n I think he said yes..I didn't put it on the blog tho cuz I don't wana put it up n maybe I heard it wrong. Cheers
  • cheers mate, did Bureta look like he was a bit overweight? i havent seen him since the world cup and i think he needed to drop a few kgs 

  • Thanks for the report.  Good feedback.  It wasn't that long ago that players used to head for their cars after training finished.  Good to hear many are doing extras and having a bit of fun in the process.  Must be a happy club.

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