Old School Love

After finding my all-black Chuck Taylor All-Stars and rocking them around school I started to remember why I bought them. One of my favorite movies growing up was Sandlot and I always wanted my own pair of PF Flyers! .... Yeah thats right the shoes that "Make you jump higher and run faster!"

At the time it may have been my 'tom-boy' attitude that just wanted the shoes to look cooler than my brothers but these are classic vintage shoes. Now a days, after checking out their heritage and the huge role they played in the modern develop of the shoe, appeals to me the most (I mean don't get me wrong, everyone still probably thinks that this is still a 'tom-boy' attitude only now I'm a nerd too or should I say L-7 winnie! haha).

Hope you enjoy the reminiscing ... I did :).

Top 5 Old School Movies:

1. Sandlot

2. Standby Me

3. Goonies

4. Mighty Ducks

5. Now and Then

"Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong"

Mich

The Red Dragon

Came upon this video awhile ago but just remembered about it ... it makes me laugh so hard every time I see it ... watch for the bum slaps! haha. 

enjoy

"Adversity often leads to opportunity  - hard tasks are always followed by fulfilled hearts."

Mich

BISON BREIF: 3 Wins, One Shiner, and Nothing Proven

Given basketball does rule my life here is a pre-season update ...

Started game play in Dryden, ON vs. Lakehead - don't mean to sound like a spoiled university athlete but it is tough playing in a high school gym after running endless drills on the full university court - needless to say the games were a little scrappy and a lot of 'controlled chaos' but we started the season with two wins so the complaining ends there.

Than for the first time since I have been at U of M we got to play against the University of Winnipeg in non-conference play - with the 'Duckworth Challenge' bragging right was up for grabs. We came out on fire from the field than played hard the rest of the game to earn the win. With the win we finally won outright (have tied in the past) the Duckworth Challenge, which is great for Bison Sports - because it was a combined win with the men's basketball team and the volleyball teams.

But like I said the games were still a little scrappy as everyone is trying to get back to game playing form. With scrappy play comes some funny and not so funny injuries: like team mates running into each other trying to get rebounds ending in some stitches and a face mask or giant goose egg black eyes. I was the fortunate recipient of the ladder injury and let me tell you it has been an interesting week with 'the eye'. So first off when I got the elbow to the face this thing instantly starting growing over my eye lid like a balloon being blown up. As my coach yells at me to keep playing hard as I run up the side line I begin to tell him that I'm slowing losing vision out of my one eye but I will try. When he does not hear me all it took was one look from him and a teammate at the next time out and I knew there was a massive growth now forming over my eye. Ok ok so I may be exaggerating but thats what it felt like! Needless to say a some ice helped maintain the size but the bruising as been a funny processes. Other than the fact that when I'm out in public people either stare at me thinking that I have really bad make-up or I must have a had a fun night the previous night and wanted to remember it haha (added some pics for your viewing).

And finally although we started the season with 3 wins in reality they mean nothing because they are pre-season games and secondly if I have learned anything about playing in the CIS you have to win when it matters to be successful! So nothing has been proven ...

"Trust the process - one game at a time."

Mich

Thoughts: Athletes Live In Their Own World

Seeing as I haven't posted in over a week is telling to the fact that I do sometimes live in my own little world. This world has no external issues that are greater than the 20 people I interact with on a daily bases. It is driven by the cycle of waking up, going to school, going to practice, doing homework/studying, going to bed and repeating. It can often be so narrow focused that anything I do outside of those 5 tasks almost seems out of body experiences and are often forgotten when trying to remember what the day consisted of. Now you may ask 'why would someone want to live such a repetitive and isolated lifestyle?', well the old phase 'it's all for the love of the game', sums it up pretty nicely for me. If I didn't love basketball, there is no way this lifestyle would make up my 'little world' haha. For me its easy to see all the positives to being a student athlete but unfortunately for those not in my imagery world I seem like a non-exist human in the 'real' world. So this is in no means an excuse for my lack of communication skills but merely a an explanation about what goes on in my world when I realize there is more to life than my little repetitive life cycle .....

"Your World is What You Make ...."

Mich