Head Space Daily Words...

At football training, where I coach my youngest sons Under 9s team, I use the the name of the well known experimental jazz artist Sun Ra's album - Space Is The Place - to encourage the practice of creating and finding space on the pitch, to enable movement and progression of the football towards the opposition goal. "What is the place?" I ask and they answer, "space." Hell yeah. We are working on passing, control and movement - the necessary essentials - and team work, the vital ingredient. Following my eldest son's birthday party this afternoon, with a few mates, ice skating at canary Wharf, he is having a sleep over tonight. They are all downstairs listening to Sam Smith and playing FIFA 14. Oh to be young. Pancakes await them in the morning. Just heard tomorrow's U9s game is off due to waterlogged pitch, which is no surprise as the rain has been almost biblical of late. Instead of training for football we should maybe build an Ark. As they listen to Sam Smith, I have taken refuge in my upstairs space, where I have Classic Jazz Funk Mastercuts Volume 3 going through my headphones - check HSD Tune...