Floorball in Houston Week 5

The past week was once again successful for floorball in Houston. Wednesday night we had a good turnaround of 10 people.

It was exciting to see 4 new people who had never played floorball before and six "regulars" if you can call them that. 

This coming week should be a great week again for floorball. We will be playing Wednesday night and Saturday morning. Hopefully lots of new people are able to join our group. 

Today I talked to a person who had heard about floorball through someone who plays with us on Wednesdays. He told me that he would try to make it this Wednesday to play.

Word of mouth is a powerful advertising tool!  

TWICE A WEEK

This week was busy and exciting for floorball in the Houston area and I did not have time to take pictures this time. We played twice a week, Wednesday night and Saturday morning.

First, I got an e-mail Tuesday night from people wanting to play floorball the next day. We were able to get 8 people to play within a short notice. Also, we agreed that we would make this a weekly thing during Wednesday nights at 8:30pm in Eagle Springs.

Saturday we played in Tomball on a bigger court. We had a good turn out of nine people to play from which 2 had never played floorball before and 2 of them came to play all the way from Austin. To put it in perspective, Austin is just about as far a way from Houston as Helsinki is from Jyväskylä. I'm glad that our friends from Austin were able to make it to play. Next time when we play Saturday in two weeks we might have even more people from Austin. We had some people who got excited of the upcoming tournaments, since now we have enough people to participate.

Meanwhile at home, my two year old son refuses to play with his own little stick and continues to practice with my stick. Every time he scores he throws the stick on the ground and celebrates.
 

 

FLOORBALL IN A SHIRT AND A TIE

This week we ended up playing floorball on Wednesday night, since Lifetime offered us to come use their facilities. However, last minute, I got a call from Lifetime telling me that we could not play there unless we were all members, even though we had some people in the group who were members of Lifetime.  

I told them that it was not up to me if anyone in our group would sign up for a membership, but it will be a lot harder if they could not play there tonight. 

What I thought would end up canceling the whole thing...ended by 13 of us playing floorball at the Eagle Springs church building. 

From 9pm till 10pm we had a great game of Humble against everyone else. 4 of us had played before and rest of the 9 were first timers. Altogether we have had 25 people playing since the beginning, so the pool is getting bigger. 

Two highlights of playing this week. 

1. Texans love floorball so much that they will even play it wearing a shirt and a tie and sunday shoes (pictures below to prove it below).

2. One of the people who played Wednesday contacted me today and told that they would like to make floorball their weekly activities at the church, so we might have a place to play regularly.  

THERE IS THE SHIRT AND THE SHOES 

AND HERE IS THE TIE

SCORE... AND THE GAME CONTINUED FROM THE MIDDLE