SWIFT

This is the next big thing for floorball in Texas. Team Houston has been registered for the Southwest invitational floorball tournament. We will have our tryouts for Team Houston next Saturday May 4th.

It will be hard to choose 9 people to play since we have more players willing to attend the tournament. Personally, I would have organized a tournament with minimum players in a team 11 up to 20 players. Just need to organize our own tournament here in Houston to make that happen.

I know that for this tournament it will be competitive, since only nine players can play in a team. However, in my opinion it would have been better to open the tournament for more people. If more people would be coming to the tournament it would also make economical sense as more players would be paying the tournament fee. And with that extra revenue the little profits that come from it could be used for developing the sport in that specific area where the tournament was held.

Anyhow, I'm excited that we have a team to compete in Austin this summer. We just need some practice on 4 on 4 games and grinding the rules in, since this tournament will have referees and it will be first one for many in our team to play with referees. The rumor is that we might have a team from Jamaica to play with us this summer as well.

If anyone have suggestions for our team name please let me know, as of now we are Team Houston.

 

Story of the GOALS

PAST WEEK

The back lawn has been mowed, the house has been vacuumed, Kai is taking a nap and Katie and Leevi went to film a wedding. This gives me an opportunity to write few updates about floorball in Houston and set the goals for the remainder of the year 2013. 

First of all, Wednesday was a great day for floorball in Houston. We had the cub scouts to learn a new sport and seemed like everyone had a ton of fun. There were some of the youth who had played before who wanted to join the game, but the little scouts almost played till the time it was time to bring the big goals and let the adults play.  

Next week there will be no games since the basketball court will be waxed. 

So in the meanwhile here are few of the goals for flooball in Houston.

STORY OF THE GOALS

These goals have made it from Finland --- Idaho --- Missouri --- California --- back to Idaho --- and then to Texas. Here in Texas the goals are transported every week to Eagle Spings church building and then back to the garage. 

GOALS

1. Arrange Houston East vs. Houston West floorball tournament. 

2. Have a team to play in SWIFT (Southwest invitational floorball tournament) in Austin, TX in June 22nd. 

3. Start a floorball league in the fall 2013. 

(We could already make at least four teams: Exxon, Eagle Springs, Humble and West Houston)

4. Organize Houston open Floorball Tournament the last Saturday of the year 2013. 

(It would be fun to get a team from Finland as well to participate as well) 

It's more likely to happen when you put it in writing and let everyone else know about it, right. 

Humble man shares his enthusiasm for floorball with Houston area residents of all ages - Your Houston News: News

Humble man shares his enthusiasm for floorball with Houston area residents of all ages - Your Houston News: News

I "hired" a newspaper to write my story. I think that I should do that more often since they do a lot better job when it comes to writing.

I'm just glad that my friend in a shirt and a tie made it to the picture again and we had 14 people playing that night. There were also two kids who had their own sticks and they used two tables as goals in one of the church rooms. Those kids are getting pretty good.
 
We are having floorball for the cub scouts in few weeks!