Day 1 at the David Beckham Academy Mar 28th | filed in: Random Mutterings

This morning Mat, Rory, and I drove up to Carson for the David Backham Academy.

Mat is having a BLAST!

We will definitely be coming back during summer vacation,
and hopefully a bunch of Mat's teammates will be able to join us!

The day started with a welcome from the coaching staff (great people!),
and Mat got his kit & boots (uniform & cleats).

Then all the kids went out onto the pitch for drills and scrimmages.

Here’s Mat during the “how high is your header” evaluation:



And here he is in between evaluations doing a “high five” driil:



Mat’s got a full-body-twisting high-five goin on…

I'm not sure if I'll bring my camera tomorrow or not.
Sometimes it's just fun to be a mom without a big bad camera!

We will DEFINITELY be watching the Galaxy/Rapids game in the hotel lobby/bar
tomorrow night! There's SURE to be a HUGE crowd of Galaxy fans -- fun!

~Carey

PS: In case you're wondering, I was using my 70-200 lens with the 2x extender
to turn the lens into a 400mm. It really helped getting Mat's action from
across the soccer fields! Getting the 70-200 and adding that extender is a lot
cheaper than buying the big bad Canon 400mm lens. For what I do,
I can't really justify a 400mm lens purchase, although it sure would be fun!
But that lens is an expensive MONSTER! I prefer the 70-200 + extender.
It wouldn't do well at night baseball games, but for daylight sports, it's great!
You can see that stuff on the GEAR section of MyFUNCamera