This blog is a bit dead so i shall revive it :D

LOL. I Dont know why i woke up so early when i wanted to wake up at like 10. I am a nooob ): can only sleep for 8 hours max T.T LOL.

Anyway, the CP girls outing was FUNNNNNNNN :D LOL and crazy! LOL. we do all the crazy stuff tgt LOL.

Hmmmmz. Trainings. Hai. I feel sad. There's no slot in Dec omg -.- Hopefully there'll be night slotsssss.

Blah. Okay. I need to go out liaoz. LOL see you all tmr :D ZOMG TMR GET CAP LIAO I PRAY MINE WILL BE ABV 4 T.T

Heyyyss

D=< seniors so bad pang seh us! haha

anw had night training on friday, did passing, stern turns and sprinting. -_- guess it wasn't enough cause my muscles don't ache at all (N)

land training this morning, passing, pull ups and sets only haha.

looking forward to pool slotsssss. though we'll probably be stuck doing monkey ball/circle passing etc... :S

and i hope i dont turn into a lobster tmr at www if not i'll totally die on monday! ._.

and and, DOES ANY OF U LIVE IN A BIG BIG HOUSE AND DONT MIND THE WHOLE CP GOING THERE FOR FAREWELL PARTY??? ;D

Went for night training yesterday!

I feel like a noob now cos my pull ups = 0%, my stern turn = fail. Ball skills = fail. Omg everything also fail liao.
I need like mass mega training. LOL.

Btw there's land training tmr at 8 in school tomorrow EVERYONE COME OKAY :D

Omgg I haven't been here for ages haha.

WHY THE TRAINING SLOTS AREA EMPTY ONE AH!?!?

Jiayou all for your exams! :D :D :D Script checking was a DISASTER ): But we'll all go chill (according to WeiTieng's lingo) after your exams okay!!!! :D

I can't wait for next year to come for some reason. I very long never go down to the pool already!!! Now I got so much time but I can't train ): I want to start training again! Like omega hard man, since it's gonna be my last year haha!

ANYWAY, this sunday *thirty first* ehhem *october* ehhem is coming HEHEH.

Jiayou everyone :D

Hello girlssss :)

This blog is now so dead! You all must be really busy with mugging.
All the best yeah it'll be over in less than 10 days!

HELLO GIRLS :D

I am so hooked to Gossip Girl now I'm too lazy to get off my ass and start exercising. Somebody motivate me? :(
Anyway uh yeah I'll be running the 10km tomorrow with you girls aha, hope we have fun! And I seriously swear I'll start on personal PT once I'm off GG, the plot is too intriguing for me to stop. OH AND I AM GOING FOR WHATEVER NIGHT POOLSLOTS AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK, STAYING IN HOSTEL!
Love you all and hope your revision/exams go well :)

LOL finally went to the pool again last night.

Tired tired. Sprinting. Wah ultra tiring. I need more strrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

My stern turn is fail again.

My passing range = less than half pool i think. Fail ):

Er i should do more passing too. LOL.

Btw thankyou daddy for teaching us :D and thankyou gene for the ride :D

TIME TO STUDAEEEEEEEEEEE jiayou jiayou! :D

Hellos!

@Karyee: I removed the underline le hahahah

Only trained once this whole week, which was ytd's night slot. Boat control needs improvement!
Then we did alot of passing :O
I think my max range is around 3/4 of baby pool? :S
Hmmm. The sprintingggg, omgz, got quite tired >.<

Wheee I can do chin up le. Next up is pull upzxzxzx. Much harder I guess? My muscles better don't degrade over the exam period.

Oh thanks Wee Chye for 'coaching' us :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Jiayou to everyone for the coming exams/in your work right now! (Excluding the seniors who completed their exams already )': )

Oh and see those of you who are going for the NB run on Sunday! hahahahahaa

lol i forgot the existence of this thing until like just now when doing the fun thing :P

soo, about wed, uh, i think my sprinting sucks!!!!

UH. and ya idk how do the monkey thing?????:X

(anyway, my that game thing my user is chocopiggy!!!)

OK, so about today, uh, i think land training shouldnt be like just do the stuff but like modify it abit like those stuff we did just now!!!:P and whats with the pullups obsession??? why everytime all pull ups??? RAHHH (we should do all the funny funny stuff THEN do pullups not like everytime assist!! must do funny stuff until we can do like decent amount on our own :D)

ok i wanna play my pokemon/the game BYE :)

Last pool slot of the month D:

Rawrrrrr. Last pool slot!! ): Sigh. Okay at least it didnt rain today so we did stuff.

Like.. pass and go. Hmm. I think we should do more cos really very hopeless >_>
Oh we did passing. Rawr i need more range. And accuracy. And speed. And everything else.
And. We played monkey! Hmm. Need to be more aggressive. Faster. Pass properly? Uh must know how to dodge the paddle.
OH. Moving circle passing. Must look at the ball. I HAD BUTTER FINGERS TODAY D: dont know why. Rofl. Maybe too long never do passing or what liaoz x_x
Did sprinting. I think my sprinting very fail ): I NEED TO SPRINT MORE D:
And somehow i dont really feel VERY tired after training. So means i somehow didnt put in my 100% or what. Idk. Rawr ):

Oh i got this blueblack on my bicep :O LOL.

Oh oh. Weehong says we need more fitness. Rawr. How i wish i had some genes from cheryl LOL.
Cos of too much slacking, my progress to my virgin pull up dropped back to 0.00001%. NUuuuuu D:

NEvamind. Time to do work ):

Jiayou everyonee :D

rain rain go away~

hahah jiayi pinned the training details down there already so no further elaborations needed from me heheh (:

just wanna say that i like how wee hong debriefs us one by one :O

patience max, yes?

i think this way we can take note of our mistakes and areas for improvement more specifically.. yay.

& yess more sprintingsss, i need to learn how to control my boat better hahaha it always changes direction with the waves boohooo :(

&& will we cease training completely or still do land training together during our free time?? :)

must plan.. since this wednesday is our last official pool slot :(

btw, i'm halfway there to losing my virgin pull up! ahahahaahhahahaahahaa :)

jiayou everybody, Blitz ftw yo!

Omg like finally i went for pool slot in the afternoon. haha.

But i hate the lightning alert ): Did passing etc. Hmmm.

The stupid alert only went off like half hour before training ends. So we went down and did circle passing.. and did a bit of sprinting andddd er one? lap of dribblingg anddddd. Nothing much i guess. haha. Cant remember le. I think he trying to fit us in to whatever position that we can play or smth. Haha.

Anywayyyyy,
keeper: Karyee, weitieng, sophie
chaser: Me (?!) and cheryl
center zone: weitieng
Side zone: everyone :D

LOL. Tadaaaa. Hmm. I think mag will be the keeper. And mariel can be chaser / centerzone. Haha idk.
Btw i think my sprinting v slow ): shall do more sprinting next time during night slots. Haha.

Booo

Went to the gym today cause we had LTA trip ytd.
=/ I am so weakkkkkkkkkkkk. Hur. (N)
I think my shoulder is starting to die. Haha.
Anw wth there's geog mass lecture next wed! Last pool slot till after exams leh :'(
Haha Cheryl is super hiong, gym for 2 days in a row! (Y)

Hm anyway the 'roommates next year' went to dinner together ytd :D
Haha Jiayi, karyee, cheryl and I.
We had KOI!
:/ dont really like hazelnut milk tea. though i like hazelhut stuff usually.

Ermm. Monday.. Pt. -_- All thanks to static I got abrasion on my right arm. It looks like i fell down and injured myself or wad la. Diaoz.

Ooh anw the 'game' that jazlene described sounds quite ok? Can try out next time ba. Haha:)

Oh anw jackson, we dont have any scheduleeee.
Our pool slots are not really fixed. Last two slots next week then break till around 2nd till of nov? :S :(
Heh heh heh. Our refereeing sure gg liao xP

HEY ALL,
im starving, so ill make this quick

uh, today i went gym and it was SUPER FUN, okay, mostly agility stuff (instead of weights, we somehow managed to convince the trainer)
SO, ANYWAY, i wont talk about agil (unless youre interested)

ok so we did this human chain thing at the end,
like, pushup position, then the 2nd person legs over the 1st person's legs, 3rd person's legs over 2nd person's legs (ALL weight on it) etcetc etc and after everyone is in position, start timing, and its VERY FUN, ahhaha pain but FUN see how long you can last, cause if one person drops, everyone else drops :D FUNFUNFUN, builds team spirit too!!! :)


SO, WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY IS, LETS DO THIS NEXT TIME!!!!!!!1


BYE. (wow that took 1.5mins!^^)

Hihihihihi all.

Are we going to have trainings after exams? Mag and I will have plenty of free time after (our) exams!!! But I think that's when YOUR exams start which kinda sucks. I'm sorry I haven't been going down for training coz ARP + Exchange + Early exams clashing with everything together ):

Jiayous with both trainings and your studies meanwhile! (:

Pt yesterday totally gg, arms and abs aching like dunno what. Sian coz of CO even though we do lesser stuff but ache more): But at least the game quite fun coz lesser ppl playing so like more chance to touch ball?

Sian I dun feel like going gym coz my arms seriously aching n i wan go pool. I need an excuse.

HI. :)

what am i supposed to post??? and uhhhh PT was super boring???? =.=
one thing i dont get is why we cant run during square drill??? like, its not like on the boat we very very slow then get the ball or smth right????
and i can dont go for gym, right??? not like i really want pon but i alr have my own gym program and this thing might ruin it!!!! (like currently mine is weight gain and idk how this will affect it so :X) and i got fitness test so must rest rightrightright????? heheheh.
uhhhhh i think thats all?? but i think doing pullups (well for the guys) is pretty dumb cause, well, its kinda a different set of muscles... (some same but whatever)

OH YES, i find my sailing pt fun, my coach runs with us, does all the exercises with us and all that, you know, lead by example. I THINK OUR SCHOOL SHOULD DO THE SAME :)
oh, one more thing my coach does is TREAT US. like run to some place then treat us, yeah, i think our school should do the same tooo! :)
lallala :D

Went for land training today! Er i dieded very badly.. ): Super long never train liaoz. Sian.
Actually we didnt do a lot today.
2 rounds of warm up, 2 sets of 30 pushups, 30 crunches, 1min legraise, 1min bridge each side.
Did ball passing and cross passing.
Then played end zone captain ball or something. Haha. Super fun :D

Anywayyyy, i think PT like a bit borrrring. Any ideas on how to spice it upppppp? :D

FINALLY ANOTHER POST.

LOL. Couldn't make it for ANY trainings till yesterday cos i went for night slot. This sucks because WHENEVER i can make it for the normal training slots (those with coach), SOMEONE will be on MC and it will be CANCELLED.

So i am PISSED because i'm so deprived of normal trainings. RAWR :@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ why cant the teachers drink more water and stop falling sick -.-

Okay nvm. Thats not the point LOL.

Anyway,

as what weitieng said, there were the 5 of us in the baby pool last night. i did stern turns and stern turns and more stern turns. Actually i'm quite happy because i FINALLY can do stern turn le. Just need to keep on practicing so that the stern turn will be perfect and need to be CONSISTENT. And hopefully i can turn faster and the stern can go deeper by the time exam starts.

Tried dips but failed very badly. Nvm. Must master stern turns first. Hopefully i can go for more pool slots after CO concert (TOMORROW). LOL. And hopefully the teachers stop cancelling the pool slotzzzzzzz.

btw i feel very sad cos i was trying to do pull ups and was progressing quite well until i stopped like two weeks ago cos CO rehearsals were draining all my energy. AND GUESS WHAT. I cant do any shit now ): i'm just dangling on the bar looking at my cat and dog beneath me D: RAWR. ):

Lala. dont know what to post anymore.

Oh, jiayou to the year 5s and 6s who are having exams soon! :D

Oh oh mariel mag and becca if you all see me can pass me the moneyyyy? $10.40 each. Thanks (:

Super late post again

Wanted to post since last week but didn't cause i suck hahaha.

Uhhh. We had ONE POOL SLOT LAST WEEK.
.. Basically for weehong to access us? If I rmb correctly, there was me, karyee, jazlene and cheryl (for the girls). We played attack against the guys.. Oh that day I kept anyhow whacking the ball :/ 99% hit the frame or went out. Weehong says that Jazlene has the eagerness to win which can be seen by her eagerness to get the ball in by shooting? Ok (Y). I'm not sure how long can Jazlene continue to come for training.. :S What will happen when sailing season starts? Cause if she comes for training regularly like what she's doing now, we can have one more good player..

K. Then LAST THURS' POOL WAS CANCELED. Cause Mr Sim was on mc. .. wasted pool slot. Hmphs. So we had land on friday. No running except for warm ups. Then the usual pullups (no inclines!) and pt + static. Died badly. Muscles ached till monday loll.

We had ONE POOL SLOT THIS WEEK. BECAUSE YTD'S SLOT WAS CANCELED as Ms lim was on mc. WTH?!?!! -_- We did sprinting....... My stamina sucks. After 100m = died. Anw Wee Hong says we are to do quality laps, not quantity. Cause no point doing 123456789 laps if you purposely do it slowly. So we should put in more effort and do properly and when he sees that everyone is doing that the we won't have to do so many laps. And. For sprinting, we should put make sure that we're paddling with the whole paddle blade pulling the water, as in it should be fully submerged. Hm.

Then moving circle passing? ..........
#1: Keep moving, don't stare at the ppl catching/passing the ball and stone there!!! And some effort should be put in the reduce the gap between you and the person in front. .. Actually this suggestion is for the freshies. -_-
#2: Since you have nothing to do other than keep moving, try to look at where the ball is so that you are ready to recieve the ball
#3: Hand to hand passes
#4: If you didn't catch the ball pls have a sense of urgency and get it quickly. Or if it ends up closer to someone else eg. the person behind, the person should be nice and help to pick the ball.
#5: If you're the one starting the ball after the ball is lost, pass off quickly. Don't have to get into the circle before passing off, just pass the ball in first so the exercise can continue. Then you join back in.
#6: If the person in front is fumblign with the ball/having some problems with moving forward/stoning there pls feel free to overtake him/her to close up the gap and let the ppl behind have more space to move.

Ball passing.. High balls, fast balls, normal balls. Trick to high balls = use your wrist more + release slower. If you swing your whole arm down = the ball goes down? And look at the person you're passing to, not at the ball. This will increase accuracy.

Shooting. There are many different ways of shooting.
One is just the normal straightforward shot. (Y) because the ball can go faster and allow less reaction time for keeper. (N) as it's er straightforward, easier to block, no element of surprise?
Then there's the one where you use your body and swinging your arm back. (Y) as there is wider angle for shooter, the keeper needs to guess where you might be shooting. But (N) as it's slower + the movement is so big and obvious to the keeper. Then underhand shots.. Er basically that's how wee chye shoots. To be taught to us I think.
So when you are shooting, it is best to have a variety of ways to shoot so that the keeper won't be so sure of where you're gonna shoot? So for example if you keep shooting high balls and you realise they're all being blocked, you should try a fast ball. Anw we're supposed to train up our fast ballz. :S

Keeping.......... MAG YOU BETTER FASTER COME BACK IF NOT I BECOME KEEPER LIAO T_T -_- Anw main thing for keeper to possess is confidence. If i rmb correctly :O Dunno la. Then need some boat control la duh. Err. And height naturally gives an advantage. Nothing much here.

Er I guess there's nothing else from weehong? Yea I have quite a poor memory.

K so we went to night slot last night as the usual one was wasted !@#$%^&*. We being me, jy, ky, gene, stan, stuart. Erm we did stern turns. I am quite emo because my stern turn cannot reach what's the best I can do. The first or 2nd night when we were doing stern turns, my bow went over the ball leh .. Now my stern cannot go sp deep liao ie my bow cannot come up so high. :( Guess we all need to practice stern turn more so we can do it consistently. And I need to start learning the left side stern turn cause now it's at level -123456789. So for stern turns, things to note include:
-Extending your arm till the stern of the boat at the beginning + keeping your arm straight and extended till you complete sweeping in the shape of a semi circle.
-Bring the feet to the paddle not the other way round
-Lean back a bit/shift your weight to your butt (stuart say one)
-Don't have to paddle one whole lap before you do a stern turn, just a short distance but with more effort (go faster/more agressive/ANGRY!-quoted from stanley) and do the stern turn. Don't wait for your point to drift before slowly extending you paddle.
-Then after you can do the stern turn, you can try using more strength so the stern will go deeper? and you'll complete the stern turn faster.

And we tried dips. Failss. Then..? Passing. And the 'hitting the water with your paddle' thingy which i would like to master hahahaah >:D im lame.

k. land training tmr! asked stanley for runnign cause we havent ran for a while..

Hmm. Anw I'm glad that ppl are taking the effort to come down for training. Jazlene never reaches before 4pm de. But she still comes down. Don't really know the reason though. But that's a good thing :) And I also appreciate ppl coming down for the night slots esp since they're not compulsory. And of course thanks to stan and stuart who were 'coaching' us instead of their own team mates. Haha.

Hope everyone will get to train together as much as possible and improve as a team :D

Btw, Cheryl, Mag and Mariel, if you're planning to go overseas/cant go for trg due to other reasons during the hol, can you give me the dates? Need to plan the hol trg schedule.. Thanks!

Uh uh and we still need to find some way to pass the stuff we bought from kiddy palace to the 2 kiddos. hurrhurr.

CONGRATULATIONS U'VE REACHED THE END OF THIS POST.

I AM SO DEPRESSED

that I missed night training to mug today!
Why must exams be so early... :(

Jiayou girls for the trainings you all are having now, though Mariel and I won't be there we give you all moral support okay! After our exams everything will be back to normal.

I'm hungry.

knock knock

bringing back some life to here so,

HELLOOOOOOOOO :) :) :)

i think a recent major change would be Wee Hong taking over as coach..

back to basics yay :)

all the best to the year5 girls for your upcoming examinations!

POST GIRLS POST DON'T LET THIS DIE DOWN, hahahahaahaaha :)

trainings

Hurhur sorry for the super overdue post. I think I have a sad life, not much time to chill T_T

Hm. Night training was like what the others said? Lol it is very sad how the guys only need to do one stroke to match a few of ours -.- K anw I dunno how to bring the ball up + I am too slow + I cannot stern turn + + + + haha. :(

.. No official pool slot for 2 weeks (N)

Had land training on thurs and fri, didnt do much on thurs though cause yr 4s went late. But then my abs were hurting on friday -_- Maybe cause of the static exercise? Had gym ytd (fri), did the usual stations + medicine ball.

Oh and HAPPY BELATED B'DAY TO JACKSON!


And for those of you who weren't there, there's no pool slot during sept hols. The next one should be on the 1st day of school if I rmb correctly, anw Mr Sim has encouraged us to organise land trainings/outings during the holiday and to inform him if we do go for training as he needs to account to our parents??? o_O

Night training 31/8/2010

Night training was damn good. We did stern turns and ball shielding.

Stern turns.. i thinking of how to make my feet touch the foot rest so that it's easier to do stern turn. But i think when sprinting its easier to turn? Hmm maybe cos got momentum. But its still very fail la. Nvm. Next time try harderrrr.

Ball shielding. Thankyou stanley and geneee :D I think we all understood ball shielding better, or at least me la. Haha. Last time was anyhow whack one. Now its like. Okay.
- Always start by moving forward so that will have some forward momentum and gain a bit of distance.
- Must turn early. Stern turn is (Y).
- Turn one round and go to open space.
- Dribble forward whenever you can. No need to be so conservative.
- When you stern turn, you're always one stroke faster than your opponent, so can try to move up as much as possible.

Hmm. i think thats all that i can remember. LOL. Hopefully can put them into practice next time. Theory is one thing and doing it is another.

And thankyou gene for giving us a lift to clementi! :D

One week nvr go training le, If dun go yesterday i will like super long dun need go le. Stupid CO. Yesterday stern turn stern turn, still fail): Sian I will take forever to learn proper stern turn....): Then ball shielding, even more fail. Everytime Stanley come I will just think of turning, nvr go think of doing stern turn coz panicking): N must learn to dribble the ball forward and dun lose the ball but zzz keep panicking. Must learn to relax): Then lifeguard came say 5 more mins so do sprinting, sprinting then stern turn also fail): So generally, yesterday's training got learn quite a lot like in ball shielding but I still fail):

Zzz I have a horrible memory so only can think of this, and I dunno how to paragraph my post):

Night Training 31082010

Another night training session! Really awesome time to brush up on skills.

Today we all practised stern turns, I think I'm more confident already but still my turn is not as complete and smooth and successful as I'd like it to be. And I tried doing the other side once, EPIC FAIL.

Meanwhile Gene and Stanley (THANKS GUYS!) also helped us with ball shielding. I realised I'm really afraid of people hand-tackling me. I think it's because I don't like feeling wet+my specs will shift when there's a current and the lenses will fog up. Annoying. I will try to shield better by doing stern turn earlier so that we can change direction and face the free space instead of being pushed to a corner when turning around slowly or aimlessly, placing the ball behind my arm before doing the turn to keep possession, and SPRINT HARD WHEN THERE'S AN OPENING. Gosh that would save everyone like three million kJ of energy or something. Must work on it!

JIAYOU GIRLS :D

Lastly I'd like to thank Gene/his dad/the 4 other girls who got a lift for accommodating the smelly and wet Mag in the car! Thanks yeah :)

hahaa you must be glad sports day is finally over (:
but congrats to all those who won stuff!
& well, as tingan would put it, we should aspire to be sprinters on water and not just on land :D
(hints to weitieng)


here're the pics from monday for your viewing pleasure.

such maturity.karyeee??

BLITZ OUTING :D

Hmm our first outing? haha. IT WAS AWESOME :D

I think everyone was very happy at the end of the day. We should go out every month next time! :D Like for lunch or dinner after training ((: haha

Next time everyone must come k!! ITS VERY FUNNNNN :D I feel like a pig man omg LOL.

Lala yeap. Oh there's night training tomorrow! Hopefully more people can comeeeeee :D

Hey girls, sorry for missing land training on Saturday. Anyone mind telling me what you all did, so that I can make up for it on my own?

By the way, I didn't even realise that you all were training in school! Didn't even see ANY of you. Amazing huh. Anyway Council Selection Camp was like !@#$%^& tiring so hrm I hope you all don't mind if I take abit more time to finish all the PT that you did on Sat. ^^

CHEH YOU ALL DIDN'T TRAIN ON SATURDAY, IT WAS FRIDAY. So tell me what you all did on Friday :D

HIIIIIIIIIII.

I have been neglecting my own personal blog! So nice of me to blog here! LOL jk jk.
ok i'm posting at 2 blogs at once, so retarded.

Erm, glad that karyee and ting an came for training although they were injured?
Anw, I am seriously weak la. At least weaker than before the comp. I am aching all over. For the first time my sides are aching from bridge. I think it's cause I haven't done it for quite long.

Night training.. Those must have been the best stern turns I've ever done. Though they may not be good. Lol duno la. I scared next training go down cannot do liao -.- haha. I can't dip. Hm.

Land training.. Relays. Only 3 sets and my muscles are aching, luckily we didn't do the usual pt. :S

Err. Nothing much.
Mr Sim used up most of my recess time, talking to me about stuff. Actually I think he's quite reasonable now? Miraculously he didn't mention anything about other water sports.

Basically, the only way that we can have more pool slots is to show that the whole CCA comes for training regularly. That means at least 80 or 90% attendance for every training, regardless of whether it's land or pool. That means that we need everyone's help to get those pool slots. Because if we can't get the attendance then it's difficult to ask the school to allow for more slots.

Minimally, we will have one pool slot a week. But we have enough budget for 2 pool slots a week for term 4. However, whether we do get the slot or not depends on:
#1: Availability of the pool
#2: Availability of coach (HF may be working for another job? If so, we may be getting another coach..)
#3: Whether Ms Lim/Mr Sim is free. (It's not very nice to keep bothering other teachers to come down and look after our CCA. And we don't really have a valid excuse to do so. And it's the school policy to have at least one teacher with us so we can't help that either.)
#4: Our attendance (Since this is the only thing we can control, I really hope that most ppl will go down for training..)

That's all if I remember correctly. So now we have to psycho each other + freshies + ?? to go down for training..
Jiayousssssss.

A long pep post

15 posts in... say... a week? That's like "population boom" haha.

Anyway, I'm here to blog about some reflections that came to my mind.

You know sometimes, some of our team people may seem or appear to be very aloof, or unmotivated, or maybe they just put canoe polo as a less important priority because of certain reasons.

Since we're girls, one thing that we're very different from the guys is that we are more capable of being nice and less capable of being harsh.

Truth to be told, sometimes a little pep talking would be good, reminding everyone to "buck up"!!! To be serious, to work harder. It works for a team full of really motivated team members.

But what happens if there just seems to be a few who are like lost sheep? Do you get mad/annoyed at them more easily than usual?

Actually, what they need is genuine support from you girls. Just imagine if some people miss training for some time, and when they go back for CCA, people are blaming them for not going for training. It is true that they have the responsibility to go for trainings, but it will instead turn out to be a vicious cycle if they feel unwelcomed, and do not want to go for trainings even more.

If we can all change perspectives, and be brimming full of encouragements for these people, it will definitely have a more positive effect. The team will also be more bonded and have more rapport.

Maybe we can start simply by asking "hey what happened to you today? how come you were not at training? are you okay?" & if they give a reply showing that they are really sian, then it's time to give some encouragement, like "we really hope you can come back and join us! you're important to the team." I'm sure every girl has something that other girls can learn, that's why everyone is valuable, nobody is dispensable.

It is this mutual support that is the foundation of the whole team, if not the team would just break up into cliques and the lost sheep will be even more lost. Reach out your hand to them, maybe they will not take it at first, but be persistent!! It does not take much to just lend them a listening ear or give them words of encouragement. They will think around it one day. One great way would also be to ask them to join in informal, mini training sessions like ball passing and going to the gym. Great way to bond.

(I remember once I went to the gym and WeiTieng & Jiayi were very happy 'cos they said they'll have one more buddy to gym with on Tuesdays. Although I didn't go to the gym anymore after that, what they said did make me feel appreciated.)

I have to admit that I am actually one of the people who lost motivation along the way. Wanyu, Magneline and some others never stopped encouraging me. It is really because of their undying faith in me that made me persevere on even though I found it increasingly difficult near the end. That's why I typed this reflection, because I hope that you girls can give lost sheep like me a hand.

Of course, for the lost sheep, if you feel that you are one, do try to go down for trainings whenever you can. I'm sure they still hope for you to be there to continue to fight with them hand in hand. Don't skip trainings if you can help it, you know that people are counting on you too!! While you may still want your teammates to have faith and hope in you, you must play your part well too =)

All in all, LOVE is very important. It really defines the team as a team. (Personal responsibility is important too)

PERSEVERE!!! =)

p.s. sorry if this post is kinda messy but i hope you girls get what i'm trying to say~

HEY GIRLS!

Are you all free after Sports day to go out for a CP girls outing? :D (Like you know...EVERYONE.. and just like half of us :P ) We can go Holland V to Frolick and eat Cold Rock too!! Then maybe head towards Ting An's house for Karaoke session. Or we can go Kbox. Or we can KOI :D

Comment to state if you're free yeah! :D

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Okay! I shall do my first ''reflection''

YOG Canoe Kayak was quite cool :D I would say it exceeded my expectations even though it got boring after a while. And we didn't even get to watch finals! Just lousy preliminaries &$*#&$*#)# But oh wells, it was an eye-opener and it's kinda like once in a life time anyway.

Aaaand, there were entertainments like false starts (seriously, does anyone know what happened to that pair?) and some guy capping and ejecting (I missed it!! Why ah?!?) ): Plus, there was this awesome volunteer who was super friendly and helpful HEHEHEHE.

Anyway, YAAAAY, I'm glad Singapore made it past round 1 :D

I don't know why those cute little kids are so interested in Russia xD But but WanYu, TingAn and I took a picture with one of the Russian Canoeists!!! And quite a number of other canoeists from other countries :D :D :D

(I WATCHED DIVING AFTER CANOE KAYAK AND IT WAS THE BEST MAN. SERIOUSLY. WE SHOULD ALL HAVE GONE AND WATCHED DIVING)

I think sprinting with the guys is a good idea. Because I like sprinting HAHAHA. And it does help I guess, since I've tried before.

P.S Jiayi, if you keep ponning the cca frequently enough, they won't be too happy to keep you HAHA. Tested and proven.

Night training (Y) 25/8/2010

Went for night training today. Its damn late now and i'm quite tired so this will be short.

We did boat skills - stern turns. Although i still cannot do a proper one, i think it is better than last time already? Today was bad for me cos i'm having gastric pains the whole night T.T

But i think if i go down for more night trainings, i'll be able to do very nice stern turns like STANLEY's one by the end of this year! :D

Jiayou jiayou everyone! (:

Thankyou stanley and stuart! :D

Looking forward to the next night slot! (:

Night Training 25082010

I'll keep it short, loads of work to do.

Night training is good for practising boat skills because we have awesome teachers like Stanley and Stuart! Yaaaaaaaay. Today I feel like I made some improvement on my stern turn. I will probably finally master it if I go down for more night trainings! So that's what I'll do.

Lesson learnt: More trainings are always good for you.

YOG

The weather was damn hot today!! I think the most interesting thing that happened at the YOG thingie is how the  primary school kids cheered for Singapore and Russia LOL. They seem to like Russia a lot.. hmm.

I think the saddest thing that happened is the guy who ejected out of his boat. LOL. Didnt see him cap though. He'll probably be damn emo after that x_x

Uh. Dont know what else to post.

Anyway, i hope everyone will post something after every training that you went okay? This way, we can keep the blog alive and keep track of what we think/do so that maybe like one month later, we can look back and see how much we improved etc. If we make this a habit, we won't find it very mafan or what to post after every training. I think it's for our own good? Haha.

Jiayou everyoneeeeee. I CAN'T GO FOR FRI LAND TRAINING COS OF CO >:( I hope CO kicks me out soon manz ):

reflections from da comp

hey girls! here's my reflections from nat champs.. last comp ): (or maybe not.. hmm.)

Problems that we had:
-> Lack fitness
can consider sprinting with guys next time, it helps.
-> Basic boat skills
hmm, night slots, or during breaks in training, or games when we're not playing. there are many times when we can actually practice stern turns, dips, bracing, ball handling etc.
-> Passing: Know your range, control your passes, hand-to-hand.
Land passing! Take the initiative to organize passing sessions like last yr? Perhaps every wed&fri morning? STUART RETURN ME MY BALL!
-> Defense: Zone very weak, too late in taking opponents, communication
-> Attack: Lack coordination, reaction too slow, never reset early, never look out for other options
Takes practice + fitness. Psycho yourselves so that you remember all these AT ALL TIMES
-> Lack mental readiness
Psycho yourself before every match, remind yourself what to take note off. Talk to your teammates, encourage & remind each other.
-> Confidence
I guess it's similar to the previous point.
-> Man marking: Never apply what we know (i.e. constant movement; move across each other, so that can shield opponents away from each other; know when to spread out & support)
Yep, this needs lots of practice+fitness too. Can do during night training like the other time too.


Hmm, next yr ntu 3-on-3 cannot send junior team leh! Unless we recruit a few more girls now, and then they can train with cheryl and join in jan. if not, lack in training leh. =/ should befriend yr2 & 3 junior girls naooo!

Train hard, and i'm sure the girls team will become better and better! (: It's hard to find a team of 5 or more that start off at the same time. Since you girls all joined together, if you all progress as a whole, the team will be able to perform next year! try to get as many intake next yr haha..


-wanyu (:

lol harloz.

don't really know what to post.

didn't do much today.

anw, i do hope that everyone can train hard because whats the point of being in the team if you dont? this is not a recreation sport as you should know. if the seniors can get a 2nd placing, why cant we? it might not seem possible right now but i believe that with some effort and determination, we can. yup.

i dunno why our nat champs is different from spcpoc but i think we should stick to how we played for spcpoc for future comps. the starting 5 will play as long as possible or something similar to how the senior team plays. cause at least we didnt get last then.

before the nat champs hf said that we should start winning games alr.
but we didnt and that is something that has to change.

i used to think that the seniors were 'too serious', but now its different, its some ppl are are 'not serious enough'. i.e. pls take training seriously and don't waste your time here.

jiayous.

To get better,

must improve core, stamina and STRENGTHHHH ohyea let's go let's HARDCOREEEE.

Endorphins shall be our new drug ;)

& not forgetting love for everyone in the team eheheheehehhe

Reflections 23082010

Schuper excited about training today but it started to thunder while I was reaching the pool and then I realised the lightning alert had gone off even before I arrived... :(

But maybe these little things are blessings in disguises, because the whole team used to take so many things for granted. Our equipment, and then we lost 2 Bracs; our teacher in charge, and then we got 2 newer teacher in charges; our poolslots, and then we stopped having so many of them. We should be appreciative of what we have and TREASURE ALL OUR OPPORTUNITIES. (Oh my god I sound like a textbook.)

After which we all proceeded to the freaking hot basketball court to do our pushups. I spent the whole time doing the 100 pushups trying to recall the last time I actually did 100 pushups. Up till now I still don't remember. It's been ages since we've noticed all these little details, but I think those are what will help us improve and become more worthy of being called Canoe Polo players. So instead of making the distinction between guys and girls, can we all try to perform to the guys standards for our subsequent land trainings say, after the exams? We'll do guy pushups and try pullups instead of inclined.

Oh and let's do running. Fartlek. I find it helpful for stamina luh, not sure about you all. The standard must be higher though, like striding must really stride and even jogging is not supposed to be super slow walking speed. Wanna try it out?

ON A FINAL NOTE, LET'S ALL AIM TO DO AT LEAST 3 PULLUPS BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. GO GIRLS WE KNOW WE CAN DO IT ;D

Reflections 23/8/2010

I'm happy that i could make it for training today cos it sort of cheered me up! :D But the weather isn't very good ): i didnt even get to go down to the water at all! Rawrrr.

Did 100 pushups because we didnt keep the equipments properly. Isit? And another 50 because the loudness and counting wasnt uniform enough. I think my arms will ache tomorrow but it feels damn shiok after doing that 150 :D

Did loads of ball passing. And then it rained.

Hopefully the weather will be better during the next training! (:

Oh and thankyou mag for uploading the videos! :D I saw how she capped!! LOL.

Wed night slot (25 Aug 8.30pm)

Anyway!

Since we have 8 vamps, and stanley, gene and stuart will take 3 boats, we're left with 5. We can borrow 5 acros from NUS so those whose names are not here and wanna come use acro? So its first come first serve! Its not compulsory but if you're free then come and join us! (: Make sure you finish your homework first!

1. Jiayi
2. Weitieng
3. Magmagmag
4. Cheryl
5.

You can edit this post and put your name here haha (:

(L)

HOLY GOD. I never knew you girls loved me so much, BLITZ is an AWESOME NAME. I'm a Bejeweled addict. HAHAHA THANKS :D

Don't want Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwiches luh it's so long! Blitz is gonna be the next Espada hahahaha because our name is so simple and we're gonna HARDCORE much! LET'S ALL JIAYOU GIRLS :D

And I don't know who did the layout but thanks manzxs I love purple.

Third to post! :D :D :D D:D :D :D

I think we can call ourselves Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwiches since it was the name we used for 3v3 haha. Good!?!?!?

Blitz reminds me of bejeweled blitz so, sorry no please xD

Whoever's free can change the blogskin to smthg brighter!! :D :D :D :D

Bye for now :D :D :D

Suggestion for team name

LETS CALL OURSELVES BLITZ!


It means lighting in german and its definition in english is "attack suddenly and without warning" ??

Hahahaaaaaaaaaa

HELLOOOO!

Hello! I am very bored so i suddenly thought of making a CP girls blog! :D The other CP blog is very dead but hopefully we'll keep this one alive hahaha :D

Anyway, we can post stuff like debriefs from hengfoo & jackson so that those who cannot make it for trainings wont miss out anything esp the tactics that we're playing! And hmm we can post like reflections after trainings / comp (if you all want haha). And there's the training dates and our goals on the side! Pleaseeee think of what you want to achieve by when, and add it there! (: Then we'll see what we achieved by the end of the year or month or anything haha.

Oh if you all want, can someone add a tagboard (cbox or anything :D)? Or if we're all lazy then we can just post on the blog to communicate :D

And and! STANLEY teo has volunteered to teach us personal skills like DIPS and STERN TURNS if we go down on wednesday night slots! So if we're free then let's go down on wed night? Although nat champs is over, its never too late to train! :D

And and he said that our whole team is weak! ): And hengfoo always say we're not fit enough blah blah. Soooo, to prove them wrong, land training is VERY IMPORTANT. haha. Hopefully everyone can come for land training if you can make it.

And and and! i think we should think of a team name! NUS High girls sounds very -_- haha. Then we can change the name of this blog! :D and LOL the url too. It can be named after our team when we decide on one :D

Oh and whether you all want to keep this locked or open, let me know k? (: And paiseh the template not very nice. I try to add everyone as admin then you all come edit okay? :D

Hopefully everyone will contribute to this blog and we will all train REALLLLL hard and be a stronger team during the next comp! (: Being the last during every nat champs doesnt sound very nice ): hahaha.

JIAYOU EVERYONE! :D