First weekend of 5on5

Hihiiii. I just had a nap ): still tired with lots of unfinished work.

Anw let's talk about the matches!

Hmmm.

Match 1 Titans: Couldn't really rmb much? maybe should have shot more because the last shot was like so noob but the keeper didnt block it. o_O
Anw I really wanna win them next weekend so jiayou!!!

Match 2 Nuts: Okkkkkk. Guess we couldn't do much against them? x_X

Match 3 Devlins: Wee Hong says we should have won them so..... ???

Match 4 Smurfs: Super offensive team. Got fast broken (lolol?) alot. I think we (or I) get ball very slow, ball come to water a bit further away still can get cut off by them :( Anw good judgement for Karyee (not passing when you saw the person watching me) (:
Overall team passing needs to improve to be hand to hand even if under pressure, thanks Mag for the good passes to me before my shots throughout the matches :D
Outside ppl need to learn to swap positions during attack and not be stagnant.
Everyone needs to learn how to spread out and also to support the ball carrier (go around the person, sont just stay at one side cos she might not be able to see/pass to you) during man mark.

Match 5 Espada: Not very offensive, good job pushers for making that big big hole at the end :O We need to learn to fake our passes.. >.<

Personally I need to improve on zoning and shooting for all matches -_- shooting was especially bad for one of the match. All 3 shots didn't touch the goal at all -_- blehss.

Anw for overall, good job Jaz and Cheryl for chasing +pushing, Mag and Karyee for keeping+zoning, Sophie for zoning + pushing, and Mariel for zoning and shooting :D:D:D
Jiayou girlsssss!
Rest well and take care! (Esp cheryl :O)
We must play our best next weekend!(:

thanks to all the seniors, juniors and coach for teaching, encouraging and helping us!
And also thanks to the teachers for taking time out to come down. Hm I think their job is kinda sian cos just go to the pool and sit there + take care of random matters hahaha.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.