This blog is created to honour the end of my Nationals Inter-School Canoe Championship 2009 and the end of a Canoeist Career in Junior College.
The 1st few post will be dedicated towards the setting up of this blog and will convey my thoughts and feeling over the 4 days event to honour the Sports
which I really believe in, fought for, bleed for and gave my life to.
The Last Preparation.
Sunday, March 28, 2010 @ 3:55 PM
Just in case you lose your focus during training because it's such a short time. I shall reiterate.1) Your Hard Stroke. Your land rotation. Make it hard. Make it powerful. This is your maintenance. This is where you would win. Remember, this is a sequence of all linked action. Make use of all your muscle group. Kick AS HARD AS possible, Twist as fast as possible simultaneously. Without kick, the power from your torso is zero! Your paddle should be in the water in the shortest time possible so that maximum force is applied.
2) Perfect your catch. Make sure your warm up round, you can catch the water. Feel the water. back paddle. front paddle. catch. Make sure you can literally see your blade fully submerged. That is your feeling! In the race, this feeling will determine your catch hence warmup round important.
3) Remember without a good catch, all other movement are useless.
4) Don't panick. Never go high frequency in 1000m. Don't panick. Keeping your boat straight and stable is more important. High frequency screw this up. Therefore, it is important to set your boat right at the start. Therefore, if you're not confident, don't burst. Use the last 250m burst rule. It works.
5) Go for the win. With all else said, if everything else do not fall in place for anyone of you, just try your best to master your catch.
Go for the win!
Life After August
Saturday, March 27, 2010 @ 11:37 PM
This post is entitled life after August.I am still fortunate that I get to come down for canoeing training though I'm enlisted. To train the juniors, to be safety boat along with you, and to oversee the entire training process. Looking forward to all this is all the reasons that I have to survive training in BMT(Technically i shouldn't be struggling). Things haven't been going well for me. But I feel the power again every time I laid my fingers on the paddle. Although I can't be there during training during the weekdays, but you know that whenever I'm in camp, I'm looking forward to go down.
And then, there is life after August. You won't be free to oversee training every time. Soon your university admission is going to come and you won't be around. I guess life had to be very different, to train the juniors with you, and to train the juniors without you. At some point in time, both of us will totally not have the time to visit our juniors at all. Coach may have to leave our team someday too. I think very far in fact, too far. My master plan to train the juniors involves training the 1st batch of a successful team which can eventually raise the next batch of juniors and the batch after the next. Sooner or later, one batch of champion batch is going to be raised. I guess for someone like you and me who come down whenever we can, ensuring that the lifeline of TPJCanoeing is very important for us. Suddenly I just feel like talking about all this, because I know the days where we can be together to train our juniors is very little. Looking back, I regret not making use of my time after A level properly. Looking back, I wonder what have I been doing really.
Maybe I'm saying all this because, I know there had to be a time, where all this fun will really end. I'm not emotional. I'm just cherishing the days where I'm still in the position to appreciate how fortunate I am to be training the juniors along side with you, to be safety boat alongside with you. In short, it's been fun with you around. How long can it last?
And then, there is life after August. You won't be free to oversee training every time. Soon your university admission is going to come and you won't be around. I guess life had to be very different, to train the juniors with you, and to train the juniors without you. At some point in time, both of us will totally not have the time to visit our juniors at all. Coach may have to leave our team someday too. I think very far in fact, too far. My master plan to train the juniors involves training the 1st batch of a successful team which can eventually raise the next batch of juniors and the batch after the next. Sooner or later, one batch of champion batch is going to be raised. I guess for someone like you and me who come down whenever we can, ensuring that the lifeline of TPJCanoeing is very important for us. Suddenly I just feel like talking about all this, because I know the days where we can be together to train our juniors is very little. Looking back, I regret not making use of my time after A level properly. Looking back, I wonder what have I been doing really.
Maybe I'm saying all this because, I know there had to be a time, where all this fun will really end. I'm not emotional. I'm just cherishing the days where I'm still in the position to appreciate how fortunate I am to be training the juniors along side with you, to be safety boat alongside with you. In short, it's been fun with you around. How long can it last?