Nyp Sprint Kayak Team

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Good afternoon people!

Training details for this coming week

Date: 29th June '09
Venue: Yio Chu Kang Stadium (The one beside NYP)
Time: 0530pm

Please pass it around and be present! Thanks a lot! :)

-Ai Xing

Friday, June 26, 2009

Hello team, it’s a 3 pages long post! So, take your time to read.

Team dinner is on this coming Saturday(27th June ’09). Please meet at Somerset Control Station @ 0630pm. Sakura Buffet, again. Latecomers will have to treat the rest of the team. (Kidding) =D

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ATTENTION #1:

It’s been a long time since I saw the whole senior team training together already. For this coming Monday, it’s COMPULSORY for ALL seniors to be down for training. There’s no reason you guys should miss this training since it’s the extended break.

So this coming Monday (29th June 2009) @ 6pm will be having land training. I really hope to see every one of you. Venue to be confirmed again but most probably it’ll be at Yishun Stadium because we can’t use the school for gym that week due to H1N1.

From now on, if anyone of you can’t make it for training. Please inform your captains/vice-captains. When comes to attendance, I noticed that you guys are coming as and when you like. This shouldn’t be the attitude from all of you since you guys are seniors now. This is not a recreational sport club where you come whenever you feel like it. We’re still a school team. Please respect the team by turning up for training regularly.

Set a good example for your juniors. You guys are the ones that they look up to. This applies to all.

I expect all seniors to turn up for compulsory land & sea trainings from now on unless you’ve a valid reason.

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ATTENTION #2:

For those that are not competing until POL-ITE, I think it’s time we focus more on our juniors now. I know all of you want to take this period to train more and improve but sometimes we’ve to sacrifice our training for the greater good. If you want your juniors to be as good, we’ve to give them more attention and guide them during this period while there’s still time.

As seniors of NYP Sprint Kayak Team, they’re our responsibility. Guide them well cause they’re our future. I believe they'll do us proud real soon.

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ATTENTION #3:

I know I’ve been congratulating those who won during SIWF and NCC. I’ll just congratulate all of you here again.

WELL DONE!

All of you have trained hard and done our team proud. And, congratulations BENJAMIN for completing & winning in his 1st C1 race in NYP Sprint Kayak history! (If I’m not wrong)
And also Sherlyna for doing well in her 1st K1 race! They deserve a round of applause! *Claps in circles*

Anyways, keep it up guys!

Oh and, thanks Hafiz & Jingting for being a good team manager!

Here are the results for National Canoe Championship:

Womens

K1 10km – Jingting, 2nd Finals
K1 1000m – Joyce, 2nd Finals
K1 500m – Joyce, 4th Finals
K1 200m – Ai Xing, 3rd Finals

Mens

K1 10km – Wei Yi, 8th Finals
K1 1000m – Jun Wei, 4th, Semi finals
K1 200m – Alfred, 5th, Semi Finals
K2 500m – En Kai/Marcus, 1st, Heats (DQ – Weights dropped out from boat)
K2 200m – En Kai/Marcus, 6th, Finals

Results for Singapore International Water Fest:

Mens K1, 500m

• Jun Wei, 1st
• Nathan, 3rd
• Luqman, 5th

Mens K2, 500m

• Jun Wei/Nathan, 2nd
• Wei Yi/Yee Keng, 3rd
• Yong Kun/Kelvin, 4th

Mens C1, 500m

• Benjamin, 3rd

Womens K1, 500m

• Sherlyna, 3rd
• Melissa, 4th

Womens K2, 500m

• Rainie/Evangeline, 3rd
• Joanna/Huey Yen, 4th

This is for all of you to reflect on your own performance whether you’ve achieved the results you wanted and set a new goal for yourself.

For those who did not get the results you wanted, do not be discouraged! All the more you guys must pick yourselves up again and train harder. The real winners are those who never say quit even after you’ve faced some obstacles. Take it as a stepping stone and strive harder!

Quoting from Adam Van Koeverden:
“There are more to come - because nothing helps me appreciate victory, more than failure”

And I agree with it.

This is for those who’ve done well:

There will always be better paddlers outside. Winning doesn't mean you can be complacent. You have to put in more effort into trainings and push yourself to the next level. It's not about how many medals you can win, but the improvements you've seen in yourself, the sense of satisfaction that nothing can make it up for. Always aim for something better after every race and beat it.

Focus on improving your technique like kicking & twisting, stronger long hard pulls, improving on your stamina when rowing, physical fitness. There are always things to improve upon because nobody's perfect.

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ATTENTION #4:

Okay, I know this post is super uber duper long but please bear with me.

There’s only 5 more months left to POL-ITE. It’s time for some serious training. As much as I hope all of you will train hard but in the meantime, please take care of yourselves during trainings too! I really do not want to see anyone of you getting injured before POL-ITE.

The journey may be tough but no pain, no gain right? Be positive, encourage your teammates and stick together. We’ll definitely make it.

I’ll leave you guys with something Damien(Btw, we miss you) wrote in the past blog entries:

We humans are creatures of habit. We do pretty much the same things every day, because it is comfortable to stay within our "comfort zone." It is comfortable to remain essentially unchallenged on a day to day basis, mindlessly performing the same tasks.
Dare to question the reasons for your actions. Identify those things that are truly important to you. Challenge yourself. Do something different. Interrupt your thought patterns. Think.
The infinite power that lies within you, is ... you.

Change begins today. Change your mental outlook, engaging in "possibility thinking." Change your body. Take action. Change your life.

YES YOU CAN! Continue pushing yourself. Next time you feel your body aching while paddling JUST KEEP ON GOING. It means that you are getting stronger and better the next time you paddle. The longer you endure the pain, the better you'll be. Never stop and give in to comfort because it only makes you a loser wallowing in self-disbelief. If you tell yourself you can do it, nobody will tell u otherwise and you'll find it hard to tell yourself otherwise. Give it a shot. Aim for a goal. POL-ITE? Yes lets all race for something at the POL-ITE!! :)

So ya, that’s about it! Hope you guys enjoyed reading.

With plenty of love from ME,
Ai Xing

Sunday, June 21, 2009

HELLO TEAM! URGENT MATTER!

This Saturday we'll be having TEAM DINNER over at Sakura Orchard! Please tag at the COMMENT BOX if you're coming by tomorrow! Many thanks!

And those wanna watch movie after training on Saturday, please comment also!

Comment in this format ONLY :

Name:
Movie: Yes/No (Choose 1)
Dinner: Yes/No (Choose 1)

Monday, June 15, 2009

Hello team,

5 more days to the National Canoe Championship,
6 more days to Singapore International Water Fest.

Be it NCC or SIWF, both races are equally important.

To those hardcore paddlers (You know who you are), please cut down on your training for this week in order to perform well on Saturday.

For those having FYP & attachment, please try to do more running/air paddling on your own.

Before all of you sleep every night, visualize the race course, the process of you paddling/competing. Your tactics, your techniques, what you normally do during your trainings. Mental preparation for the race is VERY important. You wouldn’t want to go there unprepared and freaked. So, visualize.

Always remember, your biggest competitor is you. Don’t worry about who is in your race and just enjoy the process. That’s why we’re in this sport right? We love what we are doing.

Do not be afraid to bring out the champion in you.
Be aggressive, fight for what you really WANT.

“Winning isn’t everything, but the WILL to win is”

Regards,
Ai Xing

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Hey guys, the training schedule for this 2 weeks are as follows;

Monday: 6pm land training

Tuesday: 9am sea training

Wednesday: 3.30pm sea training

Thursday: 9am sea training, 6pm, land training

Saturday: 8am sea training

Sunday: 8am sea training

The juniors will be coming down early at 5pm for monday land training. For those who are able to come down early, please help in training them. We need all the help we can get. We are a team, our juniors is our responsibility.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Hey guys

I need full cooperation from you all. As you all know we are ordering the jackets and your names will be put on the jacket itself. I need you all to comment in the comment box, what you want your names to be and i also want your sizes. Do it in this format ;

Name:*Your real name*

Nick: *Your nickname that will be put on the jacket*

Size: *S,M,L, etc..*

I need you guys to reply to this ASAP !!!!! if you dont then you guys wont be getting them. Cool?

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Hello team, please bring 10 dollars by this coming Saturday to pay for the "Red Kanoe Sports" Tee. Thank you very much.

With lots of love,
Aixing

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

HEY GUYS the team jacket are here i need you guys to vote in the comment box which one do you prefer .

so yea tell me which one do you prefer as there is so many choices so do not tell me that you like non of the above..

Is 48 dollar for the jacket is so expensive because the school didn't want to sponsor us this year due to the "economic crisis" they say. However, we student still pay the same amount of school fee. Can i ask for a school fee refund? haha

The jacket is made of god-like material which is like very comfy when you wear it.

a picture speaks a thousand word so i will let the picture do the talking

Here are the photos

And a pdf file please ask me to send you thorugh msn hehe

I AM NOT KELVIN