The juniors
hey guys and girls.
i took the juniors for a spot of light training today and i must say i am astonished at the vast difference between the girl juniors and the guy juniors.
firstly, the girl juniors were absolutely angels (Judy and Lianna [that how you spell her name?]). they never gave me any problems. the guy juniors on the other hand were living hell. not only did they lag behind the girls for every set of pushups and situps that we did but they also had no spirit at all and gave in to pain very easily.
lianna pushed herself until she couldnt hear properly and her vision had problems (partly cos i think warm ups were a bit xiong for her) but she never once complained AT ALL.
the guys on the other hand kept trying to cut corners and bargain with me in terms of exercises.
also, their form was very bad, had to remind them almost continuously about it.
Furthermore, when i reminded them about not beaching the boats and getting too close to shore as well as not scraping the paddles on the floor a few times, they were either deaf or dense, because they continued to do it even after i told them about 4 times.
as such i was forced to punish them after training and we did a total of 42 sets.
during the 42 sets, i wanted to see how many they could do before breaking point. i think all of them reached breaking point but i must say i was very impressed by the girls because they stayed positive and encouraged each other during the 42 sets. the guys chose to be quiet and die together. cheong has the usual problem of hanging and form. yihang was quiet and did not encourage at all even though he could do it quite comfortably. sherman pushed hard and out of the three guys he gave the best performance during punishment.
terence also reported the fact that he was looking at cheong during the last 20 pushups and that cheong only did 8 out of 20. when questioned, he said that he 'thought he had finished'. i kept questioning him repeatedly and i reminded him about personal integrity and he kept giving me the same answer. as such i had to trust him but this event has made me very uncomfortable inside.
i dunt know what this all means, but i think we have to do something very immediately about the guy juniors. their lack of personal motivation and desire is soemthing which is very obvious. their lack of passion and spirit and the fact that they do not feel for each other is also another very pressing issue that we need to address. i do not know how to instill in them these qualities because it is these qualities that drive the club on and we do not want to see them gone after we leave.
the batch under us is becoming increasingly in danger of being the batch that will bring the club down again. we have to do something very quickly. on wednesday, when most of the juniors were not down, training was great, with high spirits and smoothness but im afraid once they come back, we will be facing the same problems in dragonboat again.
the same people keep making the same mistakes. are we to allow them to continue making those mistakes? they could compromise the team eventually if we keep giving them chance after chance and i think that soem of them are already immune to the 'stay in pushup position properly or we send you home' threat. i think we should send them packing out of the club for good. enough is enough. if they do not wake up their ideas i think its time we wake them up for themselves.
i took the juniors for a spot of light training today and i must say i am astonished at the vast difference between the girl juniors and the guy juniors.
firstly, the girl juniors were absolutely angels (Judy and Lianna [that how you spell her name?]). they never gave me any problems. the guy juniors on the other hand were living hell. not only did they lag behind the girls for every set of pushups and situps that we did but they also had no spirit at all and gave in to pain very easily.
lianna pushed herself until she couldnt hear properly and her vision had problems (partly cos i think warm ups were a bit xiong for her) but she never once complained AT ALL.
the guys on the other hand kept trying to cut corners and bargain with me in terms of exercises.
also, their form was very bad, had to remind them almost continuously about it.
Furthermore, when i reminded them about not beaching the boats and getting too close to shore as well as not scraping the paddles on the floor a few times, they were either deaf or dense, because they continued to do it even after i told them about 4 times.
as such i was forced to punish them after training and we did a total of 42 sets.
during the 42 sets, i wanted to see how many they could do before breaking point. i think all of them reached breaking point but i must say i was very impressed by the girls because they stayed positive and encouraged each other during the 42 sets. the guys chose to be quiet and die together. cheong has the usual problem of hanging and form. yihang was quiet and did not encourage at all even though he could do it quite comfortably. sherman pushed hard and out of the three guys he gave the best performance during punishment.
terence also reported the fact that he was looking at cheong during the last 20 pushups and that cheong only did 8 out of 20. when questioned, he said that he 'thought he had finished'. i kept questioning him repeatedly and i reminded him about personal integrity and he kept giving me the same answer. as such i had to trust him but this event has made me very uncomfortable inside.
i dunt know what this all means, but i think we have to do something very immediately about the guy juniors. their lack of personal motivation and desire is soemthing which is very obvious. their lack of passion and spirit and the fact that they do not feel for each other is also another very pressing issue that we need to address. i do not know how to instill in them these qualities because it is these qualities that drive the club on and we do not want to see them gone after we leave.
the batch under us is becoming increasingly in danger of being the batch that will bring the club down again. we have to do something very quickly. on wednesday, when most of the juniors were not down, training was great, with high spirits and smoothness but im afraid once they come back, we will be facing the same problems in dragonboat again.
the same people keep making the same mistakes. are we to allow them to continue making those mistakes? they could compromise the team eventually if we keep giving them chance after chance and i think that soem of them are already immune to the 'stay in pushup position properly or we send you home' threat. i think we should send them packing out of the club for good. enough is enough. if they do not wake up their ideas i think its time we wake them up for themselves.
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