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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Thursday
Wah lau i feel damn sad ): Everyone is so fast okay. Go national open zoom here zoom there. Left me slowpoke at home ): Aiya even if go also get last. Damn depressing lar. Whole day swim here swim there. And nothing comes out of it. Then everyone i swim with get medals here and there and break records everywhere. YOU ALL AH MAKE ME FEEL SO BAD. But then i guess it's my fault i swim so slow. SLOWPOKE >.<
And you know i seriously think swimming with us wouldnt do the ADVANCE kids any good. Firstly, overcrowding. Wah lau swim damn squashed leh. Somemore sometimes swim things like today's heartrate. They can't even keep up lar -.- no time to rest for some of them, they just keep swimming like aerobic set like that. And when they split everyone across each lane for some main sets, it's very annoying to swim with the small kids. Especially since they're so SLOW COMPARED TO US, and we KEEP OVERTAKING THEM. AGAIN AND AGAIN. And they dont even give way when we overtake them.
Therefore swimming with them is seriously detrimental to our improvement as ELITE swimmers. WE need the elite environment that every other club has, we need to have better sets which we cant have as we need to accomodate the small kids. We cant have the team building we used to have (like games on new year's eve) because now the team is too huge. We cant have circuit which we used to have because of the little kids with us now the team's too huge. I WANT YOU SELFISH PEOPLE TO SEE THIS. I want you to know that our elite team's team spirit and improvement are seriously being hindered because of this "competitive squad" merging.
Secondly, it doesnt do the ADVANCE kids any good as well. Cos honestly, any coach can carry out any set. And make the swimmers do ANY set. Jaan gives the other coaches sets to do right. Well any coach can give that set. What jaan does is to make improvements to our swimming by reiterating the drills and all and making sure of our breathing patterns. HELLO LOOK HERE. HERE HERE HERE. Today's training we were supposed to breate 3 5 7 9. Yes and oops only the ELITE people did it? Yes sadly the small kids as usual just breathed on every stroke. Well cause for such young swimmers, stroke and all these arent very important yet arent they? I was their age once hello. And i think we all feel very annoyed especially for drills cause when we are supposed to be focusing on something and doing our drills properly, the small kids just anyhow do their drills and do not help their stroke. They just do it as fast as they can without doing what they are supposed to do.
Being with jaan doesnt help them see? It does not benefit them cause at such a young age, they are not so serious yet or see the importance of doing drills properly and following breathing pattern all that. I know cause i was young once and i was only concerned with going fast xP And it does not help them to do breathing patterns meant for elite older swimmers too. They just are not at that level yet and in the end, jaan only ends up focusing on the bigger kids and the small kids only just tag along.
Advance should not have merged with elite cause it does both squads no good and has a detrimental effect on the elite squad. Perhaps it did for better moving up in between squads? But hello we could always have the old criteria back and try to improve on it again.
And you know i seriously think swimming with us wouldnt do the ADVANCE kids any good. Firstly, overcrowding. Wah lau swim damn squashed leh. Somemore sometimes swim things like today's heartrate. They can't even keep up lar -.- no time to rest for some of them, they just keep swimming like aerobic set like that. And when they split everyone across each lane for some main sets, it's very annoying to swim with the small kids. Especially since they're so SLOW COMPARED TO US, and we KEEP OVERTAKING THEM. AGAIN AND AGAIN. And they dont even give way when we overtake them.
Therefore swimming with them is seriously detrimental to our improvement as ELITE swimmers. WE need the elite environment that every other club has, we need to have better sets which we cant have as we need to accomodate the small kids. We cant have the team building we used to have (like games on new year's eve) because now the team is too huge. We cant have circuit which we used to have because of the little kids with us now the team's too huge. I WANT YOU SELFISH PEOPLE TO SEE THIS. I want you to know that our elite team's team spirit and improvement are seriously being hindered because of this "competitive squad" merging.
Secondly, it doesnt do the ADVANCE kids any good as well. Cos honestly, any coach can carry out any set. And make the swimmers do ANY set. Jaan gives the other coaches sets to do right. Well any coach can give that set. What jaan does is to make improvements to our swimming by reiterating the drills and all and making sure of our breathing patterns. HELLO LOOK HERE. HERE HERE HERE. Today's training we were supposed to breate 3 5 7 9. Yes and oops only the ELITE people did it? Yes sadly the small kids as usual just breathed on every stroke. Well cause for such young swimmers, stroke and all these arent very important yet arent they? I was their age once hello. And i think we all feel very annoyed especially for drills cause when we are supposed to be focusing on something and doing our drills properly, the small kids just anyhow do their drills and do not help their stroke. They just do it as fast as they can without doing what they are supposed to do.
Being with jaan doesnt help them see? It does not benefit them cause at such a young age, they are not so serious yet or see the importance of doing drills properly and following breathing pattern all that. I know cause i was young once and i was only concerned with going fast xP And it does not help them to do breathing patterns meant for elite older swimmers too. They just are not at that level yet and in the end, jaan only ends up focusing on the bigger kids and the small kids only just tag along.
Advance should not have merged with elite cause it does both squads no good and has a detrimental effect on the elite squad. Perhaps it did for better moving up in between squads? But hello we could always have the old criteria back and try to improve on it again.
posted by yao. # 2:50 PM 
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