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Date Posted: 17:17:07 08/04/01 Sat
Author: Mr Yong
Subject: Update on Junior's Water Training

Thank you Siti, Xiuwen, Fenny, Jamine, Xueying, Daniel, Lee Tong, Keith, Weiye, Greg, Fletcher and Wenshun for being at Kallang yesterday. Your support and help is invaluable, especially at this time when capsizing is very frequent. (By the way, I greatly missed all of you.)
I have already fixed the K1, K2 and T rowers for the junior team already. As it was raining very heavily yesterday, I had a very good opportunity to explain my 'plans' to them. The girls' team: K1: Huiwen, Qihui and Caiyi; K2: Shihui and Peck Yean; T: Kwan Mei and Cynthia. The boys' team: K1: Faizal, Andrew and Weifa; K2: Kwanyu and Marcus, Melvin and Jason, Weixiong and Beng Chuan; T: Peiweng, John, Zhiyuan, Zhiyong and Shunqi.
The training will now be broken into 2 shifts. For one shift, kayakists will train in K's; the other shift, they will train in T's. This is to ensure that kayakists are working on both balancing and technique & mileage in each training. The training course is reduced to 250 m (from jetty to 500-m mark) to facililate rescuing. K1 kayakists will only be doing K1 and T1, while K2 kayakists will rotate to practise K1 and T1. All K1's must be used in every training. All T1's must be used in every training too.
They will be doing low intensity, high volume canoeing mileage in preparation for the 30-km race on 9 Sep and the 6-km dragon boat race on 16 Sep. Last training is on 1 Sep (Sat). Hence, 8 more water training from now to 1 Sep.
We will also be approaching some secondary schools soon to recruit talented canoeists to join us: first targets will be SJI and GESS.
I am trying to push them a bit more. This is only their second water training, and I am asking them to do mileage at the training course, but without seat of course. I tried to explain to them that 'trying out' different events would be wasting too much time and persuade them to trust my experience in allocating individuals to the various events. I assured them that I had already assessed their suitability for events during their first water training, and spent a lot of time figuring out the overall team strategy. I emphasized the need to focus on giving their very best whichever event they were put in, instead of fighting among one another for 'events'. I told them that it was never a case of which event they would participating in, but a case of how well they would be doing in their event.
I have also told them that I wanted them to split into different groups to look into ways to improve the team: routine training (captains and QMs); physical/nutrition, technical/safety, mental/tactical, juniors' recruitment/training, special events and welfare/injury/team cohesion.
I also talked about the importance of 'health' supplement (multivits) and 'recovery' supplement (Endurox and protein).
I told them the great effect that creatine had on me, but I also warned them on the risks of taking creatine. Seniors with excess Endurox, Just Whey, Designer Protein, Size Up or Creatine may set up a garage sale to sell them at an diecounted price to your juniors.

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