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Mayflower Secondary School
Table Tennis girl's team!!!
Physical Training: Every Thurs 5:45pm (GIRLS)
Trainings: TUES, THURS & Fri(Optional)
Coach: Mr Lim Wei Zong .
Teacher-in-charge: Ms Wynn Chew
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More Table tennis trainings!
More Table tennis gatherings!
B div girls to clinch the 4th position in national , our zone
C div girls to clinch the 3rd position in national , our zone
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Loves playing table tennis!!
Love hanging out together!!
The Sufferings.. ARGHH!!
Our pathetic 5 mins break
No table tennis trainings
The tiring physical trainings
Well, so much improvement today. We, girls were obedient and training seriously, marvellous. Haha. Everyone asked coach for permission to go breaks today and backed in 5mins, how nice. He was happy and I was saved from his naggings. Veryvery nice . :D He even praised shihui for pinning up her side fringes all these, looking clear. Ahhs, very gd. His praise is once in a blue moon de ok. So yeahs, be honoured. (: The juniors learnt new skills today yeahs? Fun? Should be, you all improved! haha. You all are just so much better than the past seniors. (: Today, coach didnt nag. Cheers people !!!! :D
However, we have got 5 dented balls today ! Coach helped to restore one back, left 4. The good thing is, 2 people have admitted stepping on the ball, leaving 2 pple unknown. They have paid 50 cents AUTOMATICALLY which shows their integrity. Wows, i am confident next time round, we will just be brave and own up and pay. (: We managed to save the balls anw, so thats good. (: But 5 dented balls today! So.. TSK ! How can ?! But at least girls kept clear off balls right. (: haha. Good job yo. Oh yeahs, we didnt do warm up or footsteps workout today right people? Very happy right ??? haha . Thurs, everyone shall do! Mwahahas. Its nth to us alr la. (: C'mon, do it once, fast and perfect. Or maybe twice ? Thrice? lol. Just do it . Okays, Thurs pple. \
Oh yeahs , about the friendly match against CHIJ. Well, have postponed the date from 18thJuly to 25th July(Un-confirmed). Would be in the morning at 9am to12:30pm. May extend depending on how long we play k. May be a girl's sch, but our senior boys are gng, so yeahs, just learn from them. If i am not wrong, they rarely play with Rubber. So long-pimpled players must try hard to win them ! (: Also, their best player from sec 3 managed to get in top 16. So, we all should be training hard yeahs .
Regarding the friendly match:
Well, well. If everything goes well and both school agrees, the friendly match will be probably held on 18July. 3rd wk whn sch reopens and is a saturday.
Reasons on saturday:
1) They suggested as they dont wish this friendly match to affect their training time.
2) We should be training as well and not sacrificing our trng time to gain exp. We should also gain exp as well as having training.
3) We might have different training days. We trained on tues and thurs. They might train on wed and fri and mon. We would not want our remedials to clash right?
Therefore, the best choice would be a saturday.
Well, its not confirmed and we have to wait for them to nod their heads. (:
*Please come early tmr to set up tables and warm-up will start at 1:30pm. Latecomers will be punished to run 7rounds around the hall.
1.Strenghts, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats of table tennis.
2.Which area and how we can improve?
3.Quality of team.
Good questions given. Lets talk on it step by step.
Firstly, Strenghts:
*Our tabletennis team is warm-blooded and we are quite connected.
-We would joke around and play with each other to test out skills or learn new skills.
-We will try to involve everyone in different activities, like matches within us.
*Majority of us, some Sec3s and those sec2s and sec1s are devoted to table tennis.
-CCA starts at 3.30pm to 6.30pm. Majority came at 2.30 and set up tables themselves. They left at 7pm.
-They packed up everything, and now, they picked up all the balls, even those under the tables&Chairs.
-Majority of us take the initiative to ask coach and did what they are supposed to do.-Some of them have basics before coming in and they are learning & improving fast.
*We stand up on our feet again FAST and we encourage one another.
-We lost many competitions but we get over it quick.-We cheered each other up and we tried our best to go support all competitions.
-Those juniors bothered to ask about results and encourage us though they alr knew we sure lose.
Secondly, Weaknesses:
*Our tabletennis team have very low sense of responsibility.
-In ard March or when, we have a box half-full of balls. In ard April or so, left 1/3 in box.Every training, we threw at least 6balls on avg and dont care about it.
-Few of us dropped the tables countless times because too clumsy. Those droppings resulted in at least 3 tables spoilt. TItanics, some called it . -.-
1)Two tables are unbalanced, 1 side high, 1 side low.
2)One table got a spoilt wheel, always dropping out.
-We dropped the blockers dunnoe-how-many-times.Maybe we played till too "hiong", clashed with the blockers.
1)Two blockers are bent in the middle.
2)One blocker have loose screws at the side and its unstable.
-Some of us left in a hurry and left their BATS & CCA CARDS IN HALL!The teacher-In-Charge have to keep for them like their mummy.
*Minority of us came at 4pm and kept going for "Breaks". They nvr come back till 6.
-They went toilet, canteen, slacked and chatted with friends.
-Wasted time & money doing nothing, showing the least amt of interest.
-Majority of girls rarely participate in competitions organized by STTA or other organisations.For e.g, this coming competition in June, they dont go if their friends nvr go. A few active ones have to invite them.
*Minority, especially girls, bring their own emotions to cca, resulting in moodless plays.This year is better already though, but still can improve.
Thirdly, Opportunities:
*Our coach is paid to come here and teach us new skills.$60 per year per person. Lucky got edusave.He is a coach at AMK pri sch, trained out many outstanding students in tht sch.The pri sch students are even better than majority of us, Secondary students.We have friendly matches against their sch in 2008 and wows, we lost . How pathetic.Having this coach is our honour and he have improved many of us & still improving.
-Through him, we have learnt how many good players played and learnt how/what to observe.
-Also through him, we are always updated on any table-tennis tournaments & was encouraged to play.
*This year, our T.I.C was able to get us have friendly matches against NgeeAnnSec .
-We were given the chance to gain more experience and played with neighbourhood sch.
-We learnt that we should not despise neighbourhood sch players' skills & learn from them instead .
*LianHeZaoBao will be organising a tournament, open and local for public .
-Hopefully, we are able to observe those good players from Sports Sch/China & make friends with them to learn more.
-The best thing will be able to hunt good players to get in MF & play for the sch.
Fourthly, Threats: -I dont understand, so skip . (:
Which area and how we can improve?
*Of course we are going to work on our weaknesses, especially our pathetic sense responsibility.
-We need something to start on building our responsibilty. So, we shall choose balls, important.First thing we need to do is get everyone to pay maybe 50cents into CCA fund and use the money to buy balls.The balls should not get any lesser. If anyone step on the ball, pay 50cents AUTOMATICALLY.If caught nvr pay after stepping the balls, shall be forced to pay $1.50[Triple] and get punished by T.I.C .
-Everytime start service, look around for balls and PICKED them up, put them in BASKET/POCKET. DONT KICK!PingPong ball is round! Dont flatten it!
-As for tables, get 2more partners to help pack if you are too weak. Dont overestimate ownself.Tables are too expensive, cannot buy. So, protect and love them.
-BLOCKERS! Dont see them useless, cheapcheap ok! They cost alot too.Carry 2 at a time, lift them up and put it down gently. You move the blockers, not crawl/jump/walk under/over !
*Punctuality
-Come for CCA at 3.15 to help set up everything and start training. Go toilet before cca starts.-Limit yourself to a 5break, only one time.
-CCA ends at 6.30pm. Keep the tables and pick up all the balls before leaving. Do your part.
*Emotions
-Yesyesyes, you cry, you scream, you attitude, you do whatever you like...Just dont bring it to CCA and ignore everyone in the world also your business. Just train hard, train well.-vent your anger in CCA! Great time, show the power! Smack it! PiakPiak! Isnt it btr? haha.
Thats all , enjoy reading . (:
Charmaine: Got in 3rd round ! :D Close and exciting match ! (: They deuced till 17-15 lehs ! Omgosh . Haha . She rawks righttt !? :D She and the player standard quite alike yeahs . (: Anws , congrats charmaine ! (: Haha .
Kartini: Played agnst Nanyang de , lost 3sets but at least she got more than 5pts for all sets ! Wonderful right ? Haha . (: gd game, kartini ! :D Haha .
Melody: Played agnst GES player . Well well , able to get in 2nd round very gd le . (: So yeahs , dont get discouraged. Shall win GES next yr ! (:
HuiLi: Played agnst St Nicholas Girls (SNGS)player . Lost but she gained experience right ? So, jiayous ! (:
ShiHui: Against CHIJ St joseph Convent . Lost 1-3 . Won first set . I have recorded the first set . Shall post it next time . (: Nice match . Exciting . :D Its ok , its gd enough she could win first set . Good start . (: We will win them in the next friendly match . (:
Vanessa: Last player of the day, played at 8pm . Under 19 Local ... She suay la .. Opponent is a YOG player .. Trained 7times a week , 4hours .. 0.1% chance to win . She evrything also gd lehs . Service all so spin de . Tsk . Nvmds , good game . (: You tried anw . (:
3rd round
The only player who got in 3rd round . Nice one manzx . Haha . :D
Charmaine: Lost 1-3 . She won 1st set sial . Tsktsk . 4th set 11-9 sial ! Almost .. Hais . Nvmds , can get 3rd round seriously very good le . :D Jiayous yeahs, my buddy ! :D 3Cheers for you ! :D
Thats all for results . (:
Btw , if we were to have friendly match against CHIJ , are you all available on Sat ? (:
Here are the results:
Sheila lost 0-3 , she had met a strong opponent . D: Suay ah . She played well though . (:
Kartini's opponent whom we thought a china named Liao Fang , walkover . 2nd round .
Melody won 3-0 , good for her ! (: Grats . (: Nice one melody . (:
Huili's opp walked over , got in 2nd round. Lucky . :D
Jasmine lost 2-3 . This one no cmt la . Complacent . Lost to a girl she should not lose at all .
That girl standard may be btr than our sec ones but is lousier than amk pri students .
Cant believe that could win amkp student , lost to a chij st joseph sec 1 girl . AHHHS . Heavy blow . She should rly go naked and bang the wall manzx . But nvmds , she learn not to be over confident and would play well the next time. (:
Later afternoon, charmaine , shihui , kartini and huili and vanessa are playing . Wish thm luck .
Anws , I am hoping to have a friendly match against CHIJ St Joseph convent , girls sch.
I have exchanged no. with a girl me and charmaine met . Partly , I have to compete with the girl agn . and secondly , they nvr compete with boys before . Thirdly , we need to gain some experience .So , all I need now is teacher's permission and I am gna start organising .
Okay thats all , hope the girls would get in 3rd round later .. (:
Maybe I should make it a habit to blog abt all training ... haha .
Anw , lets talk on last thurs training . (: 11June09
As usual, last training everyone trained.
Want hear good things or bad things first ?
Lets hear the bad things first . (:
So , I have received grumblings and complaints from coach which pissed me off.
Firstly , waste my time . Secondly , I have to suffer cause of you all .
2qns , why did you all disappeared w/o permission and went for a more than 10min brk?
Nah, dont have to ans me . I can understand .
You all are just the past me . But I couldnt just experienced myself and let you all experience the same thing ! Trust me , you all are gna regret it . tsktsk .
Yesyesyes , you all think the coach are very strict etcetc and you all just want a rest .
Then what abt players in china? They frigging trained harder than you all !
AND I MEANT MUCH MORE INTENSIVE TRAINING !!
The trng you all are having are just preanut butter jelly o sandwich manzx !
C'mon ! Stand up , chest out , be active sporty player !
The next time , you all should be more automatic and ask coach before you leave e table .
And even for a sip of water also must ask !
Maybe I should list out a few players , talk abt it to allow pple to understand .
No offence but please do learn and dont repeat the same mistakes !
Shihui-
You are left-handed , a very tricky player and can rly play well if you put in more effort . You have training under the coach since P2 and should have known the coach well by now! Shouldnt you just listen to him and be more focus in your trng ? You can listen , you do listen . Ask you to come early , you did . Thats very nice, isnt it ? (: However , alot of times , you tend to let your emotions take over you and .. thats unacceptable . Maybe I shouldnt say tht , cause like i said, you all are like the past me . So I am not being rly fair like tht . Hmms . But still , I rly hope you will be focus in your trng CONSTANTLY and ;isten to the coach . You will do btr . (:
Sheila-
I should say, you are the star player of the girls' team and you have the motivation to do better. However, your motivation dont last . Or I should say its like a broken train, moving on very fast and suddenly stopped . You suggested running for few rounds in warm up which is good . (: But you know what . The problem in you is you are always disappearing with shihui and melody and tessa even . You should stop them and ask permission from coach first. You played with the P5 girl last thurs , rmb ? Can you tell me why you lost ? Maybe I should tell you . Idk if I am right and my sayings strong enough . But I thought abt how and why you lost for 2days . Finally , I came up with the ans . (: Quick , thank me . Haha . Anws , i think . I said I THINK , you disappeared alot of times and wasnt thr to observe the primary players . Hmms, complacent ? You are a fast player and you take action faster thn an opponent thought . The girl in p5, if i didnt oberve wrongly is one who grab chances faster than one who thought . She's left handed and if you hit towards her left hand , she is just gna smack you back . She dont care if its in or not , she just smack and make sure she have grabbed hold of tht chance . You tend to hit ball that pple are able to use forehand hit back . You smacked with power too . But she is even more aggresive ! She may be little but she think fast . Actually , to defeat her , you should be playing slow and steady with her, towards her right hand . You can chop with her . Tell you sth . I can see that kids like her dont have much patience and will eventually lose to you even you w/o smacking ! Once you won them by a set , their confidence gets lower and they will just sulk . They are not experience like us but they have the aggressiveness we sec sch students hoped to have . Maybe you should reflect abt it and try to improve . Lastly , learn from your mistakes and you will be the star player of the team and win medals/trophies for sch . (:
There are many pple I would like to cmt but i shall save it for next time .
Lets cmt on Jasmine KONG , myself . Haha .
Jasmine-
Actually , I start it out with no basics . Balls flying out of the window and not even in sch team during sec 1 . Ex-coach , Frankie never once stop arguing with me . Ok , i must admit I was stubborn and always think I am right . I was the slackest of all in the team and disappear for more than half the trng even tho I do attend . Haha . I never train hard and never thought I would until I was in sec 3. I have wasted a full 2yrs and guess what ? I was ultimately regretful . Haha . I have wasted 2yrs and I could have been much btr ! =.= Stupiddd me , why didnt I find any interest in it for the last 2 years !? One day , I found the ans . (: I am proud cuz I am able to find the ans myself . (: I didnt even tried playing for more than 30min in a game and always slacking ard in the hall . Coach say 1 , I say 2 . Coach say play , I say later . How am i gna improve !? How am I gna find the interest in table tennis if I didnt even try playing myself ?? I didnt find the joy of playing until I started playing with my partner , charmaine . Tsktsk , i have finally caught the feel of playing and the pleasure . Some more , it sure feels gd after a few hours of great smack and a great bucket of sweat ! Now is Sec 3 alr , what else could I do manzx .. Sec 4 say byebye , no more playing alr . How sad . Next yr national , B Girls team have to aim for 4th position in our zone and of course , the C girls to aim for 3rd now . (:
Hope current sec 1s and future players wont be like the past me yeahs . I can see that the current sec 1s are devoted players and are improving fine . (; Great thing . :D
Well , end of commenting . No offence for the players abve mentioned . This blog is not know to many pple . Dont worry abt your reputation . And pls , improve to earn your reputation back .
Oh ya , 2 good things abt that day . (:
1. A few students have shown integrity by owning up stepping on balls and hitting the ball up the aircon . They have paid 50cents each and thanks to them , I dont have to pay . (: Everyone should be like tht , we must learn . (:
2. Everyone abides the rule of having PT every Thurs . Tcher in charge say run , everyone runs. Nobody cheat and even hose who are rushing to go off did their PT before gng off . Agn , this is good and we have done the the crucnches, push ups and jumping jacks well . I am sure we could continue to have this attitude and do btr in future . (:
Well , I think no more alr .
Moral of this post: Observe , show respect to coach and have integrity .
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