Hrm... been rather un-c1onstructive these past few days.

Went to gym and canoe with the Nitek kia.

Rowing while listening to the darkstar one soundtrack is damn awesome.

Nitek kia's been improving, he's finally sufficient level enough to do some low level creeping between beaches. Slow learner but thankfully not that slow. huhuhu. Aiya I'm a slow learner too.

The new Nteam was training. Paced beside them for a set and found myself pulling away too easily.

Sad to say that as much as dog praises the team and nasi, they're still too far away for seagames level. Maybe in 2 years time. That's a good bet, Nasi knows what he's doing, but he's no miracle worker. These guys need too much work. If they really have the passion for the sport, then they'll make it.

As for me, if I stick around them at this moment in time, my standard will only drop. The only way for me to improve in the db or anything is in a k1 right now.

Heck, in all my years in dragonboating training and teaching, the best routines and practices are in the k1. The best way to improve one's water sense and awareness is in the k1.

The best way to reinforce bad habits and breed useless egos is in the dragonboat.

So, gg.


Its funny how young people can be so impressed by other people and will listen to them training-wise.

Its a good way to learn, though naive. He may set you on the right path, but if you don't know the whole deal, you're screwed.

Training methodologies vary immensely between all the top athletes, or top teams. What matters is getting a program to suit the athlete or team. What worked for one may not work for another. That's what sports science along with trial and error is for. You need to create a unique statedef to suit different character's needs, but you need to do bug testing and tweaking after that. The constants and variables differ too much between characters to expect the statedef of one to work as well in another.