Sum things up

I believe after today friendly with TP, you guys have roughly know where you all stand.
Next week will be the last friendly before SPCPC with NUS at NP swimming pool on sat.

Basically a few pointers to take note on.
1. Passing. Try to make smart/safe passes.
2. Anticipation. Know what to do before your opponent does something.
3. Aggression. I believe a lot of people have already told you guys about this. Lack of aggression simply mean the lack of will to win the game.
4. Losing possession. Everyone should know when the team loses the ball. Meaning communicate more.
5. Play to ref call.
6. Priority to go for boat to change direction NOT for ball.
7. Fitness
8. Dont ever give up.

Basically, starting from tomorrow training will be more intensive compared to last few week so that you guys can reach the snr expection. The no waiting for other rule still apply as usual. I know it will be tiring, but just ask yourself this.

How much does winning mean to you?

As for year 2 if you dont ever buck up now, it's never.

Polo Camp

The polo camp will be set on Sat right after pool slot and end before 6 on sunday. Year 1, 2 are all expected to come.

Bring training kits, shoe and all you toilet needs.

And bring $10 for SPCPC and $10 for club fund.

To all Year 1 and 2s

Firstly there will comfirm be extra pool slot during the holiday period and WORK is NOT a excuse to be absent from pool slot. Dates i will let you all know after exam.

I expect 100% attendance for the up coming polo camp which i have already let you all know 3weeks in advance. As you know know all these are part of the preparation for the upcoming SPCPC and IVP.

And now on EVERYONE is suppose to be half an hour early for every single pool slot anything after that, i'll consider late.

IVP team will soon be able to use new boat so i expect you all to prove to me if you all deserve to use. And of course there will be a who deserve system to filter out those who can use and those who can't. For now train hard. Dont take for granted that you are year 2 and you will comfirm play IVP. As NP tradition strongest live weakest die.

Jrs take this chance surpass the Snrs if you can.

Junwei

To all Year 1s and 2s

Excellence

Juniors,

You've been training for a long time now, some one whole year, some going on strong to 2 years. All the seniors are expecting you to improve as fast as possible during this holiday. Aim high at the better seniors, follow the good examples and remember the bad. Learn to ask questions, and no seniors will turn their backs on you.

Up to now, improvements are made at the speed of ant-crawl.

Push Harder

Push Faster

Push Your Limits

Challenge Yourself

Never settle, be ambitious, you'll never approach anything like excellence if you settle for mediocrity. Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than a man content to live within yourself and not dream further.


Look at your teammates next to you, look at the better ones. Do not be content that they're playing on your team.

Challenge them

Be the one that other look up to and be the one they challenge. To those who are already better then most, the trip up to the top probably isn't easy, its even tougher to stay on top. Never forget how good it feels to be on top, and always push yourself to stay there.

You have to fight for everything-For power, for position, whatever you want to achieve.

Never give in.
Never give in.
Never give in.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Never.

Trainings are a perfect time to learn, try and commit mistakes. Every mistake you commit, correct them. Listen. Watch. Try.

Do not wait till competition to try, watch and listen.

Seniors have achieved this much for polo.

Achieve the same, maintain, better yet, out-perform.

You represent us in the future, don't disappoint us.

Prove the people who discriminated you wrong.

Train hard.

Zhihao

dec pool slots

ok... i'll be listing down the slots and timings for the remaining days of 2007. So there shud not be any excuse to say that u dunno tat there's training.

15/12 (sat) - 11a.m. to 1p.m.
16/12 (sun) - 9a.m. to 2p.m.
17/12 (mon) - 3p.m. to 5p.m.
19/12 (wed) - 9a.m. to 2p.m.
22/12 (sat) - 11a.m. to 1p.m.
23/12 (sun) - 9a.m. to 2p.m.
24/12 (mon) - 3p.m. to 5p.m.
26/12 (wed) - 9a.m. to 2p.m.
29/12 (sat) - 11a.m. to 1p.m.
30/12 (sun) - 9a.m. to 2p.m.

The timings are still the same on sunday. For year 1s, if the new boats are here, Saturday would be a training day for u all as well. For those who might be thinking of coming down at a later time for those days with long hours of slot, u have to inform me early or else i'll not let u down. Early as in not whenslot is 9a.m. and u msg me at any time after 8, is the day before.

P.S. Dont work when there's training. or else if u cant catch up coz u miss training den it's not my fault.

AFTER common test

Take note everybody... it applies to all canoe polo players in ngee ann...

There will not be any land trainings on Monday UNTIL school reopens after the 2 weeks break, but u can self train by all means la... tat i'm not stopping...

There will be pool slot on 15 and 16 of dec. so there shudn't be any excuse about u not coming for training. Additional slots have been booked but it's not up yet. Will tell u all the alocations when i get it. (Get ready for ALMOST everyday also got slot)

TO THOSE WHO HAVE YET TO PASS ME UR JACKETS: i'll most prolly going to send it for embrodery after my papers, so if u dun pass to me before i send, ur jackets wouldn't be embrodered. It's ur job to find and pass it to me. It's free btw, so u'll be the one losing out.

ALL year 2s and 3s: bring $10 on sat for last polo fund. After tat i'm not collecting le.. cooperate ah!

ATTENTION!!!

Exams are round the corner so pls do study hard and smart... thus trainings are put to a stop until 15th dec and i'll arrange for weekday pool slots (update u all again when it's settled)...

To all year 1s, here's the details for the NTU 3v3 pool game:

Venue : 4th Jan 2008, 8pm - 8am, NTU swimming pool
Number of players: 4 per team

NTU will provide acrobats boats and spray decks at $10 for 4 boats and $10 for 4 spray decks, paddles are not provided.

Game Rules:
3 ppl playing with 1 sub along the side
Game play is 5min - 1min - 5min, 7min - 1min - 7min for semi-finals and finals
1 referee per game

So... go form ur teams and tell me when u're done...

jackets

ok... apparently the one who was in charge of embordering the jackets aint doing anything... so i may go ahead and do it myself... those who have yet to pass me their ivp jackets pls do so ASAP, unless u dun wan to... it's free anyways!!!

another thing is to bring $10 for polo fund... i'll be collecting it till the end of year so just gimme la hor... =)

friendly with SP

ok... be prepared to have a friendly game with SP next week (sat or sun). Time has yet to be confirmed. It'll be just to see how much we've improved since we last met them. Take this chance to see how much more has to be put in to reach our goal in the next competition.

training schedule for semester

There'll be no training tml (15/10/07) so that all of u can take a break after the camp and rest well. Wednesday's training will proceed on as usual.

This coming Saturday (20/10/07) have no pool slot due to the NP Adventure race.

As for pool slots, it'll be on Saturday and Sunday again, Sat for seniors, sun 9 - 11.30 for year 1s and sun 11.30 - 2 for seniors. I'll try to get a weekday slot so it'll be alot easier to train too.

P.S. During training time, i don't want to see anyone doing anything else besides training (e.g. playing table soccer, slacking around) and also don't want to see anyone going to the staff toilet to bathe at ANY time.

some stuff to take note

1) Those who have not pass me your IVP jackets for embrodering, pass it to me BY wednesday before land training starts. Payment wise we'll talk about it later.

2) Idemnity forms for FCC is to be handed in also BY wednesday also. Compulsory for all to attend UNLESS u got attachment. Bring $15 when u hand in the form.

3)Realised i've not collected polo fund for quite awhile? It's time again!!! Xp
Everyone except wei long, ming xue and meng, bring $10 on sunday (7/10/2007) for Sep and Oct polo fund. wei long & ming xue bring $15 (july din pay) and meng bring $20 (july and june din pay)

4)I've also sent the receipts for the IVP T-shirts already. When the money comes i'll pass it to u all (food money also). So pls have patience.

5)Pls bring a file on sunday also. So i can pass the star certs back. Dun wanna have it lying in my house coz i got very little space in my room.

If got anything i left out, i'll post it up again. =)
Just curious, do any year 1s come to see this blog?

-soon-to-retire-captain

pics

here are some pics that can actually be found in lee's blog, i'm still waiting for the SRRR and NC pics so pls be patient

Match schedule for this sat

*NEW training schedule for holiday

Monday: 5.30pm - 8.30pm (land)
Wednesday: 5.30pm - 8.30pm (land)
Friday: 9am - 1 pm (pool)
Saturday: 11am - 1 pm (pool)
Sunday: 9am - 2 pm (pool)

As u can see the training schedules are kind of set already. For friday and sunday pool slots, year 1s will use the first 2 hrs on each day. As for land trainings, ONLY if u have attachment/sick/injured, then u're excused, or else u'll have to come for trainings.

Lastly, any questions as to whether there'll be training or not, pls msg/call me to avoid miscommunications.

training schedule for holidays

ok... here's the training schedules:

Monday - 5 p.m. (land)
Wednesday - 5.30 p.m. (land)
Thursday - 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. (pool)
Friday - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (pool)
Saturday - 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. (pool)
Sunday - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (pool)

Take note that land training will start AFTER Pestan Sukan, so all pls come (EXCEPT those with attachment). The pool slots MAY change after competition due to uneven hours, but it'll be like this meanwhile.

As for friday's slot, year 1s will come for the first 2 hrs followed by year 2s and 3s, so that transporting of boats can be done w/o anyone having to stay back just for it.

Match schedule

Here's the schedule for the matches:

Last pool slot before comp.

there'll be a pool slot for IVP players (both guys and girls) on 24th Aug. it's from 2 - 5 pm. The girls will be using the first 1 half hrs, so we'll use the other 1 half lor...

SO... be down at 3 so can prepare like warm up and stuff... =)

final group tables...

here's the final groupings for Nat Champs...

Table A - Rookies, Red Tide 2, SP C, NP 3
Table B - Red Tide 1, NUS 1, TP Freshies, Ocube
Table C - SP B, NP 2, NUS 2, Rowdy Boyz
Table D - TP Kakis, SP A, NTU 1, NTU 2

Rowdy Boyz - Rui Xiang
NP 2 - My team
NP 3 - Jun Wei

*Those who owes me money, pay me asap =)
jasper
meng
ming wei
royston
rui xiang
big benson

As for the t-shirt money, pass it to me asap also =) thanks

Just to let u know

The reason y i asked for ur exam times are so that extra pool slots can be arranged since Nat Champs are like so near... i'll update u all abt the pool slots again. but for now, pls dun get sick/injured/or any other funny things like HAND FOOT MOUTH!!! understand anot...

As for the photos for SRRR, i'll ask for it asap =)

Friendlies this week

Saturday:
Against SP (prolly year 2s and 3s). ALL to come pls.
Time: 11 to 1

Sunday:
Against Redtide and National Guys. ALL to come too pls.
Time: 9 to 2

Take this friendlies seriously, coz it'll be kinda our last 2 friendlies with other teams, and can roughly know where we stand. I would advice u all to push aside any other activities u may have on this 2 days. If it's time to train hard, it shud be now (shud have been earlier to those who ain't training hard).