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2:24 pm hahahahaha. Okay, this has to be real short cause I need to go play badminton with len after at 3pm. And this post is specially for Renee Lim cause I know she's gonna have alot to ask.

So this morning went to NUS bright and early and had breakfast there. :D hahahaha. My favourite place because it's so cheap and doesn't burn a hole in my pocket.

Then headed to the pool, and wah, this team (not very sure whether it's even considered one) is very different. the training was supposed to start at 9am, and even at 9am, there was me and one other guy there. I was like -.-, wah, the discipline abit the champion. Anyway, so turns out I was the only girl who went for training today which isn't all that bad, cause the guys are not all that strong anyway. :D But all of them were there before so uhm, I was quite blur.

So first things the instructor taught me was like how to carry the boat and all that (learnt in 1 star, but this craft is alot lighter than the one used in 1 star, so renee if u can't really carry the 1 star boat i forgot what it's called, it's fine) (:, then had to learn to use the spray deck thing, which is worn like a skirt, but the NUS ones are full of holes, so when u cap (which you have to) water gets into the boat anyway.

And then when first get into the boat, it's abit hard and abit hard when you first put on the deck, as in put the deck onto the boat not the deck on yourself. Mr Chua helped me the first time round, and he made me cap and pull my spray deck out, and just come out. Hmm, canoe polo involves alot of capping and being confident in water, so I'm not all that a kiasi person and I already found it abit daunting sometimes when I couldn't get myself back up, so it's really not for those who are not too comfortable with water. So then uh, yeah, then I kayakes/rowed up and down for warm-up, we all had to do that, then we had to dribble. 

Dribbling is like you throw the ball a certain distance in front of you, you kayak/row, up to it, and then throw and kayak/row and yeah. That's the idea. Then after dribbling, I had to learn how to cap and get myself out, which really is like OMGZ. Okay, so first with the wall, it was easy. It should be easy for an average person with average arm strength and uhm torso/hip/ass (that group of muscles) strength. Then, moved on to using the coach's boat. Which was still managable. Then the paddle. Wah, I think I must have tried it at least 12 times, and only succeeded twice. GRRR.

And the thing is this capping thing is important cause the moment you're in possession of the ball, your opponent can cap you, and you must be able to get yourself out. GRRR, so today when I was playing, the whole time i was trying super hard not to cap or let myself get capped cause if i did, I'm dead, and I a) will just pull my whole spray deck out or b) uh, wait for the instructor, but really, I think I'd have just pulled the whole thing out.

Okay, so other than my inability to do that, everything else was quite okay, quite intuitive in a sense. throwing was quite alot like lobbing when playing badminton. Then boat skills I guess it just comes with practice. Hmm, we played different different games, but all of it mostly with the objective of improving uh, boat control, ball handling, stuff like that. Like monkey, then like basketball-ish kind of things, yeah. Quite interesting.

So, yeah, that's about it, really, it's alot on the torso/hip/ass thing. :D

Then I just swam a few laps to end of and then headed home. Waited damn freaking long for the 52 outside ngee ann poly. GRRR. Okay, gotta go now, badminton with lennard. WHEE, feels great that i'm exercising so much. Allows me to eat guilt-freely. :D