Sea Training!
September 07, 2008Long time no blog!
Alright, I'm having holidays now. That's FABULOUS. Haha. Brain cells no longer need to commit suicide and I can sleep till whenever I want. :D
I went for sea training ytd! It was fun. :D
I thought I would be late and kena punishment but who knows, there were people came in even late. Well, we waited for everyone at Clementi MRT station and Willard was the last to reach! Maybe he had got something on or what so was late.
Training started at 10am but we only reached Poly Marina at 10.10am. We weren't late for long though. Jiayao was waiting for Willard with us too. This would mean that.. There was no extra punishment for us. HEHE.
We did warm up and yea, sea training!
We revised on our Pawlata Roll because we didn't kayak for almost a month. I'm glad I was still able to roll up. I was afraid that I would forgot all the procedures to roll myself up. Anyway, Jiayao taught us Eskimo roll. I attempted to roll for like 3, 4 times and it all failed. This means that, I had to get rescued by other kayakers. Doing sea exit/ entry is very tiring, okie. My raft didn't have deckline some more, added to the difficulty on getting back into the kayak. -.-
Anyway, ytd I was like, 'die die also must learn how to do Eskimo Roll'. So, I kept trying and twice when I was able to get up when I failed the first attempt, trying the 2nd attempt, Muxing came to rescue me too fast. His raft touched my raft, then I think that was why I couldn't get up during the 2nd attempt. He said I should slap him. Haha. It's alright, dude.
Several attempts and I finally get to roll up. HEHEHE.
Willard then taught me how to use hip flip myself up when I was fully capsized with the aid of lifevest. Using lifevest to hip flip myself up was easy but not using the paddle. Failed for every attempt. -.- Nvm. I shall master it next time. LOL!
After several attempts on using paddle to hip flick myself, I gave up and practised on my Eskimo Roll. This sucked 'cos I couldn't do the Eskimo Roll suddenly. -.-!!! I asked JF to rescue me in case I really can't get up. I tried the Eskimo Roll and flip till half, I was down into the water so I continued to flip up and again, I failed. Last attempt before I was out of breath when still fully capsized in the sea, I used Pawlata Roll. Bloody hellllllll. Well, nvm anyway. I did it in the end. HEHEHE.
Oh yar, before that, the 6 of us who can do roll had to perform for Jiayao with all the skills we know and he would grade us. Loser would have to do 50 counts of jumping jet, sit up and push up each. OMG. This is scary. First to perform was Wenyi. HAHA. He wanna flaunt his skill la! He did the roll first. First attempt passed. He wanna do the 2nd time but failed so capsized. He scored 4/10. Everyone who gotta perform all only aimed just to beat his score so only Wenyi has to do the forfeit. Alright, Wenyi was the loser. HAHA. He did all the 50 counts. Hiong ar! Lol.
Jiayao performed the last. His performance was great. Speechless.
After all that, they came up with the diving contest. WALAO. Crap. We did our ugly diving. LOL. It was fun la, with all the craps they had. LOL. After diving, came up from the sea with the wind blowing.. The hair on ur hands would stand la! SO FREEZING COLD. OMG.
THEN, we continued our training. Jiayao taught us 3 more skills which are so difficult. I couldn't even do one la. LOL. He let us practised after we performed and all of us were practising the rolls and all. I was then stucked in between Wenyi and JunFeng. -.- JunFeng used me as a block to prevent Wenyi from getting him. Guess what? In the end they both capsize me and kayak off without even rescuing me la. We were very near the big canal already. Current was big ytd and within mins we would be drifted from one end to another. -.- I was afraid of being sucked into the canal so asked Jx, Rongyuan and Shini to rescue me. LOL. Shini took my kayak and kayak away from the canal. Rongyuan carried my paddle and lastly, I held onto Jx's raft and he kayaked to the front too. One capsized and 3 came to the rescue. LOL.
Anyway, although it was pretty windy and not much sunlight but I'm still sunburnt in the end. Towards the end of training and the sun came out shining bright. My face and arms are all red and my face is like having thousands of needles poking on it. -.-Nvm, I'm glad that I'm tanned again. HEHEHE.
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