Monthly Archives: November 2020

Running club – Final Reflection

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#LO5: Working together to achieve an outcome

Although I was part of the school running club and I had to train with the school team, I mostly trained with running club called Singapore Shufflers. A few of the members of the school running team are part of this club too so we trained and collaborated with each other most of the time. During days that we did not have training at the club, we would run with the school team in the mornings so that we do not fall behind in training. It was really easy to work together because we were all from the same school and training with the same club so we had a common goal to meet. Collaboration or teamwork in this sport was more like a motivation for me. Just training with a bunch of people who had similar passions as me and worked towards achieving the same goal pushed me and lifted my confidence in running which I believe made my performance incredible.

The following is the link to one of the Running competitions I attended

Singapore Shufflers Time trial

Saxophone – Initial Reflection

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#L0 1 : Increased awareness of strengths and areas for personal growth

Having put in as much effort as possible into overcoming the squeak that I normally made when playing the saxophone, I finally got through it. However, not fully. There are still instances when I make the squeak but it only happens rarely. All I did was practice all the drills that my saxophone teacher taught me e.g breathing, fingering techniques and just learning more music theory . The squeak helped me to realize that I really need to improve my fingering when playing the saxophone. Eliminating this squeak was not an easy thing to do since I was not really sure what caused it.

As such I practiced a lot and worked towards perfecting my techniques which turned out effective in the end. This practicing did not just minimize the squeak but also improved the quality of sound in overall. The major struggle I came across was the lack of time which forced me to employ effective time management strategies. But even so, there was still a lot of school work to do so this meant I practiced less than I usually did as I had to prioritise.

Running club – Initial Reflection

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#LO 1 : Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth

Running has always been a crucial part of my daily routine. Thus I was super excited to be joining the high school running club as this meant I got to run together with other people. I enjoy long distance running and this club happens to be based on that so I believed that would just make things super easy for me. I have improved considerably in terms of the stamina I need to run long distances since I had been running a lot recently. I also run with another running club outside school so this put me in a very strong position. The reason I have struggled in some areas was because o injuries. The injuries were certainly not as bad or frequent as they used to be but at some point I had to suspend training so I gave myself time to recover and go back to form.