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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Notice for meeting - 31/5/07

Date: 31/5/07 Thursday
Time : 1300 (time is CONFIRMED)
Venue: Victoria School

Agenda

Residential/Confirmation of year end trip
Updates on Service Section
Updates on skills section

Note

Missing posts are to be completed by meeting date
- Thomas - Summary for Swimming Skills for both feburary and april

NYAA Entry - Skills - Overview for May - Guitar

4th May 2007
- Practised the song Qi Li Xiang individually and as a group
- Revised plucking of notes (Melody)
- Learnt strumming techniques (Chords)

11th May 2007
- New Song: Xing Qing
-learnt new articulation techniques on the guitar
palm muting: using the palm to stop strings from vibrating
hammer-ons: playing a note and then pressing the string down while it is still ringing
pull-offs: playing a note while holding down the string and then letting go

18th May 2007
- Practised as a group for the strumming
- Revised Chord progression for the song (G, C, Em, C)
- Revised plucking for the song

25th May 2007
- Individual assesment of the song Xing Qing
- Learnt how to read tabs for the song
Phrases: smooth transitions between more than 2 notes
Slurs: smooth transitions between 2 different notes

Saturday, May 26, 2007

NYAA - Residential Project - Youth Service Learning Award: Missing Submissions


1st submission (13/5)

2nd submission (20/5)

Final submission (25/5)

Boon Kiat

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Calvin

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Edmund

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Jiawei

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Joseph

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Seth

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Thomas

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Zhan Liang

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Friday, May 18, 2007

NYAA Entry - Physical Recreation - Overview For March and April - Keep Fit

Participants: Boon Kiat, Joseph
Venue: Bedok Reservoir and TPJC
Total hours completed: 31 hours

Overview:
- Focus on stamina building
- Introduction to weight exercises
- Introduction to circuit training
- Cooper test
- 4.3 km run

MARCH
Dates: 23/3, 24/3, 26/3

Hours completed: 5 hours

When we started our first training, we decided to start slow. We jogged half a round around Bedok Reservoir and started doing our stretching. We proceeded with some upper body exercises: push-ups. We did 3 sets of push-ups which added up to a total of 100. After a short rest, we finished the remaining distance around Bedok Reservoir.

We were introduced to weight exercises which focus mainly on the training of our upper body. We started with barbells of 10 kg doing 3 sets of 12 counts of 6 different exercises, namely: barbell deltoid presses, barbell deltoid presses behind head, barbell deltoid rows, barbell curls, reverse grip barbell curls and alternating dumbbell deltoid presses.

By our third training we started on circuit training using Our aim was to achieve 7 sets in 60 minutes and we met our target by finishing in 58min 30 sec.

APRIL
Dates: 2/4, 4/4, 6/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, 13/4, 14/4, 16/4, 18/4, 20/4, 21/4, 23/4, 25/4, 27/4, 28/4

Hours completed: 26 hours

Warm-ups: 2km jog, stretching and 100 push-ups in 3 sets (start of every training)

Weights Training: Barbells of 10 kg doing 3 sets of 12 counts of 6 different exercises, namely: barbell deltoid presses, barbell deltoid presses behind head, barbell deltoid rows, barbell curls, reverse grip barbell curls and alternating dumbbell deltoid presses. There is an interval of 10 sit-ups in between every exercise.

Dates: 4/4, 6/4, 7/4, 13/4, 14/4, 18/4, 20/4, 21/4, 25/4, 28/4

21/4: We were able to handle barbells of 13kg. (13 kg barbell was used for subsequent weights trainings)

Circuit training: Four different stations around the TPJC stadium. Exercises include 10 pull-ups, 20 sit-ups, 20 back arches, 30 dips and 30 burpees in a set. 7 sets to be done.
Dates: 16/4 - 54min 45 sec

4.3km run: Timing was taken for the time we needed to complete a round around Bedok Reservoir.
Dates: 11/4: Boon Kiat: 26min 37 sec Joseph: 24min 47 sec
27/4: Boon Kiat: 22min 18 sec Joseph:
19 min 55 sec

Cooper test: Introduced to us on 9/4. We have to jog as much as we can for 12 mins. This is to check our progress of our stamina.
Dates: 9/4: Boon Kiat: 2.3km Joseph: 2.6km
30/4: Boon Kiat: 2.5km Joseph: 2.8km

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Missing Submissions

The following people are required to submit their submissions by the 1st week of April:

- Zhan Liang - 14th 21st 30th April Submissions for e & e Skills
- Seth - April Summary for Piano Skills
- Boon Kiat - Summary for PR from last wk of march to the end of April (joseph do next mth)
- Thomas - Summary for Swimming Skills for both feburary and april (now i den realise u oso own feb submission)

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

NYAA Entry - Skills - Overview for April - Guitar

13th April 2007
- Learnt to play different note values in the song: 500 miles
Quaver: Eighth note
Dotted note: Increases the value of the note by half
Tie: joining of two more note of the same pitch, second note(s) is not played but its time value is add to the first note
- Practiced on the exercises on G major
- Taught us strumming of chords
- Learnt new chord: D7.

20th April 2007
- individual assessment on the exercises on G major
- Combination of strumming of chords and plucking of notes for the songs in the exercises on G major.
- Exercises on F major 2 songs (involve playing of flat notes)

27th April 2007
- Individual assessment on the exercises on F major
- New Song: 七里香
- Taught us the reading of tabs (lines represent the strings, number represent the frets)
- Filling in of the notes of the new song
- Demonstration of the new song
- Brief practice on the new song

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Entry For Skills--Competitive Swimming--April 07

Entry For Skills
Swimming Training For April

Participants: Thomas

Overview:
- Endurance Training
- Timings for 50m freestyle
- 100m speed intervals

Venue: Geylang East Swimming Complex (Mon)
Chinese Swimming Club (Wed)

Date: 2/4, 5/4, 9/4, 12/4, 16/4, 19/4, 23/4, 27/4, 30/4
Hours completed: 18 hrs

As usual, we did our stretching exercises first before going into the pool. As warm up, we swam for about 10 laps (500m). As the days got closer to the start of swimming competitions, we began to train our strength and stamina by carrying out endurance trainings. This involves a series of long distance swimming of the different strokes and increasing the distance of the training for “pulling” so as to build up our arm muscles. Firstly, we swam 2x200m freestyle, having only 1 break after every 200m(4 laps). We also did 4x100m pulling strokes and 400m breaststroke. For every 100m that we swim, we would do 20 dips against the edge of the pool and another 20 push-ups against the edge of the pool alternately. We learnt a few techniques from the coach on perfecting our butterfly strokes. To carry out the butterfly strokes gracefully, the swimmer has to learn to propel himself outwards so as to create the momentum to push themselves over a greater distance in the water. Both the arms and the body have to be synchronized for every action of the butterfly stroke. To take part in the National inter junior college swimming competition, certain criteria in the timings would have to be met by the coach. Hence, we clocked timings for our 50m freestyle whereby it should not exceed around 34.0secs. Most of us were able to make it through the benchmark timing set by the coach. We also carried out 100m speed intervals so as to perfect everything ranging from our plunging techniques, somersault turns at the end of each lap and our pulling strokes for freestyle.