Friday, March 26, 2010

Akira Swift Meet 2010

The annual Akira Swift Meet attracts hundreds of primary school athletes to participate in the Track and Field events. In fact, this is the only meet apart from the National Primary School Championship, that allows mass participation for the primary school level. However, the 2 day event was delayed by the bad weather, causing much waiting time for the athletes. Some of the athletes pulled out because of the rain and the long delay.

Although I'm dealing mainly with athletes age 16 and above, I am equally concerned about the primary school level kids. I noticed this young indian boy from Ang Mo Kio Primary winning both the 300m and 100m sprints, and he is considered small and short compared to his peers. I was really amazed by his really fantastic running style and posture. He could potentially be the next champion in the future! Good job for the coach!

As for the Reactiv group, we planned to use this meet as a training competition, and those who participated were as follows:
Calvin Kang - 100m, 4 x 100m
Shalindran - 400m, 4 x 100m
Hilmi - 4 x 100m
Jinglong - 4 x 100m
Prayaank - 100m, 4 x 100m
Melanie - 100m
Alfred sim - 100m, 4 x 100m
There was supposed to be more participation, but some of us were having strain and pain. We eventually decided to just send a small team.
It has been 3 years since my last competition and because of some "personal" reasons, I had to race with one of our athletes. Surprisingly, I did quite well even without training! Some of us had to do 3 races on that day, 100m heats and finals, and lastly the 4 x 100m. Team Reactiv, consisted of the "Past", the "Present" and the "Future", namely Alfred Sim, Calvin Kang, Hilmi, JingLong, did the relay legs respectively. We got 2nd in the timed finals.

In the 100m Men, 3 of our guys including myself were in the finals. Calvin Kang, Prayaank and Myself. Calvin did a 10.86s in the heats and 10.83s in the finals. Izwan and Shyam came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Please enjoy the videos!




Shalindran in the 400m Men Finals 1




Calvin Kang, Prayaank, Alfred Sim in the 100m Men Finals




Melanie in the 100m Women Finals

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Bionic Band

"Energy Therapy" is in trend now, as seen in the market. People wearing bands around their necks and wrists, sticking little pads on the shoulders, necks and legs to help ease pain as they believe strongly that these will help increase blood circulation. All these claims are true to a certain extent. In general, they do help in blood circulation and therefore increase the health benefits of the sedentary.

In one of my posts last year, I introduced this product called the BionicBand.
How it can help our body? How is this product different from those currently selling in the market? How does it look like? How many colours? How much is it?
Please click on the link below and find all the information in there!
www.reactiv.mybionicband.com

Watch the videos in the main page. I've done the balance test to all my friends and it works! It's fascinating. You can also visit my facebook page.

Reactiv on Facebook

Take a look at the photo album of those BionicBand Users!!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Testing Day in Singapore Sports School



Congratulations to Calvin Kang, who will represent Singapore in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha! The indoor Champs will take place from 12 to 14 March 2010, and is expected to become the biggest gathering in terms of participating nations in the history of these championships, exceeding the previous record set two years ago in Valencia.

In preparation towards the big day, we did a test on the 25th Feb, 40m acceleration. Calvin Kang, Yusman, Melanie and Ashiq did the test. Jinglong and Louis joined our training too. Jinglong did a series of 5 hurdles run. He has much room for improvement - he has to work more on speed and his technique over the hurdles. Ash is facing the same problem too, he might not be as coordinated as most athletes, but I can see his determination to learn and fix his problems.

This reminds me of a term that Loren Seagrave uses - " to re-engineer the athletes" and to quote him, " old saying - if it's not broken, don't fix it. New saying - if it's not broken, break it and fix it even better".



Enjoy the video clip!