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!

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Allcomer 2 - 2010

Despite all the recent controversies, SAA maintained their professionalism and organised the Allcomers in Bukit Gombak Stadium well. I observed an effort being made to feed live results on the wall of the photo finish room. That was something new and very interesting, just like the big screens that replay the runs and display the results straight after the event.

It was quite a good turn out, especially for athletes gearing up for the National schools competition which will happen in less than 2 months time. However, none of the 4 x 100m relay boys were seen competing in the sprints event. Will they be ready for the big games at the end of the year? Or are they just interested in regional meets and games?

As usual, I encouraged our guys to take part in the 100m and 400m. It was great to see that they were not tired after the race. At this phase of the year, my target is to get my guys’ fitness levels up, so that they can sustain higher intensity training as we progress into the season. As such, it seems that we are heading down the right track.

Our guys tried their best to run a good race; however the time clocked didn’t look as promising. It is still early in the season, and this is only the 2nd competition of the year. Many competitions along the way are lined up for us, so we just have to stay focused and reproduce what we do in training.

Here are some of the videos that I took, please pardon the quality for now…



Ash in the 100m





Ash in the 200m




Melanie in the 100m




Calvin Kang in the 100m




Yusman, Shalindran, Hilmi, Amos, Prayaank and Joseph in the 100m




Amos in the 400m




Prayaank in the 400m




Kenneth Khoo, Shalindran, Calvin Kang in the 400m




Hilmi in the 400m

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Malaysia Open 2009

It has been a long long time since I last blog about our training. Many things happen in the Athletics scene and seems that it's a mixture of good and bad news. 2 months ago I represented SAA, together with Miss Chan our National High Jump coach, took a bus trip up to KL Bukit Jalil Stadium to compete in the Malaysia Open. I went up by myself first just to attend the Team Manager meeting. Miss Chan and the team went up on the 2nd day and arrived in one of the hotel in town. However, due to lack of transportation, the team waited patiently for me.

It was my first visit to Bukit Jalil Stadium and it was fantastic. Most athletes from our south east asia region came and took part in the Open meet, countries like Korea and Taipei were there to join in the fun. That was the time where I witnessed Dipna broke the Junior and the Senior record for the 100m women hurdles on the same day. Pls enjoy the video!

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BionicBand - Make your orders now!!

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World Championships 2009 Berlin

It has been a long time since I last blogged about our training. After a long trip for the World Champs, I've got heaps of work to settle and had no time to blog about my experience in Germany. It has been 2 weeks since I got back and at last I've completed my top priority stuff.
I'm sure everyone has watched the World Record being broken by Usain Bolt in the 100m and the 200m. It was phenomenal! Everything was so fast I couldn’t even analyse what was going on. But I’m sure you can check it out on Youtube. If you have been reading our training blog, you would have seen the training videos we did during our stay in Bremen. Coach Hosni, Hakeem and Balpreet went to Berlin and started their stay in the Team hotel arranged by the Berlin World Champs committee. After lots of hassle, they finally managed to check in to a hotel where most star athletes were staying in. You can view their Facebook account for the photos posted!

I went to Germany for a separate mission. I was with the team for the training camp, after which we went our separate ways. I was involved in the World Class Coaches Club organised by Dr Frank Dick, President of EACA, and member of IAAF Coaches Commission. It was a wonderful experience I met close to 40 coaches all over the world, from Canada, Poland, UK, Chile, Greece, Australia, Norway, and Finland. I think I was the only Asian representative. The Head coaches and elite coaches from different disciplines were always ready to share their ideas and experiences. I’ve learnt so much from them… it’s truly a blessing…

We went to the stadium to watch the championships everyday from the 1st event till the last event. It was one of the biggest events I’ve ever been to. The crowd was fantastic, security was tight, and the atmosphere was awesome. My accreditation pass allows me to be in the VIP area, where free flow of food and drinks were served. I was even rubbing shoulders with track stars like Maurice Greene, Donovan Bailey, Linford Christie, Wilson Kipketer, Kim Collins, Michael Johnson etc…

Ralph Mouchbahani, in charge of the BOC culture stadium and local co-ordination, was the man running the whole show, and entertaining our requests. He was indispensable throughout the championships and his cell phone was constantly ringing. Without him, most things could not have been done; like arranging for a meeting room to conduct mini seminars, for discussion with guest speakers.

Interestingly, I met this big guy and he was the one who introduced the BionicBand to me, Andy Miller. Miller, in case you don’t know, is known as the best ‘Mr Fixit’ in the track and field business. He has worked with a host of the world’s top athletes including the likes of former and current Olympic champions – Maurice Greene, Jeremy Wariner, Haile Gebrselassie, Shawn Crawford, Veronica Campbell-Brown and Hicham El Guerrouj, just to name a few. In the next blog post I will explain more about the BionicBand. Several top athletes are wearing this now. Meanwhile, if you are interested, please visit http://www.bionicband.com/ or http://mybionicsports.com/

You can email me for more information as well!

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