So, I am here with a post on polo, no not the polo sweets, but my CCA Waterpolo. Recently, I have been having a few troubles with my game. Whenever we are doing ball handling, I cannot seem to pass or receive the ball well, passing the ball either too low, too high, too hard, or too light. All these really led to my poor performance. My coach always tells me, "Dexter, if you are unable to even pass properly, how are you going to play waterpolo?" He also said once before, "Dexter, your basics are gone. You really need to go and remember." These sentences really caused a great impact on me and have been ringing in my head all the time whenever I am playing waterpolo. Because of this incessant reminder of myself, I felt myself being extremely careful whenever I pass. However, this has caused me to be so careful that I sometimes lose the confidence of passing well and my mind just goes blank, not knowing where and how to pass properly. In the end, I sometimes pass the ball out or at the wrong position of my teammate. I have been rebuked several times because of my poor technique being displayed in the game, causing my team to lose the ball to the opposing team easily.
As a result of this, I have been really dejected, not knowing what got into me, why my play is worsening. When we did sprints on one day, because I felt really despondent, I sprinted before my captain even told us to. This caused him to be really irritated and I really am sorry about that. So, here I am apologising to my captain, Darren.
I have reflected and I could come up with two reasons. Firstly, it is because I have not been taking training seriously, which should not be the case because I made sure I trained hard whenever I went down to training. Another reason, which should be the accurate reason, is because of my council duties and projects. As a result of these, I have been skipping training quite often, thus causing my skills to deteriorate. But now, I have been going training diligently and train really hard to buck up because I do not have as much duties now. I really hope I will be able to do well in the National Competition.
I have written what I want to say and I thank you for looking at this post of mine, lending me a "watching eye" although I don't really know if you are. Now that I'm done with this post, I have to go for my late dinner!
P.S. Do you face any difficulties with your CCAs? How do you cope with them?
I do face some difficulties in my CCA, judo. I have time management issues but I have learnt to cope with it already. However, I have been reprimanded by my coach for slacking too, even though sometimes I try hard to fight and train. The Judo nationals are in april, which is in 2 months time and I feel the pressure. Dexter, you have to learn to relax, its not only you who is feeling this way. I'm sure many of our classmates have the same feelings. But we are in this together as a class aren't we?
ReplyDeleteMing Hao, I do agree with you about this stress we all feel from our EP3s. Thank you for giving me the support, especially in your last line. It really made me feel much better. :)
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