Yo everyone,
This is wenjing again. (Hint hint. Someone else please update the blog.)
Today's training was just practicing how to slay the target. Er. I mean hit. OH AND COACH MENTIONED GOING FOR A GERMANY FENCING TRIP. DAMN COOL RIGHT. I KNOW YOU GUYS THINK IT'S COOL TOO. WHOA GERMANY LEH. IT'S DAMN BEAUTIFUL.
Haha. Okay. We must all be excited and enthusiastic over it okay. JC life is short. Don't waste it all on PW. :D (even though i don't have it yet)

Coach mentioned something about opening FM to us on Friday and Tuesday or something. FOR MORE DETAILS, ASK BRYAN LEONG. He needs to do some work. :)
(i doubt many people are going though)

OKAY, cheers, wenjing and have fun for 'Feeling Fab'. while i suffer in lessons.

This week is review test week. :S
Fencing will probably start next Wednesday.
Good luck for RTs, everyone.

wenjing

Apparently, i was the only one who went for fencing today. And i survived through the whole session in a room of guys. :S I should have just slept at home... But at least i learnt something. I hope.
By the way, coach is still promoting his private lessons. (If you wanna take and you need to convince your parents to pay for it, coach can teach you how to make them pay for it willingly. ;D)

-wenjing

2010. :D

Okay. It's 2010 and we've had our handover. There are some changes to the exco positions, with the treasurer and secretary merging into one position and now, we have one male vice captain and one female vice captain namely bryan david and lesley. Secretary's Amanda Esther and captain's Bryan Leong.
We've fencing every wednesday mornings for the holiday, plus saturday morning from 8.30am to 2pm (?) for sabre girls (since all the guys took epee).
For your information, i'm currently the only IP1 in fencing and there're no IP2 in the club. SO, IPs, IF YOU SEE THIS BLOG AND YOU FEEL TEMPTED TO JOIN, PLEASE DO. ;D ;D ;D
p.s our new captain would love to have more kids to torture...
okay i shall go prepare for tomorrow's fencing. DO TAG!!!
wenjing =)

YO VJC FENCERS!
IT'S TIME TO REVIVE THE BLOG!!! IT'S BEEN DEAD FOR TOO LONG. FEEL FREE TO TAG OR POST ON THE BLOG.
wenjing ;D

First Aid 101

Within the next 48 hours, most of us Year 3 fencers would be boiling in tekong, and the rest of the team should be asleep, with visions of Novices dancing in their heads haha...

Am not going to write some inspiring posts cos actions speak louder than words, as the much-used cliche goes, and we've seen some pretty inspiring performances by people both within our team as well as those from other schools etc...

Rather, lets talk about hmmm battlefield first aid haha...

Now what can go wrong during competition with the body? Besides, of course, getting heavily corps-a-corpsed and landing on the nearby extension cord on the unplastroned side of the body? (Such things only happen once in a millenia, and since it already happened last year, it shouldn't happen this year)

Firstly, cramps, usually a result of not stretching. How can these be cured?
1. DO NOT apply ice cos it makes the muscle contract further and its becomes more painful.

2. Straightening the limb IS NOT the cure for cramp. Straightening the MUSCLE is. This especially applies to cramps to the calf and the upper thigh. At least some of us would probably have seen the effect of misguided cramp treatment during competitions in 2006. Suffice to say, the effect can be devastating.

3. The treatment is, straighten the muscle then massage upwards towards the heart. If one has the deep heat rub thingy, it helps too of course.

SO note: Do a proper warmup before the comp. And drink isotonic drinks etcetcetc during the comp. That's just about the best you can do.

Secondly, sprains and strains, usually a result of the joint being bent in a position which God did not intend our joints to go. This one, just use the RICE treatment

Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

Of course, usually only ice and compression is available during comp, so play it by ear.

Well these two are the usual two that plague me during comps haha... Of course, the list of possible injuries are endless... ranging from cuts to penetrating chest injury (say, if one trips and falls while running about holding a broken blade looking for a spare). For those, I guess you could ask our other resident first aider Atikah...

Anyway just to end off, this is a small slide show which I made of the 2005-2006 season... Just some memories yea...


So cheers all, be you NSF or student. Have a good term ahead!

Jon C

Happy 2007 everyone!