Good Or Bad?

Hi everyone, I have no idea why am I making this post. But as an ex-dragonboater and as a very highly competitive personnal, I would like to make some very individualistic comments so please if you are offended by this post, I am sorry.


Comment 1:

My main rule of joining a competition; that is to win. I am a very bad loser. Face it: who likes to lose? I would never want to cheat to win but I want to win. When you lose, you just waste your time, your money and your efforts. Everything that you have given up for the competition is no longer a sacrifice, it just became a waste. If you said that you have done your best in a competition BUT you LOST, guess what; your best isn't enough. I had never, ever believed that you should join a competition to gain learning experience or go there to have fun. I go there to win.


Comment 2:

My head coach, Chaang, has always told me that in the world of cheerleading, changing teams, or what some people call, jumping ships, is what everyone considered a taboo. No one will do it and no one must do it. Otherwise, people will despise you. But why is it? Let me get this straight to your face: If I am a captain of the team and my team member decided to change team, I wouldn't blame him or her. I will blame myself for not being able to keep that person. I would think am I not making the team good enough or strong enough to keep his/her passion going and there is no longer anything for me to teach that person or is it because I had made him/her feel that this is the peak of the team and it could go no further. Either way, I want to put it to you in this scenario:

You are currently in a soccer team. This team has never gone pass anything more than the prelims in any organizations. You know your skills are good enough and you know in your heart that you can keep improving but there is nothing else the team members can teach you and there is no way for you to further your skills. However, another team has seen your skills and invited you down to join them. They promise to nurture you to the point of a star. Not only that, this team alway falls in the TOP 3 in no matter what competition they join. Now the thing is, even though your team is not progressing, you enjoy being with them. You guys are a family. All of you pocess the bonds, the life and the emotions. You know that if you were to go, you might just leave them with nothing and the team might even disband. Both ways are hard. Which one will you choose?

Personally, after giving it much thought(I am still a human you know. I have feelings -.-!), I would go over to the other team and get trained to be the best. I only have 1 life and in this lifetime, I would do everything humanely possible to achieve as much as I can. What about the feelings about the team? If they are my friends, they need to know that it is time for me to move on and they need to understand. If not, suck it up cos I am going. If anyone were to say that true friends won't abandon each other, then mature up and get this into your thick skull: TRUE FRIENDS WILL NEVER BE A LIABILITY TO YOU. IF THEY KNOW THEY CAN NO LONGER KEEP UP WHEN THEY ARE STILL STAGNANT AND YOU ARE FOREVER IMPROVING NO MATTER HOW THEY TRY, THEY WILL LET YOU MOVE ON FOR THE BETTER OF YOUR LIFE TO ACHIEVE MORE. No matter what, we are still friends in different ways =)


Comment 3

Now that we have settled the rest up there. there is another thinking I want to correct. I can remain small, big, fat or tall blah blah blah to cheer. It is OK for me to do so as it is just cheerleading. Dude you are carrying girls on your shoulders and the very palm of your hands weighting up to 50kg. What makes you think you don't need to be strong? Do you see the very best in the series of champions who are small or average? Lookie down there >.<

Andrew Ong (Magnum Force)

Cheng Zhi Liang (WildCards)

Jimmy Lin (Denvers)

Weng Weng (ACES Team A)

Gerard (ACES Team B)

XP (Ex-ACES Base)

XingWei (Cheer Idol)

These are just the very few examples and there are many more catching up. Strength and Size (I think University of Kentucky represents all of these the best) is the key to all sports. Soccer, Rugby, Track and Field, American Football, Cheerleading , DragonBoat, Water Polo, Figure Skating, Martial Arts; what are the key element in all these sports? All of them hit the gym. If you take supplements, good for you. It is the MAIN thing you need to grow. Normal food help mainly in RECOVERY. For further growth, I believe in supplement. Otherwise, you will be SOMEWHERE there but NEVER there. =) These, like I said, are personal opinions. If you take these into consideration, thanks. If you want to flame me, then I will just take it. But to each of his own. This is Gary from WildCards signing off. I am now going to sleep T.T