Went for paintball. Whole team wasn't around, only Kenny and Jordan came. But team blitz was there. they were newcomers so we played with them. 3 on 3s.

I generally played dorito side since jordan was playing snake side. Learnt quite a few things from the mistakes i made.

Dorito bunker - Remember to stay tight to the bunker. The edges of the bunker make it unpredictable when balls come in along the sides.

When moving up, if i also catch another player moving up. And u see the other guy quickly take cover, don't bother hiding also, go out and BUNKER him.

I got the opportunity to play back. I believed i did a great job shutting lanes down and keeping their backs pinned in. Was exceptionally please when jordan commended on my communication which was loud and precise.

I watched the Red Sevens do some drills which i think will be good to implement into my own time or during team training. they did a snap shooting drill. where they started in a power position with the thighs in a 90 degree position then moving up to a bunker. do a snap shoot then move up to another bunker to snap shoot but the secondary bunker has another guy firing back. A real good drill. Practices snap shooting reflexes.

The last 2 games were played with a 4 on 4. with Tom joining us. And team blitz had some outlaw guy join them. They called him Jose and he's a snake player. and he's fast. I was playing dorito side and was tasked to shut him down but the bunkers didn't allow it. These last 2 games were extremely fast not even lasting 5 minutes on the field each.

The first of these last 2 games was a blur coz it happened too fast but we won. The only thing i remember was me laning back left from dorito corner and moving up to the 2nd dorito only to see tom waaayyy up front bunkering the last guy out. WOW. Epic. good to take noters from tom. he's one fo the pioneers in paintball. real great.

The last game was similar. happening fast. i remember running and gunning to the first dorito in vain attempt to get Jose out. I quickly bumped up to dorito 2 and got a guy out of the tombstone infront of snake. Think i bonus balled him, but the balls all bounced off him. and i heard kenny from the bunker just behind me and i pinned the last guy out as kenny bunkered him out. we ended the game with 4 man alive. rather impressive.

after the game i was told that jordan was pinned at the tombstone adjacent to the snake at Jose already went into the snake but Tom went up to bunker him. EPIC. a real pioneer.

And after today, i really really think i'm suited to play a mid position. A mix of both. Of aggression and passiveness. Of providing firepower yet supporting it. Damn cool. With jordan helming the snake and Derek on Dorito side, think i'll do Mid.

Heartbreakers have lost Zai to Rampage Onslaught and Roc to studies. So we're kinda short of players. There's like Kenny, Yazid, Jordan, Derek, Me, Chee Yong.. maybe Ben Junior can come back. that leaves a slot for one more guy.

anyways, i think jordan really needs to get more aggressive. Must find some drills to help him out. He's real small and that's an advantage. Imagine aggression in a small package. Damn. Snake's gonna be HOT with jordan in. So yeah. he needs to build on his aggression.


I think i want to get a rotor. lol.

This section is gonna be about fishing.

Now monsoon season. The water in jurong lake can get really dirty. Sunset way too. So avoid fishing these areas during monsoon season.

Pandan reservoir. Clear. Right side of the linkway has got peacock bass.

gonna look into using lots of yozuri and topwater lures

A long time since i've update this blog.
This section is gonna be about running and Standard Chartered Marathon.

I've bought 2XU shorts tights and an Ultimate Nutrition PR 10 single bottle.
I ran with the Standard Chartered Asics event running tee. It's good. think i'm gonna buy another shirt with the correct size (S) and a different colour.

The marathon was good. Managed to last until 39km before the pain in the calves and foot started throbbing like mad.

Gonna look into purchasing the full-length tights for the needed compression on my tighs and the calves. Especially the calves where i experienced pain in the later stages of the marathon.

Gonna look into purchasing the Cho-Pat Full Knee support. The ITB strap proved to be priceless and worth it's weight in gold or more as it supported me thruout the whole run. No ITB problems at all. But there was pain under the left kneecap along the outer side. That's why i think i'll need the full knee support.

i would also like to look into the GU energy gel packs. I saw irsyad eat one and he had energy for the last lap of the dash to the finish. Really remarkable given that he was half an hour more into the race than i was.

Gonna look into midfoot running and implement it. Think it's a good way of running. Think i'm gonna put buying of new shoes on a hold first. My Adidas Adizero Tempo are still holding good.

After today's run.. I really need to get those 2XU tights and also a running bottle belt.. today's run showed me that i can perspire till my shorts get wet and that 1hour into the run, i need some fluid replacement..

Haven't been updating here much lately..

In the midst of a 6 week marathon training plan.. this week is week 2..

tmr shall go for a 2hr run, irregardless of distance.

Confirmed, northern side to fish at jurong lake is full of snags. Not a good place for suspending and sinking lures. Topwater and normal floating crankbaits are recommended but with minimal crank. Lots of structure under the water.

Small 5-6inches sized fish are common in jurong lake and swim in groups. Saw 3, footlong peacock bass caught by an uncle. So there must still be big peacock bass in the water, just need to find the right spot. 

Saw the long stretch of sunset way, looks promising. Will try when i get my bike.

Archery, though shall NOT meddle with grip and add epoxy. It doesn't work for actual shooting. Normal grip is okay. no need to modify. learnt something on blurry sight picture. 

A sight pin/dot should be the main focus and let the target be a blur. Reasons are that the yellow does not move so the main focus should be to place the dot into the yellow circle. Plus, when it's raining or in condition where the target is hard to see (for example, varying distances) it's much easier to focus on the sight pin/dot rather then try to get a clear picture of the target. Changed my sight pin to the one with the fluoro pin.

Want to Buy:
Inno Ex Prime Limbs 68" 36lbs.
65.5" string from blingstrings.

Nike 10k Run
Personal Best Beaten with a new timing of 53:39 on my watch.
Have to wait for Nike to send me the chip timing.

Fishing:
Jurong Lake
1 catch
Big fat zebra tilapia on Rapala X-rap.. another falls to the x-rap.
after rain, very close the the shore, cloudy, overcast sky..

Time of catch: 1000-1030
Fish start to surface at 0930

8km run

47:39minutes..

Started off very slow.. but i like it =)

Developed a new, hopefully more energy efficient, stride..

the idea is to minimise lifting the knees but maintaining a fast flexion at the knee.

Moving the heel closer to the butt, unlocking calf and hamstring muscle potential..

Good Run.

Fishing:

Jurong Lake Northern Promenade.

Banks are lined with trees, caution on the casts.

Water has lots of rubbish, only poppers and topwater lures to be used. Anything other than this, would result in reeling in lots of rubbish.

Rapala X-rap drew in lots of rubbish.

Rattlin Rapala lost due to getting ensnared in rubbish.

Yozuri Arms Popper lost up on a tree due to improper cast.

Skitter Pop fun to use and has lots of control and good action, better than Yozuri Popper.

Catch Report = 0

Pasir Ris Beach.

Saltwater luring.

Sungai Api-api sides and Tidebreakers steep inclined walls may get lures ensnared.

Luring from the Beach, ankle deep in water.

High tide moving onto low tide.

Used Rapala X-rap.

Taught Ryan how to fish, while reeling in about 5m to shore, got a medium sized Barramundi. Pic will be up soon.

Another angler got a big catfish in a similar fashion using the same Rapala X-rap.

Catch Report = 1

Tuesday 12/10/10
-Gym. 7.5kg dumbbells Supersets, incline dumbbell press neutral grip 7.5kg, Hammer curls 5kg, tricep pulldown 30lbs.

Wednesday 13/10/10
- 5km run 25min 42seconds

Bought a total new spinning set today, from E-waves Fishbyte:

A Rod Ford Creation Magnum Shoot and Crank Spinning Stage.

A Daiwa Sweepfire 2500 spinning reel

and also bought several lures, all from Rapala:

2 Skitter Pop

a Mini Fat Rap

a Rattlin' Rapala

and an X-Rap.

And a new braided line:

Berkley Fireline Crystal

Learnt a whole lot of new things today from Melvin. The Shop assistant that helped me with my selection of equipment. He gave me a good price discount and also good insight, tips and techniques of much better fishing.

Learnt about drag and it's purpose: to tire the fish out. Let the fish take the drag then once you feel the drag slowing down, tap the drag to stop it then reel it in and fight the fish.

Learnt about the types of rod action and how the action of the rod determines the amount of action that you get from good fights with slow action rods which bend close to the grip to ultrafast rods that bend right at the tip which provide good easy hooksets on the fish but not much of a fight.

Learnt about the some ways to work the lure. Twitch, then reel in the slack then twitch again.

He mentioned that Luring is challenging cause it makes the fisherman think. Many variables affect the success of a fisherman's luring, he said to think like the fish. Like when in the morning when the water is still cool, go for a deep diving lure to get to the fish at the bottom. Then when it starts to get warm when the fish are aggressive and feeding, go for topwater lures or shallow ones. Local freshwater fish such as peacock bass and snakeheads are aggressive and go for topwater lures. Just have to work the bait right.

After today's shopping session. I will most definitely PATRONISE E-waves fishbyte.

Learnt a couple of things from FishingNewsRoom.

The shock/bite leader line has to be 3 times the strength of the main line..

For example, 10lb braid with 30lb fluorocarbon leader.

The amount of weight to be put on a line is 1 ounce for every 10lbs line in the shock leader.

I'm thinking of getting a full Daiwa set.

Daiwa Promaster baitcasting reel

Daiwa Procyon rod

And I found a fishing tackle shop in clementi -- E-waves Fishbyte.

Monday 4/10/10

Fishing: Location Jurong Lake, Used a Yozuri Popper. My brother and his buddies used live guppies which got them 2 peacock bass which they released. Lots of peacock bass eating flies off the water surface. Looks like a good spot for fly fishing. Read a fly fishing forum yesterday and seems interesting.

Use of guppies means have to use smaller lures such as the Yozuri Aile Goby. Really need to get a new rod. Zul's proper rod with a rapala popper provided great cast and great line twitching.

May take up fly fishing soon.

Fished at Pandan Reservoir.

I lost the Yozuri Rattl 'N Vibe lipless crankbait after it snagged among the vegetation. =(.

Lesson learnt: Crankbaits and other lures are to be used exclusively in open water. Only floating types and those such as poppers to be used near vegetation.

On the upside -- i learnt 2 new easy and strong knots.. the San Diego Jam Knot and the Perfection loop..

Saturday 25/09/10

- archery. back to my 40lbs marked weight Winex, but on the fingers at 42lbs.

Got the torso twisting and the bow arm problem understood. Bought a new M sized Cavalier Elite Cordovan fingertab. The new new anchor and head position allows for better clearance under the chin, so no more abrasion cuts under the chin from fingertabs. Also understood the"thumb pulled back" part.

Monday 27/9/10

- Gym: Melt Fat with Muscle workout. Bronco Gym. 10kg plates barbell for deadlift, squat, bench press. 5kg hammer curls, lying tricep extensions and forward shoulder raise.

Tuesday 28/9/10

- Fishing: Changi Kelong Walk. Paternoster fishing rig. Bait prawn. Caught one striped eeltail catfish and one big black eeltail catfish. Total of 2 for the night. Lost my Zerek crankbait. Really need to work on my fishing knots. Bought a new Yo-Zuri Rattl'N Vibe lipless crankbait.

Wednesday 29/9/10

- Gym: Melt Fat with Muscle workout 2. Clubfitt gym at Jurong West Stadium. The barbells here weigh heavier so the 10kg plates plus heavy barbell gave quite a challenging workout. 7.5kg dumbbells decline dumbbell press, normal dumbbell press. 5kg hammer curls and lying tricep extension. 60lbs cable row.

Saturday 18/9/2010

- Archery.. need to gain my strength back, and also work on my new form. Inno grip is fine on it's own. Don't need to mod for me..

- 5km run after archery, kinda tiring. But need the fat-burning, cardiovascular workout. Completed in 30 minutes.

Tuesday 21/9/2010

- Gym Training, 2 abs workout, a chest workout and arms workout.

Incline chest press w 10kg weights, incline chest flys with 7.5kg. single arm dumbbell press w 7.5kg. Bicep curls w 7.5kg. Triceps with 30lbs.

Wednesday 22/09/2010

- 2 rounds, coastal route approx 4.8km in 20minutes.

10km run

1hr 10minutes.

not that good. but owing to many factors. it's not that bad

personal best still at 50m 21s.

need to ramp it up for the next 10km.

knees freaking hurt..

could it be there was no warmup and an improper cooldown..?

what a waste to not know..

so have to strengthen them too during gyminh.

Bowel problems again.. have to check this out again..

Okay so I haven't been going for archery for quite some time..
I know I've written this down in my main blog but since this blog is for training purposes, thought that i'd put it down here too.

I haven't been going to archery in quite some time partly due to the fact that it's the fasting month, but mainly cause i injured my shoulder. Now it's healed. But now i have a dilemma.

I wanna purchase some new stuff.. But both for paintball and archery..
Which should i choose..?

Paintball:
Empire E-vents Thermal Yellow Lens
Empire Grind Knee Pads
Empire React 3+6 Pack
NXe Pods

Archery:
Win&Win 10inch HMc sidestabs Black
Cavalier Elite Cordovan Fingertab small
Cap weights
Base/mid weights

The archer in me wants the archery stuff, since fasting month is coming to an end and now that my shoulder is healed i can work on my form change again. Plus i need the cavalier tab for the change too.
The paintballer in me wants the stuff so that i can look much cooler with the yellow lens amd i can save my knees with the pads. but come to think of it, I'm not gonna be involved with SPS 2010 coz Heartbreakers has already fielded 7 players. And i don't think i'll be playing with other teams coz i've seen the others and, besides for team CK, i don't seem to click with them well.. I'll most probably be crewing for Heartbreakers during SPS. And it's not more of a need, the items are a want.

270810

8km run while fasting and holding back on a rectal explosion

Time: 58m 20s

Need to do more running in the lead up to Standard Chartered.

2208010

Need to work on my snapshooting in the snake. Gonna try out Maximus' rollout snapshooting from the snake.

Need to work on my individual marker-handling skills:
- switching hands
- find a way to aim when off-handed
- any excess paint after training goes to switch hands training in shooting gallery

Overview of game vs Outlaws.
- breakoff, running to snake back & gunning towards the centre, as gun movement laning to the centre is faster (more balls there) then laning snake while running.
- laning snake to be done by back center/central players.
- when bumping up from snake back to snake, dive straight into snake 1 and not into snakehead.

Snake reference:
How to play snake
Guide to paintball

Intro

The purpose of this blog is simply an avenue for me to randomly jot down any progression i've made in anything that I do. My life's progression. Anything and everything that i have to take a mental note off, mistakes to be corrected, good actions to be repeated etc.

Usual topics/tags
- Archery
- Paintball
- Soccer
- Fishing
- Weight-training