Month: October 2020

CAS October Reflection 2 (Activity + Creativity)

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End October Reflection

Creativity

Recently, I have been listening to a song called 刻在我心底的名字, it is a theme song for the movie 刻在你心裡的名字, I really liked the song so I decided to draw something based on the movie, I referenced to the image on the left. This took me about an hour to make, it was really a fun a stress-relieving process. After a day of work, this was a good productive way to relieve myself. the process wasn’t really complicated, I put the reference image as the bottom layer and I outline the characters, then I turn them into my own style of art through coloring.

 

Activity

  • I continued my basketball session, I start from 5 and practice to 6:40 am, I practice on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  • I played scrimmages every Saturday with Basketball Club

In October, I spent more time playing basketball, sometimes, I would practice twice a day, morning practice, afternoon scrimmage, and on Saturday, we would play scrimmage with very high intensity because the coach is there. My goal is to make Basketball Varsity this year. Regardless of the result, I will continue to practice basketball in the morning, because It benefits me from multiple ways rather just my basketball skills, my learning outcome for this CAS experience will be Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth, and Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences. 

What am I practicing:

This video is one of my practice day, this was filmed on Monday, on Monday, I was focusing on one single move, which is crossover, I was practice the footwork of it, and how to shift weight from left to right/right to left using my hips. I definitely improved a little, however, my dribbling is still not as shifty, because I can’t shift my weight to quickly, and my dribble is also a little laggy –> Reasons: Not explosive enough (Lack of Muscle Strength, Less Fast twitch muscle), Bad coordination because I can’t dribble low with fast speed.

I practiced dribbling for an hour, and for the next 40 minutes, I started my shooting drill as usual, I include shooting drill in every session because my target position for basketball team is small forward or shooting guard. So shooting accuracy is a crucial area I need to master.

My Experience:

I don’t feel tired anymore when I wake up, and I can automatically wake up at around that time. This has made my morning routine way better because sometimes if I have too much homework, I will choose to spend the morning to write my homework. This is why I choose to play on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Tuesday and Thursday are for studying, even if I don’t have homework that day, I will still wake up and do something else, because if I always wake up at different time, it will ruin my body clock and cause a lot of acne.

For my vertical program, I stopped this week to completely focus on Basketball, and I’m going to stop from November 1 to November 6th, because we have a basketball tryout week.

 

 

CAS October Reflection 1 (Service)

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Service

In my junior year, became president of Charity Art Club, and for the first event, we collaborated with Gin Club, together, we made 50+ hand drawn tote bags and sold all of them. Originally, we were going to donate the money to an elderly caring center 弘道老人基金會 located in Kaohsiung. However, after hearing what happened in Lebanon, we decided to donate all the profit to Lebanon as a relief fund. During our drawing sessions and club members meeting, we made a presentation that discusses more details about Lebanon and why the explosion happened.

Due to government corruption, we decided to donate the money to Lebanon Red Cross, despite the money was not much, but the we did raise awareness about the issue by allowing people to learn more information about Lebanon. I believe it was meaningful because majority of people, including me, didn’t know anything about Lebanon until the explosion, and after learning about the issue, majority of people just shared this on their social media, but barely know anything about Lebanon as a country.

Since this was my first event, I struggled a lot, I found it difficult to manage the schedule, and distribute jobs to executives, one thing I learned this time is that even if you have a plan and the schedule for the event, you need to make it even more detailed! It has to include basically everything,  I always thought leadership was easy, until I found out that there were so many problems I had to deal with, for example:

  1. it was really hard to form a plan beforehand
  2. hard to make some executives more productive
  3. hard to deal with divergence in opinions
  4. hard to distribute jobs

I was really happy because received over 30 designs and over 20 people signed up to draw the designs onto the tote bags, it showed how people were really enthusiastic about the event, which made me feel really accomplished. I learned so much in one event, so I’m looking forward to what I can learn from the following events.

Here are two of my favorite designs made by members (NOT BY ME)

Drawing sessions photos

 

 

 

CAS October Reflection 1 (Activity)

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Activity

  • Basketball
  • Continue Vertical Program
  • Basketball

I started to train for basketball last week, I decided to put my session in the morning around 5 to 6:30, this way I can play more frequently, since I will finish my school work and night, I also decided to play sport in the morning because I’m hoping it can motivate me for school and athletics, I felt really burned out in the last 3-4 weeks.

So here’s what I feel after a week of basketball practice: This week I only had three sessions because I want to slowly adapt to the schedule and perhaps increase the intensity, on the first day, I slept at 11 and woke up at 5, I felt really tired when I woke up and it took me around 20 minutes to prepare because I was really exhausted, however, I consumed some food that can be broken down quickly so I get re-energized around 20 minutes into the practice. At school, I get more motivated instead of feeling burned out other days. On the second day, I’m still really tired, I almost went back to sleep again, however, I feel way better as soon as I started playing, and I felt more productive in the morning because when I came back home, I could take a shower, make my own breakfast and prepare to go to school, this helps me to get more motivated for school. When I was training for velocity, I accidentally hurt my knee when I was measuring vertical on Wednesday (previous injury: jumper’s knee) (This time is very minor, I just need to rest for a few days), so on Thursday, I practiced shooting and dribble and condition (slow run).

 

  • Continued on my Vertical Program
    • Did more research
    • Started Training

Training reflection: I did reactive jumps, velocity training, and contrast training in the first week of October. Also in the first week (Saturday) I tried to dunk on 9’8, and my vertical decreased a lot with a basketball, I think it’s because my flexibility and coordination, my position is really awkward in mid air. And in the second week of October, I did velocity training during morning basketball session but then I hurt my knee so I stopped vertical training this week.

Current Vertical: 75 cm, I was going to measure vertical on Wednesday, but as I jumped, I felt my Patellar hurting again,  so I stopped immediately, I’m not sure how will my vertical be affected after this, so my current vertical is not very accurate since it has potential to decrease.

Vertical Program Document Research+Schedule

In the document, I mentioned that I had to test my 1RM, and it was 80 kg, 80% of 80 kg is 60kg, meaning I will be using 60kg to do squat, and after 2 minutes, I will do plyometrics. This is my 60kg squat: