Creativity/Activity/Service

Sports has been my passion for a long time, arts is also my passion, but I know clearly I’m not pursuing either of these two careers, so I was really worried about which path should I go, and about 6-7 months ago, I began to dig into research about kinesiology, because I wanted to increase my vertical jump, and I accidentally found this passion of mine that I can actually pursue, for the past 2-3 months, I’ve been testing out if this passion is an actual long term passion instead of 3-minute passion. And I believe this is actually a long-term passion because I don’t like studying, but I like studying kinesiology, listening to podcast, read some scholarly journals.

I’ve been listening to a lot of kinesiology podcasts such as PJF performance and Andy Galpin, I’ve been watching their videos for a long time and gained a lot of knowledge, they have appeared to be very entertaining throughout the last 6 months. This gave me a lot of directions for research, and PJF performance also taught me a lot about how to conduct research more professionally.

I created a social media platform that simplifies the knowledge I learned about kinesiology and sports science for student-athletes, elderly people, people who have been dealing with injuries,  or anyone interested in the topic of sports science, most importantly, I can learn more, for ex, if people ask questions, then I can do research on that topic, this also tracks what I learn,  I will be creating a series of posts, my first series is called building explosiveness and prevent injuries, this is targeting student-athletes, the post below is my first post, the post is in both Chinese and English, i will start teaching them some basic knowledge, then as people learn more, I will move on to the more advanced context, the next post will be common tendon injuries and how to prevent them, the third post will be how does tendon stiffness affect vertical jump and how to build tendon stiffness.

What makes this a CAS?

this is creativity because the images are all drawn by me, and I come up with the design too. This will also be an activity because I will be demonstrating exercises, for example, I will be demonstrating some movements that will build tendon stiffness in the following post, meanwhile. This is service because right now, I am helping people in my community, and as the account grows, I will be able to help people outside of my community, the benefits of bilinguality on this platform can potentially help people internationally too.

Creativity: #AnotherME (Valentine’s Day Event) by Charity Art Club

This valentine’s week we decided to host an event called #AnotherME, we created this event because we wanted to create an event that encouraged more interactions and also exciting, so what we did was we sent a form to all high schoolers, people who wanted to participate would fill out a form that asks about their personalities, then they would write down their phone number, our exec Claire built a google sheet that automatically pairs people with similar responses,  and after a week, we would send them a customized digital card (designed by CAC) with a phone number, participants have to figure out who the person is by themselves by either calling them or texting them.

105 people participated in this event, which surprised me a lot, during the planning phase, the executive team did not have too much confidence in this project because it is so new, it has never been done before, so we had no idea how many people would participate, my expectation was 40 people. When one of the executives brought up this idea, I saw it as a joke that she made, I was also not really confident in her idea too, but after seeing her being so serious, I decided to give it a try, and trust my teammates. After this experience, I learned that I should listen to my groupmates’ ideas more carefully and take it more seriously, a lot of times I just do things “my way.”

Chinese New Year Drawing

Amelie and I started a project about CNY, we drew two Menshen that are about 1.6 meters tall, we’re not finished yet, we will finish the drawing by 2/7 and exhibit the drawings on the front door of KAS on 2/8, Amelie and I had to communicate with each other during the drawing session because we made different versions of the MENSHEN based on our own drawing style, but we eventually we came to the agreement that it would be better if we all draw in the same style so two drawings present harmonically.

Activity

Volleyball practice over the week

This week I practiced volleyball a lot, I asked a few of my friends who were also going to the tryout to come to practice with me. I practiced a lot of spiking and serving because my aim is to play middle blocker or outside hitter,  which requires a lot of spiking. Even though I only practiced volleyball for one week, I thought it was worth blogging because I believe this is undertaking new challenges, I’ve never played volleyball before, but after playing with my friends and watching volleyball clips with my volleyball addict friends, I became addicted to this game too. So I want to learn this new sport, in order to learn this sport better, I must make the team to receive proper training, so my goal was to make the volleyball JV team, and turns out I did make the JV team. We will start training on 22nd of Feb, I believe my vertical program really helped me a lot.