Service/Creativity

This Tuesday I joined the DEIJ committee meeting, which is a committee that is an open space for students to talk about justice and initiate programs to make some changes in their community. We had a really great meeting on Tuesday and the ideas we discussed about resonated with everyone. We brought up how it’s not only people of other races that discriminate asians, asians discriminate their own people too, for example, the tension between Taiwan and China is a really big problem. We also talked about performative activism, especially how people constantly share. posts about social justice but in reality these posts only brings people’s attention to it, not many people will actually change themselves because of the posts. To be honest, we can’t do too much about this issue, because prejudice are always there, it’s just the social norms that makes people to not express their prejudice, so I think we should still focus on social media, but instead of making posts that directly tell people “not to do this, not to do that” we can make posts that tell interesting historical stories relating to a certain country. For example, I made drawings about my great grandfather’s story during Cultural Revolution, my goal is to humanize each individuals, because often times, we generalize a population based on one individuals act, just like how many people think Chinese people are bad because they dislike Chinese government, or how people only recognize yellow skin people as asians. I asked the members to collaborate with me and I decided to do a collaboration between DEIJ and Charity Art Club.

REFLECTION: at first I was pretty nervous to get into the committee because there are actually some topics that I don’t fully support or agree, for example, majority of the members in the committee see gender and sexuality as a really important subject, but I myself don’t really pay attention to this issue. But this committee is very open and safe, and I what I learned.in this committee is communicating with people who have different ideas. The discussion was really fun, we couldn’t stop talking once our ideas resonate with each other, I really loved the environment and I will surely continue to participate.

This is the image that I posted, I talked about my great grandfather’s experience during the cultural revolution.

I also continued to work on my CASSPORTSSCIENCE account

Activity

Volleyball season finally ended, so it’s offseason now, therefore, I want to prepare myself for basketball season. 4/26 is the beginning of first week, so I just completed Monday and Tuesday, I learned more about scheduling my plan, for example, I learned that I should increase 5% of the training intensity each week so I won’t get injury. A few months ago, I always wonder why I keep getting knee discomfort. But through experiences, I can keep improving my plan. Compared to the first ever plan I made in October, I think I have improved a lot.

Service and Creativity

In April I continued my Kinesiology Blog and I had some work experience with sports companies.

For the social media, I continued to make posts about various aspects in kinesiology, and my followers gained to 360. this helped me to gain some recognition and an executive (Rae Lee Min Kim) from Dari motion, which is a biomechanics assessment company contacted me to work together.

They sent me data statistics of NFL and D1 college athletes, and I analyzed an athlete named Lil Jordan Humphrey who plays for the New Orleans Saints. And they told me give training suggestions based on the data statistics. Below is my brief description of the athlete’s problem and suggestions. It is really exciting because Mrs.Rae told me she would continue to work with me in the future, and after learning I haven’t gone to college yet, she told me she would start to officially work with me when I get into college. This experience was also really cool because I got to analyze an NFL player’s statistics, and this player followed my account too after learning about me. This experience allowed me to gain experience to work with adults and made me to start exploring topics that are specific for football players. This makes it a “service” in CAS because  I am serving people outside my community this time.

 

Activity

For activity, I learned how to create a more professional periodization and plan for my vertical jump, this helped me to consider from all aspects and I also learned how to asses myself.  I separated my program into 4 phases, 1 phase is 5 weeks, the doc below is the first phase, in which I’m trying improve my maximal strength because it is curerently the factor I’m lacking for my vertical jump. each exercise is considered carefully, for example, after I do squat, I do exercises that put less pressure on the joints because squat is already very harsh on my joints.

I’ve been following this program for one week now but I got stomach flu again…I have to start from the beginning because after one week of no training I have high risk to get injured if I suddenly expose my self to high intensity training.